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Three Moments

Three events define the first half of this decade. Of course there were many other defining events, but these three rate special notice for several reasons, the first of which is that when the second event started the first almost disappeared from public consciousness. When the third event started the second almost disappeared from public consciousness. This exclusiveness is one thing that set these events apart. These are also the three events that will shape the way the second half of this decade plays out, with the ramification, realizations, and renouncements shaping the way the decade finally ends.

Neptune at Aries Point

As Neptune approaches the Aries Point we should pay special attention to the use and misuse of propaganda, something that is truly ruled by Neptune. Neptune got within four minutes of the Aries Point in July 2024 (1) only to turn retrograde as if the thought of a Fire Sign was too much to bear; then at the end of March 2025, a week after the Vernal Equinox, Neptune truly enters Aries (2) and then retrogrades and skates along the Aries Point from Fall of 2025 (3) through Winter of 2026 (4) before finally ensconcing into Aries in February of 2026.

There were conventional and dissident views on all three events, but the power behind the crushing of the dissident point of view was so strong in all three cases that you know there was much force behind the conventional view. It was not just “Oh so you disagree with me, that’s life” but rather if you disagree with the conventional viewpoint you are an apostate, a sinner, you stand against everything holy. The use of religious metaphors is not an accident. One is reminded of the Inquisition. The name calling by those holding the conventional view of those holding a dissident view was extreme as examples later will show.

I also want to look at these three moments in terms of the left-right paradigm. As I’ve expressed before I think this dichotomy is outdated but it is still very much used. And though those terms are used in ways that are way beyond the limits of what the words mean I will still use them without double quotes around the words to save typing, but you can imagine that double quotes are present.

Since this period includes what I call the Sixth Crisis we need to mention the Fifth Crisis which was World War II. One of the big items of the Fifth Crisis was the Nazis which we will see reflections of in this Sixth Crisis. People misunderstand what Nazis are. Perhaps because of much propaganda many believe that the Nazis were only killers of Jews. This is wrong, the Nazis were against the untermenschen — under people or subhumans — not only Jewish people but Romany, disabled, homosexuals, you name it, anybody not Aryan or ubermenschen. And so under people can be the common people, Russians, or Palestinians, those who don’t meet certain “standards”.

I’ll outline the conventional view first but, since it is conventional, I will not devote that much space to it. If you don’t know the conventional view by heart you likely were asleep for the last five years. More space will be used to discuss the dissident view but, since it is dissident, there are many variations possible. I’ll just try to limn out the basic ideas.

The first big crisis of this third decade of the Twenty-First Century was Covid-19 and the ensuing vaccine. The people who saw through this for the most part were on the right, which gave those on the left ample cause to jeer. And of course those on the left who also saw through the propaganda were now considered to be on the right.

Covid-19 Declared a Pandemic

Covid-19 was an infection that was the greatest pandemic to strike the world since the Spanish Flu of 1918. Measures such as lockdowns, masks, and avoiding large groups (“social distancing”) were necessary and enforced to keep the people safe. Nonetheless there was a huge amount of dying over the years 2020 and beyond. This crisis was finally abated by the introduction of a vaccine that was both safe and effective. These vaccines were developed under “Operation Warp Speed” (OWS) in record time, using a novel technology that had never been used in the public before. Many were forced with a government mandate to get what was called “the jab” because nobody is safe unless everybody complies . There were various technologies used to create these vaccines and the most popular in Western countries was messenger RNA — mRNA. This vaccine was introduced shortly after the previous president — who oversaw OWS — left office.

The alternate view had it that an artificially-created virus was developed in Wuhan China with American funding which spread around the world. It caused a mild respiratory distress, much like the Asian Flu of 1958-59 or the Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 which is considered one of the deadliest pandemics in history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu). Many have seen the movie of people practicing social distancing on a farm in upstate New York in the summer of 1969 while watching live music during the Hong Kong flu epidemic. This disease would have stricken few and they could have been cured by early treatment using the same substances that were found effective with an earlier corona viruses. Also adequate vitamin D in a body would have reduced infection. But none of those treatments were owned by large companies so little profit could be realized by using them. Instead early treatment was discouraged and hospital patients were treated with ventilators and an [official] drug whose nickname was “run death is near”. The death toll was elevated by bogus PCR tests and redefinition of other diseases, such as flu and cancer and even automobile accidents, as a death from Covid-19. Antibiotics were not used even though many had pneumonia, which was redefined as Covid-19 when they died. The stress engendered by lockdowns, social distancing, and other measure was so great that many succumbed to the affects of the intense stress. Early treatments were prevented so that a vaccine using a new technology could be rushed into service without the usual 10 years of testing. `

Vaccine Mandate Declared

The amount of death world-wide due to the vaccines number in the millions, with many more disabled and even more injured. Some of the diseases caused are various heart aliments and clots and an aggressive type of cancer called turbo-cancer. Most people, especially on the left, are not willing to look at the real misinformation and they will be horribly crushed when the truth comes out. All the news media have been active in covering up the excessive death and injury even though most insurance companies are aware of them. As they say, the cover up is worse than the crime. And when the cover-up unravels things will be different!

Many compared the treatment of people with experimental drugs as similar to what got a lot of Nazi doctors hanged and led to the creation of the Nuremberg Code that prohibits lack of informed consent in medical procedures. Many are calling for a Nuremberg 2.0 to take a look at the massive lack of informed consent. One outspoken dissident with real world experience is Vera Sharav, a holocaust survivor who has been vehement in her condemnation of the massive medical experiment.

There were strong terms used to condemn those who took a dissident view, such as “anti-vaxxer” or “right-wing conspiracy theorist”. Many important people appeared on the media to condemn those who held such divergent views. The left, which traditionally supported bodily autonomy (“My body my choice”) and informed consent were totally against those things in this case. The left is also aware of “regulatory capture” wherein large corporations capture the government agencies which supposedly regulate those same corporations, rending any restriction on their activities minor. But now it was big tobacco, bad; big oil, bad; but big pharma, so good we will trust it with out life (literally). Many on the left are concerned with the chemicals they take in, so pesticide-free organic food and GMO free food is important, but using the much more rapid means of ingestion which was injection is not at all suspicious. On the other hand, the right supports the behavior of corporations, thinking that corporations are truly part of the American Way. Big business is swell, they think. And no “My body, my choice’. But here they reversed themselves. One strange outcome of the Covid-19 debacle was the switching positions of the right and the left. I guess, as Emerson said, consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The second event of note was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a bordering country, on February 24, 2022. The conventional stance on this issue is that the brutal leader of Russia, Vladimir Putin, wants to recreate the old Soviet Union and eventually conqueror Europe. Russia’s unprovoked invasion of neighboring Ukraine was just the first step in his big plans. If we — the United States and Europe — don’t stop him in Ukraine the West will have to stop Russia in Europe or America.

The dissent view — which takes note of history — points out contributing factors. In 1990 the United States told the leader of the Soviet Union that if East and West Germany could reunite and join NATO then NATO would not expand “one inch eastward”. Since then NATO has doubled in size with a number of new countries, most of which were either part of the Soviet Union or aligned with the Soviet Union. Russia realized that the word of the West was meaningless.

Not One Inch East

Then in 2014 there was a Nazi coup in Ukraine that was supported (at the very least) by the United States. This Maidan Revolution (named for the public square in Kiev where it began) overthrew a democratically leader of the country. Then began a civil war between Ukranine and the Russians who make up the Eastern part of the country. Russia tried for years to settle these disputes to no avail and finally when a larger number of Russian were going to be killed (according to the UN) did Russia invade the country. Immediately Russia tried to end that dispute with agreements but the country was rebuffed at every turn.

Maidan Revolution

In this the name calling had the dissidents as “Putin puppets” unable to think for themselves but only following Kremlin propaganda. Obviously US and NATO propaganda was truthful.

The left and the right both supported this dissident view (to a minor extent). There was even an anti-war rally called “Rage Against the War Machine” that attracted both the left and the right. But some on the left would not attend because some evil people on the right were present, and some on the right would not attend because of the evil people on the left that were present.

Z – Special Military Operation

The third event started with the unprovoked attack on a settlement and dance party in Israel by the terrorist Hamas, an organization that politically controlled Gaza. This terrorist group must be destroyed if the citizens of Israel are to be able to live in peace. Hamas wants to create a new holocaust and is solely motivated by its hatred of Jews just like the Nazis. There were 1200 Israelis killed in the attack, which also included mass rape and the beheading of babies. No one was safe in this horrible act.

Hamas Attack

The alternative view of this third crisis was that there was a revolt from “the world’s largest open air prison” ( Human Rights Watch) which upset the government of Israel that ran the prison and that country used this revolt as an excuse to drive the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip away from that territory so that Israel could once again take over that area. Much like slave revolts in the South of America, such as those of Nat Turner or Denmark Vesey, this revolt was not nice or pretty but totally understandable.

This dissident view holds that there were no rapes during the attack and only one child was killed and by accident. Of the 1200 killed, just over 300 were military and, according to an Israeli newspaper, over 300 of those killed were killed by the Israeli military, but since no complete investigation was done we really have no idea how many were really killed by the Israeli military.

And of course the all-in-one epithet condemning Hamas and all those who made even a mild criticize of what Israel is doing as antisemitism, thus conflating Zionism — the driving force behind the creation of Israel — with Judaism, which is a spiritual belief.

The right in general were extremely supportive of the Israeli side — definitely no anti-Semites here. While the right has long bemoaned those snowflakes who got upset when someone criticized them, condemning the whole woke culture of the Left, the right was in a hurry to support the Jewish snowflakes who were upset that some were criticizing the State of Israel. Are we seeing the birth of the”Woke Right”? In a world were the terrorist organization which is an offshoot of Al Qaeda is now rebranded as a ruler of Syria since they are now woke such a change is certainly possible.

The left was more supportive of the Palestinian side since many are aware of the apartheid nature of Israel, but still many on the left support Israel, perhaps because they are ashamed that America did not allow Jewish refugees to enter the country during World War II or refused to bomb the rail lines to the death camps in Nazi Germany.

Hades-Kronos Conjunction

Uranian sidebar: Beginning in 2010 there was a conjunction between two Trans-Neptunian planets, Hades and Kronos. The name Hades — Greek name for Pluto — suggests some of the disgust engendered by the planet. For an example from real Life, on 9/11 Hades was conjunct the Natal Mars of the United States with an orb of three minutes. Kronos — the Greek equivalent of Saturn — is said to rule high things like skyscrapers, governments, other large organizations. On 9/11 Kronos was at 0 Cancer and square the MC of the US. Perhaps this conjunction is like a super Saturn-Pluto conjunction. In a personal example, as a young child I had transiting Hades opposite my Sun, and that Spring I had a number of illnesses, the worst of which was encephalitis lethargica, which put me in a coma for three weeks.

These two planets came into a conjunction about 2010 and the conjunction will continue until 2050 with the exact conjunction happening at the end of this decade. From the graphical ephemeris it can be seen the Hades (‘C’ with a cross) is closely even thought it is a fourth harmonic graphical ephemeris, both planets are really in Cancer) conjunct the US Sun from 2022 through 2025 and Kronos (cross with a lid on)from 2020 to 2024. In the 2030s both planets conjoin the US Mercury, representing the Press. There can be two quite opposite meanings, and I believe both will come to pass. In the negative realm there will be much death and widespread corruption, which of course we are already seeing. But on a positive side this conjunction could mean reaching a higher plane through disgust with the current reality. We shall see what the future brings. But for now, everything is broken.

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Neptune Part One

Neptune opposes its natal position in 2021 and 2022, and by observing previous conjunctions/oppositions, we will see the strong impact these positions have on the US. However, I am not suggesting a cause and effect: As with much of astrology, the relationship between planetary positions and events is symbolic and metaphoric and synecdochic.

The original Neptune conjoined its natal position in 1774, 1775, and 1776 with the natal return being the last of a series; it was during those years that the build-up of tension that finally resulted in the writing of the Declaration was growing. But of course the writing of the Declaration only indicated that the colonists were totally fed up with Britain. The Revolutionary War is considered to have started with the Battle of Lexington and Concord, on April 19, 1775, between the third and fourth exact conjunction.

Neptune then conjoined the IC of the United States, the only other time since the United States was declared a country, which was one Neptune cycle ago in the period 1857 through 1859 right before 1860-1864. That period marked the Civil War, a very important conflict, the most violent on American soil, one that had repercussions for the rest of the century, and one whose lessons we seem not to have learned. This war was between the Northern States and the Southern States, and it has often been said that the North won the war, but the South won the Reconstruction that followed.

The five exact demi-returns of Neptune were 5/24/1857, 7/27/1857, 3/14/1858, 10/31/1858, and 1/4/1859. The main cause of the American Civil War can be considered to be chattel slavery, which was practiced in the southern part of the United States. Those states were attempting to expand the number of states which would allow slavery. The immediate cause was the firing on the Union at Fort Sumter, but two important causes, which spokesmen for the South proclaimed, were the publication of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (published March 20, 1852) and John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry. This raid took place between October 16 through 18, 1859. This was following the last exact pass of Neptune and was an attempt to start a slave rebellion. Though John Brown was executed by the United States, he was considered a martyr by many in the North, and a popular song was composed at the time: John Brown’s Body. That song was later renamed The Battle Hymn of the Republic and different lyrics were added by Julia Ward Howe. One can only imagine the fear invoked in Southerners to see many in the North so praising someone that the South considered a fiend and often singing a song dedicated to him. It was reasonable for them to assume that even though Brown’s attempt failed, there would be more actions like that, and eventually the South would be faced by a slave rebellion supported by many in the North.

Last Demi-Return before John Brown’s Raid

Moving on to the next Neptune return and the first since the birth of the country, we see the following: The three exact transits of Neptune to its natal position were on 10/28/1938, 2/24/1939, and 8/30/1939. These dates are obviously just before World War II broke out, and the last date is one day before Germany invaded Poland, which officially marks the beginning of World War Two. While I am not suggesting that a Neptune transit will be quickly followed by an event whose significance will be immediately apparent, it is interesting to note the strong correspondence. When looking back at the Civil War demi-return, the transits ended several months before John Brown’s raid, not as close to the significant event as in the case of World War II, but of course, there were certainly other events presaging the Civil War that took place closer to the date of the last return.

We can see the equivalent positions of Neptune opposite its natal position in this year and the next: May 1, August 21, and March 1, 2022. The opposition is very close to exact now in the beginning weeks of 2021. On the first of the new year, Neptune was four degrees away from its demi-return and closing.

By now, we can see that the dominant trend setter of the next decade will be the response to Covid-19. People tend to personify possibly non-living entities like viruses, but those entities actually do nothing except be a virus. It is the human response that causes large scale changes to society. A famous example of this type of personification is the book with the title The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Genes do not know lust, pity, selfishness, or any other of the seven deadly sins, and to describe them thusly is extreme personification — ascribing human characteristics to the non-human. This is often done with animals, but to do such personification with micro-entities stretches the bounds of the acceptable.

As of early 2021, the death toll for the Covid-19 pandemic is just over one-half million for the United States, and slightly over 2.5 million for the world. And a death is a binary activity, a person is either dead or alive (unless you inhabit a zombie movie), so one would think the numbers are quite clear in describing the scale of the crises. But in March 2020, after a suggestion from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a directive on filling out a death certificate for deaths from Covid-19, overriding the method of filling out such form that had been in place for 17 years. In this new method, deaths was no longer considered to be “from Covid” but rather “with Covid” which meant having a positive (usually PCR) test within 28 days of death. As both the WHO and Doctor Fauci have recently admitted, a PCR test is inaccurate if the Cycle Threshold is too big. The PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) test, which earned its inventor a Nobel Prize (he was also into astrology, but I don’t know if there is a connection!!) works by taking small bits of genetic material and magnifying them a number of times, and that number is a called the CT. Tests with a CT of 17 are 100% accurate, and the WHO states that those with a CT over 35 provide mostly false positives. Most commonly tests were performed with a CT of 38-45 before WHO spoke. As anyone who has magnified a low-resolution forty times and seen the huge numbers of artifacts that resulted has seen how this problem works.

The point of this long and technical discussion is that we really don’t know how many deaths have been caused by SARS-CoV-2 that can be compared to deaths caused by such things such as heart disease, cancer, or influenza. Thus Neptune has seeped into what should be a simple binary decision. Since both my parents died of pneumonia, though one had lung cancer and the other had just had a heart attack, I’m very sensitive as to how the cause of death is determined and the problems that can occur in such determination.

It is slowly becoming clear that the response by various governments and other bodies around the world to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 is having the greatest impact on the world since World War II. This will color the rest of the decade and perhaps years after that. This of course is right on time. As we’ve seen before, these Neptune returns/demi-returns corresponded to the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II, with each disaster (which means bad stars) being more widespread than the one before. So we now know what the disaster described in the book The Fourth Turning (Neil Howe and William Strauss) will be. Since we are just at the beginning, there are many more derived things to come down the pike. The response of people to the response to the virus will be large and will play out in unexpected ways. Stay Tuned! For example, what is the origin of this virus? Many claim that the virus was created in a lab, and there has been a huge campaign to deny this, but whatever the truth, there have been experiments to increase the potency of viruses in a laboratory called “gain-of-function” research for many years, and sooner or later, one of these experiments will escape into the human population. There needs to be more awareness of this dangerous research.

For the various crises that will develop in this decade, people will use a code word or synecdoche; I have heard several, such as the obvious Covid-19, or the Great Reset (™ World Economic Forum) or Covid-1984 or Flu D’état. The reason so many terms have already been created is that people realize, perhaps unconsciously, that the implication of what has happened the previous year are great and will effect the course of history. I hope everyone is paying attention because we live in historic times.

I have tried to construct a Covid chart. I first looked for Patient Zero, the first patient to get the disease. I then tried to look for when the disease was first identified. There is much confusion (Neptune again) about these things as well as the actual origin and what animals it moved through before coming to humans. But one date kept being mentioned over and over: March 11, 2020. That was the date that the WHO announced that Covid-19 was a pandemic after changing the definition of a pandemic a few years earlier. More Neptune. As he opened the news conference, the Director-General of WHO said “Good Afternoon”, so we can surmise that it was not in the morning.

Looking at the chart, we should first note that Mercury went direct on the previous day. It was as if the authorities could not announce this pandemic until Mercury had turned around. Since we don’t have an exact time, the angles are meaningless, but the several clusters of planets are not. As has been written about before, the three planets that defined the year of 2020 — Jupiter, Saturn, and Pluto — are all conjunct in the chart with the addition of Mars to make it more energetic. Then, to again emphasize Neptune, we see that that planet is closely conjunct the Sun, indicating it is a Neptune day, and both are in Neptune ruled Pisces. Perhaps the conjunction is at the Midheaven if the news conference did indeed start in the early afternoon. The Moon was below the horizon for the next six hours, showing that the public (the Moon) was kept in the dark. There is also a conjunction of Venus and Uranus, and the statement Ebertin gives about this conjunction is worth quoting in full: “A strong and hardly controllable tension in emotional life, a self-willed and obstinate disposition, strange urges and inclinations”. It seems like the perfect chart.

There have been some trends in the past few years for a more progressive, more equitable future. All these trends have now been reversed. I’m sure many who have opposed this movement for a more equitable future will be pleased with these outcome. Consider some of the outcomes that we already see: This last year has seen the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history. Many small business ceased operation, and more sales were seen by Amazon and other massive businesses. In addition, most of the “stimulus” in America was given to large corporations while individuals got $1200 or $600 if they were lucky. The stock market is booming while many struggle to get enough to eat since their jobs are gone.

Since many people were without jobs or income, they found it difficult to pay their mortgage or rent. There was an eviction moratorium that temporarily suspended the prospect of losing one’s home, but eventually, the moratorium must end with a huge lump sum payment due and the strong probability of many evictions in the upcoming months. I personally know a large family with a new baby who had just closely avoided being burned out by last year’s fires, who were just evicted since there are many loopholes to the eviction moratorium. We already have a huge homeless population — a noticeable phenomenon of neoliberalism. With all the upcoming evictions, the population of homeless will increase.

Developed countries such as the United States and the members of the European Union will be relatively lucky unlike poorer countries which will not be so fortunate. Oxfam International estimates a potential death of 150,000,000 in the developing countries as a result of the response, and fewer people have jobs in these areas that can be done from home. Many are in what is called the “informal economy”, which is not covered by any government mandates or restrictions. I saw an estimate of 10,000 extra monthly deaths in Africa because much less aid is coming from the developed countries, which currently have their own problems.

Partially because of the lack of affordable childcare, four times more women than men have exited the workforce, thus fulfilling the dream of some to keep women at home and in the kitchen. Once these changes happen, it is difficult to override them in a short time frame.

Middle class people often work in offices, and the mandate to work from home was easily met for those who used to commute to the office. So many have decided that working from home is easy and productive that office real estate is seeing a difficult time. If people don’t need to work in a standard office, what becomes of all those buildings that were rented for a high price?

Many people in the working class do physical work (as opposed to shuffling papers), which requires them to be physically present, and they cannot “work from home”. These are the people who will more often lose their jobs during this time. Those who can work from home are often considered members of the Professional Managerial Class — PMC — and that has become the primary constituent of the Democratic Party, which supposedly represented the working class, so you can imagine how the working class will be more angry that they are being ignored by the PMC-loving elite.

Many of the businesses that require people to be present that are not just office work are run by non-white people, more than would be expected by their share of the population. Black owned business were twice as likely to be shut down as white owned businesses during the lockdown, thus further increasing black poverty. This reverses trends that have been going on for several years. It may be considered cynical to point out that this increasing black unemployment and poverty goes along with a celebration of black culture by the PMC.

Speaking of poverty, the upcoming world will see levels of poverty not seen since WWII. Again, while the United States will see increased poverty for many of the reasons outlined above, the non-rich countries that are called the developing nations, and which got aid from the developed countries that has now ceased, will see even more increases in poverty, again reversing trends of the last decades.

In today’s highly-industrial society, mental health has been precarious, and now prisons are one of of the few institution housing those with mental health problems. The constant bombardment by fear and the increasing isolation from friends and support groups has led to increased mental problems in people. At one point, the daily calls to a suicide hotline were approaching the number of calls normally seen in a month. In San Francisco, at one point, a year’s worth of suicide was seen in a month. That area also saw more drug overdose deaths than Covid deaths, and there is much more consumption of alcohol with foreseen consequences.

There have been warnings of increased mental health problems for youth who normally would be in school where potential problems can be observed, where counselors are available, and where free lunches can be provided. Since most children were sitting at home and staring at screens (if an Internet connection was available), mental health problems are not being caught in time, and there are more cases of physical abuse of children who are now with their parents for long stretches of time. Recently the CDC reported a 400% increase in adolescent depression. A sign of this is the fact that schools in Nevada had to resume classes after a spate of student suicides.

Because of isolation and containment, we have seen increased domestic violence and child abuse. Children had their classes curtailed, so many children are fearful and mistrustful; and children are behind developmentally where they normally would be at their age. The whole “Covid generation” of children who have gone through this will reverberate down through the years as a group of people behind where they should be socially. These children, with Pluto in Sagittarius or Capricorn, will be marked for life, especially since they witnessed the Great Recession of 2007-2009 or the aftermath of it.

With the greatly increased unemployment numbers, some observers estimate that the unemployment will be greater than that of the Great Depression; there will be more deaths. For a long time, the unemployment figures have been deceptive since they only counted as unemployed those looking for work; the discouraged workers who had dropped out of searching were not even counted as unemployed, and the numbers of discouraged workers has been increasing for a decade. It has been estimated that for every one percent increase in unemployment, there is an additional 36,000 deaths in the United States.

There will be many deaths from other causes such as heart attacks and cancer that were not caught by early detection because hospitals and doctors were busy dealing with the pandemic. In the early days, many people would avoid the ER or A&E (in the UK) because they thought they would get the virus if they went in. In addition, many children did not get their scheduled vaccinations because they were at home, and of course many people locked in their homes missed exercise, sunshine, and fresh air, all of which helps build a strong immune system.

All of these massive changes to society will not be overcome or reversed in a few months, but rather — as more authorities are now saying — will take the rest of the decade or more to be reversed if that is even desired by our leaders. That of course is if it is possible to imagine that things could possibly go back to what they were after so many things have happened. If you observe the upcoming transits for the decade, which have been talked about incessantly in this blog, you will see that the changes have only started. Those items mentioned above are only the beginning; the reactions — political, cultural, social — will be far reaching and haven’t really started yet or at least have not been publicly recognized.

This Neptune cycle that also corresponds to the first Pluto Return for the United States suggests even more “fun and games” for the U.S. Note also that the Pluto demi-return happened in the years 1935-1938, just before Neptune conjoined its natal position and the world was in the throes of the Great Depression. You may wonder why one full Neptune cycle corresponded to half a Pluto cycle, and the second half of the Pluto cycle corresponds to just half a Neptune cycle; this is because Pluto slowed down during the second half of its cycle, and was even inside the orbit of Neptune for 20 years recently.

This past year has seen the beginning of a crisis which will mark this decade as an important time in the history of the United States and the World. This period will be a crtical change to the world and in the next two posts we will show how a conflict will determine what that change will be.

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Neptune Über Alles

We have had a whole lot of Neptune over the last few years, and it is not going to end any time soon. I’ve previously written about the Neptune transits to the Ascendant and the Sun of the United States. The last of those transits has just about finished. But coming up is the Neptune demi-return, the return of Neptune to be opposite its natal position. This occurs at almost the same time as the Pluto return. This is not too surprising, since the period of Neptune — 168 years — is almost two-thirds the period of Pluto — 248 years — so there is a certain resonance to their periods. This Neptune demi-return will be followed soon after by Neptune hitting 0 Aries and Neptune crossing the IC — opposite the Midheaven — of the US, so soon the whole world, and especially the United States, will have more than a touch of Neptune.

Second Neptune Demi-Return

Neptune the planet — who was in Roman mythology (Poseidon in Greek) the god of the Seas (and also earthquakes) — covers many ideas. In the best sense it can relate to spiritual matters, but also deception and illusion in a mundane situation or for those who are not spiritual adepts. Neptune should be strong in actors (witness Elizabeth Taylor’s birth in Neptune-ruled Pisces) who need to behave like someone they are not. But is difficult to manifest the spiritual side of Neptune when we are talking about countries (eg US) or many people in their mundane existence. In such cases Neptune can represent lies, deception, dissembling, but also vapors, poison gas, and illness, especially when the causes are not well know. In particular, with the current COVID-19 pandemic that is engulfing the world, Neptune is a fitting symbol. But remember Neptune symbolizes many things, so don’t get caught up in assigning it just one meaning, as Neptune is more difficult to tack down than other planets. Though is seems a little too obvious, Neptune can easily be associated with plagues or pandemics. More fundamentally Neptune can represent invisible or at least unclear things, as in the term “Neptunian” fog. So things now are very Neptunian — the situation is unclear, and it is almost as if everyone has an opinion of what is happening, and some quote “experts” but in a more general sense, no one really knows what the future will be, but it wouldn’t be “more of the same”.

Let us briefly look at previous times Neptune made hard aspects — conjunction, square, opposition — with its natal position. There are relatively few of these, since Neptune moves slowly around the Sun. In a human being with a limited lifespan, the stages of a life can be measured with the aspects of Saturn to its natal position, most commonly labeled with the term “Saturn Return” though other aspects are important also. But with a country, and especially the United States, the progress of the country can best be measured with the aspects of Neptune, as I indicate in the following paragraphs.

First Opening Neptune Square

The first opening square of transiting Neptune to its natal position was in 1817. This was an interesting time even if there were no stand-out events. The last of the “Virginia Dynasty” Presidents, all of whom came from the state of Virginia, James Monroe, had just been elected. It is known as “The Era of Good Feelings” when past animosities were ended. The War of 1812, which had seen the burning of the nation’s capital city, had ended two years earlier. The Federalist Party, those who had essentially started the country before there were actually political parties, and had been represented by the first two Presidents, was for all intents and purposes dead. This time represents the end of the “childhood” of the country and a time when it moved into adolescence. Not only were Presidents elected that were different than the first few, for example Andrew Jackson in another ten years, but the contentious issue of slavery was about to become very obvious and could no longer be ignored with the Missouri problem that was solved by the eponymously name Compromise.

First Neptune Demi-Return

The first time it was opposite its natal position was in 1858 and 1859. We all know what was happening then: This was the final run-up to the American Civil War, which had been developing for at least forty years since the opening square, but by the time of that demi-return the war was almost here. This Civil War marked America’s entrance into young adulthood after it “solved” a problem that had been with the country since its founding.

First Closing Neptune Square

The closing square of Neptune was in 1898. It is noteworthy how often several important transits happen at the same time — the current decade is a hallmark example of such a phenomena. But this Neptune aspect was also an example; this period saw the Spanish American War and the beginning of the Philippines War while there was a Saturn Pluto opposition. America was now passing out of earlier adulthood which was marked by the Civil War and was becoming a full adult and, wanting to be considered a “successful” country, became an empire. This can be seen as the beginning of the “American Century”.

Neptune Return

The first complete Neptune cycle, which involved Neptune returning to its natal position, was 1938 and 1939; in the same way that that first demi-return was a run-up to the American Civil War, this return was the run up to the Second World War, though most Americans at the time were just happy that the worst of the Great Depression was over. Those who paid attention to what was happening in Europe or the Far East knew something was coming down. By the end of the War, America had achieved the promise that had been set in motion at the closing square: it was truly a world-spanning empire.

Second Opening Neptune Square

The second opening square, which also corresponds to a Saturn-Pluto conjunction and much else was happening in 1980 and 1981. As has been mentioned before, this is the beginning of Neo-liberalism, that branch of extreme capitalism that has dominated the world for the last forty years, and, I believe, is coming to an end with the Neptune demi-return. This closing square represented elderhood for the country, but not in a good way — the country has become older without becoming wiser, like an elderly teenager. This upcoming decade represents hopefully a maturing out of that difficult stage. Unlike a physical human being, countries can have more than one “lifespan”. In this sense the upcoming Pluto return (symbolically, since Pluto can represent death) is the end of that stage most represented by the promise of the first Neptune return.

Since in the US chart, Neptune is close to the Midheaven, it is not surprising that the Neptune returns and demi-returns corresponds closely to Neptune at the MC or opposite the MC, which has been shown before to correspond to a crisis in America. The first such crisis was the Revolutionary War, then the Civil War, then World War II. This next crisis is coming up, and one indicator is the Neptune demi-return that also corresponds to the Pluto return, so one might guess that this return/demi-return of two outer planets will be more impressive/significant than either by themselves. But these returns also correspond to Neptune on the Cardinal axis, either at 0 Aries or 0 Libra so they also represent major changes in the World.

US history in textbooks is often divided into four periods — before the Revolutionary War, between Revolutionary and Civil Wars, after the Civil War but before World War Two, and after World War Two, that is today. So American history is conveniently demarcated by those the events, though all signify ongoing events to which those turning points — Revolutionary, Civil, World War — are significant. And it should be obvious that life before the Revolutionary War, when people were British citizens, was different than life after when they were citizens of a new country. After the Civil War, those who were slaves were now free and could, theoretically at least, vote and travel about. And after World War Two so many things changed that it is often called the Great Acceleration or the start of the Anthropocene — literally a new era in world history. We are soon to reach another one of those turning points. The time after this Neptune demi-return (and many other events which I have talked about before) will be unlike the time before (ie, now). The history of the world, when looked back at from the future, will show that there was a major change that happened in the third decade of the Twenty First century. Neptune is a big, but not the only, part of this, symbolized by the only outer-planet midpoint configuration with Neptune at the apex in 500 years and Neptune crossing the Cardinal axis at Zero Aries, the start of things.

This future could be determined by the same forces that made the last 70 (or 500) years what they have become, or it could be determined in a more democratic way. I believe it was the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume who said that in all societies the people are the ones that truly have the power, but they have been convinced that they don’t, so it does not matter. In authoritarian societies like the former Soviet Union, it was obvious that the media and the government were lying to citizens and so they paid attention to the samizdat (unauthorized newspapers), but in more “democratic” societies people don’t know they are being lied to, so it is almost a harder problem to convince them that they have the power. What we need to see now is that the individuals come to believe that they are the powerful ones and not allow themselves to be controlled by the government and that handmaiden of government, the mass media, all of whom are owned by large corporations that do not have the interests of individual citizens as their prime concern.

In the chart of the US, Neptune is square Mars. This is an extremely problematic aspect for a nation. The country in question is deluded about its use of power, which in the case of a nation is military power. It — the country — tends to believe that all uses of force are only for the benefit of others and military operations are done with the best of intentions: Deception is paramount. When transiting Neptune is conjunct/opposed the natal Neptune it is also squaring the natal Mars, further emphasizing the ingrained Mars Neptune square. This demi-return could be the time of another crusade to save the world. In the current US this crusade comes in two flavors: straight neoconservative, often the favorite of Republicans, and the responsibility to protect (R2P) which is favored by Democrats (also called “the cruise missile left”). In practical application, there is not much difference in outcome, but the R2P crowd (Samantha Powers is a good example) are often cheered in elite publications. That is the “respectable” type of intervention.

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In the fourth harmonic graphical ephemeris we can see how close the lines for Mars and Neptune are, near the bottom of the image. Neptune first comes close to Neptune-Mars in the summer of 2020 and first exactly contacts both planets in Spring of 2021. Both planets are contacted throughout the remainder of 2021 and 2022 and the last exact opposition to natal Neptune is at the end of 2022. Also visible in the upper half of the graphical ephemeris is the progress of the Pluto Return which starts and ends a little later than the demi-return.

But I don’t want to be all negative. This Mars-Neptune emphasis could be a time for self reflection (in the country) and a realization of how much the National Security State (aka Military Industrial Complex or Deep State), that was born shortly after World War II, has come to influence and even determine what the United States does. The current media mindset with Russia,Russia,Russia (they’re going to hack our 2020 elections also!) shows how much an enemy is needed. And before Russia the enemy was terrorism, and before that drugs, and before that Communism, and before that Germany, and before that Spain, and before that the South (from a Northern perspective), and before that the British.

Neptune indicates the very fluidity of the situation. It is at such a time that the maximum amount of change can be made, or else we can fight among ourselves and let our “Masters” control the situation and its outcome. But one thing is certain: with Neptune so involved, don’t accept anything at first impression, always look beneath the Neptunian surface.

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