This weekend, Saturn and Pluto align in the first of three exact square aspects (from Libra to Capricorn). We’re seeing this crash through the news — for example, last week’s Fort Hood massacre and its aftermath. This is the first major point of awakening in the United States wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then there’s the long overdue battle over health care in the United States. There are equally profound changes developing for each of us individually. They may be arriving in the form of challenges; reassessments; or the kind of system breakdown-rebuild that is characteristic of Saturn-Pluto aspects.
While this is happening, beware of an aspect developing in the background (and which has been cooking all year), which is the conjunction of Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius. If you want to know what this is about, make a list of the ways that our society lives on denial. Do you really want to know where your hamburger comes from? Are you sure you want to know what’s in your flu vaccine? Are you really happy with how your friends or partner treats you? Everything developing in the planets right now favors awakening from denial and seeing your life for what it is. After careful assessment, you may even decide it was better than you thought. And you will undoubtedly see where there is room for improvement.
Closer on the horizon is the Scorpio New Moon, which is exact Monday at 7:14 pm. We’ve heard many times how the veil between the worlds is thinnest when the Sun is in Scorpio; this is the peak of that energy, when the veils that separate us from the truth will fall away, at least for a moment.
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Eric Francis is the creator of Planet Waves and author of Book of Blue. He has worked as a professional astrologer and internationally published horoscope columnist since the mid-1990s, specializing in minor planets. He has presented sexuality workshops and written for such publications as the Journal of Bisexuality, Sexuality.org and Loving More magazine. He writes his astrology columns in his fine art photography studio in Kingston, New York.
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I don’t mind an ingredients list on menus or products. It’s kinda nice to know what I’m eating. But I can do without the nutritional information . I know that I’m eating crap once or twice per month as it is. I don’t need a calorie/fat count. Thanks!
Mr.Eric thank you for this.
Would you explain further about the awakenings in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?I understand about the breakdown- of- systems- in- order- to rebuild that you discuss,(though I’d thought that more true of Pluto than Saturn?) but not certain what you mean about the wars.Thank you!
Pooky, I suspect that’s exactly what was said –that we don’t want to know, we’d rather live in some form of a state of illusion.I think we have to decide for ourselves what and who to beleive considering all the BS and misinformation we receive.But I *don’t* like being in the dark about what I’m eating or taking as medicine etc.
I like to know the truth even though, I agree I might not want it shoved in my face.
But it’s good to know we *can* look at the labels to know the facts if we need to know.
If we don’t want to bother, we cna simply just not read it, right?:-)