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AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
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Here’s what’s up with our organization and the Astrological forecast for November
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A Look at Our Recent Presentations
Our April 27 event featured two eminent Mundane astrologers, Gary Lorentzen and Tony Dickey, doing a tag team view of long wave political cycles being set into motion which will affect our nation through the 2040s. We explored outer planet cycles and eras of major social changes in our world. This was a profound and interesting event discussing past, present, and future cycles in play!
This talk was professionally edited and is now for sale. It is 5 tracks which are about 20 minutes each. This was an extraordinary presentation about historical change spanning hundreds of years with references to what’s coming in the 2040s! Please consider getting your personal copy, as it’s rich with a tremendous amount of material and you’ll be listening to it more than a few times!
You can purchase a copy by either sending an email to astrologyarizona@gmail.com to let us know, or you can go to the paypal button on our website and make your donation which will generate an email to us. It’s $25 for all 5 tracks.
We’ll send the talk directly to your email, but your box must be able to accept large sound files, like Hotmail, Outlook, Gmail, and a few others. Then you can download it to a file on your desktop. As it was an outstanding presentation, please consider getting your personal copy today and support the efforts of AAZ!
Our May 18 event featured Professor Robert offering a Master class on Progressions As A Lifelong Inner Unfoldment. I gave you a deep dive into the world of progressions, including how Lunations and eclipses before and after birth operate, the all-important “life scan,” progressed ingresses and stations, and how all of these affect our inner orientation and show us major points of internal shift. This also will be professionally edited and made available for purchase.
Our June 22 presentation featured Sheri Horn Hasan presenting on "The Fight For Women’s Equality in America: the History of the US Sibley chart’s Chiron return, and the 2024 US Presidential Election." We looked at various Chiron returns to the July 1776 independence chart, and correlated the Chironic cycles with changes in the evolution of women’s rights in the US.
Our July 27 presentation featured Professor Robert leading a
Free Astrological Roundtable where he took and answered questions and led the group through examples of the charts of some who were present in Using the Sabian Symbols in Chart Readings. Everyone said they loved it, so a good time was had by all!
Our August 24 presentation featured Ray Grasse leading on a multi-faceted journey through several themes from his books So, What Am I Doing Here, Anyway? - Astrological and Philosophical Essays and When the Stars Align – Reflections on Astrology, Life, Death, and Other Mysteries including the Aquarian Age as a combination of a jazz band and the Beatles, hints for finding your purpose in the chart, and how and why the Soul incarnates using the “Legend of the Fall.”
Our September 28 presentation featured Lynn Koiner who gave us a fascinating look at Regressing Your Chart Into Your Parents’ Past. This is a technique where you can see key points in your parents' lives before you were born. This has been professionally edited and is available for a charge.
Our October 26 presentation featured yours truly, Professor Robert discussing Transmuting Squares and Oppositions to Good Effect. Based in concepts I wrote about in Horoscope Magazine we covered how to work constructively with our natal and progressed afflictions and how to transmute frictional aspect to good effect. Learning this we can become Masters of Our Destiny and bring order out of chaos as we flow through life. This has been professionally edited and is available for purchase.
What’s Coming in Our November Presentation
This presentation is not to be missed!
November 23 talk features popular astrologer Andrea Gehrz speaking about Teleology: Hellenistic Astrology’s Missing Philosophy.
Andrea offers “Have you studied the techniques of Hellenistic Astrology? Have you read the ancient authors? Do you still feel like there is something missing? Well there is! It is the philosophy underlying these ancient techniques. “
Teleology is the ancient theory upon which all Hellenistic techniques have been developed. In this informative lecture, we will learn about Teleology and how to apply it. If you want to know more about it before the class, please go to “An Introduction to Teleology for the Modern Astrologer” at https://www.astro.com/astrology/tma_article151001_e.htm
Andrea Gehrz has been a professional astrologer for 25 years. She started her studies at Kepler College and has translated many ancient Greek texts into English, such as the Introduction to and Books 1-3 of the Tetrabiblos, as well as the Vettius Valens Anthology, Ensoulment (a book on how the soul gets in the body). She currently runs an astrology school called the Moira Press, and meets with students weekly over zoom on Tuesdays from 5:30-6:30pm Pacific time. She can be reached at andreagehrz.com.
As usual, we’re charging $10 for members, $15 for non-members. You can register at https://azastrologers.org/.
I have no doubt it’s going to be another excellent discussion, and we hope you will join us for this event, since “what one astrologer misses another catches.”
Future Programs Down the Road
Stay tuned, since we have more good presentations on the way in 2024 and 2025!
Our December 21 event is our free Solstice gathering and talk. As usual we’ll discuss the Solstice chart in an easy open discussion.
Remember too that this January I8, I'll present the predictions I assemble from dozens of astrologers around the world and compile them for your enjoyment.
For the rest of our 2025 talks, I’ll post them here as soon as we set them up. In the meantime, mark your calendars! We look forward to seeing you at our high-quality astrology talks offered by some of the best of the best!
How To Attend Our Events
This is the era of Zoom. We do all our presentations online at this time. If you would like to attend, please make sure you’ve downloaded the latest Zoom update so you don’t have to deal with it when you’re trying to get into the talks. If you go to the site, just download the latest software. They release new versions often, so please upgrade in advance. Details are provided in our two AAZ alerts in the two weeks prior to the presentation.
To anticipate a question, no, you don’t have to have a camera or microphone to attend a ZOOM webinar. All you need is internet access and speakers. If you’re interested in attending the webinars, please contact us at astrologyarizona@gmail.com and we'll put you on our mailing list to notify you in advance of the presentations. You can make your donation for membership and admission to events by going to https://azastrologers.org/donate Admission fees are usually $10 for members, $15 for non-members.
Who we Are - Contacts
We are an astrology group based in the Phoenix area dedicated to the art and science of Astrology. Our organization is a New Moon double Aquarius trine a Gemini Ascendant, affirming a wider Aquarian intention and a welcoming Aquarian vibe for all who come.
We encourage your suggestions about potential speakers and topics. We envision our 21st century group being a point of light to help students of Astrology who want to know more in the emerging 20 year Aquarian Era
If you have questions about who we are and what we do, or want to suggest a topic for a future program or apply to speak, please direct all correspondence to one of these current AAZ Board members:
Bill Nastasiak (Vice President and Education Director)
Robert Wilkinson (President and Editor of AAZ Newsletter)
laughingcat51@hotmail.com
Mary Katherine Kracht (Treasurer)
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AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW OF November 2024
by Robert Wilkinson
(This column is an abbreviated version of what we send to members at the beginning of each month. If you want the complete overview, please join our organization.)
In 2024, the month of November puts the focus on the Scorpio, Sagittarius, and Capricorn sectors of our chart. This month finishes the Pluto in Capricorn era for the next 230 years! The month begins with the very intense opposition of Mars in Cancer and Pluto at 30 Capricorn, relieved by Mercury in late Scorpio trine Mars, trine Neptune, and sextile Pluto, creating a “four note chord” of harmonic productive understanding.
Mercury here recreates the Grand Water Trine Venus made in October, so read the flow, trust your intuition, and see through the noise to hear the Signal. This is the next-to-the-last Scorpio trine to Neptune or to a planet in Cancer. This year’s Mars in Cancer “grand water understanding” will expand this time next year, when Jupiter is in late Cancer and we get the last Scorpio trines to Neptune in Pisces for 140 years!
Still, while the Grand Water Trine helps us navigate the flow, it doesn’t diminish the volatility of the opposition, so if you have a planet in the last 3 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn, or the first 3 degrees of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, or Aquarius, navigate carefully, avoid extreme people and situations, and show calm, care, and discernment. That said, a Grand Water Trine with Pluto in late Earth creates a special evolutionary configuration I’ve termed “the Peace Sign,” since we have 4 points of a Great Sextile. These Scorpio trines are great for planets we have in the last 5 degrees of Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces.
Continue to make as much forward progress as you can in November, since Mercury moves into its shadow zone on November 7, preparing to go retrograde in late November at 23 Sagittarius, the degree of the theme for all of 2024. Besides Mercury slowing, Mars is already in its shadow zone and preparing to go retrograde at 7 Leo in early December. So expect a slowing pace as you continue to eliminate what cannot move forward into the Pluto in Aquarius period ahead.
At this point, we have planets in Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Pisces, Taurus, and Cancer. Remember too that this time of year is about endings, harvests, and saying goodbye. This year that’s especially strong due to the Libra/Aries Full Moon which featured a Grand Cardinal Cross involving the Moon, Sun, Mars, and Pluto! That’s why things have been “fracturing” the past couple of weeks. Then we add the October New Moon Solar Eclipse at 11 Libra with effects lasting 6 years!
Because of when the New Moon occurs, we’ve begun a span when the current month is no longer influenced by the previous month’s Lunations. This month features the New Moon at 10 Scorpio on November 1 which will help us feel closer and more connected with our Spiritual Sisters and Brothers.
Pluto leads the outer planet occupied span through early 2025. Each year we have major oppositions between July and November to Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. This month
completes the oppositions to Uranus and begins the three intense Mars opposition Pluto events in early November, early January, and late April 2025.
Because Jupiter’s in Gemini, it gives a Gemini backdrop to planets we have in Sagittarius and Pisces, as well as the houses where these signs are on the cusp. Jupiter in Gemini brings new information and perspectives to those things it rules. Still, the conjunctions to Jupiter when it was in Taurus rule the coming year until the conjunctions with Jupiter in Cancer in June 2025.
Saturn is now going direct on a degree of showing courage as we focus our spiritual will. We’ve reviewed the span between 20 to 13 Pisces since June, and now turn toward the future as we finish the main lessons of Saturn in Pisces as it transits a third time through its 2024 Shadow zone between now and February 2025. We have seen the promise of that which nourishes us “at the end of our day of labor,” and having found a renewed inspiration because we practiced “before the battle,” we now have what we need to express the spiritual power we’ve trained for up to now. As I gave you last month, the primary Saturn theme for the rest of this year and early 2025 is going to help us finish some things, forgive some things, and bless some endings.
The Spiritual Field
We continue to be blessed by the closest Neptune sextile with Pluto in 30 years, with Uranus having joined the “three note chord” in the Summer of 2024. With Uranus in Taurus, Neptune in Pisces, and Pluto in late Capricorn, we have a very strong “double sextile/trine” which should favorably impact all planets we have in the last 5 degrees of Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces. The Spiritual Field represented by these outermost planets is stabilizing our late Earth and Water sectors in the spiritual sectors of their signs. This month finishes Pluto’s long stay in Capricorn.
This is preparing us for an entirely new experience of Spirit and Life in 2025 when these Spiritual powerhouses shift out of Earth and Water into Fire and Air, joined by Saturn when it enters Aries creating a “three note chord” of harmonic consciousness. That means 2024 and 2025 will spiritually harmonize planets we have in the late degrees of the Earth and Water signs, while in 2025-2026 they will do the same for planets we have in the early degrees of the Fire and Air signs.
Uranus will occupy the third decan of Taurus for the rest of this year through early July 2025. This is a Capricorn sub-influence with an added dose of Saturn, so there’s more structure and discipline and less micromanagement of details. The Cosmic Awakener promises us a new life and a “genuine rejuvenation” and life renewal as a result of what we go through in August and September.
We’ve been moving through an individual and spiritual awakening which marks the beginning of a long term regeneration and renewal wherever we have late Taurus. This is the next step of the new 2 year cycle where we have 27 Taurus in our charts resulting from the July Mars/Uranus conjunction.
Neptune at “the end of the end” of Pisces is giving us all a sense of vast feelings and finality. We’ve been in a purification process since December and now move into an oceanic feeling of dreaming the future we want to see become manifest. This year we experience the vast unifying field as we prepare to move into a more fiery collective energy in 2025.
With Pluto in late Capricorn for the last time in centuries, about to re-enter Aquarius, we are living on the cusp of historical change. As it went stationary retrograde at 3 Aquarius, we’ve begun a wild ride into a time of defiance, rebellion, with many refusing to follow what they believe to be authoritarian control systems. Be open to “regrasping past experience” and see it from a different angle of understanding due to a “sharp self-examination.” Be fearless in making the decisions you need to make.
We also have several long wave Aries cycles in play. Jupiter launched a major healing and mentoring cycle when it conjuncted Chiron at 15 Aries on March 11, 2023. That began a long wave Chiron cycle which will last until the Summer of 2036. And we just finished a 2 year Mars/Chiron cycle and began a new one at 23 Aries.
Not all Chiron cycles are the same length. When Chiron transits between Aquarius and Gemini, it moves relatively slowly and has conjunctions with Jupiter about every 13 years. However, it can take 19-20 years for the next conjunction after Gemini or Cancer. That means once the conjunction at 16 Gemini happens in the Summer of 2036 we won’t have another conjunction of Jupiter and Chiron until the Spring of 2056 in Aquarius, which will launch another long term “expansive healing/mentoring” cycle.
Mars
Mars is now slowing as it prepares to go retrograde at 7 Leo in early December, but we can still get things well positioned in November if we let go of what we no longer need and get a structure for dealing with the slowed pace of Mars retrograde. Again, the Grand Water Trines have facilitated a great flow in October and continue in November, with the promise of high inspiration as the Sun and Mercury make their trines to Mars in Leo.
This month Mars activates the house(s) where we have 30 Cancer through 6 Leo. The first half of the month activates 30 Cancer to 4 Leo, and the second half of the month activates 4 to 6 Leo. So the first three days of the month has an agitating effect on planets between at 30 Cancer, Libra, Capricorn, and Aries and the rest of the month it’ll have the same effect on planets between 1-6 degrees of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius.
As I’ve offered before, when Mars is within a degree of forming or separating from a hard aspect with a planet, slow down and show deliberation and caution in how you use force. Hard aspects to/from Mars always require that we moderate or antidote impulsiveness and impatience.
We’re Actors On A New Stage With A New Set – The Bigger Picture
We’re still in the initial years of a new era in human evolution. The Grand Mutation of Jupiter conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius began a new 20 year Aquarian Era in December 2020, as well as a new 200 year era, moving global energies out of Earth and into Air. We’ve begun to grow beyond the materialism of the past 200 years and have entered two centuries of Air emphasis, with its qualities of relatedness, receptivity, versatility, movability, lightness, and cooperative ideas, visions, and ideals.
We’re still "under the beams" of the Solar Eclipses we experienced in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, and these “cosmic recyclers” continue to remove what we no longer need in our lives. Take note of where you have 1 Cancer, 24 and 13 Sagittarius, 20 Gemini, 20 and 30 Aries, 11 Taurus, and 2 Scorpio, since we’ve all had to let go of many things related to these sectors the past few years. You can find out more about Solar and Lunar eclipses by going to my site at www.aquariuspapers.com where there are numerous articles in the archives on how eclipses work.
The April-May 2023 eclipses have begun to work their magic on our Aries and Libra sectors for a long time to come. The 2023 Solar eclipse at 30 Aries and the October Solar eclipse at 22 Libra are also shutting down parts of our lives where we have those signs. We now have the Solar eclipse at 20 Aries added to the list, as well as the current Solar eclipse at 11 Libra.
As we study how successive Eclipses have affected various areas of our charts and lives, we can get a sense of the utility of these “Cosmic Recyclers” in removing what we no longer needed in those areas, creating a void which attracted new life experiences. They invite us to look back, and then forward, to see the continuity of “letting go, taking in, letting go, taking in” across the years.
Primary Action Beats for the First Half of the Month
November begins with the New Moon at 10 Scorpio trine Saturn, with Jupiter sextile Chiron and Mercury trine Mars and sextile Pluto on November 1-2, after which Mercury immediately slips into Sagittarius. The first 5 days of the month are guaranteed to be very intense, as Mars opposes Pluto, Venus opposes Jupiter and trines Chiron, and Mars enters Leo all on November 3!
Hang in there, keep putting your best self forward, don’t settle for lesser things when greater things are at stake, and face your fear and laugh at it. This can be healing through humor. With Chiron in Aries cutting the Venus opposed Jupiter into a sextile and trine, it generates a powerful awareness energy which can be expressed in balanced ideal forms.
That is followed by Sun trine Saturn and quintile Uranus, powering up the gifts and “quintessential” potentials shown by the quintile. Cultivate communication skills, patience, and flexibility as well as the ability to preserve what works. During the first week of November the Moon transits Scorpio through Aquarius, again entering the occupied span with its conjunction to Pluto.
Squeeze out all that is unnecessary, and use Mercury square Saturn to see what obsolete fears or rules need to be eliminated in the future. Put on the show while demonstrating your elegance! During the second week of November, the Moon transits between Aquarius and Taurus, making conjunctions with Saturn, Neptune, Chiron, and Uranus.
Primary Action Beats for the Second Half of the Month
The third week begins with the Full Moon at 25 Scorpio/Taurus with Sun opposed Uranus and Saturn stationary direct! That marks a sea change in what moves forward despite Mercury and Mars slowing to retrograde. That will be another exceptional Lunation bringing enjoyment and penetrating understanding for the rest of November.
The fourth week of the month brings us the Sun entering Sagittarius and sextile Pluto, Venus sextile Saturn, Mercury going retrograde on November 25, and Venus quincunx Jupiter and square Chiron with Sun trine Mars on November 26-27. Given where the Moon will be, we have some very favorable days on November 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, and 30, so make the most of whatever you have to do! Some of these involve oppositions with sextiles and trines, so those of you who attended my October class know how to use these times of awareness and productive stabilization to good effect in your lives.
Evolutionary Development
This is the sixteenth month of the North Node in Aries era! This is a time of our greatest development being served by self-initiated activity (Aries) shown through our balanced response (Libra) to an ongoing transfiguration toward an ideal. So we grow through focused action and demonstrate it through expressing our Archetypal Self, whether in the world of inner space or outer affairs. We build through Aries and release through Libra, so adopt a pioneering attitude that is expressed with grace and diplomacy.
Our wise friend Saturn continues to teach us through the vast feeling experiences from its time in Pisces, and now we’re seeing what is to be perpetuated into the new era in 2025. We are still learning disciplines of forgiveness and compassion, and this month begins our need for courage in focusing our spiritual will.
The Sun in Scorpio is a time to see the Light of how to eliminate any forms which obscure the essence, having danced with an ideal in Libra that was shaped into practical useful forms in Virgo. We now know how to focus, leaving behind the obsolete and extraneous, creating voids which will attract new life substance in the near future. Prepare for an intense wild ride breaking free of the old “cocoons.”
Keep moving forward, preparing for the Mars retrograde, where many things will slow down, stop, or even seem to reverse course. Much will be reviewed in late November and early December before we feel like some things are moving forward, even though the main forward motion won’t begin until mid-February.
We are in our fourth year of the new Aquarian era, with a new iteration of that future-oriented energy set into motion in February. Jupiter in Taurus helped us get a new grounded expansive view of how to sustain the Aquarian unfoldment into the future which is finding forms of expression while Jupiter is in Gemini. We’ve all entered a new land. Let go of the lesser, accept the greater, and the new land you’re in is going to be far more enjoyable than the old land you’ve had to leave.
Because we’re now in the fourth year of a new 20 year and 200 year cycle, remember a new era has dawned. Have courage and take the initiative to leave the Earth and fly free into the Air of what’s opening as the Grand Mutation expands its promise into the Divine transfigured ideal of a more just truth and future. This month brings stability and expansion of new Aquarian expressions. As always, lighten up, play a little, and be willing to explore new arenas of effective activity where you can work and play with other Light Spirits, and take heart as we navigate the dawning of the Pluto in Aquarius era.
We have now collectively transfigured into a greater vision of the one Light/Life we all are together. Continue to find your heart strength and new forms of genuine happiness appropriate for who you are now, and who you are becoming relative to just a few months ago.
We now navigate the cosmic time-space between endings and beginnings so bless and forgive much to flow down the time stream. The past is over and we all have begun our trek into a new world of new potential, new adventures, and new ways to enjoy being ourselves while doing our work of Destiny. Open to the abundance of the process of growth, since we are all on a rocket ship to the stars!
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Until next month
(or whenever we meet again, since tomorrow is never guaranteed)
Robert Wilkinson
Editor, AAZ Newsletter
http://www.aquariuspapers.com
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