Dear Friend and Reader:

I trust this letter finds you doing your best to take care of yourself. At this juncture, your first responsibility is to stay healthy, and then to keep the people around you healthy.

Whatever this situation is about — and I know enough to know that I don’t know — making sure your body is well-rested, well-hydrated and well nourished will all help. Of course, many are being thrown into the most stressful situation of their lives, which is not good for one’s immune system. So we are on the razor’s edge.

One of the most challenging things to deal with in this moment is going to be people’s psychology. We have now been put on notice that anyone you see on the street might kill you by breathing. Perhaps check with your inner teacher and ask if this is really true.

Before I get into the New Moon, as of Saturday/Sunday, Saturn is now in Aquarius. This begins the test of a new social system, lasting through July 1 (around the time when we’re told we’re getting out of quarantine).

Everything is Lining Up

At 5:28 am EDT on Tuesday, March 24, we experience the Aries New Moon. Positioned just four days out from the vernal equinox, this would be an influential event under any circumstances. Yet the Moon-Sun conjunction plugs into all of the other astrology early in the cardinal signs that has dominated this year’s news.

And while that is happening, Pluto in late Capricorn — which means the U.S. Pluto return — is powered up by Mars, Jupiter and Eris. So we are in an “everything, all at once” moment, with a chart running at about maximum power. As if you could not tell.

Did this look like disaster astrology?

Well, it would, if one was in the business of predicting disasters. The charts have a massive global quality these days, and have for a while. There is tension everywhere. The aspects have impact, and describe far-reaching events. These events stand at the personal-collective juncture associated with the Aries Point, or vernal point (the beginning of the zodiac), and a similar thing called the lunar nodes — which are themselves now aligning with the Aries Point.

Everything is lining up. The astrology looks political above all else, and it has momentum. What is not so easy to see is the theme of virulence. But the shakeup? For sure. The stress on society’s structures? For sure. But stress to the point of total collapse or shutdown? Well naturally, I would have said that — if I was the astrologer of Infowars. Context is everything.

The Executive Summary

For those with some astrology literacy or those curious, I’ll give a couple of paragraphs of description of the charts, and I’ll include a basic diagram. See if you can follow along. Then, I will offer some interpretation.

The upshot is that while what’s occurring is a global event, it’s happening concurrently with the first return of Pluto to its natal position in United States history. What we are seeing are all things plutonian: deep, dark, and affecting the millions. Pluto with his cloak of invisibility seems to have snuck up on us.

But everyone in government and in science knows this kind of thing is possible, and not only that, inevitable. However, it’s the practice of our society not to use the precautionary principle: that is, to consider the potential worst-case scenario. We put nuclear power plants into service, assuming the worst thing won’t happen, which is a meltdown or a series of them. This is done under the theory that “it probably won’t happen.”

New Moon Conjunct Chiron, Square the Nodes — and Pholus

Tuesday’s Aries New Moon is a degree away from Chiron. It’s a conjunction of Moon-Sun-Chiron in Aries, close to the Aries Point. And it’s meeting the lunar nodes — the karmic axis, now in Cancer and Capricorn — at a 90-degree angle. Each of these factors multiplies the next, though the square to the lunar nodes says turning point — or tipping point.

The Moon and Sun conjunct Chiron in Aries vibrate with the Chiron-dominated theme of a healing crisis. All global science-fiction-type scenarios aside, this is a chart that blares out “crisis over the discovery of who I am.” Yet Chiron can represent something medical. And we are most definitely seeing a medical crisis at the intersection of the private and the collective.

Where it gets interesting is that Chiron is square Pholus. (I most recently covered that in detail with the March monthly horoscope.)

Pholus is the centaur associated with the small cause with a big effect. Hooee! It’s also the out-of-control release. Pholus is the energy of something that keeps going and going, with no end in sight. Where Pholus is concerned, eventually, it runs its course. And from living through several Pholus releases, I can tell you that it helps to take steps to mitigate things. Those steps may seem futile at the time, or like too little too late, or whatever — do them anyway. Do them anyway.

Saturn in Aquarius

Let’s end where we began, with Saturn in Aquarius. This is the new factor in the equation. Pretty much everything else in the charts is chugging and churning along as it has been for a couple of years, except that Saturn is now in Aquarius, which last happened 1991-1994.

This is exactly what we need. Saturn in Aquarius (which I covered in some detail on Thursday) is the version of Saturn that is about where social responsibility meets personal responsibility. It is one of the best placements in all of astrology, if it can avoid intellectual arrogance. The remedy for that is know when you don’t know. Recognize when you’re wrong, and be pliable about it.

I hear people talking about things with utter confidence when they are completely clueless. Get a clue. Recognize the limits on your knowledge, work to build knowledge, and learn how to be analytical. Learn how to reason with others.

Saturn in Aquarius draws its true power from its deliberative quality, and its ability to integrate different points of view.

Mass Consciousness and Group Consciousness

In her work Esoteric Astrology, Alice Bailey leaves students with a takeaway about the sign Aquarius. She draws a distinction between mass consciousness and group consciousness. It’s an easy distinction to make, and the more you consider it, the more relevant it becomes.

Mass consciousness is a crowd cheering at a football game. It’s a stock market panic.

Group consciousness is a collective of individuals who come together and can think together. The problem here is that to be an individual requires having done some indication and self-actualization, and being strong enough to stand up to those mass emotional currents, which on some level have the theme, “we believe.”

We now need all of the self-actualized individuals we can muster up, and we need to work together in small groups. The Chiron New Moon in Aries is pushing self-awareness and growth like few things can. Saturn in Aquarius is giving us an abundant opportunity to put it to work.

That’s where we stand. The tipping point can be a mass surrender to what looks like medically induced fascism. The turning point is toward individuals dealing with a collective problem. You are one of them.

Take care of yourself, then take care of others.

With love,

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