This is a bread and butter week being served up as an hors d’oeuvres before a massive meal of Jupiter square Pluto and Saturn opposite Uranus early on next week’s menu.  Last week’s eclipse brought new twists to old news:  Here in the U.K. Robbie Williams re-joining Take That (transiting Neptune trine his Saturn and Uranus, forming a Grand Trine), and Coalition plans to revamp (or dismantle?) the NHS; and in the U.S. twin boosts for Barack Obama with the capping of the oil spill situation, and the pushing forward of financial reforms, both featured on 15 July.  Starlight wrote 2 days before on Nancy’s Blog (link on my Contact page) “due to this month’s Jupiter station sextile Obama’s Moon (3Gemini21) and square the US Venus (3Cancer06), as well as semisquare Obama’s Ascendant (18Aquarius03), July is bringing some successes and optimism to our beleaguered president.”  Neptune is on Barack Obama’s South Node, a long transit, insinuating oil karma but also speculation about his true character.  Tuesday (20th) sees Chiron retrograding back into Aquarius, so healing initiatives may suffer a temporary reversal.  Counting Chiron as a planet (poetic licence, it’s an asteroid) that is the first of 3 planets to change signs this week, bringing subtle changes this week to the tone of life.    Wednesday (21st) Saturn re-enters Libra, and we mean business in our relationships now (there is no going back to Virgo).  Next up on Thursday (22nd) the Sun enters its own sunny sign of Leo, and it’s a good week for Leos to feel their essence.  For on Friday (23rd) two favourable aspects to the Sun occur: a sextile with Saturn (stability and creativity combined), and then Sun trine Uranus (having established what the rules are, then bringing intuition into play, and expressing as much creativity as possible within those conditions).  A day when much can be achieved.  The same day, Jupiter goes stationary prior to retrograde motion, and recent successes or gains will need further research (e.g. if you are on a knitting project you may need to go back and pick up some stitches).  Don’t abandon hopes and dreams, you just need to realize what needs tweaking.  The week ends on a cliffhanger, for Jupiter is poised to square Pluto on Sunday 25th (power play on a large scale) and the 5th and final pass of Saturn opposite Uranus is about to take place on Monday 26th (a final judgement in politics and health reforms).  I will try to blog ahead of these two events, and whether or not I do will be my own personal cliffhanger.  Perhaps you also have one you already know about…

Of related interest:

http://www.lanawooster.co.uk/blog/2009/10/saturn-in-libra-karmic-dilemmas/

Date: Jul 18th, 2010 · Comments RSS · Tags: Astrology