On the night before Christmas, for most of us here, the astrology of 2015 will begin to appear. It seems appropriate timing to invoke “Twas The Night Before Christmas” today, and not just because the famous poem was first published on this day in 1823.
The night before Christmas this year also will be delivering inklings of astrology yet to come. It begins with Saturn leaving Scorpio today for the first time since Oct. 5, 2012, with the first of two ingresses to Sagittarius.
After checking it twice, you will note Saturn’s transition to Sagittarius is the first item on Eric’s list of the top five astrological events for 2015, and justly so. If anything feels different about tomorrow’s legendary night, it’s likely to correspond somehow with Saturn in a new sign.
The second item on Eric’s Christmas list for you next year (which begins the final separation of Uranus and Pluto from a long continuum of square aspects) will be strongly represented in tomorrow night’s astrology as well, thanks to Mercury.
While many of you will be snuggled up in your Christmas Eve beds, Mercury will be making its appointed rounds through Capricorn. Beginning with a square aspect to Uranus in Aries at 8:31 pm EST (1:31 UT Christmas morning), followed by a conjunction with Pluto a little more than five hours later, Mercury will be making like Santa by appearing to cover great distances in a short time.
By the time Mercury returns to Capricorn next December, the last exact square from Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn will be long gone (it takes place March 16, 2015). At this time next year, Mercury’s trip from a conjunction with Pluto to a square with Uranus (which will still be in Aries) will take more than a day.
Also tomorrow night, distant Chiron will be within three degrees of the first of three Pisces conjunctions with even more distant Borasisi. That’s the third item on Eric’s list, which will be exact for the first time concurrent with next year’s Vernal equinox on March 21.
No matter which astrologer you ask, a separation of less than three degrees while applying to a major aspect (however slowly) is nearly as good as made by elves.
What Saturn’s years to come in Sagittarius, the eventual separation of Uranus and Pluto from their square aspect, and the slowly developing conjunction of Chiron with Borasisi all have in common is that we will receive anticipations of them in tomorrow night’s astrology.
In other words, if you awaken on Christmas morning with some sense of having been presented with a glimmer of the near future, don’t thank some white-collar guy in a red suit. Thank what appear to be the heavens, which are actually your home, your place of origin.
For the skies are not separate from Earth. All of us are a fully-fledged part of all that appears above. Perhaps simply knowing that all of us are children of the Universe is the greatest gift of all. And just think, it’s available to everybody on Earth. All you have to do is receive it.
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Thank you Len, once again truly enjoyed your writing. May you have a Merry Christmas and may the Universe be generously beneficial for you in the New Year to come.
Nicolas: My thanks to you in turn for your kind words, Nicolas. May all the blessings of this season be accorded to you as well.
Len:
This has been the most grouling of the past two plus years with Saturn in my Scorpio. Thankfully he is gone. He has taught me a lot but …….I stayed with my dream, not to leave it behind. Yes, Scorpio`s are very determined folk, sometimes too determined. I am so glad to have your literature this week to the Ole Christmas Poem. Simply a pleasure for this time of year. May your, Holidays be filled with everlasting peace, hope and joy. Also to everyone at PW – Merry Christmas to all and your families as well.
Marilyn
lovely words for the soul. thank you Len
Marilyn: Technically, Saturn is not gone from Scorpio quite yet. The Ringed One still owes some time to the realm of fixed water. But fear not, just a short amount of time. Saturn will return to Scorpio in retrograde motion in the middle of June 2015, resume direct motion at 28+ Scorpio at the beginning of August, and return to Sagittarius in mid-September next year. Think of it as as a gradual transition from Scorpio to Sagittarius for 2015, easing the way. May your holiday season bring you some ease and peace of mind as well.
xtica: You are most welcome.
Skies not separate from Earth: not at all. I got the urge to draw a spider web this morning and it turned into a vortex on the page that began to stitch swirls all around like flowers, but one turned into a mushroom. Then I started writing down everything I could remember about mushrooms but then started getting things that sound more like Sci Fi. It felt good and strange. “You’re not in control, human. Enjoy the ride. The Garden is here for everyone’s delight, not only you.” Mushrooms as world builders: “Human, we gives food and pleasure and medicine- maybe you build us some houses in space so we don’t have to wait so long floating in the void to find places to land?” and “don’t worry about it. Human is only permitted to view the simple stages of world building by remote viewing and astral travel so there’s no need to fear long boring spells with nothing to do but watch mushrooms eat rocks, slowly grinding minerals into things plants and animals can eat.” Spores in space…waiting for a good place to land… Is this sci fi? Fee figh foe fummm, I smell a Roman. Yes it’s only a sci fi book. Shaman’s True hides out in art when the Empires are hot and bothering. Just kid stuff. Nothing to see here.
Has it been that long? Saturn entered Scorpio in October 2012? It seems like only yesterday that we were all anticipating the coming winter solstice – some with fear, some with joy, some with scorn. When the world didn’t end and the aliens didn’t land (so far as we were told anyway) and life went on to challenge us with emotional upheavals, those who scorned the brouhaha over 12-21-12 (believed by many to be the end of the Mayan calendar), smugly wrote it off to the gullibility of the masses. Still, Saturn’s passage through Scorpio DID change the emotional landscape, within our hearts and throughout the world.
I still wonder what happened to all those people on board the lost Malaysian plane, all that scouring of the sea, turning up only tons of garbage. Transiting Saturn was at 23+ Scorpio retrograde at the time, and opposite transiting Sedna at 23+ Taurus. Do you reckon’ they were trying to tell us something? We were forced to look at the sea waters (on TV 24 hours a day for many weeks) in order to find a plane full of people, but what we saw was what we had collectively done to our oceans. This one event alone made Saturn’s trip through Scorpio a consciousness raising period.
I don’t doubt that all the things we have been forced to look at during the last 2 + years, personal or political, have been through the grace of Saturn in Scorpio. Robert Hand said in the interview article of him in the Mt. Astrologer magazine, Oct/Nov. 2014 issue (that Len referred to recently, thanks Len!) that “Saturn points the way to the transcendent and, in that sense, it is benefic, although difficult” He goes on to say that ” the fact that Saturn is the gateway to higher consciousness is something new on a higher level. In part, Saturn is the significator of contemplation, a process that is an intrinsic part of approaching the transcendent.” He is giving us a “new” way to see and understand the Saturnian lesson, and I for one think he’s dead on.
Here is hoping that in 2015 and beyond, with transiting Saturn’s move to the fire sign Sagittarius ruled by Jupiter, we (globally and individually) will act on this new awareness that his Scorpio transit has revealed. Robert Hand said about Saturn that he is “also a transitional planet [as well as interpersonal or societal], because it has some positive aspects as a social planet, and because it signifies the ability to get along with social programing, which is called ‘discipline’. The only true discipline comes from being real and true to oneself.”
If Saturn is a transitional (from one level of consciousness to the next) planet and Sagittarius is a transitional sign then we should be able to begin to transition from a society hell-bent on plundering the Earth and her waters, to a species that values her gifts, like many ancient societies once did, then maybe something wonderful really DID begin to happen on 12-21-12. Maybe Saturn’s arrival into Sagittarius will further support contemplation on the Big Picture; our planet’s need for help from humanity to restore her health and that of all the creatures that depend on her. It will require discipline of course, but who would scorn that I wonder?
be
It really is a beautiful line up in Cap right now. Thank you Len for your work. Just seeing the chart and planets positions with Venus leading in the cradle of Pluto, and Mercury supporting from behind, it looks like a new gift just waiting to be opened and cherished. The Sun is beginning to rise in the the sign as well. And, as you so beautifully express Len, i see and feel the anticipation of Saurn changing signs. I am thankful Saturn’s movement will be a slow transition in and out of Scorpio, as I do not want to forget, and surely will be in need of reminding, of all i have been through and gained in going in. Still now will be a glimpse of a new dimension and time, (thanks to what Uranus has worked me through releasing in the squares) away from an era of the shoulds I had accepted for so long. To liberation and freedom of claiming myself and worth. how the the squares worked for me in 4th to 7th with Saturn several years in first then in 2nd house Scorpio this them really rang true. The new moon Len was positioned exact conjunct P. Fort 7+ Cap 4th. A new time a new life a new plan for me.
It rained for weeks and weeks from Thanksgjving here on the West Coast. This evening was the first night my son and I were able to return to our evening walks with the dog we love. I looked up to the clear, still night sky. The stars presence, of brilliance filled me again. The vast silence IS as the current astrology and your sharing here, of comfort and home.
Sending Blessings of this season, love to you Len, and everyone at Planet waves. I so appreciate and value you all.
wandering_yeti: Thank you for so eloquently sharing the vision you received from another form of consciousness. You have reminded me of how our human perspective is but one keyhole in the window’s frame.
Thinking of you and hoping you are warm and safe.
Barbara: Thank you, from my heart to yours, for so adroitly contributing to all of us raising the level our consciousness today, and every day we receive the gift of your comments here. Yes it has been that long. Over two years since Saturn entered Scorpio (10 hours after Mercury did), moving into an immediate (to-the-degree) trine with Neptune – on the same day a Gemini Moon occulted Jupiter. Yes, October 5, 2012 was quite a day. It’s also hard to believe that it’s been nearly 200 years since “The Night Before Christmas” was first published (Pluto was precisely positioned in direct motion on the first degree of Aries on December 23, 1823). Thinking of you today and grateful for you with every thought. May your holiday be safe and comfortable.
P. Sophia: And sincere thanks to you for how you have given so often of your exceptionally perceptive and often prescient consciousness here. Your understanding of Saturn’s transition is at least the equal of any i have read, and entirely appropriate. While the rains you refer to still continue in Seattle, there is still a glimpse of what you have seen available to everybody at this time – thank you for reminding us to look. Thinking of you today with your son and your faithful canine companion. May your holiday be safe with an abundance of love.
Wow, Len you are a font of information . . Pluto on the Aries degree in December 1823 when we first got to read The Night Before Christmas! 12-23-23. . . that needs some studying. Twenty-twelve was an important year too for lots of reasons, not the least was for the final entry of Neptune into his own sign of Pisces. Looking back it seemed to me like the last of a 6-part gift from the Universe to human beings. I’ve had much fun unwrapping those 6 ingress charts; 2 for Pluto, 2 for Uranus and 2 for Neptune.
It was then, when Neptune made his 2nd entry into Pisces, I began to realize the intricate coding the outer planets were sending to us mortals; a divine plan to lift us up out of the old and useless patterns and into a new and rewarding way of life. It would take almost 3 years to grasp what the outer planets, Pluto, Uranus and Neptune, intended to manifest, and I’m still working on deciphering their strategy. I was pretty sure then that the 1st entry symbolized what the situation WAS as viewed from the perspective of the particular planet, and the 2nd entry symbolized what would be experienced in order to correct, update or revise the WAS situations in the 1st ingresses. Basically there were 3 things that stood out. First, all 6 ingresses had an active Venus, with each initial entry for the 3 outer planets having Venus in aspect with Pluto.
Ingress 1 (Pluto into Capricorn) Venus conjunct Pluto (new cycle)
Ingress 2 (Pluto into Capricorn) Venus conjunct Jupiter, trine Saturn, Venus sextile Uranus who opposed Saturn
Ingress 3 (Uranus into Aries) Venus opposite Pluto (search for balance/halfway mark)
Ingress 4 (Uranus into Aries) Venus trine Saturn , Venus trine Moon
Ingress 5 (Neptune into Pisces) Venus sextile Pluto (cooperation)
Ingress 6 (Neptune into Pisces) Venus opposite Mars in a T-square with Moon
Secondly, all 6 ingress charts had Saturn in opposition to something . . . .
Ingress 1 had Saturn opposite Borasisi and Heracles
Ingress 2 had Saturn opposite Uranus
Ingress 3 had Saturn opposite Jupiter
Ingress 4 had Saturn opposite Jupiter
Ingress 5 had Saturn opposite Sun conjunct Jupiter
Ingress 6 had Saturn opposite Jupiter
Saturn would symbolize what was being challenged for the most part and initially (ingress #1) it would be a strong (Heracles) and unreal (Borasisi) set of circumstances.
The 3rd thing the three outer planets ingresses had in common was that each would have in their 2nd ingress chart the 11+ degree of Aquarius occupied; part of the experience needed to correct, update or revise the situations faced in the 1st ingress (in order to advance/evolve).
Pluto’s 2nd ingress to Capricorn had the North Node + Nessus at 11+ Aquarius
Uranus’ 2nd ingress to Aries had Venus at 11+ Aquarius
Neptune’s 2nd ingress to Pisces had Mercury at 11+ Aquarius
The Sabian Symbol for 11+ (12) Aquarius is: On A Vast Staircase Stand People Of Different Types, Graduated Upward (the natural progression of states of consciousness) from Dane Rudhyar’s An Astrological Mandala
We have all experienced upheavals and trauma during the Uranus-square-Pluto clashes which began in June, 2012, and will (technically) end next March, and because of them, everyone’s life has changed in some way. What has saved me is knowing that we are all in it together, and that it is not random acts of terror meant to destroy us. It has been to throw us off of our course so that we had to regroup. In that regrouping, we questioned our motivations as well as out desired outcomes. With Venus presence so pronounced in the ingress charts of Uranus, Pluto and Neptune, values were questioned and often redefined. Saturn symbolizing what was solid and sturdy, meant to last a life-time, has been, and continues to be, challenged as depicted in all 6 of the ingress charts. In the meantime, alternatives have been presented to us in both values (Venus) and structures (Saturn) which offer choices for us. Many of them are first-rate choices. Check them out while they are there for the pickings. Merry Christmas and bless you all.
be
Barbara, your mention of Venus’ part in this tale got me thinking about the Venus Transit of the Sun that preceded all that you mentioned, as if her Venus-ness fiercely pollinated the outer reaches by using the power of the Sun in preparation for the coming events, giving our little Solar System a necessary dose of the femme pheromones that we all needed. : )
Yes, indeed, “the skies are not separate from Earth,” this is why I love astrology. Knowing astrology doesn’t make the weathering of these things any easier, but at least these things have more determinable beginnings and endings. I have been able to hold on during tough times from this ability to be more informed. 2014 was a toughie, but I can also see what is being born amidst what is “dying.”
I look forward to lighter days, both in burden and luminosity. : )
Thank you for your poetic view, Len!
infinitezygote, I really like your concept of Venus-ness pollinating the outer reaches (being a bee myself)! Yes indeed, 2012 was quite a year and that June, when Venus was occult the Sun, has had – and will continue to have – a penetrating effect on all of us.
I thought it curious too that in those outer planet entry charts Venus, who is considered the lower octave of Neptune, was in the Uranus one while Mercury, considered the lower octave of Uranus, was in the Neptune one. That Uranus was entering Aries, not the favorite sign of Venus, and Neptune was entering Pisces, not the favorite sign of Mercury, I’m wondering now if the whole thing has been an attempt at cross-pollination; a diluting effect maybe. Trying to find a middle-ground; a balance point. After all, transiting Mars was in his least favorite sign, Libra, for over 7 months this year!
You got to give a little, take a little,
let your poor heart break a little. .
That’s the glory of, that’s the story of love.
be
Barbara: Merry Christmas as well, and thank you for so ingeniously deciphering (and then interpreting) the pattern of outer planet ingresses – it’s a marvelous gift, and deeply appreciated.
infinitezygote: Thank you for hanging on (and hanging in there with us). i too am looking forward to many things – among them your continued gift of cogent commentary here at Planet Waves.