I discuss the hard transits of Uranus through the first ten degrees of Gemini through early 2028. Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces will be affected by the conjunction, squares and opposition. These can be life-changing transits.
This episode was published on September 29, 2026 at 11:36am EDT.
I am including a couple graphics here below, as I stated I would in this episode. I will update this page further when time permits.
Uranus transit Gemini degrees by date through Feb 12, 2028.Approximate sign degrees and corresponding birth dates for Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces.
Greetings all! Welcome to Aquarian Diary. I’m your host, John Irving. It is September 22nd, 2026.
Okay, here I am. I have had this topic on my to-do list for like two or three years.
Now, I tend to have to be in the right mood, I find, to talk about something and to do a good job of it, right? And today, I want to talk about Chiron. And Chiron is unpleasant, right? So when are you going to be in the mood to talk about Chiron?
Anyway, today, I woke up and I watched something on YouTube that was very Chironic in an ironic way. Say that ten times quickly.
Plus, I have a couple personal transits going on, short ones, and not bad ones, but they are also Chironic in nature too.
And then I’m like, okay, I guess that’s a sign I need to do this.
Now, there’s another reason I need to do it as well. And that is because Chiron just retrograded back into Aries.
I’ll put the dates on the screen so I don’t have to repeat them all the time.
Chiron’s elliptical orbit inside Saturn and outside of Uranus.
Chiron is a centaur which has a very elliptical orbit. Its orbit goes just on the inside of Saturn and then it orbits all the way outside around Uranus. And because of this very elliptical orbit, it can spend a lot more time in some signs than others.
And its orbital period is 50.71 years. So most people who reach adulthood are going to experience a complete orbit of Chiron around their natal chart and they will have a Chiron return at around 51 years old.
Chiron first entered Taurus on June 19th of 2026. It turned retrograde on August 3rd. It re-entered Aries on September 17th. It will turn direct on January 6th at about 26 degrees and 16 minutes of Aries and will re-enter Taurus more permanently on April 14th of 2027.
Dates of Chiron transit of Aries and Chiron transit Taurus.
Chiron deals with our core wounding, and often this is linked to something that happens in our formative years when we are children. Depending on how it’s aspected it can be something that’s fairly traumatic even.
You know, we all have wounds, and we can heal our wounds, but we always have the scar, or it becomes part of us. In an ideal scenario, one can heal their inner wounding and then be able to use that experience of healing to help others who have similar wounding.
So think of, for example, somebody who was a victim of some kind of an assault, or abuse, or neglect when they were a child, and then in adulthood they are able to counsel, or guide, or be a mentor, or publish information for others who have had a similar experience. That would be the ideal expression of Chiron.
Now, of course, there can be a tendency for people to repress these kinds of experiences or memories. That’s a very common coping mechanism, as is substance abuse as a means of escapism.
Another element to be aware of here too is that people with hard Chironic aspects in their natal chart can draw or attract pain or suffering in a kind of masochistic way where they consciously or subconsciously attract suffering as kind of a means of self-recrimination. There’s always a push-pull. Often, what we experience is a manifestation of what’s going on inside with our own feelings of self-worth and self-respect.
Now, truth be told, I didn’t personally pay a lot of attention to Chiron when I was younger because I sort of had that British stiff-upper-lip attitude to things where I would say, “Oh, get over yourself. Deal with it. Move on.” You know, just get stuff done. Don’t focus on things you can’t change. You know, blah, blah, blah…
And I also had a fairly strong belief that one could transcend their mortal or temporal experience of reality through spirituality. Because I had had many transcendent experiences where you get into a higher state of consciousness. And a lot of our more ego-related issues or concerns simply don’t exist or lose their relevance in that higher state of consciousness.
I’m just speaking for myself. Other people may be able to relate to that, or maybe they can’t. I don’t know, but it’s true for me.
However, I’m an Aries rising, and when Chiron started to transit Aries, which is of course my first house, in 2018, Chiron became prominently obvious in my life. And I was a bit stunned by this, how literally it materialized in my experience and in my life.
And often what happens with Chiron is that other people or situations or circumstances will mirror our Chironic wounding back at us. They will be the catalyst for this aspect of ourselves to get triggered. So when it’s in a cardinal house or on the angles, so to speak, you can’t not see it. It finds you, right?
And it can be stunning because Chiron, like all planets in astrology, has kind of a magnetic quality where it’ll draw, like I said, those kinds of experiences and that awareness to you, even if you’re not trying. It is mind-blowing.
Interestingly, Chiron was discovered on the 1st of November of 1977. And if you’re old enough, you will be aware that it was in the 1970s where psychology and psychological therapy became a trend. So people were seeing therapists, psychologists, people were talking about all that kind of stuff. There were workshops, there were personal development things.
Chiron has kind of a “woe is me” energy about it, where we are victims or victimized. And there was kind of a bit of a tendency for people to wallow in their victimhood. And, you know, there were books, there were TV shows, there were columns in newspapers. There was a whole movement, there was a whole personal development movement that occurred during the 1970s, where people really started to do this sort of self-analysis. Jungian stuff became popular and people talked about it. It was kind of amazing, because these are all Chironic themes.
Prior to then, especially if you go back into the 1950s and prior to then, people didn’t focus or talk about these kinds of things much at all. People did not talk about their feelings openly, and especially if you were a male, you did not show your weakness. Psychoanalysis and stuff like that was more fringy, and people had that kind of attitude of just like, “Oh, get on with it,” you know, stiff upper lip, like I said, attitude towards reality and, you know, stop whining, stop complaining, blah, blah, blah.
So, myself, like I said, I felt like, “Why do I want to wallow or muck around in my suffering? How does that help me? How does that aid me? Am I not just being self-indulgent by doing that? How does wallowing in that accomplish anything?”
And yet, many, many people started to investigate this because, in a lot of ways, our wounding is like our Achilles’ heel. We’ve seen countless people or celebrities, you know, self-destruct at the pinnacle of their career, which is all a reflection of their own inner wounding or unresolved trauma.
Trauma is interesting here because Chiron’s orbit goes from Saturn, which is kind of like cold, hard reality, the authorities and structures of reality, to Uranus, which often can be associated with shocking traumas.
So, like I said, when Chiron transited Aries, it became really obvious to me because people were behaving to me in very Chironic ways and triggering very Chironic things within me, and a lot of it had to do with my personality and my persona.
Judgment isn’t always accurate or fair, but yet people do it to each other all the time. So, I don’t like to talk too much about my own personal stuff, you know, here on YouTube, because like who wants to listen to that?
But let me tell you, it’s been very, very eye-opening, and for quite some time in my readings for clients, I will spend a lot of time talking about Chiron, because it’s very illuminating in terms of showing us where we have shadow work to do, and I have always been a proponent of doing our shadow work.
But, you know, Chiron represents things that are triggering or painful, and where we have wounding, so a lot of people don’t even like to look at it, because it’s triggering, and it’s unpleasant. And yet, if we don’t, especially if we sweep it under the rug, if we don’t, it will disempower us over and over and over again, until we resolve it, clear it, and heal it.
Now, interestingly as well, which I don’t hear a lot of people talk about, you know, I don’t listen to other astrologers anymore. I used to years ago. I stopped doing it because I don’t want to be influenced by other people’s perspectives. I have my own unique way of doing astrology and reading it, and it definitely tends to resonate very strongly with my clients. But like I said, I definitely focus on Chiron, especially depending on how it’s aspected in one’s natal chart, and the house and sign that it’s in, of course.
So, you know, pain and suffering is part of the human experience on earth, for whatever reason. I’m not 100% sure of what purpose it serves, except to maybe make us stronger, more authentic, and more pure, and more powerful. But bad things happen to people on earth all the time, every day. You’re either delusional or extremely poorly informed if you’re not aware of that. There’s all kinds of injustice, and pain, and suffering, and agony, and trauma that occurs on earth all the time. I have had clients tell me things that were, to me, shocking, and I was amazed that they were able to actually survive, and sometimes even go on to thrive.
Of course, I will never divulge anything that a client tells me, because I keep my readings extremely confidential, because I believe that privacy is sacred, and it should be. But yes, we have to look at our wounding, and when it is triggered by Chiron, by transit, either Chiron itself, or other planets transiting to your natal Chiron, is an excellent time to do that, because it will be illuminated, and give you clarity, which then gives you the ability to know where to focus and concentrate in terms of doing your shadow work. So, we should take advantage of Chironic transits, because they are telling us where our wounding exists.
I went off on a tangent about other astrologers and didn’t complete my thought, but what I was going to say is this, is that, to me, and it shows up very, very clearly in my readings for my clients, Chironic wounding is almost always linked to past lives. Underscore that, this is very important. And like I said, I’m not sure I’ve ever heard this stated before, despite the fact that it’s critically important.
So, if you have a Chironic pattern or theme, it may have actually started, you know, centuries or even millennia ago. And what happens is that it’ll continue to show up in your experience from incarnation to incarnation, until you address or heal that wound.
I also personally believe that phobias can be related to past life traumas, and therefore probably Chiron. As well, many people believe that birthmarks are indicative of where we have been physically wounded in past lives. For example, it may indicate a point of puncture. We also have to consider that in ancient times we didn’t have modern medicine and antibiotics, so even if the initial wound wasn’t fatal, a resulting infection very well could be.
And I have had clients who have had those kinds of things validated in past life regressions. And, let’s face it, if you go back into history, reality and the human experience was even more brutal in the past often than it is today. There were all kinds of extremely traumatic things that could happen to people on earth, like really horrible things, which I can’t articulate here because it’ll trigger this episode in the algorithms.
Privately, I can get into more details on certain things, but looking at someone’s astrology chart can tell us a lot about their past life experiences, and especially how it’s aspected and placed in the chart. One needs to be quite intuitive and fairly well versed in the astrology to get into a lot of details about that, but you would be amazed at how much detail we can suss out about that. You have to look at the other planets in points too, right, to complete the picture.
But my point is, is that, like I said, think about something really traumatic that happened to you centuries or millennia ago. It probably relates to some people that you have incarnated with or are having incarnational experiences with in this lifetime.
This pattern, because it’s kind of baked into our psyche or energy, whether we are aware of it or not, it’s in our energy field because it’s not resolved, will then sort of replicate or repeat to some degree, maybe with variations, in this lifetime, typically when we are children.
Like say, for example, you have some kind of, I don’t know, speech impediment or a learning disability, something like that. Maybe you have Chiron in the third or in heart aspect to Mercury and the other kids criticized you or ostracized you or you were an outcast, you weren’t accepted, you were rejected by your peers.
Rejection is often a theme of Chiron, where people don’t love us or appreciate us or they’re critical of us because of who we are, which is total BS, of course, right? People can be really stupid because they judge others based on really dumb things.
But nonetheless, when you’re a child, that can be like really painful to be rejected. Like kids can go to bed at night and cry themselves to sleep because people don’t like them. This is like profoundly unjust and profoundly unfair and profoundly mean, but people experience those kinds of things all the time.
And then that person will then grow up and have to find their own inner strength and their own wisdom and their own path. And they’ll have to find people who actually love and appreciate them and accept them for who they are. So they have a difficult journey to do, but that journey gives them strength because ultimately we shouldn’t care about what other people think, especially if they’re stupid people or judgmental people or unjust people, you know.
So it doesn’t have to be that per se. It could be anything. It could be you were criticized for a piece of artwork that you made when you were five years old and then you subconsciously say to yourself, “Oh, I’ll never make another piece of art again.” And you just shut that down. Maybe you have Chiron in the fifth. Stuff like that happens all the time.
Or there was something about your physical appearance that other people made fun of or didn’t accept or rejected. Maybe you have Chiron in the first, or maybe it was your sexual orientation. Maybe you have Chiron in the eighth. There are so many possible scenarios.
This can be sussed out in the astrology chart remarkably accurately. And in the spiritual community, you do kind of have to watch out a little bit for this idea of transcendence.
I had a very, very, very significant experience in my life back in my early 20s. I got involved in spirituality quite young and I had this experience which involved a tremendous amount of transcendence. I had very, very powerful spiritual experiences. But then something happened in my life and I kind of fell. I had a fall and the fall was excruciatingly painful because I went from a very, very high state of consciousness and awareness back down into reality. And it took me years to recover from that because I hadn’t addressed my own inner weakness or wounding which was then an Achilles heel which tripped me up and I fell.
And what I learned from that was that I have a lot of work to do. I have a lot of healing to do that involves self-love and self-respect and self-forgiveness.
So we cannot fully ascend until we have become whole and integrated and have accepted all aspects of ourselves good and bad and Chiron will show us that.
Now I’m not going into all the mythology around Chiron here. Tons of people have talked about that. You can read about it all you want. I was more interested in producing something here that was more personal and germane and helpful to people on a pragmatic level.
Chiron had moved into Taurus on June 19th of 2026, not that long ago, and it retrograded and retrograded back into Aries on September 17th, which is a few days before I recorded this. It’s going to be in Aries through April 14th of 2027, so next spring, and then of course it will transit Taurus from April 14th of next year, pretty much through the spring of 2034.
I find it interesting that Chiron has been in Aries roughly since 2018, and we’re now at the final stages of that journey of Chiron through Aries, because there’s been a tremendous amount of focus or concentration or discussion about themes dealing with toxic masculinity during this period, 2018. In fact, I think a lot of the whole sort of move to the far right and the MAGA stuff and everything is a bit of a reflection of Chiron transiting Aries.
Aries is the masculine principle, the principle that says “Yeah, I’m just going to do this. I’m going to do X, Y, and Z. It’s about me and my needs, and who am I?” And Chiron shows us how that expression of masculinity is often rooted in trauma or rejection.
So the kind of masculinity we’ve been seeing in a lot of cases has been the wounded expression of Aries. You know, these guys who pretend to be all like hyper-masculine and stuff like that, and yet everyone can see very clearly that they’re actually deeply wounded people with a lot of unresolved trauma and rejection, and it’s painfully obvious that they’re overcompensating.
Like, think about the whole incel thing, right? Like, what is that? That’s Chiron and Aries. That has been a really, really big thing. Just to be clear, it’s not that I don’t sympathize with their plight. What I object to is their hostility and entitlement towards women.
So you’ll see the negative expression of masculinity, which lashes out and is irrational, and is excessive and showy, and domineering, and trying to dominate and control others, and fighting stupid culture wars and stuff like that. That’s a classic example of Chiron transiting Aries.
When I see these kinds of people speaking out or lashing out, it’s obvious that they have issues, psychological issues of some kind. We all do, right? So let’s be fair. But still, if you’re causing harm to other people, that’s crossing a line.
A healthy response to that would be for people to question, you know, like, why do I need to behave this way? What is it about me that makes me feel inadequate or insecure, or that I have to forcibly demonstrate my masculinity just to prove myself to other people to gain their respect? That’s not self-respect. That’s not self-love. That’s acting out of woundedness.
It’s kind of like instead of actually dealing with the root causes, they just keep doubling down, having like a tantrum, because they’re going through an identity crisis, and they don’t know how to cope.
So we have one more stint of this to go through the middle of April of next year, where Chiron is going to be moving into Taurus.
And the sign of Taurus generally is more representative of our values and the things that we value and material objects and situations that we construct for ourselves or acquire to give us a sense of security. It’s interesting because Taurus, or the second house actually, rules things like property, real estate, investments, money, bank accounts, finances, and stuff like that, because we acquire those things to give us a sense of security. And we place a value on them for that reason.
Some of those values are shared, and some aren’t. You know, some people might want to live in the country, another person might want to have a condo in Manhattan that’s worth like 10 million bucks. But it has a materialistic theme in a lot of ways on a mundane level.
We may also see Chiron reflected in the arts when it’s in Taurus. The ruler of Taurus is Venus, and Venus rules the arts, all forms of art and creative self-expression. So that can include drama, theatre, jewellery, fashion, fine art, sculpture, architecture, film, poetry, novels.
But I would think that we will see a kind of angst that appears, especially with the feminine expression of Chiron in Taurus, or angst that pertains to the decimation of the natural world that reflects sort of a dark sorrow or grief around the feminine and nature. Think drab, if that makes any sense.
We’ll probably see this emerge first on the runways, which tend to be kind of like leading indicators of fashion and in music and the performing arts. That should be fascinating.
Many people are already grieving the damage that’s been done to the natural world, especially for younger people who in many ways are facing a bleak future environmentally. So we will become painfully aware of the sorrow and grief around the damage that we have caused to the natural world. And we probably will see this reflected in the natural world itself. The degradation, the wounding, the suffering, the grief around the loss of healthy habitats and species, the toxification and pollution of our environment and our source of sustenance.
And of course, there’s two sides to every coin. So we might actually have to endure or experience the wanton and careless destruction of the natural world, where we have people, organizations, companies who have no compassion or empathy for the natural world and just inflict damage upon it, which causes those of us who are more sensitive and more evolved to have to witness such nihilism.
There’s always two sides to every aspect and planet or point in astrology. There’s the victim and the victimizer, because you can’t have one without the other.
Another thing that this can represent is the harvest. Crops. You know, because what we do is we grow crops starting in the spring, they mature in the summer, and we harvest them in the fall so that we have stockpiles to get through the winter months. Taurus is ruled by Venus, and Venus can represent the harvest.
Think of how, for example, a squirrel will collect nuts and things and stash them away so they can survive the winter. So there could be issues dealing with nature and the harvest and crops, or a lack thereof, or issues that cause people to feel insecure.
And of course, there can also be financial issues too. Like say, for example, you made significant investments or acquisitions like property or something like that, and there’s some kind of substantial shift in the value of that. The loss of value could be quite painful for you. Plus, of course, like I said earlier, more general themes around what is important and what we value.
It’s important to understand, and I have emphasized this, but it’s important to understand that when people get triggered by their wounding, they often act out in ways that we think or that immediately appear to be irrational. People try and overcompensate for their weakness, like in the case of the masculinity stuff I talked about earlier.
They don’t just go like, “Oh, I have these weaknesses and failures. Let’s talk about it. Let’s heal it.” They can instead try and overcompensate or exaggerate to overcome their sense of inadequacy or failure or wounding. So almost like the opposite response.
It can go either way. Some people can react by trying to heal that wound, which is to me a more mature or responsible way of dealing with it. And other people lack that ability or perspective and therefore, like I said, try and overcompensate for it. So they go over the top. And we can expect to see that in Taurus as well, which is like, “This is my stuff. Don’t eff with my stuff. I need this. It’s got to be mine.” You know, things like hoarding or excessive materialism, where it’s going to be challenged. And people can either react by adapting and accepting this or lashing out and overcompensating for it.
Possession, possessiveness, hoarding, over-defensiveness, conflict over property or resources, that kind of thing. It’s going to be quite interesting to see how this plays out.
Mark my words, down the road a few years, what I’m saying will make a lot more sense. It’s a bit abstract right now, but we’re going to see it play out tangibly in the world.
So this shift of Chiron from Aries to Taurus, obviously it has an effect on people who have Aries in their chart substantially or planets or points in Aries. And then when it moves into Taurus for a fairly long time, it’s going to be playing out for people who have significant planets or points in Taurus. Say, for example, you’re a Taurus rising or have Taurus in the seventh, which would be your relationship sector.
Chiron transit Taurus astrology chart 2026-2034
Now, of course, Chiron in Taurus is going to be opposing Scorpio and squaring Aquarius and Leo. So the opposition is challenging as well, as are the squares. So you will probably want to pay attention to when transiting Chiron makes those hard aspects by conjunction, opposition, or square to significant planets or points in your natal chart. And of course, the Taurus-Scorpio axis are the money houses. So keep that in mind.
This episode is already really long and there’s way too much there for me to get into here today, but heads up on that.
Chiron is never pleasant. It’s not the kind of stuff that you would naturally want to focus on. Like who wants to really concentrate on suffering and wounding and pain and rejection? It’s not pleasant, but it is a part of our reality. And like I said, that’s indisputable.
So personally, as an Aries rising, I’m really looking forward to getting Chiron out of Aries. I don’t want it in my face all the time.
Another thing that showed up for me a lot during this period was because I was doing a lot of construction and renovations, that kind of work, you know, I would just go out in my work clothes all the time. Like, I don’t give a crap what people think. And a lot of this time was in the city, okay, it’s not like I was in the country where it’s kind of normal. But I had a lot of experiences during that time where people would judge me based on my appearance. And I’m quite intuitive and sensitive, so I can pick this up. Right.
But, you know, I don’t really care. Like, why would I care about appeasing people who are really superficial and shallow. Obviously, I have zero interest in people like that. But still, it’s something I experienced quite a bit when I would go into stores and stuff like that. And you can just tell you get a vibe off people that they just judge you based on how you look. In fact, after a while, I kind of took it as a badge of honor, right? Because like I said, why would I care about people like that?
When people do that, they’re not just casting a false judgment on other people. They’re perpetuating that stereotype. So it’s actually even worse.
So that’s an example of Chiron transiting my first. Judgment, rejection, wounding, not being accepted for who I am based on superficial reasons. First being my physical appearance and me as I present in the world.
Many, many years ago, a spiritual teacher of mine said that the Christ could be standing right next to most people and they wouldn’t even know it. Now, I’m not comparing myself to Christ, but you get the point. Most people are really not coming from a very evolved place, most human beings. And that’s a bit hard to accept, but it’s true.
And while Chiron was transiting Aries, I had a lot of run-ins with people that were really, really weird. Some of them I think were probably linked to past life encounters with these people because they seem quite irrational. Like, why is this person acting this way to me? That would be my response, right? And why do I care?
You know, there can be a lot of emotional drama, which can be really exhausting when you’re dealing with other people. In my case, a lot of it dealt with women, which would be the opposite house from my Ascendant, of course. Just like really weird stuff. That kind of drama can be just really exhausting.
So like, from my perspective, I’m more like, I got other things to do. I don’t want to be dealing with or concentrating on this, but you don’t really have a choice. You can either sweep it under the rug and let it fester, or you can approach it more proactively.
So I do a lot and have done a lot of work in my spiritual practice, which I do every day, to try and clear as much of those kinds of energies as possible and get to the root of them. So when I’m doing this kind of stuff, I’ll have like dreams and visions or insights that pertain to my Chironic wounding. And my Chiron is in the 12th.
So my Chiron deals with spirituality and my connection to the source of creation and spirituality. Like, “God, why did you do this to me?” kind of questions. “I didn’t deserve it.” “What is the point of suffering?” “Why did you make me suffer?” “I’m pissed off.” “I resent that.”
And at the same time, I want to connect to the divine, and yet I don’t understand why it tortured me, in a nutshell. I could go on at great length about that, but that’s, in a nutshell, my kind of, like, Chironic stuff that I have to deal with.
And also, Chiron and the Twelfth can make one very aware or conscious of Chironic wounding on the collective mundane level, which I definitely am. Like, I can see and feel the wounding and the trauma that’s being inflicted upon people around the world, which is why I talk about a lot of social and geopolitical stuff and things like that, and I have an interest in it. It’s totally understandable for me. But anyway, I digress.
As I was working on this, I was reflecting on, like, what did I learn or get out of this experience? So far, anyway. And I think that the most important lesson that I’ve learned from this is now I have a greater degree of compassion and empathy for other people who are going through really challenging or difficult experiences. And that shows up a lot for me with my readings for clients. It’s really helped me to empathize with them and to discuss and bring to light some of their own trauma and Chironic issues. It’s been very powerful in that respect, and I take it as a great honor to be able to play that role when I’m doing readings for people.
In short, people with prominent Aries in their chart, this cycle is almost over, but we still have another seven months to go. Seems like an eternity. And people with prominent Taurus or Taurus placements are going to have to deal with a lot of Chironic experiences more prominently in their life going forward through 2034. It’s not pleasant, unfortunately, which I guess explains why it took me so long to actually get around to doing this.
I don’t know if this is helpful. It was a bit of stream of consciousness. It’s not very structured. I’m trying to think of what else I want to say.
Chiron is very, very personal and when I’m doing a reading for a client, I can get into like a lot of detail about this Chironic stuff that can be, like I said, remarkably precise and meaningful and relevant. It’s a bit hard to talk about it more in general terms because I don’t have that knowledge or information, but I would encourage you to pay attention to it and to not ignore it or, like I said, sweep it under the rug, because it won’t go away by itself.
The only thing that you can do to clear yourself of that experience is to heal it and that requires a lot of forgiveness. Forgiveness of self and forgiveness of others and compassion is a huge part of this process. Compassion for yourself and compassion for others because we’re all flawed and we’re all wounded.
Everybody has Chiron somewhere and everybody has had some kind of Chironic experience. No matter how perfect they look, I can assure you that people have been deeply wounded in some way at some time in their life.
And there are some very prominent and very powerful people in this world right now who have deep and profound Chironic wounding and it’s fairly self-evident when you look at their what seems often to be irrational or inscrutable behavior. It is all around us in ways that it wasn’t for our ancestors because it wasn’t until 1977 that Chiron was identified and defined.
Let me know if this was helpful or what you think about this. It’s fairly long. Like I said, it’s a stream of consciousness. I don’t know how else to do this. I think it’s the best way to do it.
I’ve had some remarkable and constructive experiences in readings, many of them in fact, talking about Chironic stuff and how it’s aspected in people’s charts. It has played a very significant role in my readings for a long time. We can gain tremendous insights into ourselves through studying it and understanding it.
For more detail, check the episode description for other episodes or articles that are related or that I mentioned.
And if you’re interested in a reading with me, I’ll put a link to that as well.
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Thank you very much.
Take care, all the best, and I’ll talk to you again soon.
Today I want to talk about something that has actually been on my to-do list for a few months and it again came to my mind over the past few days and I thought, “Well, I really should do this.”
It is going to be specifically geared towards Sagittarians and I don’t normally just focus on one sign, but I think in this case it’s warranted.
I’m a Sagittarian myself and what I want to talk about has had a profound effect on me and based on comments from people, it has for others as well, and I thought I would offer my perspective on this and the timeline involved in case that’s helpful to other Sagittarians.
First though, I want to mention that Sunday night, October 13th, I had another wide-ranging discussion with the wonderful Irish Granny Tarot. We talked about all kinds of things. You may find that interesting. It’s almost an hour and 45 minutes long, but if you have time, check it out.
I’ll put a link in the episode description to that. Or you can always find Helen’s channel simply by searching for “Irish Granny Tarot.” She does wonderful work and her content is very educational as well.
Back to the question of what Sagittarians have been going through, and this is not to suggest that other people haven’t been going through extended periods that have been really challenging, but like I said, as a Sagittarian, I can speak to this personally and a lot depends on your own personal natal chart.
That has a big effect as well, of course, but generally, what I will describe here is fairly significant in terms of challenging aspects. As usual, I’ll be putting dates on the screen. If you’re watching this on YouTube, you might want to pay attention to that.
Pluto transit Capricorn, Sagittarius 2nd Solar house, 2008-2024.
The first thing that really came into phase for Sagittarians, and I’m only looking at major multi-year transits here today, was the transit of Pluto through Capricorn, which effectively began in 2008 and is finished on November 19th.
Capricorn is the sign adjacent to Sagittarius, so technically there are no major aspects between the two signs. However, Capricorn is ruled by Saturn and Sagittarius is ruled by Jupiter, of course. Sagittarius is fire and Capricorn is earth. Well, you can probably see where this is going.
And Saturn is further out from Jupiter, so it has a more powerful role or seniority in the scheme of things, and the energies of these two planets are extremely different. So, Saturn kind of puts the kibosh on Jupiter. Jupiter is very expansive and considered to be lucky, and Saturn is very constraining and rigid.
And so, while Pluto was in Capricorn, it was emphasizing the energies of that sign, which in many ways kind of conflict with the core fundamental nature of Jupiter and Sagittarius. And again, that was from 2008 right up until November 19th, 2024.
I’ve talked a lot about this before, and I really disliked the energy of Pluto in Capricorn, just because there was a lot of expressions that I found fundamentally ingratiating.
And I knew this before it even happened, that this was going to be a difficult period, but I also knew that I would really enjoy the energies of Pluto in Aquarius, which is what now we’re going to be dealing with all the way through 2044.
So, that’s one thing, and that’s a big thing. I mean, look at what has been going on in the world during this time. It is just crazy and very disturbing in a lot of ways.
Crucially, Capricorn rules the solar second house for Sagittarius. The second house rules our assets and property, our material resources, money, and the things that we value. Pluto transiting the second house can of course wreak havoc on financial affairs, because a lot of things can be destroyed before they get rebuilt.
Generally, what is happening here is that our values, the things that we think are important, are going through a huge purge and transformation. And there’s a lot of destruction with Pluto when it moves through these areas.
Of course, the second house also opposes the eighth, which is another money house. The eighth is more the resources and interactions with other people or outside institutions or agencies, things like banks, people that we borrow money from or who invest in us, that kind of thing, at least on a financial level.
And the second house squares the eleventh and the fifth, social groups and networks, and our sense of creativity and things that deal with children and stuff like that. So clearly, Pluto transiting this part of our chart can manifest as a lot of financial challenges for some people.
Neptune transit Pisces, Sagittarius 4th Solar house, 2011-2026.
Next, Neptune started transiting Pisces in 2011, and that transit ends in 2026.
Now in my own personal experience, Neptune’s squares to the Sun can be extremely challenging. They can really zap your vitality and your energy. And Neptune has this kind of dissolving quality, and the squares, in my experience, can be the most frustrating aspects because there’s really no resolution to these energies.
So when Neptune squares your Sun, for example, it can completely kind of push you down where you have no vitality, very little energy, and many aspects of your identity and reality can kind of dissolve. At the same time, we can have many kind of psychic and intuitive experiences, but we can be very ungrounded and energetically porous.
I have talked a lot about Neptune on my channel, and if you just go to my channel page and search for Neptune, you’ll find those.
I’m not going to reiterate everything I’ve already said, but trust me, Neptune squares to your sun can be extremely difficult. There can be a lot of loss and losses involved during this time. Neptune has a very kind of dematerializing energy about it.
So Neptune in Pisces squared Sagittarius. If you’re early Sagittarius, you went through the hardest aspects of these early on, like back in 2011, 2012. If you’re a later Sagittarius, you’re probably just experiencing that right now or recently.
But this transit of Neptune square the Sun is probably grossly underestimated. For the most part, it’s my impression that people just underestimate how hard of a transit that actually is.
So now we’ve got Pluto in Capricorn, and weve got Neptune squaring Sagittarius, both for many years.
The solar fourth house of Sagittarius is ruled by Pisces. So Neptune transiting the fourth, which also opposes the tenth, which is career vocation status, how we fit into the world, the positions that we’re elevated into, where we have power and authority and are recognized for our contributions.
The fourth house is critically important because it’s foundational. If we don’t have a solid foundation, which is our home, our literal home and our home environment and the people that are in our immediate home environment, those who are really close to us, it also covers our family, either the one we grew up with or the one that we create.
So Neptune, with this kind of dissolving non-materialistic energy, this very spiritual energy, can really dissolve a lot of our foundations. If we don’t have a solid foundation in the world, it’s really hard to do a lot of things. If we don’t feel secure and safe, it’s very hard to go out, for example, and start a business or have a career or whatever. And again, like I said, Neptune in the fourth would be opposing the career house for Sagittarius.
So I already talked about Pluto transiting the second. That’s really hard. That’s a tough transit because in three-dimensional reality, we need material resources and financial security to feel comfortable and safe. And at the same time, we now have Neptune transiting our fourth, which is dissolving our foundations, our safe place, the place where we go at the end of the day and we close the door and we feel secure and safe.
Two very, very challenging things going on there at the same time. That’s a lot.
Saturn transit Pisces, Sagittarius Solar 4th house, 2023-2026.
More recently, Saturn entered Pisces in early 2023 through early 2026. Now there’s some breaks because of retrogrades, but generally 2023-2026.
Saturn square your Sun is also a very challenging aspect. This is where we can feel blocked as if forces outside of ourselves are constraining or limiting us that we can’t move forward or we’re stuck or we have to deal with very pragmatic mundane things that are constantly stopping us from doing what we want to do. It’s an extremely frustrating aspect.
So again, depending on what degree in Sagittarius your Sun is, will affect when these energies are most intense. You definitely will feel this within a two degree orb and probably even five degrees or more. However, to some extent, the whole time that Saturn is in Pisces, the energies are squaring the sign of Sagittarius. Saturn transiting the fourth can really bring a lot of attention and focus on to issues that deal with our home and home environment and our foundations as I talked about with Neptune transiting the fourth.
So the solar fourth of Sagittarius now has Neptune and Saturn in it and Saturn is extremely practical and pragmatic. You can think of it as tough love and it can represent as challenges or things that we have to get really real about and put a lot of effort into that pertain to our home or home environment.
And if they’re not on a solid foundation, Saturn will make us very clearly aware of that. And this isn’t necessarily pleasant because Saturn is not about fun. It’s usually about hard work and dedication and concentration and not getting rewards quickly or easily. It takes a lot of time and effort with Saturn and concentration and diligence and so forth. It can be exhausting because we have to keep our nose to the grindstone for a very long time and sometimes we don’t see results for a very long time either.
Chiron transit Pisces, Sagittarius Solar 4th house, 2010-2019.
Also, Chiron transited Pisces from 2010 through 2019, give or take because of retrogrades. That also can be kind of a challenging aspect.
So Chiron would have squared Sagittarius Sun at some point during that period and those energies are square the whole time really to a degree between Pisces and Sag.
And this can force us to confront or deal with some of our wounding often that occurred in formative years or even past lives. And Chiron transits can be quite hard because often in my experience, reality or our daily experiences or interactions will either trigger or mirror our wounding to us. And we can feel helpless or victimized or sad or experience grief and things like that, often justifiably and also inadequacy. But still, it can be kind of a challenging emotional experience to go through. It’s never pleasant to muck around with our core wounding, but that’s what Chiron tends to do.
Chiron transiting the fourth can bring up issues relating to our wounding around our family. So a lot of family dynamics and issues and things that we’ve swept under the rug or glossed over or shadow work that we need to do around those kinds of themes can be brought to our attention in uncomfortable ways.
Chiron will, like I said, either trigger us or mirror things to us that reflect and make us aware of our wounding. And let’s face it, we’d rather probably not do that most of the time, even if it is beneficial and essential. It’s not necessarily pleasant and it’s not necessarily pleasant to feel like you’re a victim either, which is also kind of a hallmark of Chiron transits.
So you have to remember all of these things are going on simultaneously and they layer on top of each other. So there were certain times during this decade or more period where there was multiple challenges going on to the sign of Sagittarius.
So when we layer on all these things together, and I’m not touching on everything because this is a long period of time, I just want to give people a general sense of when this started and when it ends.
Pluto sextile, as well as Neptune and Saturn trine Sagittarius 2023-2039.
We can see that Pluto is moving into Aquarius, which will sextile Sagittarius. So that’s more of a positive energy for transformation and change in an easier way. We have to activate the sextile. We have to actually take action and do things to manifest those benefits, but that’s not a problem.
And then we can see that by early 2026, Neptune and Saturn have moved into Aries, which actually is a trine to the sign of Sagittarius. The trine is the easiest, most positive aspect. So we go from these very challenging squares to a very positive trine. So again, there’s retrogrades involved here.
So there’s periods where we get a break from this, but fundamentally, transformations should be in a much stronger, easier, more positive and beneficial energetic situation come early 2026.
You might have some other positive transits along the way that counteract some of these challenging ones. So it’s not all constant or steady. It fluctuates. And that again, depends on your own natal chart.
But I have a natural chart. I have an Aries ascendant. So these kinds of transits are kind of amplified for me and I can speak therefore in broad terms.
And I also pay a lot of attention to my own energetic state. So I’m quite aware and on top of these kinds of things, I can feel the shift of energies often from one sign to the next as planets transition and stuff. And I pay a lot of attention to it and I journal a lot. So I’m kind of on top of this.
So I want to give you that sense of why this period has been so challenging for a lot of Sagittarians, because we’re generally by nature, a very optimistic, expansive, kind of jubilant, hopeful people. But we have been being challenged now for many years by some of these transits. And I can get to the point where you just assume that that’s how things are. But what I’m suggesting is that this is a phase that will be winding down over the next year and a half or so.
I don’t happen to have a lot of Gemini’s that I’m closely involved with these days, but Saturn and Neptune in Pisces also squares Gemini. Gemini doesn’t have the same issue with Capricorn that Sagittarians do. So I can’t speak for Gemini, but some of what I’m saying may apply to them, although it may have commenced more in the 2011 timeframe.
And then of course, Pisces opposes Virgo. So Saturn and Neptune in Pisces will have presented challenges to Virgo as well. So basically all of the mutable signs, including Pisces have to some extent been challenged by some of these major transits.
Uranus transit Taurus, Sagittarius 6th Solar house, 2018-2026.
Now one final thing. Uranus has been transiting Taurus since 2018 and finishes transiting Taurus in April of 2026.
This is the solar sixth house for Sagittarius and the sixth deals with our work and routines and daily habits, but it also deals with health and being of service. And sometimes being of service means that we put others needs ahead of our own and we don’t necessarily get any immediate personal gratification from it. It’s more like a selfless service energy where we have to sacrifice our own ego and desires to serve or to play a role for others.
So Uranus transiting this house can raise all kinds of issues around our work habits and routine and change them and introduce elements that are uncomfortable or unfamiliar to us can also raise health issues. And we can find ourselves in weird situations where we feel like we’re just sacrificing ourselves all the time.
The sixth house has a quality of breaking down the ego, which is not too bad in small quantities, but if it goes on for a very long time, it can feel exhausting. Anybody who works in healthcare, for example, is very much aware of this.
Uranus transit Gemini, Sagittarius 7th Solar house, 2025-2033.
Uranus is then going to transit Gemini from 2025 until 2033 and Gemini opposes Sagittarius.
So during this time, 2025 to 2023, Sagittarians are going to be opposed by Uranus and that can manifest as very sudden and dramatic shifts or changes in your life or your life experience or your life circumstances that are virtually unpredictable. We can never foresee precisely what changes Uranus is going to bring about.
But the benefit to this is that if you’ve been in a situation where you feel stuck or things have become stagnant for a long time, which a lot of people experience, Uranus can really shake things up and break them, which results in you gaining more freedom. Even though these events can sometimes be quite dramatic and even sometimes a bit traumatic, the benefit is that you get liberated.
Or maybe you’ve been repressing certain feelings or desires or needs and you won’t be able to repress those energies any longer when Uranus opposes your Sun, for example. You will need to express your own unique identity and liberate yourself from anything that is confining, restricting, habitual, but not beneficial, that kind of thing.
So again, it depends on the degree of your Sun. Obviously, early Sag Suns are going to be opposed by Uranus in the early stages of this transit and later Sagittarians later on. That has to be calculated. That’s why people consult astrologers like me and you can book an appointment if you wish.
But I can assure you that that whole time period will bring about very major changes for Sagittarians. They don’t always have to be negative. They can be positive, but one thing is for sure, change will be in the cards.
When Uranus transits Gemini, that is Sagittarius’ seventh solar house. The seventh deals with our important significant relationships. Typically, it is those that we are partnered with romantically. So it would be like your wife or a girlfriend or boyfriend or husband, somebody that you are committed to usually. It’s usually an exclusive kind of energy and it’s usually a serious relationship as opposed to one that is more lighthearted.
And when Uranus goes through the seventh, it can really shake things up in the relationship department. You can sometimes end up with people who are very different from you that you wouldn’t normally be attracted to or involved with, or it can completely shake things up with committed relationships and end those that no longer serve you or that are holding you back or that have become stagnant or pointless or meaningless.
And for those who are familiar or comfortable with having really stable, predictable relationships, this can be a hard transit. If somebody is in a relationship that has dragged on for a long time, that has lost meaning and reward, often when Uranus transits the seventh, that relationship will end.
And the other side of the coin, like I said, is that we can enter into situations or kinds of relationships that are very different or unusual from what we’re familiar with. Like it could be somebody that’s just very different from you, or it could even be the nature of the relationship is very weird. Or it could just be somebody who’s very culturally different from you and what you’re familiar with.
Uranus likes to have a lot of freedom. It doesn’t like to be constrained or limited. So sometimes even when Uranus goes through the seventh, people can explore things like polyamory or something like that, or open relationships where they have multiple different people that they’re connected to. I’m not saying that’s typical. I’m just using that as an example.
Don’t necessarily expect that, but Sag is going to go through an extended period where the relationship part of their life, if they have one, is going to probably be unusual or different from what they’re familiar with.
And of course, like I’ve already said, the seventh opposes the first. So Uranus is opposing the Sun of Sagittarius and squaring the 10th and the fourth.
So by this point, we’ve got away from Pluto in the second, Neptune and Saturn in the fourth, and Chiron in the fourth. And now the emphasis in terms of a lot of fairly radical change is going to shift to the seventh, as I have just described.
But at the same time, we will be having Saturn and Neptune trining our Suns. And Saturn can strengthen and solidify things, and Neptune can be extremely inspiring and enlightening. And if you’re a spiritual person, Neptune trine Sun can be phenomenal. So I’m actually very much looking forward to that.
I’m an early Sag. Even when Neptune is at the late degrees of Pisces, it will still be forming a trine to my Sun within a reasonably tight orb. Actually, I already felt it a bit in 2024, and it was wonderful.
Plus, like I said, Pluto in Aquarius is sextiling Sagittarius, and Aquarius is an air sign, Sag is fire, so these energies are compatible. And the sextile is a very supportive aspect, and this speaks to positive regeneration and empowerment and upliftment, positive expression of power, if used wisely.
I know this is a lot to try and absorb all at once, especially if you’re a novice or casually interested in astrology. And this is one of the reasons why, for me, to take on producing an episode like this is not a trivial thing, because it’s very multi-dimensional and there’s a lot of moving parts. Often if you follow astrology, people will tend to focus on one thing at a time, whereas in reality it’s very holistic.
Plus, as I’ve said, a lot depends on your own natal chart, which introduces a whole bunch of other dimensions to this as well. So it’s not as clear-cut or simple as is often presented. It’s way deeper.
So again, if you want to look at this from a more detailed perspective, consider booking an appointment and I can go through some of these things for you with more precision, taking into account your Ascendant, your Midheaven, your other planetary positions, and so forth. I’m speaking here, of course, in very general terms.
But there you go, that’s just kind of like a quick overview of why, if you’re a Sag and you’ve felt challenged for a long time, this might explain some of it. And again, there’s a lot more detail in the dates, in the graphics that you’ll see on this screen. So you might want to watch this again, make notes, that kind of thing.
For more detail, check the episode description for other episodes or articles that are related or that I mentioned. And if you’re interested in a reading with me, I’ll put a link to that as well. I have a 15% off special on currently.
Many sincere thanks to everyone who supports me, especially my YouTube members and astrology clients. Thank you very much.
Take care, all the best, and I’ll talk to you again soon.
In this episode I discuss the upcoming transit of Jupiter in Leo for Sagittarius and Sagittarius Rising. This fire sign trine should bring good luck, good fortune, beneficial opportunities, growth and expansion.
During this episode I displayed a graphic showing the degrees of Jupiter in Leo with dates so you can determine when this trine will be exact for your Sagittarius astrological placements. I mentioned that I would publish this on my website, so here it is.
Jupiter will transit Leo, Sagittarius’ 9th house, from June 30, 2026 through July 26, 2027.
If you want to ascend, you can’t spend too much time looking down. You need to look up.
Down in this context can mean many things.
It can mean the past. We can’t spend too much time in the past if we want to level up.
It can mean being too focused on things that are negative.
It can mean focusing on things that are beneath us or beneath what we aspire to be.
Or it could mean being in a state of doubt, or apprehension, or fear.
If you want to climb a mountain, you need to spend most of your time looking up or you will never summit the mountain.
Now this is a pretty simple metaphor but it has come to my mind repeatedly recently and when that happens, I eventually figure out that it’s something I should share.
I believe I could make a pretty compelling argument, in fact, that much of the chaos that we have been seeing taking place in the world in recent years was deliberately engineered in order to distract us and get all of our consciousness focused on what is beneath us.
In effect, to hold us back. To prevent us from ascending. Contemplate that. Perhaps it’s all a diversion with insidious intentions?
Now I’m not suggesting that we should let people get away with doing things that are clearly wrong or unacceptable. I’m just saying that we need to spend a significant amount of our time being focused on what it is we want to achieve and what we want to be, not just what we don’t want to be.
Those of us on the Spiritual Path have powerful minds. Our consciousness is powerful and what we are focused on has a much greater impact than I think many people realize. I’m fairly confident that’s true for me too.
So I’m just making the argument that we need to be focused like an archer on our goal, on what we aspire to, at least a significant amount of the time.
We do not want to be dragged down or held back by the reality that other people inhabit or create, that is not in alignment with our true selves and our higher selves. We need to be focused on where we are going so we should be focused on things that are at our level or above our level.
It’s like if you have someone in your social circle and you always feel bad when you hang out with them or when you’re around them, what do you do? You generally avoid them. It’s the same thing.
It’s a very simple concept, but I’m not sure that everyone understands that this also applies to what we concentrate on or focus on as well.
Yesterday I offered a prayer.
I recently talked about the importance of being focused on the positive, especially right now, and there is a powerful and auspicious new moon in Gemini occurring in two days time by my calculations at 8:37am or 8:38am Eastern Time on Thursday, June 6th.
So if you haven’t already listened to those, I encourage you to do so. I’ll put links of course in the episode description.
Again, very simple, we need to understand the power of our mind and the power of our consciousness and the power of our focus.
When we focus on things, we embody or imbibe that energy. So if we’re too focused on things that are negative or beneath us or lower consciousness, we will imbibe that. We don’t want to be doing that too much. We want to be also, at the very least, balancing that out by focusing on things that are of higher vibration.
And this is why Spiritual Practice, regular Spiritual Practice, preferably daily, is so important because at least for that small amount of time we are focused on higher states of consciousness. And over time we will start to become that and transform into that and reflect that.
So no matter what has happened in the past, we can blossom into something that is of higher consciousness, but not if we are looking down all the time.
This New Moon is very powerful, in two days time.
If you would like to gain some insights from me as to how this might play out with your own astrology, what house it’s occurring in, what aspects it’s making, how this might manifest for you, you can book a little bit of time with me and I can look at your chart and read that for you.
It’s interesting, I just heard from somebody yesterday who I’d done a reading for months ago who said that my reading was very accurate and that what I said what happened has happened and I think they were a little bit skeptical initially, but it turned out to come to pass.
That’s the thing with astrology, it can take sometimes months or even years for some of these things to play out.
For more detail, check the episode description for other episodes or articles that are related or that I mentioned.
And if you’re interested in a reading with me, I’ll put a link to that as well. I have a 15% off special on currently.
Many sincere thanks to everyone who supports me, especially my YouTube members.
Thank you very much.
Take care, all the best, and I’ll talk to you again soon. Bye for now.
I discuss the current energies and astrology which are very potent for manifestation now and in the near future.
This is an excellent time to manifest love, relationships, abundance and prosperity. Some may even manifest a Soul Mate type relationship or what appear to be miracles.
This episode was published on June 1, 2024 at 8:03pm EDT.
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I really care about you guys, and I want to draw your attention to something that I think is very important, especially over the next week or so.
I posted about this on my community tab here on YouTube just over two weeks ago, and I reminded people there again more recently about this as well, and I’ll show those posts here on the screen as well if you’re watching the video.
And that is that the energies right now are extremely supportive of potent manifestation.
But it initially came through to me during my spiritual practice, and I took numerous actions to support this.
And I would like everyone to be aware of it, because it’s occurring right around now and in the very near future.
Now these energies can facilitate everything from bringing in a special partner, romantic partner for you, that could potentially change your life, and in some cases for some people it might even be something like a soulmate.
That could be somebody new, or somebody who comes back to you from the past that you were strongly connected with.
It can also be an opening for making really good connections in terms of business, business partnerships, those kinds of things.
And it can certainly be about manifesting abundance and prosperity.
And I’m going to get into a little bit of the reasons behind this.
Often, in fact, things come to me psychically or intuitively before I connect the dots astrologically.
So how do you facilitate this?
How do you work with these energies?
I encourage everyone to listen to the episode that I just published yesterday on May 31st titled “Angst and Illumination” and in that episode I talked about how it’s important to be focused on the positive, to keep our vibration high, and that is important because these energies of manifestation are so powerful that insofar as it’s possible, we want to manifest the positive. So what comes in goes out.
Like for example, recently I have found negative things quite repulsive. I mean more than usual. Now I don’t think that’s going to be permanent, but I think it’s just critically important right now because things will reflect in our three-dimensional experience.
So that’s number one. Keep yourself inspired and uplifted. Pay attention to things that make you feel positive and good.
Number two. Clear your energies.
What do I mean by that? Smudging, you know, things like sage. Cleaning, cleaning yourself, showering, bathing, taking things like salt baths, smudge yourself, smudge your jewelry, open your doors on a nice sunny day, clear out the energy, clear your crystals, clear the things around you, clear your mind, let go of things from the past.
There’s a major shift in cycles occurring and you want to let go of the energies and consciousness from the past. Like even if you’ve been going through a really rough period, and some of us have, please have the capacity to believe in miracles because they could potentially happen now.
Like for example, if you met somebody who turns out to be like a soulmate for you, that’s a miracle. And I’m sure many people would love to experience that.
But sometimes a lot of things need to end or complete, and that means they need to be removed from our life to create space and opportunity for these new things to come in. So a lot of us have been experiencing a lot of detachment and release and endings in our lives to make space for this new stuff to come in.
And as I talked about in yesterday’s episode, that can be quite painful because we can be attached to things, even if they’re negative, we get habituated to them. So release, release, release, clear, clear, clear.
Number three, be clear about what you desire. I wrote this in my posts. Again, check the screen.
Be very clear about what it is you want. Imagine you’re talking to God and God says, “What do you want?” Do you have an answer? What do you want to experience? What kind of life do you want to have?
Be very clear and simple. Happiness, love, joy, bliss, enlightenment, satisfaction, peace, harmony, good friends, happy family, work that inspires you and that motivates you and that makes a difference in the world, world peace, a healthy environment, whatever it is.
I find personally that writing things down gives them power, but certainly speaking them out loud. For example, do your spiritual practice, pray, speak to the Creator, even if you have reservations or doubts, express what kind of life you want to have.
I think the ultimate experience that we would all desire, if we boil it down to its most simple, would be that when my life is complete, I am tremendously happy about my experience and what I learned and what I mastered and the people that I helped and the people that I loved and so forth.
Try not to get too detailed because sometimes the things that will really fulfill us haven’t even entered our mind yet. So I would suggest keeping it fairly broad. Paint with broad brush strokes, but just make sure you cover all the bases.
Now I’m not saying you’re going to get everything you desire because part of life is being challenged so that we can grow and challenges are not necessarily easy by definition, but at least you’re establishing a framework.
So let’s look at what’s going on astrologically.
On May 25th, Jupiter moved into Gemini, the opposite sign of its rulership, Sagittarius. Sagittarius is fire, Gemini is air. This is a potent place for Jupiter.
It had previously been in Taurus. Taurus is an earth energy and although it was very good in Taurus for very practical things like real estate and money, it was very earthy.
So if you’re not like a super pragmatic, businessy banker, investor type person, you know, take the stock market for example. It hit record highs just before Jupiter left Taurus. So this air energy is just more supportive of Jupiter’s qualities, which is all about learning and knowledge and information.
On June 2nd, that’s tomorrow, tomorrow night, Jupiter is forming a trine with Pluto in Aquarius. Trine between Jupiter and Pluto is phenomenally powerful for prosperity and abundance. Come on, it’s like Jupiter is all the good stuff, if not too much of it, and Pluto is about power. So we have a trine between air signs of Jupiter and Pluto. That’s huge.
But there’s one more thing that is especially potent, which is that on June 6th, there is a new moon at 16 degrees and 18 minutes of Gemini. And at that very time, Venus is almost exactly conjunct that new moon. This is new beginnings in the opposite sign of Jupiter conjunct Venus.
Venus represents nice, pleasurable things, including love and money. So it’s like a new beginning that brings in that beautiful energy of Venus.
And at that time, Jupiter is still within about a degree of trining Pluto in Aquarius. And we’ve got Jupiter, Mercury, the Sun, the Moon, Venus, all in Gemini at that point in time.
And as well, this new moon is also making positive aspects to the transiting nodes. Sextiling the North Node, trining the South Node.
So this trine to the South Node may be why in some cases, things that occur may be linked to things from the past, and that they may be karmic or past life kind of things, or things from earlier on in your life that were not completed, or fate or destiny, or soul contracts that were made prior to your incarnation, of course.
Now there is a square between this new moon and Saturn in Pisces, within about two and a half degrees. I think that square to Saturn is basically saying what is meant to be will be, and what isn’t, won’t.
So if you’re pushing something uphill, you’re probably advised to quit or give it up or let go, whatever that is or whatever that represents for you, because Saturn will block it. Saturn is very karmic. So letting go of what no longer serves you or isn’t working for you is an important part of this process.
Contrary to what a lot of people think, Saturn wants what is in your highest good, whether you realize it or not. But it’s a tough love energy.
Sagittarius and Sag rising in particular right now, significant relationships have a lot of potential to occur. Jupiter will be in Gemini for a year, and Jupiter’s cycle is every 12 years, one year per sign or house.
If what I’ve been saying here about the astrology sounds like gobbledygook to you, you can book a reading with me and I can fill you in on what house this is occurring in, what aspects it’s making, and so forth, because that will have a lot of bearing on how this plays out and in what areas of life.
But I’m going here on my intuition and the guidance I’ve been receiving for over two weeks now, and I would like people to consider what I’m suggesting. Take advantage of this.
I’m not promising miracles, but the things I’ve been talking about have been on my mind almost every day now for over two weeks.
So I really felt like I should share this with you, because it could be very important.
So be open, be clear, be optimistic, be positive. Focus on your highest goals and aspirations. Have faith, and we’ll see what happens.
For more detail, check the episode description for other episodes or articles that are related or that I mentioned.
And if you’re interested in a reading with me, I’ll put a link to that as well. I have a 15% off special on currently.
Many sincere thanks to everyone who supports me, especially my YouTube members. Thank you very much.
Take care, all the best, and I’ll talk to you again soon.
Now I’m sharing this with you because I often find that what I’m experiencing other people have been experiencing as well, and sometimes it’s helpful for us to know that what we’re experiencing or perceiving is not exclusive to us.
As I have said here before, the energies have been extremely intense and fluctuating a lot, but it seems to me that there’s more going on than just that.
I’m aware of course of my own transits, what’s going on for me personally, and what I’m experiencing I don’t think can be entirely explained by my own transits, therefore I think that what’s happening is happening on the collective or mundane level.
I’ve had a really hard time trying to express what I’m experiencing, and have started and stopped many episodes lately, unable to complete them.
On the positive side, I have been completely and unprecedentedly overwhelmed with what I call downloads, and I don’t know when I’m going to get to address all this stuff, but I make lists.
But the energies right now are not really conducive to concentrating. It’s just been very hard. So in time I hope to do that.
One thing that’s been up for me recently though – that I really want to express and felt called to express – is that a lot of this crazy stuff we’re seeing happening in the world right now is really showing us how so many aspects of life, and society, and our economic systems, and political systems, are broken, fundamentally broken. Defunct is the right word.
And I’ve talked a lot about that here before, and in fact predicted that, that is what we would be experiencing, especially with this energy of Pluto in Aquarius, which is unprecedented for anyone who’s alive now. Uranus can just break things.
So it shouldn’t be surprising that people are up in arms about just about everything. That’s not to say that they’re expressing that energy in ways, or directing it towards places that actually deserve it, but there’s no question that there is this energy about breaking things, about tearing down corrupt and defunct structures.
The status quo is no longer a viable option. So we can expect more of that. And again I’ve talked about that here a lot.
Even just environmentally, the evidence is very stark and clear that the way we have been doing things is profoundly wrong and needs to be radically and dramatically transformed. And that will be the case until we do. There’s just absolutely no way of getting around that. I have talked a lot about the implications of the global environmental crisis here on many occasions.
But the important part that I wanted to convey to you today is that change is coming.
Also because I read a lot, I can’t help but notice that there are a lot of karmic comeuppances occurring and that will continue over the next few years for sure.
Lies and deceit and deception are not sustainable. It’s not ethical or moral.
And eventually, karma comes around for those who abuse their power, privilege, authority, wealth or who are promoting disinformation. Karma eventually comes around. It’s always been true.
But things are going to be happening very, very quickly with Pluto and Aquarius. And by quickly, I don’t mean tomorrow. I mean over the coming months and years. And that progress always wins in the long run. So keep that in mind.
The dark side depends on lies, deception, illusion, delusion, manipulation, crimes and criminal activity, coercion. It defies logic and reason, seeks to concentrate power, and is oppressive and punitive, is vengeful and spiteful and narcissistic. It defies truth.
Lies, lying, deception, cheating, stealing are not virtuous. Period.
I think it’s important to state that and to remember that because I keep seeing more and more people starting to fall for deceptive tactics, like they’re falling under a spell. And I often wonder whether this is a test of our character to see who will succumb to the darkness.
So don’t give up. Hold the line. Hold your truth. Truth will win in the end.
There is no room for mass deception, lies, cheating and stealing on a significant scale in the age of Aquarius. Strong chills here. So hold the line.
Willful ignorance is not a valid path unless you are on the dark side. And you’re not. So don’t think for a minute that we’re losing. We’re not. What’s happening is the darkness is being exposed so that we can see it and fix it and do something about it.
The cycle of Pluto and Capricorn is not completely over. Pluto will retrograde back to 29 degrees of Capricorn one more time this fall before it fully settles into Aquarius. So we will be more firmly in that energy at the end of this year and definitely in 2025. Interestingly, that is after the US federal election in November.
So again, hold the line.
I have a couple housekeeping things too that I want to add.
One is that recently I had started posting some little updates about smaller astrological transits on my community tab on YouTube. But I don’t know how many people actually see those and I don’t think that the community tab necessarily alerts people to such things.
So not too long ago, I set myself up on Substack. My handle there is AquarianDiary.Substack.com. I encourage everyone to please subscribe to me there and follow me there. You can do that for free. I will make these kinds of shorter updates freely available. One of the nice features of Substack is that it will alert you when I post updates. I’ll put a link to that in the episode description or you can find a link to it at my website.
Also, we’re in a really intense period astrologically and I’m offering a 20% discount on transit updates, for clients who have had a reading with me. So if you are one of the many people I have done readings for, check out my website. It’s really helpful to get a lay of the land as to what major transits and progressions are going to be up for you over the coming year.
Forewarned is forearmed. Now that’s a limited time offer so check that out if that interests you. Again, that is for clients that I have already done a reading for.
Another comment is that I published a short not too long ago pointing out how the March 25th eclipse aspected Donald Trump’s natal chart and it looks like he may have pulled a rabbit out of the hat with respect to the judgment that was due on March 25th. I don’t think it’s that simple.
I think that we might find out that there was some hanky-panky going on there or that the ruling that dramatically reduced the amount of money he had to come up with in the short term could get overturned or that the value of truth social was artificially inflated.
Whatever it is, I think that the events that culminated at that eclipse are somehow going to play a role in what I think will be his downfall. So don’t jump to conclusions yet if that’s a matter of concern for you.
For more detail, check the episode description for other episodes or articles that are related or that I mentioned.
And if you’re interested in a reading with me, I’ll put a link to that as well. I have a 10% off special on currently, as well as 20% off on transit updates for past clients.
Many sincere thanks to everyone who supports me. Thank you very much.
Take care, all the best, and I’ll talk to you again soon.
I discuss the current vacillation of energy and why it is happening.
This relates to the recent ingress of Pluto into the astrological sign of Aquarius, and releasing from the previous astrology of Pluto transiting Capricorn (2008–2024).
This episode was published on February 20, 2024 at 1:55pm EST.
This is just a brief PSA, or Public Service Announcement.
As I have mentioned in recent episodes, we’ve been experiencing a tremendous amount of vacillation of energies. One day the energy is up, the next it’s down.
For me, yesterday was a very high energy day, today is a low energy day.
And I woke this morning with that at the very forefront of my mind.
As I’ve been reflecting on this, my thinking has evolved where I now believe that what’s going on is that we are being hit with waves of energy. There are pulses.
Why would this be?
I think what’s going on is that we’re having waves of the new energy coming in, but at the same time we need to kind of purge the old energies. The up days are the vitalizing energies that are coming in, and the down days are more of the purging energies.
We cannot hold the new energies totally until we have released a lot of the former energies.
If you are familiar with my work, I relate this to the recent shift of Pluto into Aquarius, and the old energy is the Pluto in Capricorn energy.
What’s happening is that we are decompressing. We were compressed during the Pluto in Capricorn cycle from 2008 until recently, and we are being elevated by the Pluto in Aquarius energy which is just commencing.
Again, there is one more period of Pluto retrograding back into Capricorn in the fall of 2024, so the transition will not likely be complete until sometime after then.
There’s a phenomenon in geology called glacial rebound.
Earth’s last glacial period ended about 11 or 12 thousand years ago, and there are still parts of the Earth’s crust that are rebounding from having been under miles of ice for 100,000 years.
This notion came to my mind this morning when I was reflecting on this. The timescale of our shift will be much much faster than that, so don’t panic. It’s just an interesting metaphor.
I noticed yesterday that when the energies were high, there was a lot of laughter. Humor can be very uplifting.
Think some recent episodes by Jon Stewart or John Oliver that kind of went viral in recent days. Very funny. Or former guys’ ridiculous sneakers.
I’ll also include a link to a very funny story from Boing Boing about a couple misguided fundamentalists and their unfortunate experience emigrating to Russia. Setting aside the dangers they may face, it’s really funny.
I’ll put links to those in the episode description.
I’m sharing this because, if it weren’t for my conversations with friends who are experiencing similar vacillations of energies, I might think I was crazy or unhealthy.
But many people I’ve been speaking with are experiencing the very same thing, and I thought it would be helpful for you, my listeners, to receive some validation if you are also experiencing this.
No, it’s not just you.
I’m making this diary entry here because I think it’s important to document this experience that we’re going through collectively.
As usual, I always look forward to your amazing comments and feedback, and I really appreciate it if you share my content or videos with others, as well as of course liking and subscribing to my channel, which really helps me as well.
I have a tremendous well of topics that I will discuss and that I want to produce episodes on, but I’m in a bit of a holding pattern because the energies are shifting so constantly, it feels like the ground moves every day.
The landscape is changing very quickly right now, and I think that’s also a function of this transitional phase we are in.
Again, I do see the fact that we are starting to laugh a lot about the cringeworthy foibles of those who represent the more reactionary elements of this drama. I think that’s a really good sign that things are turning around. Strong chills here.
Peace be with you as we move along this bumpy ride.
Again, for more detail, check the episode description for other episodes or articles that are related or that I mentioned.
And if you’re interested in a reading with me, I’ll put a link to that as well. I have a 20% off special on currently.
Many sincere thanks to everyone who supports me, especially my YouTube members.
Thank you very much.
Take care, all the best, and I’ll talk to you again soon.
I discuss how we can predict the timing of cycles of growth, versus cycles of contraction, using the fascinating and very informative astrological technique known as Secondary Progressions.
Please note that this in not intended to be an exhaustive tutorial about this application of astrology. Rather, this is merely an introduction to some basic, but very powerful, aspects of Progressions.
This episode was published on March 7, 2024 at 11:11am EST.
Greetings all, welcome to Aquarian Diary.I’m your host, John Irving.
It is March 7th, 2024.
This episode is dedicated to a very interesting aspect of astrology that deals with what is called the Secondary Progressed Lunation Cycle.
That’s quite a mouthful, but let me explain why this is so interesting and why, if you’re studying astrology, this is something you definitely want to know about.
I’m going to be approaching this in as simple terms as I can because it’s very important to understand the fundamentals of how we calculate Secondary Progressions.
This is one of those topics that if you’re a novice and you first look at your Secondary Progressions, it can be a bit confusing because you don’t understand why they are calculated the way that they are.
It’s actually really simple, but in my experience, I haven’t come across a lot of clear explanations as to how it works, and if you don’t understand how it works, it can be a bit confusing at first. I hope to dispel that so that you can take advantage of this knowledge to gain insights into various phases and cycles of your life. So bear with me, I’ll try and keep it as simple as possible.
Also, if you happen to be listening to this by podcast, you’ll almost certainly want to view this on YouTube instead because I have created quite a few graphics that will help us visualize how Secondary Progressions unfold.
This is not a complete tutorial about Secondary Progressions. I’m focused mainly on a few key factors that tend to show up or indicate cycles of life. But once you see how these play out, you can then go on and study this more deeply if you wish to. But what I’m going to provide here today, I think, is very important and very valuable, like I said.
The technical term for this is “Secondary Progressions,” but just for the sake of brevity, from here on in I may simply refer to them as “Progressions.”
In Secondary Progressions, the Sun moves a degree per year. So the math is really simple.
Each sign is 30 degrees and there are 12 Signs. 30 times 12 equals 360 degrees, a circle.
If you’re born at 10 degrees of Aries, at age 10 your Progressed Sun will be at 20 degrees of Aries.
If you’re born at 5 degrees of Scorpio, at age 10 your Progressed Sun will be at 15 degrees of Scorpio. At age 20 your Progressed Sun will be at 25 degrees of Scorpio. At age 30 your Progressed Sun will be at 5 degrees of Sagittarius.
Very simple.
The Moon and the other planets move at different speeds. Let me explain why.
This is where it can get a bit confusing for people. If you take your natal chart and you looked at the transits every day starting from the day you’re born, let’s say that on the 10th day of your life there was a Full Moon. In your Secondary Progressions, that Full Moon would occur in your 10th year of life.
So it’s a year per day. You need to wrap your head around that.
If there’s a New Moon 14 days later, there would be a New Moon in your Progressions at 24 years of life.
So all we’re doing with Secondary Progressions is we’re mapping each day of life from when you’re born to every year of life. So if you looked at the transits on your 30th day of life, it would map to your Progressions in the 30th year of life. That’s the fundamental way that Secondary Progressions work. It’s a pretty cool concept.
Let’s say that the average person lives to be 80 years old. That means that by Secondary Progressions, the Sun will move 80 degrees in the course of that 80 year life.
So if you start out with your Sun in late Sag, your Progressed Sun might end up in Pisces, depending on what degree of Sag you were born in. So it’s really simple from that perspective.
One of the things that I think confuses people about Progressions is that if you have software and you look at your progress chart at a given point in time, the outer planets, like Pluto and Uranus and Neptune, barely move at all. Well that’s because in the first 80 days of your life, those planets just don’t move very much in that amount of time.
Pluto takes about 248 years to go around the zodiac, so it moves very little over the span of 80 days, or 30 days, or whatever it is. Whereas, for example, the Moon has a 28 day cycle, so there could be 2 or 3 Full Moons in the course of a lifetime, or 2 or 3 New Moons.
And maybe Mercury goes retrograde on the 40th day of your life, which would equate to Mercury going retrograde by progression in the 40th year of life.
Do you get it?
Now, there’s other things that occur here as well too, like your midheaven Progresses and your Ascendant Progresses.
And it gets a little more complicated there too because there are several different ways of calculating the Progressed Ascendant that vary by a few degrees, depending on which calculations you use. And the system you’re using to calculate these may or may not have the ability to change which calculations you’re using.
But again, to keep this fairly simple, I want to focus on a couple things.
One is, when the Progressed Sun changes Signs, that usually indicates a fairly significant period of change.
Each sign is 30 degrees. Let’s say you’re born at 10 degrees of Aquarius. At 20 years old, your Progressed Sun moves into Pisces. Very different energies.
What happens is that this is like another dimension of ourselves and when the Progressed Sun changes Signs, we begin to express more of the energies of the sign that the Progressed Sun moves into.
So you’re still in Aquarius but your vibration changes so that you have more Piscean qualities when that occurs. Or if you’re born a Virgo and your Progressed Sun moves into Libra, you will express more Libra type qualities and have experiences that are more Libran. So we’re not static entirely.
The same can be said for the Progressed Moon which moves at a different speed altogether. It moves approximately 13 degrees per year. It spends, on average, about 2.3 years in each sign. Or house, depending on what house system you use. I use whole sign houses so it’s pretty straightforward. If your Progressed Moon moves into Libra, it’s going to be in there for about 2.3 years.
We can also look at what happens if your Progressed Sun, say, conjuncts Saturn or makes an aspect to some other planet or point. In other words, Progressions to points in our natal chart.
And there’s another dimension as well which is transits to our Progressed positions. Or what happens when planets go retrograde. But that is beyond the scope of what I want to get into here today. I want to keep this fairly simple.
The planets that move the most in Secondary Progressions are the faster moving planets or points like the Moon, Mercury, Venus, to a lesser extent Mars, and then when you get into the slower moving planets, like I said, they tend to move very little.
Again I want to keep this fairly simple and try not to confuse people further if I haven’t already.
But let’s just consider the Progressed lunation cycle itself. It goes like this.. Progressed New Moons and Progressed Full Moons tend to mark significant points in life. New Moons, of course, are new beginnings and Full Moons are culminations where cycles or energies reach a maximum.
There’s one thing here too that people need to understand about New Moons. Everybody says that New Moons are times for setting intentions, for example, or new beginnings, planting seeds. But one of the things that’s often not conveyed very clearly, I don’t think, is that New Moons are not necessarily when things start to manifest.
I often describe New Moons as being like Spring where it’s the end of the Winter and a new cycle of growth is about to begin.
But most of the activity, like in nature at that point, is happening beneath the surface. The buds are just about to start coming out. The seeds are underground, about to germinate or starting to germinate. But they haven’t really made themselves evident yet. And that’s kind of like how New Moons manifest.
If you’re a gardener, you’ll be aware of the risks of planting things prematurely. If things go wrong, you can waste a lot of time and money.
New Moons are a bit like The Fool card in the Tarot deck where you’re just open to possibilities and you’re in a bit of a void. You don’t have a lot of detailed expectations. You’re just like an open vessel.
So New Moons are often preceded by periods of endings. It’s the Balsamic phase where one cycle is winding down and coming to a close.
That period is generally not a good time for initiating major new projects or activities because the energy is waning. You haven’t yet come to the New Moon point where new beginnings or the seeds of them get planted. It’s after the New Moon, as the energy gradually begins waxing or increasing, that we start to see things happening.
So the New Moon itself is actually kind of like a period of limbo because we’re just beginning a new journey. But we haven’t actually traveled yet, if that makes sense.
So we need to be aware that the Balsamic phase of the Lunar Cycle is when the energies kind of come internally and very introspectively as we reflect on the past cycle.
Cut our losses sometimes. We’re kind of clearing the decks or going Zen in a way to try and make space for what is to come next. But we don’t yet fully know what’s going to come next.
We have to let go of the past to allow new things to come in and then we start moving forward with more vigor and energy as the Lunar Cycle begins to wax. And again, it will culminate 14 days or 14 years later. 14 days by Lunar Cycles, 14 years by progression cycles.
So it’s very helpful to know where you are in that cycle.
And culminations, like the Full Moon, does not necessarily mean or indicate a period of success. It just indicates a culmination.
You may have spent the previous 14 days, or 14 years, going off on all kinds of different directions, not being clear about where you’re going or why, or being off course. And the culmination is just simply a realization that, well, things didn’t work out the way I expected them to. I didn’t get the results I wanted, I have to try something else. So culmination, or the Full Moon, can be failure or success, or anything in between, depending, right?
So where these New Moons and Full Moons occur, what Signs and what houses are instructive, and what aspects they make to your natal chart. The degree, like if it’s 29 degrees or 0 degrees, the condition of the house ruler, is it forming an eclipse, and so forth?
But it’s very helpful to understand how these cycles are playing out because, especially with Progressions, these are longer cycles.
It’s interesting to note that the Progressed lunation cycle, which is about 28 years, is very close to the Saturn cycle, which is 28-29 years. That’s a fascinating correlation.
But nonetheless, let’s look at some examples, graphically, to help you understand how this can kind of play out in time. And this is a lot to absorb, so you may need to listen to this again.
For some time now, I have been putting transcripts of my episodes on my website. Sometimes our comprehension, or our ability to absorb and retain information, is better when we read versus listen. So some people like to read. If you want to do that, check my website at AquarianDiary.com if that applies to you.
So let’s look at some graphics that will help illustrate this. If you want all the details, they are on the graphics. You can pause and look at them.
It’s going to vary for everybody, depending on your own natal chart, of course. Your Sun may be in a different sign, different house, and so forth. But the same rules will apply, mathematically.
Planetary rotation is counterclockwise except for the Nodes and retrograde planets.
The planets move counterclockwise in astrology, except for the Nodes, which are always retrograde, or moving clockwise. Or planets when they’re retrograde, which is temporary.
An example astrology chart showing the natal Sun position at birth.
The first graphic shows somebody with a natal Sun at 10 degrees of Pisces. So using a natural house system, their Sun would be in the 12th house. And in this case, their Ascendant is at 12 degrees of Aries.
If you have software, and you want to actually make a chart to compare this to, you can see the birth details in the graphic.
The Secondary Progressed Sun enters Aries and the 1st house at age 20.
In the graphic on the screen now, I am demonstrating how, at age 20, the Progressed Sun will be at 0 degrees of Aries. Each sign is 30 degrees, started out at 10 degrees of Pisces. So 20 degrees later, or 20 years later, the Sun will move from Pisces into Aries.
This is a very significant shift, because the Sun is changing Signs. It’s moving from a mutable sign into a cardinal sign, and house in this case. And it’s moving into a sector of the astrology chart that is very self-oriented.
The 12th house is very introverted or introspective. The 1st house is very extroverted and self-oriented, and much more visible.
So this person would probably go through a pretty big shift, where suddenly they become much more self-expressive and assertive, and outwardly active, than they had been for the first 20 years of life.
The Secondary Progressed Sun conjuncts the Ascendant at age 32.
The chart on your screen now shows when the Progressed Sun will conjunct the natal Ascendant at 12 degrees of Aries. The Sun started out at 10 degrees of Pisces. At age 20, it crosses 0 degrees of Aries. And then 12 years later, or 12 degrees later, the Progressed Sun will conjunct the natal Ascendant.
This is also a very significant point, because it adds another dimension to this energy of self-expression and self-orientation and self-identity, because the Ascendant degree is very visible to others, and it is the interface between us and other people and the world.
And of course, this will occur at age 32 in this case. 20 degrees of Pisces, 12 degrees of Aries equals 32.
The Secondary Progressed Sun enters Taurus and the 2nd house at age 50.
Here the Progressed Sun, at age 50, has moved to 0 degrees of Taurus. It’s traveled 20 degrees in Pisces, 30 degrees in Aries, which brings us to 0 degrees of Taurus.
So again, another shift, the person will start experiencing and manifesting more of the qualities of Taurus. At age 50, their resources, which provide them with security and a sense of control over their environment and experience, will become more prominent in their life, and all of the themes that we associate with Taurus will be heightened both in their expression and experience.
The Secondary Progressed Sun enters Gemini and the 3rd house at age 80.
Thirty years later, the Progressed Sun will enter Gemini at age 80, again, since each sign is 30 degrees.
It will be another 30 years before the Progressed Sun would move into Cancer, which would take them to 110 years old. Most people aren’t going to live that long, but if they did, it would occur at age 110. And again, this is where the themes of Gemini become more prominent in their experience and in their consciousness.
The Secondary Progressed Sun ingresses and conjunction to the Ascendant.
So you can see how the math of the Progressed Sun is pretty simple to understand. It’s just a question of looking at your own personal chart, establishing the degree of your Sun, and doing some basic one degree per year math to figure out when your Sun is going to change Signs or houses and so forth.
And again, when the Sun moves into different Signs, it tends to mark significant points in our journey of life and what themes are going to be present for us.
Now let’s look at the Lunar Cycle. Again, the same chart with a natal Sun at 10 degrees of Pisces.
The natal Sun and Moon positions at birth.
In this case, this individual has a natal Moon at 24 degrees of Scorpio at birth. A Full Moon would have occurred prior to their birth, so they were born in a waning cycle of the Moon. Remember, the planets move counterclockwise around the chart.
The Secondary Progressed Balsamic phase commences at age 5 years and 3 months.
Born on February 29, 2016, this individual will enter the Balsamic phase of the Lunar Cycle by progression on May 19, 2021. The Balsamic phase spans 45 degrees.
By this time, the Progressed Sun has moved to 15.5 degrees of Pisces, and we’re calculating the Balsamic phase backwards from there, which brings us to half a degree of Aquarius. So this Balsamic phase will span May 19, 2021 through September 26, 2024.
People that are born under a Balsamic Moon are born into this energy of completion. So they will often have a lot of encounters with people that may be not necessarily permanent that are occurring so that they can clear up karma and clear their slate, so to speak, so that in the next incarnation they can begin a whole new cycle. We need to go through these periodically to, like I said, clear the decks.
So again, people born under a Balsamic Moon can experience a lot of endings in life where you meet people, you have intense experiences, a lot of stuff happens in a fairly short period of time, and then you move on. Because you have other people that you need to clear karma or clear ties with to make room for your future incarnations.
It’s also not uncommon for these people to express an interest in spirituality, again, the turning inwards.
We are finishing up a cycle and a new cycle will commence at the Progressed New Moon where the Moon and the Sun meet, which I will demonstrate now.
The first Secondary Progressed New Moon occurs at age 8 years and 7 months.
Here we can see that on September 26th of 2024, this individual will have a Progressed New Moon at 19 degrees of Pisces. The first Progressed New Moon in this case will occur at age 8 years and just under 7 months. So 8 years and 7 months.
This is a significant period of the beginning of new beginnings. Effectively, the beginning of a new 27 or 28 year cycle.
And the condition of this point in time, relative to the natal chart and relative to transits, can inform us a lot about what the nature of this new cycle will be about.
The first Secondary Progressed Full Moon occurs at age 23.
In this graphic, we can see that the Progressed Full Moon will reach a culmination or a Full Moon when the Moon is 180 degrees opposite of the Progressed Sun. In this case, the Sun at this point has Progressed to 3 degrees 17 minutes of Aries in the first house and the Moon is at the opposite point, which is 3 degrees and 17 minutes of Libra.
The first Progressed Full Moon will occur at just under 23 years from birth and 14 years and 5 months from the Progressed New Moon. As I described before, this is the culmination of what began about 14 years prior at the Progressed New Moon, which occurred at 19 degrees of Pisces in the 12th house.
The second Secondary Progressed New Moon occurs at age 38.
Here we can see the second Progressed New Moon, which will occur at 18 degrees of Aries on February 18th of 2054 at just under 38 years of age. So a major new cycle begins for this person at about 38 years old, characterized by the qualities of the first house and in this case, Aries. This New Moon was just under 15 years from the Full Moon and about 29 and a half years from the first New Moon.
So in this example we can see how the Progressed Sun moves through the Signs and houses and roughly when and we can see the Progressed lunation cycle playing out over these longer time spans. Again, these indicate fairly significant periods of change in our lives and it’s definitely worth paying attention to these things.
If for example, you’re in a Balsamic phase of the Lunar Cycle by progression, it might not be the best time to go out and take on some huge new project that requires a lot of drive and ambition and some good luck because the energies may actually be waning. It might be better to wait until the Progressed New Moon or after when the energies are flowing more in the direction of growth and expansion.
It’s not to say that we can’t accomplish great things when the Progressed Moon is waning. Like maybe you’re writing a book and you publish it at the New Moon or just after the New Moon and all that time that you spend working on your book and writing and researching is occurring during the waning phase when your world is focused more inwardly. And then you move outwardly into the world when the Progressed Moon is in its waxing cycle. Or maybe during the waning cycle you are reaping the rewards that you generated during the waxing cycle.
There are also opening and closing squares that occur during the lunation cycle. There are a lot of other things I could talk about but due to just the amount of time here, I want to keep this fairly simple.
So do check your Progressions and look for some of these key developments I’ve described here. Pay attention to the lunation cycle and pay attention to the Progressed Sun moving through the Signs making conjunctions to planets in your natal chart and so forth. And watch how those play out, it’s fascinating.
Then you can look at transits to your birth chart over the first 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 days of life to see these patterns unfolding that you can project forward throughout the years.
If you find this is all a bit overwhelming, you can always book a reading with me and I’d be happy to walk through how this is playing out for you personally. As well as of course your transits, your natal astrology and so forth.
Where are you in your Progressed lunation cycle? How have you noticed these kinds of shifts playing out?
Let us know in the comments, other people find your experience valuable and insightful and it can help them understand the phase of life that they’re in and how it might play out for them.
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