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David Attenborough<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

With travel restrictions this year, the naturalist Sir David Attenborough has recently taken to social media to get his urgent messages across to humanity.\u00a0 Among other vehicles,\u00a0 he has recently set up an Instagram account (now totalling 5.1m followers).\u00a0 Not surprisingly, he has a record number of followers, wherever he goes.\u00a0 Among other transits for his social media expansion is Jupiter trine his natal Sun.\u00a0 Governments may not listen, but his popularity grows.\u00a0 He has been telling us about the effects on nature of climate change for years, with increasing urgency.\u00a0 In the last couple of years, young Greta Thunberg has been bringing fresh pressure to bear on the cause, and they have become allies.<\/p>\n

Birth Chart<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sir David has 5 (half) of his planets in the Water element, so he is really at home in that element (witness his Blue Planet series).\u00a0 His Sun is in Earth sign Taurus, and he has done more to illuminate Life on Earth than anyone.\u00a0 At the age of 94, he has made a huge contribution to its study, which is impossible to exaggerate.\u00a0 Taurus also gives him a great deal of grounding.\u00a0 His Sun is opposed by Saturn, so he feels a huge weight of responsibility, which he carries and conveys admirably.\u00a0 His Sun is also square Neptune, showing great sensitivity, and again emphasizing the role of the oceans in his life and work.\u00a0 With the Sun sextile Pluto, what he has to say is always profound, and this is given extra karmic weight with a conjunction between Pluto and the North Node, and a sextile between the North Node and the Sun.\u00a0 His has been an extraordinary destiny.\u00a0 His Moon conjuncts Venus, giving him great tenderness, and you can see that through some of his animal commentaries.\u00a0 His Moon conjunct Uranus gives him imagination and the power to surprise through the expression of emotion, which, placed in Pisces, contains a great deal of compassion too.\u00a0 Mercury is sextile Jupiter in his chart, showing breadth of mind and vastness of travel, but the most stunning feature of his chart is Jupiter exactly conjunct his Ascendant in Aquarius: that shows the huge amount of globetrotting in his lifestyle, and the global reach of his work, and the wideness of his heart.\u00a0 That position of Jupiter shows the scale of his life plan and contribution, and placed in Aquarius it hints at the extent of his futuristic vision, where he has always had his finger on the pulse of what would happen to our planet.\u00a0 Mercury exactly trine Neptune gives him acute mental sensitivity, and the ability to channel higher frequencies of thought.\u00a0 With Mercury conjunct Chiron, he’s a problem-solver.\u00a0 Mars in his first House shows his eco-warriorship, but it is unaspected, so he is a free spirit in this respect.\u00a0 With Saturn closely square Neptune he is very sensitive to the interface and relationship between the Earth and her Waters.\u00a0 Those two planets form a T-square with his Jupiter\/Ascendant, which is where he is able to bring hope while describing the plight of our situation (he never gives up hope entirely but spells out the Saturn-Neptune reality).\u00a0 On religion he has the ambivalence of Jupiter opposite Neptune: “My view is: I don’t know one way or the other but I don’t think that evolution is against a belief in God.”\u00a0 I wrote in 2016:\u00a0 “He describes himself as agnostic, and maybe he doesn\u2019t need religion as he is well and truly ‘doing his bit’ for the planet.”<\/p>\n

Documentaries<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He has made legions of documentaries for the BBC over the decades.\u00a0 Here is a timeline of a few of those, which you may remember fondly depending on your generation:<\/p>\n

1979 – Life on Earth<\/strong><\/p>\n

1984 – The Living Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n

1995 – The Private Life of Plants<\/strong><\/p>\n

2001 – The Blue Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n

2017 – Blue Planet II<\/strong><\/p>\n

2020 – Extinction<\/strong><\/p>\n

In Blue Planet II, he brought us graphic evidence of the plastic pollution in our waters, and sparked a worldwide effort to reduce the impact of plastic.\u00a0 He was spotted this week in Cambridge, beginning filming on “Green Planet”.\u00a0 He is more than a national treasure; he is more than a world treasure; he is quite literally a living icon – what the esotericist Alice Bailey would call a World Server.<\/p>\n

“If I was earning my money by hewing coal I would be very glad indeed to stop. But I’m not. I’m swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune”<\/em><\/p>\n

~ Sir David Attenborough, 2013<\/p>\n

Aspects<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you breathed some sigh of relief last Tuesday morning when Saturn was stationary prior to turning Direct, another layer of relief comes today with Pluto stationary prior to turning Direct.\u00a0 This is an even more profound shift, involving a deeper level of both the personal and collective psyche.\u00a0 We may feel we are making headway in our transitions, or at least gaining a foothold on a more salubrious path.\u00a0 Although we are still living in stressful times, we may be able to size up our tunnel, even if the light at the end may not yet be showing itself.\u00a0 In the U.K. we have Brexit looming, and a winter to get through under the “second wave”.\u00a0 In the U.S. they have a President hospitalized with the virus, and a presidential election looming in a month’s time.\u00a0 So although it may not look like we are turning a corner, the corner may be in sight, or tangible.\u00a0 If you have a breakthrough today, that may be the sign you need.<\/p>\n

Uranus opposes Mercury on Wednesday (7th) throwing a spanner in the technical works.\u00a0 Not a good day to start an Instagram account, for instance.\u00a0 If technology is a must, then take the opportunity to learn as much as you can about the issue at hand.\u00a0 In meditation, however, you could successfully connect the lower mind (Mercury) with the higher mind (Uranus) and establish a clear channel for communication and telepathy.<\/p>\n

There is no whitewashing the aspect of Friday (9th), that of Pluto squaring Mars.\u00a0 You may have to trawl through a few interpretations by other Astrologers to find one that suits!\u00a0 I consider it to be one of the most difficult of the year.\u00a0 It’s a volatile combination, which can give way to riots or situations which can get out of hand.\u00a0 Prepare your stock of peaceful vibes beforehand (in meditation perhaps)\u00a0 so that you can send out a blast of soothing comfort wherever you go with your facemask, hand gel and distance.<\/p>\n

Saturday (10th) is an opportunity to regain balance and regain ground, with a constructive sextile followed by a happy trine.\u00a0 First, the North Node sextiles Mars, where warriorship can be expressed more safely than on the previous day.\u00a0 You may be able to get your message across directly and actively, in speaking your truth or setting an example.\u00a0 If you are a follower of Dan Millman (the “Peaceful Warrior), I’ll be preaching to the converted…\u00a0 If you are a timid type, there is scope to embolden yourself slightly.<\/p>\n

The best aspect of the week comes at the very last hour, at 23.08 Hrs in the U.K. on Saturday.\u00a0 If you are at a virtual Saturday night party (as opposed to milling around the streets after the 10 p.m. pub curfew) you could have a scintillating time, with Venus forming a trine to Uranus.\u00a0 You might go along (to the said virtual party) thinking you’ll give it a whirl and it may be quite pleasant, and then find you make exciting new connections or reunions, with laughter-filled conversations, telepathy, and possibly some personal moments of deja vu (have I known this person in a previous life?).\u00a0 If you are intending to make it an early night with a cup of organic cocoa instead, you may settle into some fruitful dreamwork which sets you up with insights for the following week.<\/p>\n

The week in bullet points:<\/p>\n