Rick DiClemente’s
Astrology Newsletter
Volume
42, June 2009
(Download a printable .DOC version here)
Welcome (I think) to June. Boy are
we in for a whammie of a month this time. With the
birth of Summer and the New Moon triggering transiting
Pluto and Uranus!? All kind of stuff is flying and hitting multiple windmill
farms all at once. Pluto is at work on the international, national, local and
personal levels. Simply put: don’t ignore what you have to deal with! It
will come back to haunt you if you do. Yes, everyone I talk to is doing major
house-cleaning in their basements (Pluto.) This cleansing has little to
do with Spring either – tis Pluto’s effect clearing out old baggage of all
types.
Look what it’s doing to our governmental, financial, and
economic institutions! Speaking of which, please enjoy the wonderful new
article by my partner, Cheryl Crise this month. She
came up with a brilliant follow-up on Pluto’s latest antics covering its
initial year and a half in Capricorn.
On the other hand, ladies, it’s time to have your babies! Really!
The continuing Jupiter/Neptune/Chiron conjunction in Aquarius along with the
transits of Venus and Mars in Taurus is going to grace us with some incredible
youngsters born this month.
Have a great month. Enjoy.
“There’ll be nobody
hiding when that rough god goes riding, riding on in.”
- Van Morrison
If, even after reading Richard Tarnas’
essential book, “Cosmos and Psyche,” you think the jury is still out
about the validity of astrology, go back to
To capture the essence of what the next 16 years would be
like, astrologers needed to combine the archetypal significance of both Pluto
and Capricorn. As it moves slowly through the zodiac (taking 258 years to orbit
the Sun), Pluto inexorably transforms whatever it touches in our
individual and collective lives. These transformations usually occur at such
primal, subconscious, collective levels, that when we are experiencing the
process, we have difficulty understanding much of what is happening, let alone
why.
Because Capricorn
is a cardinal/earth sign, it is a given that during this transit Pluto is
generating profound metamorphosis of all of our structures—things we were used
to thinking of as immutable: importantly, our institutions, our social systems
and belief systems. We also know, given Pluto’s association with primal forces,
and Capricorn’s association with the Earth, that Mother Earth herself is a
primary focus of these current transformative energies.
This major planetary transit happens as we stand on the
cusp of the Age of Aquarius. Other significant aspects are also occurring under
this umbrella, lending their own significance and influencing the ways in which
Pluto in Capricorn is actually rendering itself into our lives.
When Rick and I first penned our thoughts on the subject (www.starself.com/apr08.html) we
felt certain it was going to be a really
big deal. However, actually experiencing the reality and rapidity of the change
in our zeitgeist has been amazing!
Pluto stepped into those steel-toed shit-kickers on January of 2008, and got
down to its Pluto job with a vengeance. Reflect upon how deeply, and in how
many ways, our little world has been shaken up and turned inside out in the
past seventeen months.
If you are reading this you can probably count yourself
fortunate enough to have decent food and shelter. Even so, your financial
foundations are likely quivering, if not crumbling, from the global economic
catastrophes that Pluto in Cap has ushered into our lives. The economies of our
governments and other institutions are so intertwined that few people in the
world remain unaffected by the financial morass in which we unceremoniously
find ourselves.
If we follow the economic thread, or pick at random the
thread of any other issue that seems to be currently overshadowing our lives,
we soon arrive at a ganglion where all threads - poverty, intolerance, war,
climate change and countless other causes of suffering - inextricably
converge.
Pluto is undeniably a “rough god” (to borrow Van
Morrison’s phrase), and Capricorn makes it much
rougher - fifteen more years of Pluto in Capricorn is going to be a looong time. And, not to make you nervous or anything, but
we do seem to be at a watershed in the evolution of our species and our planet
(not likely the end of the world, but undeniably the end of the world as those
of us living have known it).
Our species has prevailed for thousands of years with a
largely “us vs. them” mindset, competing and conquering, concerned for our own tribe and our own patch of land. And it’s not easy to be philosophical and
open-minded, to trust and extend a hand, when such serious matters as we
currently face can so deeply impact our very survival. One gets quite a
claustrophobic feeling when we realize that our planetary resources are mostly
FINITE, that there is NO ESCAPE. Pluto in Capricorn is making sure that we get
the message: we must re-vision and re-form the institutions, habits and thought
patterns that no longer serve us. WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO LEARN TO
The work that Pluto in Capricorn calls upon each of us to
do is by nature, very, very difficult. Relationships between family members and
friends have been sorely wounded as we each cope with this transition as best
we can. Fellow Earthlings continue to suffer and die unnecessarily for want of
nutritious food, drinkable water, more accessible health care, just social
policies, and the fruits of enlightened diplomacy. At the same time we are
trying to birth new ways of doing and being, we must cope with the death of our
older, ineffective methods, which are habitual and comfortable. We are scared
and nostalgic, and it’s very hard to let go.
These days, I am thinking especially about how our
ancestors’ lives were pervaded by a sense of their real connection with the
earth, water and sky. Archaeological artifacts speak of their respect for, and
collaboration with, the universe that sustained them. As Pluto slowly circles
the zodiac and revisits each sign, our species is challenged to re-learn the
lessons of, and re-interpret the pertinent zodiacal archetype in ways
meaningful to the times. This time, Pluto in Capricorn is telling us to get
back to these very basics in a 21st century, high-tech, more socially responsible and more spiritually evolved
way.
Back before Pluto in Cap rumbled onto on our 21st
century stage, Rick and I hypothesized about both the difficult and the positive developments that it
would herald, because the seeds of solution are always intrinsic to the
problem, and both are contained in the astrological archetype. We have been
greatly heartened at the spontaneity with which antidotes are beginning to
materialize out of the collective: countless grassroots efforts disseminating
through our electronic media, brilliant individuals emerging and lending their
genius, unanticipated opportunities blooming in the gaps created by the hastening
decay of outmoded systems, all contributing to the healing, holistic solutions
we now so desperately need. So many of us are full of great ideas and
enthusiasm for a better future!
Your God wants to work through you! As tough as working
with Pluto in Capricorn energies can be, it is immeasurably satisfying. And Rick and I assure you
that being personally responsible for yourself, your species and your planet at
this particular time in history is immeasurably
important for us all.
Most people don’t understand astrology – so I use the
following simple example. Due to less than insightful magazine articles and
books referring to astrology, many folks simply have the wrong idea as to what
astrologers can and can’t do. I’m quite sure many of them say they can do lots…
For example, an astrologer is like a weatherman. We can
map what energies are gusting, gathering or weakening, and when their fronts
will “hit” where. An natal chart (or radix chart) is a
map of these forces only these archetypal essences ebb and flow within
us. Many people think I can tell them “If they’ll get that job” or “If that
marriage will last.” I can’t, they have free will. But, here is how it
works, kinda (metaphorically speaking):
Client: I want to sail to
Me: No, most likely not, the
currents aren’t flowing towards
(In other words, the client can try to go to
Client: Can I go the day after tomorrow?
Me: Maybe. The winds are heading exactly towards
(However, that does not mean that they’ll make it.
If I’ve examined their past 9 voyages and found that they’ve tipped over their
boat 7 times, the Hawaiian trip becomes less than assured. On the other hand,
if they have good experience sailing and have handled their own energies
effectively, they’ll probably make it – and it looks good.)
I don’t know any other way to make it sound any simpler –
bon voyage.
…Extreme Personalities…
6/7 Full Moon 17°`07’ 2:12p, T-squares Saturn in Virgo – This is a major lunation that
will make us realize the need for more information. The Sun and Moon in
Gemini/Sag expresses the lack of knowledge because of the square from
ever-demanding Saturn-still-in-Virgo. Thank goodness for the toughness of
Saturn’s placement now because it will make us tougher mentally and more backed
up by facts. Watch the news media circus (like it’s ever anything else) as
sides banter back and forth childishly over the other’s accuracy of reporting. “No,
water-boarding is not torture, I just can’t breathe.” (Astrologically
speaking: the water-boarding “issue” is dominant in the news lately strictly
due to Pluto in Capricorn.)
6/9-10 Mercury squares Jupiter and Neptune and Chiron
– A great, great time to make headway with your spiritual lessons. An ever-widening
nexus is being formed now with a direct link to the heavens within and above. Watch
out for the “lemming factor” however, self-delusion whenever Jupiter and Neptune
are involved.
6/13 Mercury enters Gemini 10:47p – A tidbit of
mental titillation lost amongst the clashing of these major big-boy planets. Kinda like someone playing in the sandbox while the
building next door is being demolished.
6/15 Jupiter goes Retrograde 3:51a – This will be
very hard to notice, but will be important nevertheless. Wiggling back and
forth within its major conjunction with Neptune and Chiron, Jupiter will delay
projects of growth. Big plans are tabled while cheerleader Jupiter gives it a
second thought.
6/21 Sun enters Cancer 1:46a – 6/22, New Moon
1°a30’, opposes Pluto and T-squares
Uranus – This one is SO major. You have a New Moon, and the Sun entering Cancer
(as we welcome Summer,) all triggering the New Bride Pluto in Capricorn along
with a zinger of a T-square sending all if the crazy energy to Uranus! O man. I
don’t even know what to say about this one. I just hope things are calmed down
a bit with
In your personal charts, all intense issues that have been
gnawing at you since
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