Transits
If you've been watching the night sky soon after sunset in recent weeks, you'll have noticed two bright lights in the southwestern sky moving closer and closer to each other every day. They are Venus and Jupiter who conjunct in Capricorn hexagram 61. They were joined by the New Moon last weekend for a spectacular display of the three kings, the three brightest heavenly objects of the night, all in one place.
The photos were taken in Taos, New Mexico by Chaitanyo. Above is November 30, below December 1, 2008.
At the end of November Pluto entered Capricorn where it will remain through 2024. Pluto is the archetype of the grim reaper, the shadow, the destroyer, the volcanic, seismic breaking apart, death. Pluto is also transformation, and rebirth, to arise. But it’s hard to go through the intensity of the transformation.
During Pluto's past 13-year transit through Sagittarius, we saw the enormous greed, inflation and excess that are signatures for a dark side of Jupiter-ruled Sagittarius, which is also generous and fun loving.
Capricorn is more restrained and measured, not impulsive or rash. It represents our institutions and financial vehicles, material. Scrooge is the archetype of a negative manifestation. Being stingy. The evolved form is thrifty, seeing ways to build structures of wealth; Capricorn in its highest expression possibly.
Capricorn represents what it means to conserve, to be conservative in the best (and worst) sense of the word. Collectively we're moving into a greater understanding that wastefulness with our material resources, what was done in the name of the "conservative party" was criminal to the Whole. We're in it together and the proper "Treading" (hexagram 10) is to be impeccable. To not take more than can be used. No more hoarding.
And, as so often, it is recommended you read Eric Francis' astute and current
astrological observations. This time he writes about the "Great Attractor," a very interesting phenomenon at 14º Sagittarius.