Pholus and Quaoar (Responding to our Survival Instincts) have been parked on the cusp of Capricorn (Just Fix It) for a while now, and of course the Sun’s annual passage into Capricorn defines the December Solstice, which is widely understood to be the Beginning of the New Year. So while the Pholus-Quaoar combo isn’t new, we might expect threats to our Survival to increase again as we move into 2019. Not a big surprise considering the news.
With our usual three Degrees of Sensitivity, Pholus-Quaoar has been prominent in Solstice charts since December 2016, and will continue to be through December 2019 – including the October 2020 US election, but not the 2020 December Solstice. If we’re optimistic, we might propose that everyone will be scared enough to rekindle their common sense by October 2020, allowing 2021 to be a bit more stable.
Buuutttt, a number of other major Energies shift by the 2020 Solstice, such as Trump’s War-to-Prevent-US-Regime-Change (Saturn Conjunct Pluto, 12 January 2020 in 23 Capricorn, “A soldier receiving two awards for bravery in combat”) and the Beginning of the Digital Age in earnest (Jupiter Conjunct Saturn in Air, 21 December 2020 in 1 Aquarius, “An old adobe mission in California” – Mission Santa Clara de Asis no doubt).
It’s an interesting “coincidence” that it was these very Spanish Missions that disrupted the well-managed Sustainable Landscapes that the original Quaoar hisself provided the template for. Last month at the airport we met a barely-survived Marine veteran of Reagan’s War-to-Prevent-US-Regime-Change, against that Perennial Global Threat Grenada. Thirty-five years later his war wounds were foremost in his introduction to strangers, and given their extent, that’s not surprising. Maybe the next Trumped-Up War will be against Andorra or San Marino or Uruguay or some other dastardly threat to Global Peace.
The Guardian Brexit Briefing recently put it this way…
“Certain parts of American society now feel a sort of exhausted solidarity with the UK, a relief that they are not the only ones whose country is a raging dumpster fire. A new sort of special relationship has been forged between the UK and the US; we are united by the fact that we have become global jokes.”
Beginnings and Endings often occur together. In the case of the December Solstice chart, the dominant Configuration is a Nodal Grand Cross in 29-30 Degrees of the Cardinal Signs – we’re Finishing Up a Creative phase (Cardinal Signs), and about to Begin a Stabilizing phase (Fixed Signs). We can productively read this as Finishing Up a Creative Destruction phase, and Beginning to Stabilize what we plan to Build upon the Ruins. Ms. May and Mr. Antichrist, and their respective MPs and lackeys, have done a bang-up job of Creative Destruction, but their Fun may be coming to an End.
The Solstice chart is shown by the lighter-weight lines below…
Most of the Cusps (Endings/Beginnings) from Scorpio to Aries are occupied, while only one of the other six Cusps is inhabited, which clearly makes Varuna-North Node (Merging of our Mission and our Life Force) at the end of Cancer the Standout Pole. Thus many other, less Central, segments of our Lives may be Falling Away, as we focus on what’s Most Important. Varuna-North Node heads a Diamond Star, a Self-Resolving Challenge, so we can sort of Let That Take Care of Itself – where “That” is Allowing the Life Force to Lead our Life rather than our Shoulds and Gottas.
The other corners of the Grand Cross include Uranus, which turns Direct 6 January and returns to Taurus “for good” (for seven years that is) at the Ides of May. Our Soul will return to the task of Descending into our Physical Vehicle. If we’re hanging by our heels so we can see the World more clearly, this will look a lot like Ascension.
And Veritas (Truth) enters Scorpio (Fearlessness) just an hour before the Solstice. This is potentially a Big Deal, as Scorpio is compelled to Get to the Bottom of Things. Some Fearless Truthiness wouldn’t hurt the Planet at all, though Veritas is only in Scorpio till May, then again from July through November. But it could start a trend. And on 3 October next year Veritas Initiates Aletheia (Truth) at 18 Scorpio, “A path through woods brilliant with multicolored splendor.” So there may be hope.
Of course the Nodes move Retrograde, so they’re really just Beginning their butt-first sashay through Cancer and Capricorn, rather than Ending it. That’s okay, Degrees in Tropical astrology don’t represent arcminutes in the sky, they represent Days in the Year, Days after the March Equinox that defines the Cusp of Aries. And most of us most of the time live Time forwards, or at least we think we do. So 29 Cancer is still the End of Cancer, even if Time in this case is butt-first.
The heavier lines in the chart show the Full Moon that follows the Solstice by less than a Day/Degree. The orange lines show the Mjōlnir Kite (Epiphanies) that dominates this chart. Like Varuna-North Node, the Moon is an outlier that focuses the Energy of the crowd on the other side of the Zodiac. So we can expect from it Significant Insights into how we might Respond to our Survival Instinct most productively.
A strong hint about that resides in the Square (red line) that like a bow holds the Tension for the arrow. That’s Venus (Values) Square Lilith (Self-Sovereignty). Our Values are often slanted toward our Heart’s Truth, but usually heavily overlain with Programming from someone else, which was likely to be more their own Programming than their own Heart’s Truth. In other words our Values can get pretty stilted. So we’re likely to Discover places where our own Values are Sabotaging our Self-Sovereignty.
It may require some Adjustments to your Lifestyle, but in the long run you won’t regret Letting your Values Change instead of continuing to Compromise your Sovereignty. Doing that is also very likely to guide you toward the Life Force, help you Respond to your Survival Instincts, and lay the groundwork for your New Life in 5D!
