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
rules 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…

 

 

2013 GENERAL FORECAST — Part 2

OTHER MAJOR ALIGNMENTS and PHENOMENA

I will note and com­ment upon
some of the remain­ing major astro­log­i­cal move­ments and align­ments for this
year, and I will offer more detailed analy­sis for when they actu­al­ly occur. I
will then exam­ine the align­ments that are present this year in the chart of the
Unit­ed States and for Pres­i­dent Obama.

Jupiter
Direct (Jan­u­ary 30, 2013 until Novem­ber 6–7)

Jupiter, who guides you upon your Path of
Under­stand­ing, turns direct and you must shift your search for mean­ing away
from your inner path­ways of growth to focus upon the realms of life around you.
You have revis­it­ed, revised and renewed your out­look on life for almost four
months now…time to put it out there and build a bet­ter world!

Sat­urn
Ret­ro­grade (Feb­ru­ary 18 until July 7)

Sat­urn turns your atten­tion inwards to consider
the nature of Union in your world…You have been delv­ing deeply with Sat­urn in
Scor­pio, into how you can over­come your pains of sep­a­ra­tion and join with one
anoth­er more com­plete­ly. Now you need to look with­in to see what is there, what
you hold to, or what holds you back from the deep­er expe­ri­ences you pro­fess to
desire. The shad­ows of the past, your fears about rejec­tion or loss have to be faced
and released here with­in your­self, for only then will you find your joy out
there. 

Mer­cury
Ret­ro­grade in Pisces (Feb­ru­ary 23 until March 17)

The first of three Mer­cury ret­ro­grades this year
and there is some­thing special…all three ret­ro­grades will take place in one
of each of the three Water signs, Pisces, Can­cer and Scor­pio (in that order). It
looks like the uni­verse is bring­ing you an inten­sive oppor­tu­ni­ty to work on
your Mind/Feeling integration.

This first ret­ro­grade is in Pisces, so it is time
to pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to your dreams and imag­i­na­tion in this one. You need
to re-con­sid­er what you dream of, what you imag­ine will be and how to make it
so. As usu­al, many issues in your present day life may be put on hold as you go
back to fin­ish some­thing left behind. 

Mer­cury
Direct (March 17 until June 26)

You have recon­sid­ered your hopes and dreams for
three weeks, now you go for­ward to bring them into your real­i­ty. What was held
up or delayed for a time should now be back on track…but you need­ed that step
back to revise and regroup before you could leap ahead.

Plu­to
Ret­ro­grade (April 12 until Sep­tem­ber 20)

Plu­to takes you inwards to re-con­sid­er the nature
of your will. Before you can forge even deep­er mean­ings between one anoth­er, before
you can make the mag­ic that comes from the join­ing of spir­its one with another,
you need to secure your own sacred space again. 

Full
Moon Eclipse in Scor­pio (April 25)

The five eclipses of the year begin with the
Bud­dha Moon! The ancient teach­ings say that Bud­dha was born on, achieved
enlight­en­ment under and left his phys­i­cal body on the Full Moon in the month of
Tau­rus. This Full Moon is about under­stand­ing the dynam­ic rela­tion­ship you must
expe­ri­ence regard­ing the ques­tion of Val­ue. For in your very being you
expe­ri­ence this truth, that you are an immor­tal in a mor­tal frame. Val­ues are
“eter­nal” (or time­less), yet their phys­i­cal man­i­fes­ta­tion is only for
a time. The key teach­ing of the Bud­dha con­cerned this way of under­stand­ing the
jour­ney you must take as a spark of the Divine…that you must learn the way,
in fact become the way of Non-Attachment. 

Here is a map of where the Eclipse will be vis­i­ble. It will be
pass­ing over Europe, Africa and Asia most­ly. 

Solar
Eclipse in Tau­rus (May 9)

The first of two Solar Eclipses this year as the
Moon cross­es the face of the Sun, but because of the Moon’s dis­tance from the
Earth, it will not com­plete­ly block the Sun so that there will be a “Ring
of Fire” of the Sun’s light around the Moon’s shad­ow. This type of
align­ment is called an annu­lar eclipse (annu­lus means “bright ring”).
This near­ly total eclipse will be vis­i­ble in North­ern Aus­tralia and the South
Pacif­ic and here is a map of its path. Here is an
ani­ma­tion show­ing how the Eclipse will move across the Earth.

The mes­sage of the Tau­rus Solar Eclipse is centered
again upon the ques­tion of val­ue, but this spe­cial New Moon will release a
deep­er under­stand­ing as regards your under­stand­ing about  the nature of true val­ue, how it aris­es, grows
and is sustained…The answer, quite sim­ply, is that it is to be found in your
expe­ri­ence of your Self. It is this, your “trea­sure in heav­en”, that
you take with you from life to life, and all the efforts you put in to better
your­self today will be there as a gift to your­self in this life and in life
after life.  

Uranus
Square Plu­to (May 20)

The first of the two exact align­ments these great
Lords will make this year. Please refer to my 2012 Gen­er­al
Fore­cast for the
over­all mean­ing, and to the first part of this 2013 fore­cast to see my thoughts
about this.

Full
Moon Eclipse in Sagit­tar­ius (May 24–25)

The sec­ond of three Lunar Eclipses moves the
top­ic from Taurus/Scorpio to Gemini/Sagittarius. Here is a map of where the
Eclipse will be vis­i­ble. It will be seen
in North and South Amer­i­ca and South­west Europe and West­ern Africa.

This Lunar Eclipse con­cerns the relationship
between your low­er mind and your high­er mind, between your induc­tive and
deduc­tive ways of com­pre­hend­ing your world. The Sun in Gem­i­ni has been
extolling the virtues of your Induc­tive Mind, and the Full Moon would normally
be able to offer a bal­anc­ing point of view of Deduc­tive Rea­son­ing. But the
Earth­’s shad­ow is get­ting in the way, so some­thing in your present assumptions,
some­thing in regards to your Truths, Beliefs or Prin­ci­ples is obscur­ing the
mes­sage. It is time to chal­lenge your­self and ques­tion your assump­tions so that
you might become less blind­ed by your self-cast shad­ows. 

Nep­tune
Ret­ro­grade (June 6 until Novem­ber 13)

The Lord of Dreams and Imag­i­na­tion asks you to go
with­in and con­sid­er what lies at the heart of your pow­er of cre­ation. It is
time for deep­er con­tem­pla­tions, you need to med­i­tate and take more of those
qui­et walks in forests or sanc­tu­ar­ies. It is a time of ego-tran­scend­ing, true self-seeking
acceptance…You need to find a more trans-per­son­al way of believ­ing and being. 

Sat­urn
Trine Nep­tune (June 11)

Sat­urn is mak­ing his sec­ond of three pass­es over
Nep­tune (the first was on Octo­ber 10, 2012, the final will be part of the Grand
Trine in Water in July-August). I dis­cussed the larg­er sig­nif­i­cance of this
aspect in the first part of the 2013 fore­cast. Here is what I said about their
first align­ment in Octo­ber 2012. Dream­ing and
Real­i­ty-mak­ing have aligned here…and it is beau­ti­ful! 

Jupiter
Enters Can­cer (June 25 until July 16, 2014)

The Lord of Truth and Prin­ci­ples moves into the
sign of Can­cer, and your jour­ney of dis­cov­ery brings you home again to consider
the root nature of what you hold to be true. Your steady growth is found­ed upon
start­ing with a good foun­da­tion, and Jupiter in Can­cer will help you deepen
your expe­ri­ence of being cen­tered upon what mat­ters most. I dis­cussed this in
the first part of the 2013 fore­cast, and I will have more to say in June. 

Mer­cury
Ret­ro­grade in Can­cer (June 26 until July 20)

The sec­ond of three Mer­cury ret­ro­grades in Water,
and now it is time to renew your thoughts about home and fam­i­ly. For three
weeks Mer­cury will ret­ro­grade through Can­cer and you will need to look within
to see how secure­ly root­ed are the ideas that you hold (or do they have their
hold on you?). You need to exam­ine how well you have learned to inte­grate your
thoughts with your feelings…For it is only then that you will communicate
with your head and your heart as one…and then your world will lis­ten with
won­der and appre­ci­a­tion. As always, present day mat­ters may need put on hold as
you go back and tidy up some items left behind. 

Sat­urn
Direct (July 7 until March 2, 2014)

Sat­urn turns Direct in Scor­pio and you must face
the chal­lenge of forg­ing deep­er unions with one anoth­er. You have re-examined
where your fears regard­ing this have come from. Now the ques­tion put to you is
this, do you and do they have the courage to rise above your fears of rejection
and loss and take this next chance to join togeth­er in more mean­ing­ful unions? 

Uranus
Ret­ro­grade (July 17 until Decem­ber 17)

The Lord of Indi­vid­u­al­i­ty and Free­dom takes you
with­in to con­sid­er how you must free your­self from your shad­ows if you are to
be your true self. You often think of Free­dom as being all about your
expe­ri­ence of rela­tion­ships, the joys and demands that oth­ers bring into your
life, of how much you must give of your­self, or give up, of how much you will
gain, by join­ing with one anoth­er. But before you can cre­ate that greater space
of Free­dom for you and them, you have to Free your­self from old pat­terns that
reside with­in your­self, for it is from these that you go out and form those
man­i­fest­ed rela­tion­ship pat­terns with those around you. Uranus calls upon you
here to become more tru­ly you, to become more indi­vid­u­at­ed, to take the next
step in lift­ing up your low­er self as you become more attuned to your constant
guide and com­pan­ion, your soul and con­science, your beloved Self. 

Jupiter
Trine Sat­urn (July 17, Decem­ber 12 and May 24, 2014)

The plan­et of your Mean­ing (Jupiter) aligns
beau­ti­ful­ly with the plan­et of Real­i­ty-Mak­ing (Sat­urn). This is one third of the
Grand Trine in Water ana­lyzed in the first part of this 2013 Fore­cast. Two
times in twen­ty years, Jupiter will form up this beau­ti­ful aspect with Saturn,
which should help you hold to that noble path between being too opti­mistic or
too pes­simistic, as you find the roy­al road, the mid­dle way of rea­son­able and
opti­mal growth. 

Jupiter
Trine Nep­tune (July 17)

Your Prin­ci­ples meet your Dreams in the sec­ond of
the three align­ments in the Grand Trine of Water. This is the sec­ond third of
the Grand Trine in Water that I ana­lyzed in the first part of this 2013
Fore­cast. The beliefs you hold with those clos­est to you, those with whom you
share a greater his­to­ry, those beliefs will be mod­u­lat­ed and uplift­ed by a
gen­tle elicitation…it is Nep­tune’s gift of a deep­er expe­ri­ence of compassion.
What can be often expe­ri­enced as that more nar­row sense of car­ing for just one’s immediate
cir­cle of com­pan­ion­ship will become ele­vat­ed beyond these con­fines to a concern
for the many or for all who jour­ney on this Earth. This is a beau­ti­ful alignment,
tru­ly heav­en-sent, as it fos­ters Growth through Com­pas­sion. 

Sat­urn
Trine Nep­tune (July 19) 

The final piece of the Grand Trine in Water, the
Lord of Real­i­ty aligns with your Imag­i­na­tion. For it is not enough to Dream of
a bet­ter world, you are here to take your dreams and bring them to life here on
Earth. When Sat­urn makes this align­ment, which occurs only two times in about
36 years, you will expe­ri­ence the pos­si­bil­i­ty that per­haps, just per­haps, your
dreams can real­ly come true. But that may also be true because you may have
tem­pered your hopes through the prag­mat­ic prism of Saturn…you may not reach that
per­fect world of your dreams, but you can make a bet­ter one.

Mer­cury
Direct (July 20 until Octo­ber 21)

You have recon­sid­ered your expe­ri­ences of
Secu­ri­ty, Nur­tur­ing and Home…so now you need to act upon those discoveries,
it is time to act on your greater under­stand­ing and so cre­ate and preserve
those deep­er foun­da­tions of your world. 

Jupiter
Oppo­si­tion Plu­to (August 7, Jan­u­ary 31, 2014 and April 20, 2014)

This is the first part of the Grand T‑Square of
Jupiter, Uranus and Plu­to, ana­lyzed in the first part of this 2013 Fore­cast, and
it will be the sto­ry for August. It has been build­ing in since the end of July
and will “fin­ish” some­time after August 21. But remem­ber, this is only Act I of a
three-act dra­ma and the full impli­ca­tions of what you face in August will only
be known in 2014. 

Jupiter
Square Uranus (August 21, Feb­ru­ary 26, 2014 and April 20, 2014)

This is the “oth­er half” of the Grand
T‑Square, so per­haps it would be best to see the aspect as form­ing up in early
August, reach­ing a “max­i­mum” around August 14 but hold­ing forth until
this date, and then fad­ing away. As I said above, you will have to deal with
this chal­lenge again in ear­ly 2014. 

Plu­to
Direct (Sep­tem­ber 20 until April 14, 2014)

The Lord of Will and Bound­aries leads you out
from within…you’ve spent months improv­ing the sacred space of you, of
employ­ing your will­ful insight to remove your fears…now it is time to see if
you are ready to join with one anoth­er in more mean­ing­ful and fulfilling
unions.  

Full
Moon Eclipse in Aries (Octo­ber 18)

The third Full Moon of 2013 brings a new theme as
it moves back­ward into the sign of Aries. Here is a map of where the eclipse
will be vis­i­ble. It will be seen
in most of the North and South Amer­i­ca (though not the entire event), Europe
and Africa and most of Asia.

The Earth is cast­ing its shad­ow upon the message
of the Aries Full Moon. This Full Moon would nor­mal­ly offer a coun­ter­point and
bal­ance to the cur­rent dom­i­nant theme of the Sun mov­ing through Libra. But the
mes­sage is hid­den by some­thing in your present cir­cum­stances. You would normally
need to re-assert your­self a bit more to counter the Libra trend, but perhaps
those webs of col­lu­sion are mak­ing it dif­fi­cult to parse the “I from the
Thou”…  

Mer­cury
Ret­ro­grade in Scor­pio (Octo­ber 21 until Novem­ber 10)

The third and final of the three Mercury
ret­ro­grades in Water will take you to your depths to con­sid­er the nature of
your unions. Many plans will be put on hold now, as you should re-con­sid­er what
you are gain­ing ver­sus giv­ing up in any ven­ture. The ques­tion is are you making
the right sacrifice…or are you in fact the sac­ri­fice itself.  

Uranus
Square Plu­to (Novem­ber 1)

This is the sec­ond of two exact align­ments these
great Lords will make this year. Please refer to my 2012 Gen­er­al Fore­cast for
the over­all mean­ing, and to the first part of this 2013 fore­cast to see my
thoughts about this aspect as it formed and shaped by the Grand Trine of July
and Grand T‑Square of August.

Solar
Eclipse in Scor­pio (Novem­ber 3)

The sec­ond of two Solar Eclipses this year, and
it is putting on a rather unusu­al show…in fact it is for this rea­son named a
“Hybrid Eclipse”. What is that? It is sort of a total and partial
eclipse com­bined. Here is the sci­en­tif­ic analy­sis. Here is an
ani­ma­tion of the eclipse mov­ing across the Earth. It will be at
least par­tial­ly vis­i­ble in east­ern North Amer­i­ca and north­ern South America,
and cross­es over to west­ern and cen­tral Africa by the end.

The Eclipse in Scor­pio will more stark­ly reveal an awe­some challenge
and oppor­tu­ni­ty that is to be found in this seed­ing of mean­ing. There is
no greater strug­gle and no
high­er reward than what you will find here…But first you must confront
your greatest
fears that now will stand revealed to you. For it is always in these
dark­est hours that you will find your answers…and you will see that
from the shad­ows a pres­ence veiled reveals its won­drous Light. 

Jupiter
Ret­ro­grade (Novem­ber 6–7 until March 6, 2014)

Jupiter, who ever encour­ages you grow beyond your
for­mer frames of ref­er­ence, takes you on anoth­er inner jour­ney of growth, to
explore your beliefs and truths as you lis­ten for those whis­pers from your
high­er self. This time he is in Can­cer, so you need to reex­am­ine the root
beliefs that nur­tured your begin­nings and may still inform, inspire and guide
you now. Pon­der a piece of wis­dom in this very old say­ing, “That it is a very
good for­tune to be born and brought up in a belief…but it is a terrible
mis­for­tune to die in that belief.”  

Mer­cury
Direct (Novem­ber 10 until Feb­ru­ary 6, 2014)

The third and final of the three Mercury
ret­ro­grades is over. Time to put into motion the pur­pos­es and plans that you
had to put on hold for the last three weeks. You have cleared the way for
deep­er, truer Unions and it is time to see how much more you can
grow…together. 

Nep­tune
Direct (Novem­ber 13 until June 9, 2014)

The Lord of Faith and Imag­i­na­tion bids you bring
your dreams into Reality…You have been trav­el­ling upon those inner path­ways of Inspiration,
but now Nep­tune will show you the ways in which you can weave those numinous
webs of what might be into your Real­i­ty. 

Jupiter
Trine Sat­urn (Decem­ber 12 and May 24, 2014)

This is the sec­ond of three align­ments of these
two most impor­tant plan­ets and a real bless­ing for you and yours. See my entry
for July 17… 

Uranus
Direct (Decem­ber 17 until July 21, 2014)

The Lord of Indi­vid­u­a­tion, of you becom­ing more
tru­ly you, takes you out there to cre­ate bet­ter spaces of free­dom for
yourself
and your com­pan­ions. You have spent the last sev­er­al months freeing
yourself
from your own pat­terns of self-denial…Now it is time to go out and
expe­ri­ence a truer you, a freer world for you and your friends.

Venus
Ret­ro­grade in Capri­corn (Decem­ber 21 until Jan­u­ary 31, 2014)

The year con­cludes with the plan­et of Love and
Beau­ty going ret­ro­grade until the end of Jan­u­ary. Yes, it is time again to
re-con­sid­er what you have, what you want and the nature of Love in your life…

Up next will be the analy­sis of the chart of Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca and Pres­i­dent Obama.