Mars, Jupiter and the Pluto Ingress into Capricorn
Written on January 23, 2008 by Dharmaruci
Mars is currently stationing between the tips of the horns of the bull, which is a very powerful and aggressive place for him to be, particularly as he is standing still. This is, of course, a potentially warlike configuration, but it can also lead to decisive action.
When Mars first passed between the horns of the bull in mid September 2007, the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates in the U.S by half a percentage point to ease the on-going panic in the financial markets due to the subprime crisis. Decisive economic (Taurus) action. Now, 4 months later, Mars is back to finish the job, and again the Fed has cut interest rates, this time by ¾ of a point, a huge amount. Some have said that the Fed should have acted sooner, and that such a huge cut in one go is a tacit acknowledgement of this. Mars is completing what was left half-finished in September, with the added power of his stationing. He is also completing another journey, from the tip of one horn – Al Hecka – to the other, El Nath.
Because he is stationing, Mars will not begin to move decisively away from between the horns until early to mid-February, so we can expect to see plenty more action from the Fed and other western financial institutions between now and then to try and stabilise the markets.
As this week progresses, Jupiter will be moving into the face of the Archer, while on Saturday 26 Jan at 2.38 GMT, Pluto will make his first Ingress into Capricorn. So this week’s Mars-Jupiter sky story will be part of this Ingress, and therefore to some extent characteristic of Pluto’s 15 year transit of Capricorn.
So Jupiter will be conjunct Facies, the nebula in the face of the Archer. This gives a potential for religious zealotry, while Mars near the tip of the bull’s horns gives the potential for the use of fearful weapons. A nuclear armed Islamist state is easily imaginable here, a state that is prepared to use such weapons. Iran and Pakistan are the obvious candidates. There is also Russia, whose astrocartography has both Mars and Pluto lines passing through it during the Pluto Ingress.
So this could be one of the issues within Pluto’s passage through Capricorn, a period which could see the arising of some dark and destructive (Pluto) governments (Capricorn). This is getting a bit heavy, but it’s a heavy combination! The last time we had this Mars-Jupiter sky story was at the beginning of May 1972. On the 1st of May that year, a campaign of genocide began in Burundi in which up to 500,000 Hutus were killed.
Economically, however, I think this sky story may be a good one. Pluto in the Ingress Chart is conjunct Venus and Jupiter, and trine to Saturn, which is good for sorting out economic difficulties and creating long-term economic health on a realistic basis, rather than the endless unsustainable growth and credit bubbles of Pluto in Sagittarius. Mars in its placement between the horns is giving the ability to take decisive action, and Jupiter in the face of the archer gives the ability to stare unflinchingly and accurately at the economic problems.
In the Pluto Ingress chart set for New York – i.e. Wall St – Pluto is within ¼ of a degree of the IC, and the Angles are all 0 degrees of a Cardinal sign. So this is a very powerful and transformative chart for Wall St – and therefore for the rest of the world, economically – and shows that we are at the start of a new era. An era that won’t just be a correction of recent Sagittarian excesses, but which on a deeper level will involve a recognition that there are limitations (Capricorn) to the world’s resources, and that a new economic model is needed. The Pluto Ingress Chart for New York has Markab on the Descendant. This star can be seen as the saddle of the winged horse Pegasus. The saddle is the still and steady point on the moving animal, so it is suggesting a steady hand on the economic rudder during Pluto’s passage through Capricorn.
The Heliacal Rising star on the day of Pluto’s entry into Capricorn in New York is Acumen, which on the level of economics describes the difficulties facing the world as we enter this new Pluto era. The Heliacal Setting Star is Pollux, and this could be said to describe the soul-searching that will be required to sort our economic difficulties. It is not a matter of tweaking anymore, it involves the whole underlying model and the way we live our lives.
But despite all the economic turmoil that is heralding Pluto’s entry into Capricorn, both regular astrology and Fixed Star astrology suggest to me that it is going to come right. This is what you’d expect of Capricorn, which isn’t about crashes any more than it is about bubbles, both of these being equally unrealistic and ungrounded.
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