'ýúøÿóðïðþöúñ Anne Massey Venus is still news September 2012 The occultation is over, it was the second—Venues works in pairs. The significance of the two occultations (2004 and 2012) is far from over. In each of the previous Venus decades—I consider about 20 years around the eight (actual years 1761-69, 1518-1526, 1275 -1283), we had significant social change centered fighting for our right to have unhindered access to information as well as gaining (once again) equal rights for everyone. We now have the tools to spread knowledge and words (Gemini) inclusively to everyone (Venus) to get the World books in order… Currently Jupiter is travelling through Gemini to keep around human rights and freedoms as well as freedom to the degrees active, and in four years we have another information. We are amidst a technological or rather dig- conjunction of Venus and the Sun at the same deital revolution. We no longer commit pen to paper to gree; in 2020 Venus will be in Gemini for another four share our ideas, we also communicate freely across the months to remind us to keep on working on the globe via the net. There are revolutionaries of our era pressing collective issues (as well as our own). The Battle of the Giants is once again taking place. The Uranus-Pluto squares repeat from the early 1930’s, which followed the Great Depression. This year the two form the square twice, once in June and next September 19, 2012. There are many ways to look at what part of the cycle this is. The most recent meeting of the two planets took place in the mid-sixties (1965-66), when there were three conjunctions of the two in Virgo. So if we begin with the conjunctions at Page 1 16-17° Virgo, we find that Pluto has moved to a trine from the position and Uranus is about to form a quincunx to the degree of the conjunction. The irregular orbit of Pluto ensures that patterns don’t repeat with the beautiful geometry that we’d like to see for ease of delineation. If we think in terms of what aspect this is—an opening or a closing square. The faster planet i.e. Uranus makes the aspect. Thus this ought to be an opening or applying square … The ones shown in the illustration (page 2) are the degrees for next year. Uranus, known as the revolutionary as well as the awakener is in rash Aries, which likes quick turnarounds, let’s start it and see where we get. The tension forms from that energy toward Pluto of destruction and rebuilding in the societal sign of Capricorn. The world is changing and those of us with personal planets and angles at 7-15° of any cardinal sign are feeling the pressure cooker energy. Neptune is meandering through Pisces, looking gently toward Pluto but the two no longer form a close comfortable sextile as in prior decades...However at the beginning of October 2 012, Saturn the ruler of Capricorn moves into Scorpio and can express reason while conveying messages from the compassionate approach of Neptune in Pisces. The world has gone through these changes before, we however, were not around with our current consciousness… as I write this lit- www.astrologicallyspeaking.com Continued on page 2 From the Desk of Anne Massey Giants... tle bit, I was reading the newspaper which had a headline that Somalia, a country on the east coast of Africa, is being rebuilt—maybe this time it will work. What a timely sentiment in the current unsettled climate all across the globe. Battle lines of the Giants in 2013 The Italian financial minister gave a nasty interview for the German Spiegel about how the Finns are too democratic deferring major decisions to their own parliament In Europe the headlines are filled with the Euro crisis. Should the countries demand guarantees on loans handed out to Greece, Italy, Spain, etc. The Italian financial minister gave a nasty interview for the German Spiegel about how the Finns are too democratic deferring major decisions to their own parliament rather than acting only as representatives within the European committees...imagine that...politicians who kind of listen to the voters that placed them in a position of trust. In Canada’s confederation chart the Uranus-Pluto push and pull is forming a T-square to the Sun in Cancer (as in the US), I would have to speculate with astrology alone that there is a lot of stress toward the party in power as the majority, to listen to the smaller players and not act without absolute consensus. Canada has Sun conjunct Uranus at the June 2012 degree, we have our Neptune at 15°Aries...the pressure of these two planets has plagued the world for a few years already; Canadians wiped out the Liberals from power in the most recent election, there are elections in Quebec is saw somewhere...yes, the years of radical change are upon us. And Quebec had a change in power with dramatic shooting builtin. The Bloc Quebecois came out victorious. There are seven square aspects between the two in the course of 2012-15. We must collectively change and personally get involved somehow, should these degrees take place prominently in our own charts. I like to personify the planets, thus I suggest that in understanding how this might play out for you personally. Radical, disruptive Uranus in volatile fire is in your house of character, money, communication, etc. attempting to get you to try something new...to get out of a rut, yelling at you wake up and smell life. Transformative Pluto in traditional Capricorn wants you to change so that you are more cognizant of your innate abilities—to do something more with your life. To be more, not because you must but because you can. In the interim the two can create upheavals in two areas of your life that don’t really meld together well to begin with… In another three years or so, Uranus will lose interest in the battle ...Pluto will not. 2013 at A Glance 2013 begins with Jupiter, Vesta and Ceres retrograde. This year’s eclipses—èWF—repeat from 1994. The Outer Planets—Pluto, Pluto, Neptune and Uranus Uranus—will not change signs this year. 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