This week kicks off with a very LITERAL bang. The happenings this weekend saw activations of the Mars-Uranus conjunction that perfects on Monday, July 15th from many angles. Mars, the planet of action, aggression, and war has been building up to a meeting with Uranus, the planet of sudden change, shock or insight. I have a group chat with some astro friends who have been contemplating this transit for several weeks. When these two titans clash, there is certainly underlying concern for the transit trackers around “what could go wrong.” But wow, I didn’t expect such a literal interpretation, from so many ends. If you are following along with other internet astrologers you may have read that Mars and Uranus along with Fixed Star Algol (causes misfortune, violence, decapitation, hanging, electrocution and mob violence, and gives a dogged and violent nature that causes death to the native or others. It is the most evil star in the heavens) were transiting Trump’s MC, the point of our chart that speaks to our public persona. All to say, it couldn’t get more literal than a surprise assassination attempt on a stage. As pointed out to me by my dear friend, Crooks, the shooter, was born under Mars-Uranus energy, and the Mars-Uranus-Algol lineup was making a Square to his natal Mars-Uranus - aggravating this innate energy within him.
Phew.
The brilliant Cristina Farella of Eighth House Astro points out in her weekly newsletter (which you should absolutely subscribe to) that on the January 6th insurrection, Mars and Uranus were also being activated. With this transit churning up so much unrest in the collective combined with our tense political climate here in the US, it’s hard to not think about what is to come. Which in astrology, always points to looking back…
Something interesting Aliza Kelly shared amongst this weekend’s chaos was the reminder of “The Great Conjunction Curse” - aka every President who has been in office during a Saturn-Jupiter conjunction (which occurred last in 2020) has either had an assassination attempt upon them, been assassinated, or died. Welp, we are currently building up to a Saturn-Jupiter square. It will be exact on August 19th and again on December 24th this year. After these two conjoined in 2020, the next major part of the story unfolds when they square off.
We also have Pluto, the God of the Underworld and planet of death and transformation, returning ONE LAST TIME to 29°Capricorn on September 2nd where it will remain until November 18th. So yes, right on time for the election 🫠.
A reminder that the 29th degree in astrology is called the aneretic degree - it’s a point of crisis, right before a planet moves into a new sign. See below dates for Pluto’s anaretic time and you may recall feeling like we were living inside a pressure cooker. The other note here is that in the United States birth chart Pluto is at 27° Capricorn, so this transit also marks the final moment for the United State’s Pluto Return.
Anaretic Pluto in Capricorn Dates:
February 11th - March 23rd 2023
June 11th - July 27th 2023
December 19th 2023 - January 20th 2024
It remains to be seen how this will all unfold, but many astrological storylines are weaving together here as we build up to the 2024 election. Perhaps this weekend’s Full Moon in Capricorn will portend what Pluto’s final return to Capricorn will offer since this 2nd Full Moon in the sign of the Seagoat is happening at - you guessed it - 29° Capricorn.
Now let’s get into what the cosmos have to offer us the rest of this week.
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