Any experiment that yields results is a successful experiment.
— Rudolph Ballentine

When the Sun and Moon symbolically merge to occupy the first degree of Aquarius at the same time on Tuesday at 8:14 am EST (13:14 UTC), you might want to prepare for a great experiment. Even if you follow astrology, the experiment could yield results you have never seen before. Even if your are a skeptic, the experiment could change your life.

Begin your experiment by observing one undeniable fact. Then, proceed to develop a theory that correlates with that fact. Finally, check in with others and test whether your theory works for their own observations and correlations.

The undeniable fact is that Tuesday’s Aquarius New Moon will be the fourth New Moon in a row in the very first degree of an immediately successive sign, with no “approximate” necessary

It all started with a New Moon and solar eclipse in the first degree of Scorpio on Oct. 23, 2014. Then came the New Moon in the first degree of Sagittarius on Nov. 22, 2014. After that, a New Moon and Capricorn solstice of Dec. 21 (or 22, depending on your time zone), 2014. Finally, next Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2015.

Such a thing rarely happens. Two months in a row, sure. Three months, pretty interesting. Four months in a row, fuhgettaboutit.

Except, please don’t forget about it. Four New Moons in a row in the first degree of successive signs is a pattern. It is one heck of a pattern. And, believe it or not, it’s just the beginning.

It is the Sun and Moon combining their energies as they rarely do (in the first degree of a sign). Then, repeating that combination over an inordinate and improbable period of time to show you a pattern which segues into yet another pattern. That other pattern starts next month, and goes on just as precisely and continuously for another month more.

Additionally, the luminaries (Sun and Moon) are, simply and factually, the brightest lights in your sky. You have known and watched them since you were a child. No mumbo jumbo. No abstractions necessary. They are at least as real as anything else in your life, and so are their patterns.

In concluding their current pattern and connecting to a subsequent pattern, the luminaries are practically begging you to get up and get on with what could be one of the grandest, and yet one of the most simple experiments of your life. In addition, you are being given plenty of time.

Of course, some people just don’t want to know. If you are among them, that’s your business. It’s your choice to just accept what you get. Just as it’s your choice to trade personal power (voter registration, right to assemble, collective bargaining rights, etc) you don’t want for a promise of security. Good luck with that experiment, please let us know the results.

Other people want an astrologer to tell them how to think, or what it means. Before you embark on that experiment, please at least remember that the Sun and Moon will not be extending such a personally and universally accessible offer again for a very long time.

Besides, one of the reasons you read here is because you want to practice some astrology, right? Well, here’s your chance. Please consider what passing up such a birthright says about what you think of yourself. Challenge astrologers with complex and/or confusing inquiries. Make us earn our money. This one is for you.

Begin seizing the chance you were born to have now by finding a corresponding pattern in your life. Don’t worry about what you don’t know. Focus on what you know as a fact because you have lived those facts over and over since the Oct. 23, 2014 Scorpio solar eclipse and New Moon. You probably know plenty. It’s almost certainly more than enough to do this experiment.

If you need some guidance to get you started, here is a first possible grasp. Many astrologers have an arguably sound idea that a New Moon in the first degree of a sign will correspond with the initiation of a pattern that lasts quite a while — maybe until the next Full Moon. Maybe even until the next New Moon.

Anything like that happen for you over the last three months? Perhaps something like the legendary (albeit silly) long swings from vine to vine performed by the fictional character Tarzan? If so, correlate those observations with what happens in your life beginning Tuesday. Unlike swinging on vines, all you have to fear are results of some kind. Then, you will be set up and prepared to continue your experiment with the next Aquarius New Moon in February.

That’s right, there will be two Aquarius New Moons this year.

So happens the New Moon of Feb. 18, 2015, will be in the very last degree of Aquarius. That’s a change of pattern. Hence the experiment. Your experiment. To find out what it will mean. But wait, there’s more.

Following the second Aquarius New Moon of 2015, there will be a New Moon and total solar eclipse in the very last degree of Pisces On March 20, 2015. Literally hours before the Sun enters Aries to start the whole shebang over again with a vernal equinox.

What lasts five months, begins with a solar eclipse, ends with a solar eclipse, and possibly contains information you can use to at least win a bar bet? Well, now you know.

The only question is whether you are up to a great experiment. Just be sure to check in with others and verify — or better yet — revise your results. It will be something nobody will ever be able to take away from you because nobody gave it to you. The results of your great experiment will be yours.

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Mars enters Pisces at 5:20 am EST (10:20 UTC) Monday to emphasize awareness in general, but especially self-awareness. Everybody has Pisces somewhere in their personal astrology. It’s probably a pretty deep place for you. With the energetic implications of Mars transiting such depth will come some exciting potentials — if you can master them.

Mars, like fire, is an empowering servant but not such a trustworthy master. Hence, working with Mars as it manifests for you requires self-mastery, which logically begins with self-awareness.

Also analogous to working with fire, it’s important not to fear the red planet. As Robert Hand has noted of Mars, “… there is nothing to fear from its transits, and in fact its energies are a vital part of life.”

Indeed, if all you do with Mars traversing Pisces until Feb. 19 is to keep fear from running the show, you will have made a good show of yourself. Yet, you should also be aware of how a more intriguing potential is implied.

Adding intrigue to Martian vitality in Pisces will be Neptune, which has been continuously occupying Pisces for about three years now with about 11 years to go. Neptune co-rules Pisces along with Jupiter.

As Eric averred in 2012, even though Neptune is a relative newcomer (having been discovered in 1846), it is well-suited to rule Pisces and powerfully placed there. As Eric has also noted more than once, Neptune aspects can be far from exact and still be functional.

Neptune’s wide “orb” of aspect combined with the predilection of Mars to express its own aspects well in advance of their being exact indicates the next thing (after no need for fear) you should be aware of. Namely, the red planet’s ingress to Pisces on Monday will implicitly entail an immediate, long-lasting conjunction (or merger of energies) with Neptune.

Part of Neptune’s nature is that its expressions can be right in front of you, indeed surrounding you, and yet remain hidden in plain sight. In other words, Neptune rarely functions to enhance immediate awareness. That’s how it will be up to you to make up the difference, beginning with yourself.

In the weeks to come, it will be useful to pay attention to what’s going on inside you. If you endeavor to look for inner patterns and strive to understand them, self-awareness will inevitably result.

Along that same line, listen to words coming out of your mouth. Read e-mails and texts carefully before you send them. Ask yourself, “Is this really me?” Such a simple precaution may help you avoid having to say “Sorry, I wasn’t myself” or “That’s not the person I want to be” after the fact.

Once you grasp getting a hold of yourself before the fact, you can realize the powerful and positive potential of Mars in Pisces conjoined with Neptune at the same time. Among those potentials are service and preparation. Self-awareness enhances both.

If you choose to serve somehow during the next few weeks, try not to do so impulsively. Making an effort to get straight and clear about what you are serving and the spirit in which your service is rendered will be worth your while.

Preparation, of course, can easily become procrastination — especially with foggy Neptune ruling the roost for Mars. Be clear what you are preparing for and be aware of your your energy level. If you are focused and stoked, you probably have made a good balance of Mars and Neptune. If you feel either frustrated or lost, look to make an adjustment.

There is one other positive potential to be aware of when Mars enters Pisces, as indicated by Monday’s astrology. About six hours after the Martian ingress, a little asteroid with a big name — 433 Eros — will also enter Neptune’s watery and mutable realm.

Besides being an alternative name for Cupid, Eros represents what many learned people consider to be the most powerful, dominant and seminal human motivation: the urge to merge.

Even though it is ‘only’ an asteroid, the symbolism of Eros coalescing with Mars and Neptune in Pisces is something you should be aware of. When you consider that the merger will take place over the course of one day, yet implicitly last for weeks, the potential is clearly more than just a good time.

Indicated when Mars enters Pisces on Monday is nothing less than a chance to achieve your highest potential ever as a human being.

Imagine yourself overcoming fear, but not being content to stop there. Imagine you channeling the indomitable vitality of Mars with conscious intent. Then, conceive of such courage and desire in service to the unbridled creativity of Neptune. Finally, be aware of how fearless, energetic and creative purpose could further the highest cause — the cause of love itself, through you.

That may seem like a tall order, but please, give yourself a chance. Begin by simply practicing a little self-awareness. After all, if not you, who? If not now, when? Why not be at least some of the good things you would like to see happen in the world?

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.

Dwarf planet Ceres, otherwise known as “1 Ceres,” enters Capricorn at 10:23 am EST (15:23 UT) on Thursday so you can flex, and feel it. Since Capricorn is where elementary earth meets cardinal qualities, realization is appropriate. For example, when the Sun entered Capricorn (where it remains today) back on Dec. 21, a new season was made perceptibly real.

Now, you are about to enter a suitable season to begin making Ceres real in your life, and not just because it’s entering Capricorn, either. In addition, Ceres is finally ready for its close-up.

That’s because of the spacecraft called Dawn. The same spacecraft that brought you close-up photos of asteroid 4 Vesta just over two years ago is now on approach to rendezvous with, orbit, and survey Ceres in about two months.

Also, we are just a few days past the anniversary of Ceres’ discovery on Jan. 1, 1801 — the first day of an entire century of astronomical discoveries that would change how we perceive ourselves.

While it’s almost certain that NASA did not schedule Dawn’s final approach to Ceres in order to coincide with either Ceres’ discovery date or its ingress to the slice of zodiac pie where manifestation initiates, you have to admit the synchronicity is probably indicative.

What’s probably being indicated is that this is a fitting time to get a feel for how Ceres manifests for you. Having just been through a Cancer Full Moon the night before last, your sensitivity should be acute.

You’ve just experienced Venus and then Mercury entering Aquarius over the weekend, followed by the Moon entering Leo last night (or this morning, depending on your time zone). So you should have a fresh feel for how a major object changing signs correlates with your reality.

While many astrologers would not consider Ceres to be a major object in the same league with the Moon, Mercury or Venus, there are good reasons to at least explore what weight Ceres carries for you as it enters Capricorn.

First, Ceres is now classified by astronomers as a dwarf planet on par with Pluto. Among astrologers who employ Pluto in their work, very few would deny its potency. So why deny Ceres without a closer look?

After all, Ceres is in fact closer. It orbits the Sun in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. All the other objects so far officially designated dwarf planets by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), including Pluto, are orbiting the Sun out past Neptune and take far longer than the longest human life to move through all the signs.

Ceres, on the other hand, takes only about 5 years to move through all 12 signs, giving it both a personal frequency like Mars and an interpersonal correspondence like Jupiter.

With its ingress to Capricorn, and at least to begin with, you may want to tune in to how the myth behind Ceres’ name has both personal resonance and interpersonal correlations for you.

What a myth it is! A story showing how the divine feminine is every bit the equal of the divine masculine no matter how push comes to shove; a reminder to respect mothers and sisters as every bit the equal of fathers and brothers here on Earth.

As with every planet discovered by telescope, however, you might not want to lean too hard on nominal serendipity. You might also want to keep the date, circumstances and orbital characteristics of Ceres in mind as you endeavor to suss out how its astrology works for you.

At the beginning of the 19th Century, the world felt smaller and human consciousness bigger than a century before, bringing us all closer together under the sky — like it or not. That’s part of Ceres.

Any object discovered by telescope represents your mind’s potential to exceed the limits imposed by your body and senses. That’s a pretty darned amazing statement, and that’s part of Ceres too.

Finally, as the largest object (by far) in the main asteroid belt, Ceres neatly emulates the spherical form of a major planet while co-existing as an integral part of a greater collection of smaller and less regularly shaped objects.

In other words, Ceres invokes both the humility and aspirations necessary to contribute more than your share to society while retaining your connections with the universe.

As both representative of a stalwart individual, and also merely being part of something greater, Ceres is worth feeling and flexing over the next several months as it cruses Capricorn, before entering Aquarius on April 3.

As an added bonus, retrograde motion will bring Ceres back to Capricorn for comparison and review from Aug. 3 to Oct. 27, before Aquarius claims it again for the rest of the year. All the more reason to make this the year you get a feeling for and flex your Ceres while the good old boys (Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto) do their thing.

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Heading into the weekend following a long holiday season, you might be thinking “down time.” The sky, however seems to have another theme for you — perhaps: “group activity.” Indeed, that’s just one phrase through which to interpret a rapid and complex series of events beginning with Venus entering Aquarius at 9:48 am EST (14:48 UT) tomorrow.

Less than 36 hours after Venus makes its Aquarian ingress, Mercury will do the same — at 8:08 pm EST Sunday (1:08 am UT Monday), bringing the number of sign-ruling planets moving through Aquarius (including Mars) to three. That’s a lot of activity.

Given how Aquarius correlates with groups that distinguish themselves by how they differ from other groups as much as by what their members have in common, tripling the number of major planets in Aquarius implies a lot of group activity.

Yet, the rapid and complex series of significant astrological events over the next three days will not end with Mercury’s Aquarian ingress. More is in store to fill out and define how the theme of group activity applies to you.

Less than four hours following Mercury’s Aquarian entrance, a Cancer Full Moon (at 11:53 pm EST Sunday / 4:53 UT Monday) will reach exact opposition from the Sun at mid-Capricorn.

Spotlighted by this particular Cancer Full Moon is the potential for further realization of how the established order’s infrastructure (one of many Capricorn correlations), is not holding up its end of the bargain with you.

In return for participation with groups you somehow default into through no choice of your own, the default group (nations are just one example) may not sufficiently honor your values (Venus) or respect your thinking (Mercury) in return for your participation and/or supporting contributions.

With this Full Moon, it may well become even more clear how the intimate and personal issues (corresponding to the sign Cancer and its ruler, the Moon) that make group activity attractive to you in the first place will ultimately be addressed only by collective efforts you consciously find and/or co-create for yourself.

Some of you may already have elected to participate with others somehow this weekend. If so, you are ahead of the game, and should make note to stick around with that group and give it a chance for at least a few months.

If, on the other hand, you are not among those who have group activity planned for the next two or three days, don’t worry. You will almost certainly get another chance over the next few months as indicated by one more significant astrological event in store before Monday is behind you.

In both cases, whether you are or are not set up for group activity this weekend, the astrology has you covered. That’s because Mercury will enter the echo (or “shadow”) phase of its next retrograde shortly after 4:30 pm EST (21:30 UT) on Monday.

That means Mercury on Monday will pass the degree of Aquarius where its next period of apparent retrograde motion (beginning Jan. 21) will end with a resumption of direct motion again on Feb. 11.

The beginning of its first echo phase also means Mercury will be sticking around in Aquarius for awhile (until March 12), implying the same protocol for those of you who already have a new year’s group activity in motion.

For those of you not yet “grouped” (or “re-grouped,” as the case may be), Mercury has good news for you on Monday as well.

That’s because Mercury will appear to be going back and forth three times over the first half of Aquarius until March 3 (when the second echo phase ends), implying at least three chances to group-up and move on with your group of choice after all is said and done. Also indicated is that you need not miss the bus even if you do devote this weekend to solitary down time and holiday recovery.

Nonetheless, don’t be surprised if even your best laid plans for down time this weekend are at least interrupted for a little while by earthly manifestations of astrology’s impending rapid series of significant events.

You might be spirited out of isolation by hearing a flock of birds overhead. Perhaps it’s the sight of busy ants underfoot that will bring you back down to Earth. Maybe even the smells of a potluck get-together will get you to thinking about abundance and the surest way to bring it about — group activity.

So think about it for now, if that’s what works for you. Take care of your needs as the Cancer Full Moon would support you doing, but also consider how none of us can always care for our needs alone.

Each of us belongs here, and you find that out best by finding out for yourself who you belong with. It’s a great way to begin a year. 

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.

Most of us use the civil calendar on which tomorrow is the final day of 2014 and the eve of 2015. Because that calendar does not turn over in strict synchrony with the renewal of any particular celestial cycle, the astrology of every civil new year’s eve is by definition different from any other.

This year, the astrology for the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 features implications of both blatant and subtle events combining to guide your life, providing you can both heed the subtle and handle the blatant in proportion.

Yesterday, Amanda held forth on a developing aspect that is anything but subtle. Mars moving forward through Aquarius to oppose Jupiter’s retreat in Leo on the first day of 2015 is in fact functional now. 

That’s because Mars has a tendency to jump the gun on aspects in which it is involved. Hence, be aware. Look for indications of any strident energetics popping up, because such phenomena would probably correspond to Mars.

Once you have discovered manifestations of Mars, keep an eye on them. Look for Martian expressions to ramp up and build until after Thursday, but don’t let Mars take over your life if you can help it.  

By the same token, where you find what appear to be polarizations of potential in your life, you will more than likely have found an expression of the opposition. Even though Mars and Jupiter are not the only objects opposing in the sky and on the zodiac right now, they do likely represent what is most obvious.

It would then be both reasonable and unsurprising to find Jupiter where either abundance or excess are — most likely in a complementary orientation to desire.

Once you have identified Mars, Jupiter, and the indications of opposition in your life, locate yourself in relation to all three. For example, if increasing stimulation makes lack of gratification an issue, you might be living predominantly through Mars. In such a case, your task would entail deciding where to put your energy so as to yield productive (rather than destructive) results.

After getting some clarity on where you are in relation to manifestations (or even personifications) of Mars and Jupiter, and their applying opposition, the idea is leave room in your life for more.

That’s because the developing opposition from Mars to Jupiter is, if nothing else, representative of all that is obtrusive. So, as one civil year transitions to the next, address the loudest and most blatant issues as you must without letting them take over as the sole focus of your reality.

Remember that even as you find it necessary to put out proverbial (and even literal) fires, there are subtleties to be aware of on less immediately pressing (but nonetheless important) levels.

For example, Mercury is chasing Venus through Capricorn even as Mars and Jupiter are moving towards opposing each other. However, Mercury and Venus are going in the same direction, in contrast to the rapid closure toward climax Mars and Jupiter are now engaged in.

Additionally, the Capricorn Sun is literally just a few days away from a precise engagement with the continuously functional square from Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn that defines our era. No small deal that, but not particularly flashy either.

Finally, now that Saturn is solidly in Sagittarius for a while, it is consequently well within range of an historic and rare separation of 90 degrees from Neptune in Pisces (a square aspect between mutable signs).

Yet, neither Mercury nor Venus (even when racing each other through the same sign) ever get in your face the way Mars and Jupiter on a symbolic collision course do.

By the same token, even as monumental and lasting as aspects of Saturn to Neptune frequently are, levels of expression at any given moment are more likely to be sublime than obvious.

So if there is something to make of the astrology of New Year’s Eve 2014, it would be to make sure you see it all. Address what clamors for your attention only to the extent that you must. But as you do, sustain an understanding that much of what now appears urgent will in fact also pass more quickly than you might think.

Besides, even while Mars and Jupiter are at their most insistent, other things of import (albeit less dramatic) will also be going on. These other things deserve your attention as well, and you deserve the chance to take them in. Only you, however, can provide that chance.

You will know the chance when you see it because it will not express as something either hot or big. Instead, listen for the breath of a sleeping child, feel the wind’s direction, sniff for a changing tide, and look for what would never have presented itself to you just a few years back. In these subtle things, as much or more as in the blatant urgencies, a new year is offering itself up for your taking. Take your time. Take it all. 

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.

Looking back at 2014 might tempt you to live in a geodesic dome, forever banning 90-degree angles from your life. It was a year when Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Sun and the Moon took turns elaborating on the backbone of Uranus and Pluto — in a functionally continuous square aspect with a legion of periodic T-squares and one exceptionally long-lived grand cardinal cross.

Whew! It was enough to make you cut corners. So you must not be cross. Indeed you must be amused, and amazed at the fact that the last major lunar aspect of 2014 will be a first quarter Moon.

Not just any first quarter Moon, mind you. At 1:31 pm EST (18:31 UT) Sunday, the Moon in early Aries will have opened a separation of 90 degrees from the Sun in early Capricorn just one week after a profound solstice and New Moon conjunction of the luminaries all rolled up in one.

In other words, the last lunar first quarter of the year will be an opening square from cardinal signs — the template through which all other opening cardinal squares (including Uranus and Pluto now) are interpreted.

It’s not like opening square aspects are bad. They augur and argue for good — the good that comes of strength, growth, evolution and life’s way of finding a way.

It’s just that variety is the spice of life. It’s been rumored (although not conclusively proven) that even great sex gets old after a long period of unrelenting abundance.

Yet, if Sunday’s last quarter Moon indicates anything, it implies that we are not done yet in any sense of the word.

We are not done with square aspects, whether major and rare or minor and frequent. You are not done getting stronger. We are not done growing. Our kind is not done evolving, and life on Earth is not done finding a way to keep on keeping on.

Looking at it that way, you might not want to cut corners after all, as we all turn a corner together after Christmas, and before New Year’s Day 2015 — along with the luminaries, Sun and Moon.

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.

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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Saturn’s enters Sagittarius at 11:34 am EST (16:34 UT) Tuesday, less than 48 hours after Sunday’s Capricorn solstice and New Moon. That’s arguably close enough timing to make Saturn’s first of two forays into Sagittarius a solstice occurrence rather than taking it separately.

Additionally, if you compare Saturn’s impending ingress to Sagittarius with Amanda’s analysis of the Capricorn solstice and New Moon published here on Planet Waves yesterday, it makes sense, and takes nothing away from either event to interpret both in the same terms. 

For example, if you consider Saturn’s limiting nature along with Saturn about to end two continuous years of slogging through Scorpio, the issue of “how much you let the past define you” (as Amanda put it) will implicitly come up.

By the same token, to have Saturn’s correspondence with structure move from a fixed water sign (Scorpio) to a mutable fire sign (Sagittarius) evokes Amanda’s encouragement towards “re-framing your narratives.”

If you are open to the possibility of re-framing your personal stories, it’s sort of like being open to seeing Saturn’s impending ingress to Sagittarius as part of this year’s Capricorn solstice. 

Framing Saturn’s first entrance to Saturn as a solstice event makes a useful and mutually reinforcing connection. Similarly, restructuring your perception of yourself makes new and potentially fortifying connections between you and a world and a life you might make more of.

The question is what to make of a new personal story. At least one way to begin answering that question is to examine to what extent you have heretofore taken on your identity from others.

It’s not necessarily wrong to use your surname, or to identify yourself by your nationality, or to live a narrative that you took on from somebody else. It is, however, appropriate to be consciously aware of when, where and how you take — as well as the potential for you to make.

Equipped with such an awareness, you can see options. Knowing your options clarifies your choices. Making choices always shapes your character, and making different choices shapes your character differently. Finally, re-shaping your character is the surest way to make a different life, and contribute to remaking the world.

Unless you feel the world is okay the way it is, Saturn is going to provide you with plenty of time to answer the question of what to make (or remake) of a new personal story. That’s because Saturn will not behave as it did after entering Scorpio on Oct. 5, 2012.

When Saturn entered Scorpio more than two years ago, it didn’t look back. It was the beginning of a long and winding road of continuous and uninterrupted Scorpio tenure. Saturn will begin its traversal of Sagittarius in a very different way.

Saturn will enter Sagittarius twice. After its initial ingress on Tuesday, Saturn will station retrograde about 5 degrees into its new territory in the middle of March 2015. It will return to Scorpio in the middle of June.

After stationing direct at 28+ Scorpio to begin August 2015, Saturn will enter Sagittarius a second time in the middle of September. Implicit in all of that entering, exiting and entering Sagittarius again is a chance for you to review how much the past (especially the recent past) has defined you, and an opportunity to evaluate what making some different connections might yield.

Also indicated by making Saturn’s first exquisitely timed ingress to Sagittarius one with the Capricorn solstice and New Moon is that you can make yourself one with the cosmos.

For you are part of the same system as the Sun, Moon and Saturn — the solar system. Hence, movements of the Sun, Moon and planets are by definition somehow correlated with your movements through life. 

Since you are a sentient being with apparently free will, it’s possible for you first to apprehend the correlations through the timeframes and symbols astrology provides, and then to make some choices of your own. That’s a whole lot better fate than simply taking what life gives you.

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Len is available for astrology readings. You can contact him at lenwallick [at] gmail [dot] com.