Mundane Astrology update

[ecosophia]

I posted the Capricorn ingress chart for the US to my SubscribeStar account earlier today, and apparently something went haywire -- it was allowing $5 a month subscribers to see it, but not $10 a month subscribers!  A good many of my readers dropped me messages about it, not surprisingly. I think I have it fixed, but if you have any further problems please let me know soonest. Ah, the joys of technology. :-(

As far as I know, the Patreon post is working -- if it's not, will someone please let me know?  Assuming that that's out of the way, I should have the Capricorn ingress chart for Britain up next week, and the others to follow. Then it's back to the Grand Mutation charts!

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[(Anonymous)]

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—Lady Cutekitten

[(Anonymous)]

I’m a $10 subscriber and I had no problem viewing it about 30 minutes after it went up. One thing, though, is that the period of ingress shown is for the Aries ingress, not the Capricorn.

[ecosophia]

Thanks for this. No, it's about the Capricorn ingress -- it points out that since Aries starts the astrological year, every Capricorn ingress is effective for 3 months, full stop, end of sentence -- but it could have expressed that a good deal more clearly. I'll be less telegraphic next time!

[(Anonymous)]

$10-a-month person here and it showed up just fine for me. :)

[ecosophia]

Okay, glad to hear it.

[kylec]

Working now, thanks!

[ecosophia]

And glad to hear that!

Moon separating from Neptune

[claire_58]

"The separating conjunction with Neptune also suggests that the political classes have significant skeletons in their closet, and the risk that these will be revealed will be a constant issue for the years ahead."

Wait - what? I don't understand. How can a separating conjunction between the Moon and Neptune in a chart that is for 3 months have an effect that will last for years? What am I missing?

Re: Moon separating from Neptune

[ecosophia]

I've been looking at future charts, of course. The point is that we're going to see this reflected in future charts. The fact that it's a separating aspect shows that the skeletons have to do with events in the past, rather than stuff that's happening currently.

[aldabra]

Hi JMG. Can you tell from the Biden and Trump natal charts that it's Biden not Trump who is about to walk face first into a buzzsaw?

[ecosophia]

I don't use natal charts in my mundane forecasts, so you'd probably want to check with a good natal astrologer about that.

[thuley]

I saw the Capricorn ingress last night as a Sun Watcher, it was nice to get some good news about the immediate future, after the ominous inauguration forecast.

Somewhat related: I'm planning to begin invoking planetary powers. In your experience, when faced with a nasty chart, is it better to 'go with the flow' and raise the power of planets that aren't doing so badly, or 'work against nature' and try to save an afflicted power from some of the impact--if only in your own life?

[ecosophia]

The usual rule is start with your strengths. If you have a badly afflicted planet you may not be able to work with its energy except via planetary charity.

[(Anonymous)]

If I remember rightly, that is about essential dignities rather than aspects, isn't it?

I concluded from your advice on Magic Mondays that it is fine to do planetary charity where essential dignities are not good, but as I have Moon square Saturn I should not do workings for either of those, including planetary charity.

[ecosophia]

It's both. You add up all the pluses and minuses in your chart -- essential dignities and accidental dignities both, which includes aspects and house placements -- to get an overall dignity. A planet that's in its detriment but is located in an angular house and is receiving trines and sextiles from the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter is going to be fairly positive in your life!

[(Anonymous)]

I had no issues with accessing this, so hopefully your fix has proved successful. Your first mention of the Grand Mutation has reminded me to mention the spectacular view of Jupiter and Saturn at twilight and early evening above the southern horizon. Apparently. they will appear closer together this year than any chronocrator conjunction since 1623! Somehow just gazing upon them helps me attune to the great turning underway. Mars is also incredibly bright in the eastern sky at the same hour.
Jim W

[ecosophia]

Thanks for this! It's too easy to focus on paper charts and not pay enough attention to the skies themselves.

Look, Up In The Sky

[(Anonymous)]

I've been watching them all since the middle of this summer, and the Moon too, quite the show. The Mars/Moon conjunction a couple months ago was great.

Nowadays I can see Jupiter and Saturn gradually drawing closer together as the Grand Conjunction approaches. It looks like Jupiter will be vertically *below* Saturn at that time (relative to the ecliptic).

By the way, the Moon moves *fast*! I looked at Moon conjunctions with the Jupiter/Saturn pair a couple of times this year. She'd be closer to Jupiter at 9 pm of an evening, and by midnight had moved closer to Saturn than Jupiter. The next night she'd be way on past them.

- Cicada Grove

[brendhelm]

It's working now for me.

[ecosophia]

Okay, good.

[ecosophian]

"A significant fraction of ordinary Americans will not benefit from the policies of the new administration and will face serious trouble due to changes in government policy that disadvantage them relative to other sectors of the population... Expect resentment and dissatisfaction to build as these changes begin to bite."

No surprises there, we're going to get more of the same pre-Trump policies that made life so horrible. Well politics of resentment it is then, if nothing else the 2024 elections are going to be very colorful and interesting.

[ecosophia]

That struck me as the most likely reading, too, but it's just possible that Biden's handlers are more capable and cynical than that. If they have the brains the gods gave geese they'll veer to the center as soon as they're in power, crack down hard on the Antifa paramilitaries, give the left a few high-profile token wins, and otherwise pick up Trump's trade policies and run with them, thus giving the Dems a chance to recapture the minority and working class vote. In that case it'll be the left that ends up fuming and, for the moment, out in the cold. But we'll see.

[(Anonymous)]

The worst outcome would be cynical and incompetent: if they leave everyone fuming....

Replying to Ecosophian

[davidsnoop_25]

Any changes in policy on issues such as working class wages, workers rights, free trade v protectionism,ect is going to be impacted by what happens in America's Shale Oil scene and the status quo on this is it's very dependant on the Quantitative Easing from the Federal Reserve and also more recently impacted by the Coronavirus and there's a possibility that the Shale Oil bubble (and it is definitely a bubble) could completly be gone by year 2025(Shale Oil wells only peak a year after been drilled and last at the most 3 years afterwards). An other possibility is a Biden administration may have worse than expected relations with Xi Jingpings Government in China and this could easily lead to another US/China trade war which will do harm to both Countrys.

Mundane Astrology

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG, I got this message on my iMac:

This post has been removed by its author.
Possibly it was created by mistake.

But its working on my crusty old budget phone, so there you go!


Helen in Oz

Re: Mundane Astrology

[ecosophia]

I deleted the old version and posted a new one that apparently works.

It works now

[(Anonymous)]

Just accessed and read it.

[(Anonymous)]

I would totally read your mundane astrology updates in printed form like an occult magazine or the likes in case you were wondering ;-)

—Orthogonal Crimson Platypus

[ecosophia]

Thank you. That's certainly an option I'm going to think about further down the road.

-- Indigo Somnolent Pangolin

Capricorn Ingress

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for fixing the problem!!