Into the Eclipse, and the Conjunction

In Najaf, Iraq, the coffins of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis were carried through a large crowd on Saturday. Photo by Anmar Khalil / Associated Press.

Dear Friend and Reader:

What we are witnessing now in the world is typical, even predictable, of what you would expect from combining an eclipse with the most potent planetary alignment since the 1960s. You would expect the world to be on the brink of war. It was only a month after the Saturn-Pluto opposition in the summer of 2001 that the World Trade Center came down and the U.S. began its ongoing wars with Afghanistan and Iraq.

It’s also typical of what you would witness from a borderline-personality president who is up to his eyeballs in an impeachment, and desperate to shift the narrative and cling to power. Even Bill Clinton bombed someone back in the days when he was facing a Senate trial. That seemed more like lashing out.

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Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Sunday, Jan 5, 2020

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Aries weekly for July 11, 2008.

Events this week obviously seem like a conspiracy to pull you out of balance, or to somehow demonstrate to the world that you don’t exist. Beware of proving you exist by exerting your energy against something that seems intent on resisting you, or by resisting others for the sake of a fight. Whoever or whatever you’re tangling with may be involved precisely to prove that they exist, whether at your expense or their own. Shout it from the rooftops: we all exist, and we happen to do so in the same time and approximately the same space. Power struggles generally manifest when people are neglecting the more important items on their agenda; they provide a large diversion. We have a lot of work to do, here on the frontier of the third millennium. Project one is learning cooperation.

The Saturn-Pluto conjunction is upon us: it is exact on Jan. 12. While this event will happen two or three times in the lives of most people, this particular event is a moment of convergence and reckoning for the world and for us as individuals.

Eric has completed recording RESPECT, the 2020-2021 Planet Waves annual readings, to cover the momentous astrology of the coming year-plus. You can read more about the project, and order the readings for instant access, here.

Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Saturday, Jan 4, 2020

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Leo weekly for August 12, 2005.

Life is not really so confusing particularly if you let the confusion sit for a little while and get a sense of what’s going on inside it. A good few things are sorting themselves out right now but what’s somehow clicked into place is a more clear idea of who you are. This is partly Saturn at work; you seem to have many reasons to affirm your own maturity capability and stability. But what you’ve got working to your advantage most of all is your ability to change your mind when you’re presented with new information. But then decisions are one sign of true inner confidence — no matter how else you may feel at the time.

Eyes On, Mind On: Saturn Conjunct Pluto

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Dear Friend and Reader:

The exact Saturn-Pluto conjunction takes place just 10 days from now, on Sunday, Jan. 12. Leading into that is an eclipse of the Moon on Jan. 10; we will be carried swiftly into this aspect.

A man in Lake Conjola, Australia, tried to defend a property on Tuesday as fire consumed the house next door. Photo: The New York Times. Read full article here.

Saturn-Pluto itself describes the high-pressure crux points we are in right now. It’s one of those aspects that says, "Consider this a historical turning point, and figure out what it’s about."

Headlines on the last New York Times cover of the decade would not lead a person to think that much was changing on the world. "Business Got Big Tax Cut; Lobbyists Made It Bigger" was the top story on the page. "Suspect Wrote About Hitler and Nazis in Journal," was the second-to-top story.

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Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Friday, Jan 3, 2020

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Taurus weekly for March 8, 2013.

It’s time to loosen up your perspective and your perception. You know all the times you were seeing the world in black and white, and then it turned out that you could see in many colors? That’s where you are at right now. Yes, the spectrum of possibilities, of personalities, of what is simply interesting rather than being a moral issue, is more than most people think they can handle. However, your own sense of potential is directly linked to what you’re able to perceive and be at peace with in the world around you. The more you embrace what is so, without any need to judge it, the more you will expand into who you are and what you’re becoming. Most notions of right vs. wrong make no sense at all, and to some extent, we’re all carrying around the residue of moralism. If you take even one step toward freedom, you’re likely to feel like an anarchist. That’s not really true; that sensation is just an indication of how wound up you were in the past, and how much you’re letting go of today.

Onward into 2020

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By Amanda Painter

I don’t know about you, but I’ve found this to be an especially contemplative transition to a new year. I guess that’s true each time we end a decade, as we assess just how much has changed in those ten years. Yet, in moving from 2019 to 2020, I’m aware of just how much extra gravitas, pressure, awareness and restlessness I’m feeling, and its correlation to the Saturn-Pluto conjunction in Capricorn.

Photo by Amanda Painter

Ten or so years ago, roughly corresponding to Pluto’s ingress into Capricorn, marked some highly pivotal events in my life.

Tracing the growth I’ve experienced in this last decade — and contrasting it to the general trajectory of the previous ten years — is offering confirmation that the processes of Pluto, daunting as they are, do offer gifts.

Even so, the lessons of Pluto and Saturn tend to be hard-won.

While the lessons of Jupiter (and even Uranus) can seem to fling the doors of one’s life wide open — simply leaving it up to us to stride through (not always easy, depending on one’s circumstances and baggage) — Saturn and Pluto demand more. They ask us to work for what we want. They insist that we make the difficult choice to undo so much that has always appeared solid, or a given, so that we can build anew in ways that afford us more space for who we’re becoming.

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Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Thursday, Jan 2, 2020

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Taurus weekly for March 26, 1999.

One of the world’s most prominent Taurans is a journalist and political prisoner on Pennsylvania’s death row named Mumia Abu-Jamal (born April 24). For some people, Jamal is seen as a “controversial” figure because he was convicted of killing a cop (in a ridiculous sham trial), but to me, he embodies a karmic struggle of the first magnitude for our culture: are blacks and whites treated equally? Is our justice system remotely fair? Is it sane to murder people as punishment for alleged (or proven) murder? In my mind, it makes sense that a Taurus would be the one to take this struggle on his shoulders, but I’m not sure why. Novelist Alice Walker called Jamal, “A rare and courageous voice speaking from a place we fear to know.” Till your fast-approaching birthday, I suggest you consider to what extent the same is true for you.

Planet Waves Daily Oracle for Wednesday, Jan 1, 2020

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Today’s Oracle takes us to the Sagittarius weekly for June 19, 2009.

You are being called upon to give yourself totally not to any one relationship, but to every relationship. One of the big problems on our planet is that we live in a hierarchy of love. Some people are ‘more important’ than other people, and we can act in very strange ways because of this. The outcomes of this situation, however, prove the point that we really don’t know what role people have, and it’s fair to doubt that we have any discernment at all. Monday’s New Moon is calling on you to suspend all discernment and make sure that you are offering what you can to every situation you are in. I cannot tell you why, or how; I can only tell you what I am reading in the planets. You are a born humanitarian and you know it. This is not merely a dream.

The Saturn-Pluto conjunction is upon us, just weeks away. While this event will happen two or three times in the lives of most people, this particular event is a moment of convergence and reckoning for the world and for us as individuals.

I’m underway recording RESPECT, the 2020-2021 Planet Waves annual readings, to cover the momentous astrology of the coming year-plus. You can read more about the project, and pre-order the readings, here.