OTHER MAJOR ALIGNMENTS and PHENOMENA
I will note and comment upon some of the remaining major astrological movements and alignments for this year. I will offer more detailed analysis for when they actually occur.
Jupiter Opposite Pluto (January 31 & April 20) *also August 7, 2013
This aspect was first exact in August 2013 (and you can read about that here), and continues with two more alignments in January and April, with the latter being of greatest significance since it will coincide with the next Uranus Pluto Square and be part of what is known as the Grand Cross in Astrology of 2014, (as Jupiter will be also Squaring Uranus the same day). I will write about this extensively in April. The fundamental issue articulated here is to stand firm and centered in your truth by the proper exercise of your Will, but in this you must know that you should never seek to impose a truth upon any other, for this violates one of the Greatest Principles of Spirit, that all spaces are Sacred and you must not trespass.
Venus Direct (January 31 until July 25, 2015)
This concludes the Venus Retrograde, and you may now direct your attention more outwardly to consider the reality and truth of your loving nature in the world. You have had your “40 Days in the Desert”, a most precious time to seek within for the “treasure beyond measure” which lies at the core of yourself, which goes by many names such as your Higher Self or the Beloved. Now you need to turn and look around you, to act upon this knowledge and live with the understanding that this self-same core resides in every aspect of your world, for it is this which forms the Grace, Beauty and Love that is behind all of this Wondrous Creation.
Mercury Retrograde (February 6 until February 28)
Mercury begins the first of three retrogrades of the year, this time moving from around 3 degrees of Pisces and back to around 18 degrees of Aquarius. While in Pisces you are asked to look within and to pay particular attention to your power of Imagination, to consider your Dreams and face down your Fears. While in Aquarius, your attentiveness should be drawn to the reconsideration of your Social Consciousness as fulfilled and made possible in and through your Dream-Living Companionships. As usual, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to finish some matters that you left behind.
Jupiter Square Uranus (February 25–26 & April 19–20) *also August 21, 2013
This aspect is the second of three in the series and will reappear in its final alignment to form the Grand Cardinal Cross in April. I wrote about this first in August and I will write at length about the final one in April. The message of this aspect concerns your need to find the integral path that combines Jupiter and Uranus, so that each will mutually inform one another: that Jupiter in Cancer reminds you to hold and keep to your Truths that are founded upon by the deepest roots of your life, while you equally hearken to song of Uranus in Aries, which calls for you to break out of old and outworn thought-forms, to free your Mind and Spirit once more.
Mercury Direct (February 28 until June 7)
Mercury concludes his retrograde and you are now ready to take a renewed/refined understanding about your Faith and your Dreams and move out upon those more external spaces that form the materializations of your mind.
Mars Retrograde (March 1 until May 19)
The Avatar of your Desires is taking you upon an inner journey. You will have the next 80 days to reexamine what your aims and intentions truly are. From where do they come, and where are they taking you? It is time to pause and reconsider two points: Is this Goal True for you now? Is this the best path of action to take you there?
Saturn Retrograde (March 2 until July 20)
Saturn begins his yearly retrograde, and once again he is taking you inward in Scorpio to consider what may be found there that might form the obstacle to a greater Union in your life. As before, the shadows of the past, your fears about rejection or loss have to be faced and released here first, within yourself, for only then will you find it possible to experience your joy of a deeper Union out there with one another.
Jupiter Direct (March 6 until December 8)
Jupiter who has been retrograde since early November moves forward again. You have had the last four months to consider the nature of your Principles, Truths and Beliefs. The focus of Growth and Understanding has been within oneself. Now with this renewal of the way in which you relate to your world, you can move out to substantiate this Greater Understanding in your building of a better world.
Pluto Retrograde (April 14 until September 22)
The Lord of Will and Sacred Space begins his annual period of retrograde, and it is time once again to re-connect to the well-spring of your Sacred Space, to re-affirm one of your three Principle Spiritual Gifts, the Power of your Will. It is time to use this power as it must and will be eventually mastered by you, to use this power for what must come first, which is that you are here quite simply to Master Yourself, to have Self-Control and thereby Self-Determination. For only then can you combine with other Centered, Self-Controlled Companions to create and build your shared Sacred Spaces together.
Full Moon Total Lunar Eclipse (April 14–15)
The first Eclipse of the year is a total eclipse of the Moon in Libra. The shadow of the Earth falls across the face of the Moon, and the Message of Meaning you would normally seek and find as revealed to you by Luna is obscured by some shadow formed by your present circumstance (Earth’s shadow being the “Present” dims the Illumination of the Moon). You will have to more deeply examine the integral relationship between the Sun in Aries and the Moon in Libra.
Here is information about the Eclipse and where it will be visible. The Western Hemisphere, both North and South America, will be able to view this eclipse.
Jupiter Square Uranus (April 19–20) last of 3
The Grand Cardinal Cross has arrived, and the foundations of your world will shake over the next few days, weeks and more. This alignment of Jupiter with Uranus is the final of three contacts between these two; the first was in August 2013 which you can read about here, the second occurred in late February 2014. This alignment will be analyzed in depth within the posting for the Grand Cross in April.
Jupiter Opposite Pluto (April 20) last of 3
The Grand Cardinal Cross is most exact with this alignment of Jupiter to Pluto (and Jupiter to Uranus just hours earlier). This is the also the third alignment of Jupiter with Pluto, the first was in August 2013, the second being at the end of January of 2014. This part of the Grand Cross was discussed in the first part of this General Forecast, and will be part of a more extensive analysis in April.
Uranus Square Pluto (April 21 & December 15) *also March 15, 2015
Two times in 2014 this ongoing Song of Spirit will form up exactly, as Uranus and Pluto continue their Square Dance (though of course given the very small amount of movement that they have and will make in any year, this alignment could be said to have begun as early as when Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008 and will certainly be felt for several years beyond 2015). The April alignment is the fifth out of seven such exact contacts, and is of the greatest significance as it forms the critical element of the Grand Cross of April. The second square in December will not seem as potent, but it most certainly is.
Annular Solar Eclipse (April 28–29)
The second eclipse of the year is an Annular Solar in Taurus. The annular type eclipse creates the effect of a “Ring of Fire” around the Sun as the Moon’s distance from the Earth does not completely cover the Sun, and so a small portion of the Sun appears around the edges of the shadow formed by the Moon. The term Annular comes from the word annulus which means “bright ring”.
Here is information about the Eclipse and where it will be visible. It will only be visible in the extreme southern hemisphere, most visible in Antarctica.
The message of the Taurus Solar Eclipse is centered again upon the fundamental question of value: where does your understanding arise as to how you value yourself and how do you value this world around you? The answer is that the true source of value is to be found within your experience of your Higher Self, for in your heart of hearts you are Spirit, in your core you are simply pure Love.
Mars Direct (May 19 until April 17, 2016)
The Avatar of Desire moves forward again until April 2016. Now that you have had your 80 days to reconsider your Aims and Actions, it is time to move forward again. But remember to follow the Noble Path of conscious intention, for what you must understand is that you are the maker of your reality, Right Thinking leads to Right Action!
Jupiter Trine Saturn (May 24) *also July 17, 2013 and December 12, 2013
This is the third and last trine of Jupiter to Saturn until August 2026, better make the most of this one! The first alignment was in July 2013 and the second was in December 2013. When the Avatar of your Principles makes this beautiful alignment with the Avatar of your Reality, then you have arrived at what is known as “the sweet spot” of your unfoldment. You can have a most wonderful experience, a balance is found between your Optimism and Pragmatism, between your Principles and your Reality.
Mercury Retrograde (June 7 until July 1)
The second retrograde of 2014, this time Mercury goes from about 3 Cancer back to around 24 of Gemini, and just as in the previous retrograde you are moving backwards from the beginning of a Water Sign and back into an Air Sign. Again, you are being offered a chance to forge a deeper connection between what you feel and how you think. To more deeply understand that your Security and Center depend upon a Mind that is curious, adaptable and questioning. As always with Mercury retrograde, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to finish some matters that you left behind.
Neptune Retrograde (June 9 until November 15)
The Avatar of Intuition and Dreams is turning your attention inwards. For the next five months you will do well to listen more carefully to the promptings of your Intuitive Self who whispers to you from and of your Immortality. It is time to dream a little more, to imagine a better you by following the path of Mystery and your Muse. It is most truly a time to look with wonder at the Creation within and around you.
Mercury Direct (July 1 until October 4)
It is time to apply those lessons and discoveries about your Feelings/Thoughts that you have made over the past three weeks. Knowing better how they wonderfully influence one another, you can take with you that more nuanced blend of mind/feeling now as you move outwardly to bring this understanding into your conduct and communications.
Jupiter Enters Leo (July 16 until August 11, 2015)
The Lord of Principles and Social Understanding enters the Regal Sign of Leo for the next 13 months. This is the time to expand or stretch yourself upon even grander stages, to slip into new and renewed roles of self-realization. You had the last 13 months while in Cancer to restore and reconnect to your roots, to remember and feel what lies at the heart of you. Now it is time to go forth and reveal to yourself and others what you are, to be and live a more Authentic Self.
Saturn Direct (July 20 until March 14, 2015)
The Avatar or Reality has finished another journey within, and now it is time to move with the Lord of Manifestation to make more real what you wish for you and yours. You have had the past four and a half months to examine your Fears regarding Union, of joining with or more deeply with one another. You needed this opportunity to make yourself more ready, to face the source of this fear, “the dweller on the threshold”. Now you both can try again to find that deeper, sweeter promise made by two becoming one with one another.
Uranus Retrograde (July 21 until December 21)
The Lord of Individuality is turning you inwards again. Before you can co-create a more beautiful Space of Freedom for yourself and others, you must attend now to the conditions within yourself that may prevent this promise of a Freer Space of Self-Realization for one and all. That greater space of Freedom depends upon your efforts to liberate yourself from the familiar but oftentimes reactive and less than evolved patterns that form the way you relate with one another. Uranus is taking you within so that you may continue your journey of Individuation which is found and founded upon a Mind that is Free.
Pluto Direct (September 22 until April 16, 2015)
The Avatar of Will and Sacred Space is bending your attention outward again to consider the nature of your Will as it relates with and through the Wills of those with whom you share your world. You have had the past five months to work more within yourself, to understand one of your most special sacred gifts, the Power of your Will. The key to your Self-Becoming is Self-Mastery or Self-Control. Now you need to bend your attention to how you and others exercise your wills with one another, for your fulfillment depends upon this co-creation of better shared Sacred Spaces.
Jupiter Trine Uranus (September 25, March 3, 2015 and June 22, 2015)
The Avatar of Truth meets the Lord of Individuality. This is the major element that forms one side of the Grand Trine in early October (the other two sides being Mars Trine Jupiter and Mars Trine Uranus). This is the focal element of this beautiful aspect and illustrates one of the prevailing qualities that drive or creates your truly unlimited potential for growth. Your Individuality or process of Self-Becoming (Uranus) is the real source of Growth or Expansion (Jupiter). You are always unfolding your potential, your Seed of Spirit contains this germ of Individuation as does every speck of Creation, for it is from this need of the One to manifest and become the many that the whole Universe has come into being in all its wondrous and diverse Beauty…and you are a most essential part of this specialness that underlies and gives meaning to this Cosmos.
Mercury Retrograde (October 4 until October 25)
The third and final retrograde of 2014 is here, and Mercury will move from about 2 Scorpio back to around 17 Libra. Just as in the previous two retrogrades, you are bridging the elements here as you move back out of Water and into an Air Sign. With all three Mercury retrogrades having had this linkage of Water and Air, you have been given an opportunity to form a much deeper appreciation of the integral connection between the depth of your Feelings and the wisdom of your Thoughts. As you will often find though with Mercury retrograde, many issues in your present day life may slow down or be put on hold as you go back to finish some matters that you left behind.
Full Total Lunar Eclipse (October 8)
The third Eclipse of the year is a Total Lunar Eclipse in Aries. As in all Lunar Eclipses, the Earth’s shadow is passing over the Moon. This means that the message you need from Aries is harder to discern as it is obscured by the Earth’s shadow, and the requisite balance you would receive to the prevailing Solar Forces in Libra may take more effort to understand.
Here is information about the Eclipse and where it will be visible, which is throughout the Pacific Ocean and the lands that surround it.
Solar Partial Eclipse (October 23)
The final Eclipse of the year is a Partial Solar Eclipse at 0 degrees of Scorpio. Here is information about the Eclipse and where it will be visible, which begins off of Kamchatka, Russia and races over to Canada and most of the United States.
On this first day of Scorpio, when you again take up a most awesome task (that you will encounter again and again in your journey upon this Earth), you face the Spiritual Necessity of overcoming the Illusion that is your experience of Separation. Today you now meet this moment with the added emphasis and power brought by the eclipse. A deeper seeding of meaning will be offered to those who have the courage to look beyond appearances and seek for the underlying truth.
Mercury Direct (October 25 until February 6, 2015)
Mercury goes direct until February of 2016. You have completed three rounds of Water/Air retrogrades of Mercury. This three-fold dance that showed you the linkage between your Feelings and Thoughts ends with this reminder that for you to experience the passion of a more perfect Union depends upon your Consciousness being guided by true Justice and shared Principles, that you must ever be guided by tolerance and understanding for one another.
Neptune Direct (November 15 until June 11–12, 2015)
The Lord of Dreams and Imagination leads you outwards again. You have for the past several months been disposed to be attentive to the whispers of your Intuition, to be turned more within and wander through your worlds of imagination, to seek in your dreams for those brighter days. Now it is time to take your visions of sweet tomorrows, to take your dreams and live the future you wish to be…It is time to Dream, it is time to Believe, it is time to be an Imagineer.
Jupiter Retrograde (December 8 until April 8, 2015)
The Lord of Truth is taking you within for the next four months, and it is time once again to consider the nature of your principles and beliefs. This time Jupiter is moving back through the sign of Leo, so you will have an opportunity to go within to the heart-source and well-spring of your Truth. You wish to extend your space of self-realization, to be expand your Creativity and your Leadership, but first you must go within and expand your understanding of the source of your Creative Spirit, you need to listen and learn from your Muse.
Uranus Square Pluto (December 15) *and March 15, 2015
The next to last Uranus/Pluto Square is here, and though you have been through this many times by now, this pivotal alignment is by no means “over” as Uranus and Pluto will stay in resonance with one another for several years to come. Though we tend to look for an instance or moment when something is most “exact”, life and the dance of the planets is not about discrete points or moments. It is about Energies, Lights, Vibrations, Sounds that sparkle and dance and ring out like ripples in a pond, or chimes sounding in the air, and should be seen as marking phases and periods in time and space, and not as isolated or separate, no not at all. All of these Starry Companions weave and dance and flow together with one another, they intertwine to form a greater Song, and so we too should give ourselves some time and space to experience and understand what is being offered to us by these Wonders sweeping around our world. It takes time to understand.…give yourself time, to dream, to hope, to believe…and then do.
Uranus Direct (December 21 until July 25–26, 2015)
The Avatar of Individuality and Freedom is leading you outwards again, and it is a most special turning indeed. For this is also the day of the Solstice, which means this winter begins with a New Moon. This is recognized as a most sacred event in the Spiritual Calendar. Whenever a New Moon is also the beginning of one of the Four Sacred Seasons, special ceremonies and initiations are observed and honored at such at time. This is a time of Quickening, and for those who have prepared and are ready to accept the next sacrifice, their Joyful Service is honored and rewarded now as they move that much closer to the Light of Understanding. All should bow their heads and lift their loving hearts to those who live for and in the One, and find their own peace in the words of the Great Invocation which will be said at many a ceremony today:
THE GREAT INVOCATION
From the point of light within the Mind of God
Let Light stream forth into our minds
Let LIGHT descend on Earth.
From the point of love within the Heart of God
Let Love stream forth into our hearts
May LOVE increase on Earth.
From the center where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide our wills
The PURPOSE which the masters know and serve.
From the center which we call Humanity
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door
where evil dwells.
Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.
Saturn Enters Sagittarius (December 23, back to Scorpio June 14, 2015 and back into Sagittarius Sept 17, 2015 until December 2017)
The Avatar of Reality is moving into Sagittarius, but he will pause at the threshold of this sign and go back into Scorpio from June until September of 2015, so you will be straddling these two signs too as he dances between them. You have faced many lessons of Union while Saturn was in Scorpio, and now you will be encouraged to take your next step…to Understand and move towards Wisdom.