Final weeks of the Mars Retrograde, and other unruly Planets

How complicated is it to describe the conjunctions of Jupiter to the two great outer planets Uranus and Neptune? Seriously, it is complicated. These two brothers of mighty Zeus, Oranus and Poisidon, represent the sky and the sea. In astrology they represent chaos and mystery. Chaos, Uranus, is the principle of beholding phenomena never witnessed before, or in the action of unusual energies in ways unknown--before. Neptune/Poisidon is the chemical element and includes dissolution of spirit as well as matter. In 1993, Uranus and Neptune made a once in 170 year conjunction in Capricorn. Their orbits of 84 and 164 years respectively, make that conjunction a long, slow process, and as it moves out of exactitude, after 13 years they are only 30 degrees from each other. The most recent Jupiter orbit that caught up with Uranus and Neptune was in 1997, January for the Jupiter / Neptune, and just a month later, February of 1997 for Jupiter / Uranus. Those were also the years that Uranus transited through its own sign of Aquarius, and the lights of the new age came on with extra brightness. Another story; and yet, never in the planets and cycles of our solar system is anything separated from anything else.
These conjunctions, where the two planets occupy the same degree of space as seen from Planet Earth--right, nothing in the orbits of planets every actually touches-- are considered highly influential. The trajectory of their energies to Earth is therefore combined, and so multiplied. In physics, everything relates through geometry. Angles, the major ones, of 60- the hexagon, 90- the square, and 180 - the hemisphere, are considered the most potent. Except for the conjunction, which is the heaviest one of all. The New Moon is a conjunction, where the Moon's orbit intersects the Sun's exact degree, as seen from Earth. It is all relative. Astrology is subjective science. We are using absolute material, physical, electrical, and chemical data, and applying it to life on Earth. The spiritual, emotional, and coincidental data is also included in analyzing the science of planets and time.
The times of right this minute and what is going on right now are chaotic, shattering and layered in planetary anomalies of a rare severity. It is the Jupiter orbit, beginning in Pisces as of January 2010, making a long conjunction with Neptune that started at the Winter Solstice of 2009, December 21st. Jupiter and Neptune are, as mentioned the brother gods of the sky and thunder and lightning, and of the Sea, and storms and waves. They also share the quality of being lifted to ideas, feelings and experiences that are larger than ordinary, even more wonderful and noble than ordinary. In Jupiter and Neptune are the sense of the religious, in Jupiter the pomp and grandeur, in Neptune the wonder and magic of visions, and of Music. Jupiter and Neptune carry us places, geographical places with Jupiter and its sign Sagittarius and dream transcendent places with Neptune and its sign, Pisces. Places that are outside of our sphere, our ordinariness and our sameness can be fearsome, dreaded and terrifying. Or, are they magical, fantastic, philosophical, educational and beatific? Or, are they madness, loss, yearning, drowning, escaping, dying?
They are all of these.

Will it be a good thing or a bad thing?

People ask me when I describe planets, their meanings, symbols and actions. That, my dears, is the thing we can decide. Knowing the planet is an absolute. It is here, they are conjoining, we have no control over that the universe exists, those planets are going to meet. Have met. So? what did YOU do since the Winter Solstice of 2009? prepare for life, or death? or nothing? The worst of these is nothing, because something has happened, the world has changed. Things that should not have been forgotten in the fogs of Neptune have been forgotten. Things like compassion, and stewardship of plenty have been lost. Truths hard-won and dearly bought through Jupiter have been bought out, sold away, to a higher bidder, the power of now, money.
In a few short months Jupiter will be in conjunction with Uranus in the last degrees of Pisces. This combination is less fortuitous, less compatible. Uranus is our planet of the new, the different, the electrical beyond the material, the unpredictable, and technologies that are intricate. Uranus rules Aquarius, the sign of the Modern Age, the Age of Aquarius. All our talents and our problems now are Aquarius. We are universal, but overcrowded. We are superb communicators, but are allowing one type of communication to dominate all the rest. We are aware of all our differences and distinctions, sharing and learning, yet committing genocides. Jupiter with Uranus, can bring noble philosophy to combine with highest intelligence
or it can simply expand and accelerate chaos. Jupiter is money, power in community, leadership and knowledge, Uranus is the next thing, the universal principle of equality and individual brilliance. The sign they are meeting in, Pisces, is the sign of the past age, the Age of Faith, the Age of Pisces. The modern world is being given a chance to use its compassionate education, its awareness of God, to bring to the application of science. The greatest blend that can bring this to justice is MUSIC. This year has the potential to bring a universal religion to all of us, or to blow those big silos and show what the nuclear age can really do.
Where is the free will in all of this? It will be in knowing the opportunities of the future, using them and being alive to them. The other choice is to push the red button.
Mars will go direct on March 10th after its long retrograde through Leo since December of 09. Energy will wake up and return, but wiser, bruised, battered and with new moves dearly learned. Our arrogance has taken a fall, our confidence has been shown a bitter truth, and our pride has been replaced by empty shows of criticism and outrageous vindictiveness. Mars is a dangerous planet, and it has been chained up for a while, nursing, what? wisdom? More like ego. As it is released, and the great conjunctions mentioned above are lumbering into each other over and over in 2010, make your peace with change. And the times, they are so changing.