Major Phe­nom­e­na

Intro­duc­tion

Every­thing
Changes…Nothing Changes

The Gen­er­al
Out­look for 2013 con­tin­ues to resound with the larg­er ele­ments that arrived
upon the world stage in 2012, and they are still bear­ing their mes­sages and greater
influ­ences into this year too. Yet with­in the over­all panora­ma of the planetary
dance, there are more than hints and whis­pers of new themes and delightful
melodies, per­haps a quick­en­ing brush of spir­i­tu­al mean­ings that bring with them
a renew­al and a promise of brighter hopes and dreams. 

I will do a
more exten­sive analy­sis for each Astro­log­i­cal event when they occur. For this
Gen­er­al Fore­cast I will attempt to give a brief overview as to how the year’s
major events may shape our lives and fortunes.

The
fun­da­men­tal theme dri­ving the Astro­log­i­cal sto­ry this decade con­tin­ues to march
on as Uranus in Aries con­tin­ues to square Plu­to in Capri­corn in 2013. This
trans­for­ma­tion­al release of spir­i­tu­al poten­cy will con­tin­ue into the following
years of 2014 and 2015, and I devot­ed most of last year’s gen­er­al fore­cast to
this ongo­ing aspect and you can read about that here.

In this
Gen­er­al Fore­cast for 2013, I will con­sid­er this mul­ti-year align­ment in terms
of what anoth­er plan­et’s con­tact will con­tribute dur­ing this year, the great
Lord Jupiter will add anoth­er melody to this mul­ti-year spir­i­tu­al quick­en­ing in
August, (and twice more again in the first quar­ter of 2014). 

This chal­leng­ing
elic­i­ta­tion will come right after the oth­er major align­ment for the year
arrives in July, in fact this July har­mon­ic will car­ry over and be woven into
Jupiter’s align­ment in August. For it will be in July that the world receives a
beau­ti­ful, mag­i­cal align­ment of three great plan­ets with one another…Jupiter,
Sat­urn and Nep­tune form­ing a Grand Trine in the ele­ment of Water, and their
won­drous pow­er will still be in force as you move through the August challenge
and epiphany.

For the
first time in a num­ber of years, there will be no great shifts of Astrological
sign posi­tions for the plan­ets in 2013: Plu­to will remain in Capri­corn, Neptune
in Pisces, Uranus in Aries and Sat­urn in Scor­pio. Jupiter, cir­cling through the
zodi­ac in about 12 years, will move from Gem­i­ni to Can­cer in late June. Mars
will move from Aquar­ius all the way to Libra. The out­er plan­ets will turn retrograde
and direct as usu­al, there will be three Mer­cury ret­ro­grade peri­ods as usual,
in late Feb­ru­ary into March, late June into July, and Octo­ber into November
(and all of them will occur in Water Signs), and Venus will begin her retrograde
right as the year con­cludes. There will be two Solar Eclipses and three Lunar
Eclipses this year in April, May, Octo­ber and November.

2013 will
not be an unre­mark­able year, one could hard­ly call it that as we expe­ri­ence the
awe­some spec­ta­cle of the Uranus/Pluto trans­for­ma­tions sweep­ing across the
world, yet you and your world may have some time offered here to pause, to get
your bear­ings again before the tem­po of change becomes more thrilling in 2014
and beyond.

 

Uranus and Plu­to Square, May 20 and
Novem­ber 1

The
fun­da­men­tal trans­for­ma­tion­al influ­ence of this decade con­tin­ues to weave its
way into your life as Uranus in Aries con­tin­ues to form a wax­ing square to
Plu­to in Capri­corn in 2013 (and on into 2014 and 2015). The dates above are
mere­ly when the aspect is exact, but the influ­ence that it bears continues
through­out all the year. Hav­ing already laid out the influ­ence this aspect has
brought into focus in the overview for 2012, I thought it would be best to
describe the mod­u­la­tion of this aspect by a third plan­et this sum­mer and in the
first part of 2014. 

Uranus is
in the first Car­di­nal Sign of Aries while Plu­to is in the last Car­di­nal Sign of
Capri­corn. Now the biggest plan­et in the Solar Sys­tem, Jupiter, slips into the
sec­ond Car­di­nal Sign of Can­cer in late June 2013. Dur­ing the month of July,
Jupiter will form up with Uranus and Plu­to cre­at­ing an aspect in August known
as a T‑Square, where­in three plan­ets form up into one oppo­si­tion brack­et­ed by
two squares, one on either side of the oppo­si­tion. In this align­ment, there
will be Uranus square Plu­to, while Jupiter moves in to square Uranus and at the
same time oppose Plu­to. This is a most pow­er­ful, com­pelling and
trans­for­ma­tion­al aspect indeed!

The
prin­ci­ple artic­u­lat­ed by Uranus and Plu­to con­cerns your constantly
self-unfold­ing, self-real­iz­ing efforts to achieve a bal­ance between Free­dom and
Sacred Bound­aries. Uranus declaims the urgent need to lib­er­ate the spir­it into
ever-widen­ing reach­es of self-deter­mi­na­tion, chal­leng­ing the sta­tus quo and
sta­t­ic struc­tures that for­mer­ly ful­filled but now deny indi­vid­u­al­i­ty. Pluto
holds the posi­tion of equal neces­si­ty to use the Will to define and pro­tect the
sacred space you reside with­in, and hope­ful­ly to hon­or those around you too, to
pre­serve the Sacred Spaces of spir­it with­in which all reside, and from and
through which Spir­it seeks the ever-unfold­ing, self-real­iza­tion (free­dom) of each
individuality.

But if
pushed too far, if Uranus gains too much for itself then there is the dan­ger of
unbri­dled free­dom tip­ping into anar­chy where all struc­tures are over­thrown but may
leave no clear path toward true self-restraint, tol­er­ance and love of one another.
If Plu­to over­whelms, then all will be bound to the great­est Will, and there
will be no space for Free­dom or Sacred­ness what­so­ev­er. So these two Lords must
be bound and bal­anced by one anoth­er, each find­ing their true melody in harmony
with one another…and per­haps, just per­haps, here is where the great Lord
Jupiter may lend a hand…or could tip the bal­ance the oth­er way, it real­ly is
a choice for each and every soul to make.

Dur­ing the
month of August, stand­ing betwixt the two great pass­es of Uranus and Plu­to with
one anoth­er, Jupiter will throw his weight into the great deci­sions that face
one and all, and you will see how the world and you will choose to turn towards
greater inte­gra­tion or not.

 

The Great Car­di­nal T‑Square, Uranus,
Plu­to and Jupiter August 7–21, 2013

In the
month of August, com­ing between the two exact align­ments of Uranus and Plu­to in
2013, Jupiter will bring to bear a mes­sage from the Foun­da­tion-Source, the
ever-renew­ing well­spring of life that flows from the sign of Can­cer. Jupiter
rul­ing the Prin­ci­ples, Truths and Beliefs that give and form the mean­ings of
your life jour­ney, that form the steady guide for your self-unfold­ment and
pur­pose­ful growth. Jupiter is offer­ing this spir­i­tu­al mes­sage from the heart,
from the source, from the roots of your life. For as you strug­gle to find your
way between Uranus and Plu­to, between Free­dom and Order, between self-assertion
and self-sac­ri­fice, you will need this cool­ing, calm­ing and refresh­ing reminder
of what you stand upon, from whence you have come and what holds you true to
one another.

Jupiter in
Can­cer serves to restore and renew your feel­ings of secu­ri­ty that orig­i­nate in
your most inti­mate and pro­found expe­ri­ence that you are con­nect­ed or part of
some­thing greater than just your­self. As you grow and devel­op, in life after
life, you will find your own true cen­ter by being and belong­ing with one
anoth­er. It will usu­al­ly begin in your affec­tions and bonds expe­ri­enced in your
imme­di­ate fam­i­ly group, and it will slow­ly and increas­ing­ly extend itself in
any life, (and over many life­times, in life after life), into your
ever-unfold­ing expan­sion of con­scious­ness and spir­i­tu­al connectedness. 

This sense
of belong­ing, of root­ed­ness and secu­ri­ty, expands from your imme­di­ate family
out­ward to your vil­lage, and then per­haps it may move out fur­ther to a local
area of sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties. Then it con­tin­ues to grow out­ward even fur­ther in your
belong­ing to some group­ing per­haps ground­ed in your iden­ti­ty with an ethnic
group, and then per­haps into some greater group­ing of many eth­nic­i­ties. Eventually
you find an even larg­er sense of iden­ti­ty and mean­ing with­in an ever more
com­plex cul­ture and soci­ety, until you final­ly expe­ri­ence your pro­found familiarity
with all who jour­ney in the fam­i­ly known as “human”.

This fun­da­men­tal spir­i­tu­al truth of con­nect­ed­ness will final­ly blos­som forth, as you reach the “promised land”, the profound
spir­i­tu­al epiphany of under­stand­ing that all life is one, all beings are one
with one anoth­er, that every­thing in this cos­mos is a spark of the one Great
Spir­it in whom we live and love and find our true being.

As Jupiter
forms its Square and Oppo­si­tion, it will bring to bear these influ­ences upon
the dynam­ic strug­gle of Uranus and Plu­to. The chal­lenge for every per­son and
for all group­ings of peo­ple will be to hold to the high­est lev­els of
inspi­ra­tion that Jupiter can pro­vide here, remind­ing one and all of their
com­mon bonds and inter­ests, elic­it­ing a desire for greater inclu­sive­ness and
gen­er­at­ing greater con­sid­er­a­tions for the well-being of one anoth­er. If they
can do this, then the strug­gles of Uranus with Plu­to can be mod­u­lat­ed and even
mit­i­gat­ed by find­ing that deep­er cen­ter where all can join togeth­er, found­ed upon these shared feel­ings of
belonging. 

With
Jupiter’s influ­ence the fer­vent dri­ve for free­dom by Uranus can be soothed,
with a gen­tle reminder that as much as you must assert and be freer your­self you
must equal­ly acknowl­edge your need to care for one anoth­er too. The Plutonian
dri­ve to cre­ate, main­tain and extend your own sacred space must be equally
bal­anced by the con­sid­er­a­tion you show for the sacred space of one and all. 

But there
is also the very real pos­si­bil­i­ty of indi­vid­u­als and groups react­ing in a more
parochial way to this chal­lenge, and out of fear-formed echoes of their past be
steered by the emo­tion­al ties of Jupiter in Can­cer to react in more exclusive
or defen­sive ways. They will act more nar­row­ly, and iden­ti­fy with whom they
belong, whether fam­i­ly, tribe or cul­ture by build­ing walls not bridges and so
cre­ate an even greater gulf between “us ver­sus them”. Then this
oppor­tu­ni­ty for growth and self-tran­scen­dence could be lost in those ego-driven
fears that have echoed through­out oth­er his­tor­i­cal peri­ods faced with similar
demands for self-transformation. 

The
chal­lenge will be laid down, either to rise up to a high­er under­stand­ing and
con­duct with one anoth­er, to make some mutu­al sac­ri­fice and unite…or to face
the divide with­in and between us by refus­ing to join in a greater whole, to
give into fear and so increase those sep­a­ra­tions from one anoth­er. And this fear-based fail­ing would most cer­tain­ly quick­en the descent to a more dif­fi­cult des­tiny for one and all. The choice will be there,
and each must decide…but there is hope…

Yes, it is
from Jupiter’s mean­ings as mod­u­lat­ed by the Sign of Can­cer that you can find the
first of three offer­ings to help you nav­i­gate the year ahead. But there is much
to be hoped for here, because Jupiter is but one part of a gift of inspi­ra­tion and mean­ing that comes with­in a three-fold blessing
from your Star­ry com­pan­ions this year. For what Jupiter
is anchor­ing and car­ry­ing for­ward to you in August is the mean­ing and message
of the oth­er great align­ment this year, and which will most thank­ful­ly still be
in force dur­ing Jupiter’s August align­ments with Uranus and Pluto…it is the radiant
beau­ty of the year, the Grand Trine in Water of Jupiter, Sat­urn and Neptune.

The Grand Water Trine, Jupiter,
Sat­urn and Nep­tune July 17–19, 2013

We can for­get as we go about our busy lives
“down here”, we can for­get how mag­i­cal and how full of mean­ing were
the pat­terns dis­cerned by our ances­tors. How they mar­veled at what stood
revealed in this great pageantry that sweeps before us every day and night by our Starry
com­pa­ny, those con­stant com­pan­ions who dance and form beau­ti­ful, intri­cate and
mean­ing­ful pat­terns all around us. Yes, we can miss the signs and portents
because we do not see them or even look for them any­more, but they are
there…these Guardians of Life con­tin­ue their won­drous weav­ing, help­ing us to
under­stand our great unfold­ing jour­ney through the spaces of space, our walk
among stars. 

Some­times these plan­e­tary pat­terns are hard­er to
dis­cern, and their true sig­nif­i­cance and mean­ing even more hid­den from you. But
this mid-sum­mer align­ment of Jupiter, Sat­urn and Nep­tune will, even if not
seen, be felt by many…it will be beau­ti­ful to behold and its mes­sage is sweet
and deep. 

The aspects between plan­ets, formed by their
angu­lar sep­a­ra­tion from one anoth­er, can be under­stood by divid­ing the Circle
of Life by a par­tic­u­lar num­ber. The divi­sion of the Cir­cle, which is 360
degrees in cir­cum­fer­ence, by the num­ber 2 cre­ates the oppo­si­tion of 180
degrees. The divi­sion by the num­ber 4 cre­ates the square aspect of 90 degrees.
And for our pur­pos­es this July, the divi­sion of the Cir­cle of Life by the
num­ber 3 forms the Trine aspect of 120 degrees. 

When­ev­er three plan­ets line up equal­ly spaced
from one anoth­er, it is called a Grand Trine because the pat­tern is formed by
divid­ing the cir­cle of space around you into three equal por­tions, and finding
that at each divid­ing point there stands a plan­et equal­ly dis­tant from the
oth­er two along the cir­cle. This divi­sion by three res­onates with a harmonic
that rep­re­sents a poised bal­ance of ener­gies that are being focused through
three dis­tinct avatars, in this case by Jupiter in Can­cer and Sat­urn in Scorpio
and Nep­tune in Pisces. The Grand Trine of July is all about the Mean­ing and
Pow­er of the ele­ment of Water. It is through these three Avatars in Water that
you will receive inspi­ra­tion to help you walk your path of des­tiny in this time
of great and trans­for­ma­tion­al change.

Hav­ing already observed the con­tri­bu­tion of
Jupiter, let us turn our atten­tion to the oth­er two Lords, and then turn and
see how all three avatars will com­bine and con­tribute to a greater influence
too.

The mes­sage of Sat­urn in Scor­pio res­onates with
the strength, pow­er and depth of feel­ing that abides in the expe­ri­ence of
Union. For as much as Jupiter in Can­cer upholds the truth of find­ing your
con­nec­tion to one anoth­er by look­ing to the past, to what you and all around
you have come through and from, Sat­urn in Scor­pio holds out the neces­si­ty of
deal­ing with your ever-resur­gent need, your yearn­ing neces­si­ty to cross the
divide that seem­ing­ly sep­a­rates you from one anoth­er and so find your greater
strength in join­ing togeth­er in your sacred unions. For when two or more
are gath­ered togeth­er, unit­ed in a com­mon pur­pose for which each has made a
right­ful sac­ri­fice, it is from such acts that the mag­ic and pow­er of spiritual
growth is in fact real­ized and released. For it is not enough to remem­ber and
hon­or from where you came, it is equal­ly impor­tant to work togeth­er, to forge deep­er under­stand­ings, to share in the joys and bur­dens of life and so con­tin­ue to walk this spiritual
path of your self-becoming,
self-unfoldment…together.

The mes­sage of Nep­tune in Pisces, like bells
peal­ing in a dew kissed morn­ing, thrill with the third and final form of
Water-Feel­ing, which is that numi­nous force that resides with­in each particle
of this cre­ation, pro­vid­ing the impe­tus that inspir­its the lives of all who
jour­ney with­in this cos­mos. The cre­ative force that is behind all of the
phe­nom­e­na in this uni­verse is known by many names. For many it is called Faith,
some would say it is their Dreams or the pow­er of the Imag­i­na­tion, but none can
tru­ly cap­ture the mys­tery behind what flows through each and every being, that leads
them out from with­in, as they unfold as the sparks of the Divine, these
self-becom­ings who ever strive to grow, to become some­thing more. 

For it is this feel­ing that binds all as one and
one to the All, and that leads all out so as to grow beyond what they have so
far cre­at­ed, to walk the path­ways of light and love out­ward into the
spaces of space, out upon their won­drous, spi­ral­ing jour­ney. It is this Great
Jour­ney which will even­tu­al­ly bring them back to return as some­thing more,
hav­ing become so much more than what they were, when they return home again. 

For as much as Jupiter in Can­cer will pro­vide you
with your foun­da­tion of feel­ing, and Sat­urn in Scor­pio will teach you about the
courage you have with­in you to reach out and join with one anoth­er, it is Neptune
in Pisces who com­pletes your cir­cle of life, Nep­tune brings it all togeth­er by
singing to you of your ever-renascent pow­er, forged in your begin­ning by your
nature as a spark of the Divine and that holds you as one of count­less creators
who need but dream of a bet­ter world…and it will be so. 

For this is how the
Uni­verse came to be and con­tin­ues to become, because your Spir­it is the very
essence of it all, the pow­er behind your Imag­i­na­tion, Dreams and Faith…The
Pow­er of your Becom­ing, The Pow­er of your Self. 

Togeth­er these three, Jupiter, Sat­urn and Neptune
can show you once again that you are the mak­er, you are the Cre­ator of what you
face now. That you can feel more tru­ly the roots that hold you all together,
that you can feel the greater joy that comes from join­ing with one anoth­er, and
that you can love and cre­ate a bet­ter world by believ­ing and dream­ing for one
another. 

Yes, this will be a year to remem­ber, and quite a
sum­mer indeed. The ener­gies delin­eat­ed above will be build­ing in towards the end
of June, grow­ing through July and cli­max­ing in August. The con­tin­u­ing challenge
laid down to you by Uranus and Plu­to may be some­what eased by these spiritual
ema­na­tions that come from this grand align­ment of Plan­e­tary Lords, and equally
and most chal­leng­ing acti­vat­ed by the T‑Square formed by Jupiter too. 

There is much
to be hoped for here. There is the hope offered in the Grand Trine that perhaps
the things which divide the many from one anoth­er will be sur­passed by this
greater under­stand­ing of our mutu­al need to sac­ri­fice for the greater good of
one another. 

Let us hope, may we dream…and it shall be…