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AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
AN ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW BY ROBERT WILKINSON, ASTROLOGER
Welcome to the Astrology Arizona (AAZ) newsletter!
Here’s what’s up with our group and the Astrological forecast for May!
We are an astrological organization based in the Phoenix metro area dedicated to the art and science of Astrology. Our group is a New Moon double Aquarius trine a Gemini Ascendant. Born the Year of the Metal Ox, our chart affirms a wider Aquarian intention and creates a welcoming Aquarian vibe for members past, present, and future.
We encourage your suggestions about potential speakers and topics for future monthly programs. 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 which began at the Grand Mutation at 1 Aquarius. We’re excited at the dynamic interactivity we’ve been having this year at our presentations, and look forward to future exciting programs on a wide range of astrological topics..
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Contacts
If you have any 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)
ArizonaStars@cox.net
Robert Wilkinson (President and Editor of AAZ Newsletter)
laughingcat51@hotmail.com
Mary Katherine Kracht (Treasurer)
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How To Attend Our Events
We welcome all visitors to our presentations, so please join us! We and countless other groups around the nation are doing our astrological presentations using ZOOM webinar technology. If you want to attend future presentations, please go to the ZOOM website and download the latest software. Without the latest software, you may experience difficulty logging in. They release new versions often, so please upgrade before you join our discussions.
To anticipate a question, no, you don’t have to have a camera or microphone to attend a ZOOM webinar. All you need to attend is internet access and speakers. If you’re interested in attending the webinars, please contact us at astrologyarizona@gmail.com and make sure you’re on our mailing list so we can notify you in advance of the presentations. You can make your donation for membership and admission to our events by going to https://azastrologers.org/donate - Admission fees are usually $10 for members, $15 for non-members.
A Look at Our Recent Presentations
Our January 29 meeting featured Predictions for 2022. As we did last year, we solicited predictions from our astrologer friends around the internet world in the first part, followed by Christopher Benton’s presentation on the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction and how it relates to past and future trends.
Our February 26 meeting featured astrological mathematician Christopher Benton guiding us through a journey exploring How I Discovered and Fell in Love with the Arc Transform. We discussed “Cycles of Becoming” and examined various series of harmonic charts and how to use Arc Transform charts for personal growth.
Our March 26 meeting featured Elisabeth Grace giving us her take on The Astonishing Synchronicity of Planetary Patterns and Headline News. She had countless examples of pretty dramatic news stories and articles which came out the same time certain aspects happened, even though the articles were written weeks or months before the aspect. Headline after headline conformed to the astrology of that moment, with some dramatic and funny correlations.
Our April 23 gathering featured a return of Elizabeth Hazel giving us her expertise on the subject of Antiscia: Secrets in the Mirror. The concept of the Antiscia is an important inheritance from ancient astrology, and gives us "mirror points" between signs positions. She gave us a lot of examples of how this irroring works in charts, and it was truly an exceptional presentation!
What's Coming in Our May Presentation
Our May 21 presentation features Robert Wilkinson giving us all a detailed look at his new book The Magic of Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames. The most comprehensive book ever written about the Goddess of Love (and war!), Robert’s book combines the astrology of Venus in the signs, the qualities of the mate signs for everyone, how and why we attract who we do, the qualities of healthy relationships, and the distinction between Soul Mates and the Twin Flame. It is a work based in astrology and the psychology of human relationships, so this talk should be both entertaining and informative whether you’re looking for better relationships or already living them.
As usual, there is a modest admission charge of $10 for members and $15 for non-members.
In addition, future presentations are scheduled for June 25 when Kathryn Silverton will give her take on Medical Astrology and the Best Times for Medical Procedures, and July 23 features another great talk by Tony Dickey on Outer Planet Long Wave Cycles of Historical Change.
Stay tuned, since we also have programs scheduled for August 20, September 17, October 22, November 19, and our usual Solstice program December 17 (as circumstances permit.) We have some extraordinary astrologers from all over the nation who have asked to present to our group in 2022 on topics we know you’ll love, so we look forward to another year of high-quality astrology talks offered by some great astrologers!
This is where you can make a difference. We’re experimenting with other models for making astrology available to the public, including discussions on topics of interest at our Facebook page and hopefully at some point, finding ways of doing roundtables on specific subjects if there’s enough interest. We also welcome anyone with expertise in audio and video production to help us edit our recordings. While Robert has some professional expertise in the field, we’re open to others who would like to work with him in helping create a top notch professional library of our presentations.
A Few Notable Taurus Celebrities
The Buddha, Willie Nelson, Socrates, Pete Seeger, Katherine Hepburn, Stephen Colbert, Roy Orbison, William Shakespeare, Carol Burnett, Sri Yukteswar, Florence Nightingale, Orson Welles, Frankie Valli, Samuel Morse, Audrey Hepburn, Bertrand Russell, James Brown, Karl Marx, Fats Waller, Malcolm X, Bobby Darin, Barbra Streisand, Ho Chi Minh, Lesley Gore, Norah Ephron, George Carlin, Ricky Nelson, Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Truman, Queen Elizabeth II, Rudolph Valentino, Billy Joel, Jack Nicholson, Homer Simpson, Stevie Wonder, Cher, George Clooney, Peter Townshend, Joe Louis, Jerry Seinfeld, Link Wray, Duane Eddy, as well as two of the most infamous leaders in history Adolph Hitler and Vladimir Lenin, and two of the greatest lights in Astrology, the legendary William Lilly and my old friend Carl Payne Tobey.
PLANETARY MOTIONS IN MAY 2022
(All the degree values listed in the next three sections are computed the same way Sabian Symbols are read; we always round up. 9+ = 10; 19+ = 20; 29+ = 30)
SUN – 11 Taurus to 10 Gemini
MERCURY –1 Gemini to 5 Gemini then back to 27 Taurus
VENUS –29 Pisces to 4 Taurus
MARS –12 Pisces to 5 Aries
JUPITER –28 Pisces to 4 Aries
SATURN –25 to 26 Aquarius
URANUS – 15 to 17 Taurus
NEPTUNE – 25 to 26 Pisces
PLUTO –29 Capricorn (all month)
TRUE NORTH NODE –23 Taurus (all month)
SIGNIFICANT ASTROLOGICAL OCCURRENCES IN MAY 2022
SOLAR ECLIPSE NEW MOON; April 30; Sun and Moon at 11 Taurus VENUS ENTERS ARIES; May 2
SUN CONJUNCT URANUS; May 5 at 15 Taurus
MERCURY STATIONARY RETROGRADE; May 10 at 5 Gemini
JUPITER ENTERS ARIES; May 10
LUNAR ECLIPSE FULL MOON/WESAK FESTIVAL; May 16; Sun 26 Taurus, Moon 26 Scorpio
MARS CONJUNCT NEPTUNE; May 17 at 25 Pisces SUN ENTERS GEMINI; May 20
INFERIOR CONJUNCTION OF MERCURY AND THE SUN; May 21 at 1 Gemini
MERCURY ENTERS TAURUS; May 22
MARS ENTERS ARIES; May 24
VENUS ENTERS TAURUS; May 28
MARS CONJUNCT JUPITER; May 29 at 4 Aries
NEW MOON; May 30; Sun and Moon at 10 Gemini
MERCURY STATIONARY DIRECT; June 3 at 27 Taurus
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 May 2022
by Robert Wilkinson
(This is a partial version of our monthly newsletter. If you want to receive the entire newsletter, please be sure your membership is current so the comprehensive information in the newsletter will be sent directly to your email inbox!)
This year the month of May brings a lot of major aspects, planets shifting signs, with a primary focus on all things Pisces, Aries, and Taurus. This month brings a review courtesy of Mercury retrograde, along with endings activated by Mars in Pisces and new beginnings activated by Mars conjunct Jupiter in Aries. The Partial Solar Eclipse will begin to shut down old energies in the house where we have 11 Taurus, and as it’s on a Sabian Symbol representing “the garden of life and mind,” this month we’ll see how we’ve been cooperating with Nature by the “harvest” we bring forth.
This month will put many people at crucial forks in the road of their destiny, with a need for compassion, forgiveness, and the willingness to “let go let god” to create the space to embrace the new beginnings shown by Jupiter’s entry into Aries and its conjunction with Mars just days later. This conjunction sets a new 2 year cycle into motion wherever we have early Aries in our chart.
This month will put many people at crucial forks in the road of their destiny, either at the ending of the old or at a point of critical emergence of the new. This month, because all the planets are still within the Bundle span created by Pluto in Capricorn and Uranus in Taurus, the next few weeks will still be a crowded house wherever we have Aquarius, Pisces, and Aries. because all the visible planets are in those signs.
Saturn is now in the part of Aquarius where we learn to manage our feelings and our individual spirituality in playing our part in the greater Aquarian 20 year era now developing. This month Saturn crystallizes what Jupiter opened in April 2021 and fixed as a platform for future development when Jupiter was at 23-25 Aquarius between September and early December 2021. That implies the promise created then will crystallize in some way this month. All of this has prepared us for our tests in “picking up and delivering spiritual power” beginning in late May.
The two major conjunctions this month (Mars/Neptune, Mars/Jupiter) indicates old cycles ending and new cycles beginning where these fall in the chart. Mercury retrograde in early Gemini shows returns and reviews wherever we have early Gemini, so get your business affairs in order as soon as you can, since the first half of May Mercury will be “crashing into retrograde” with the usual delays and miscommunications. (As I’m giving my talk on my new book “Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames” on May 21 at the Inferior Conjunction, I hope it will help all to remember those friends and Soul Mates who have helped us become who we are today!)
Planets Slowing Down and Shifting Signs
This month all the visible planets change signs at least once except Saturn, and Venus changes signs twice! This month Mercury, ruler of Gemini and Virgo, will give us two sign experiences (Taurus and Gemini), and the Sun, ruler of Leo and Cancer, will give us two (Taurus and Gemini). Mars and Jupiter, rulers of Aries/Scorpio and Sagittarius/Pisces respectively, will also both give us two sign experiences (Pisces and Aries), and Venus, ruler of Taurus/Libra, will give us three (Pisces, Aries, and Taurus). This clearly indicates a lot of activity in the Pisces, Aries, and Taurus sectors of our charts!
Mars
Mars is in Pisces the first 24 days of the month, and Aries the last week of the month. While in Pisces, Mars is ruled by Jupiter transiting between 28 Pisces and 3 Aries, making Mars more compassionate and submerged the first 10 days of May, and more dynamically action-oriented after that. When Mars finally joins Jupiter in Aries, it’ll be back in its home sign and very powerful! So we have a Pisces/Pisces Mars quality the first 10 days, a Pisces/Aries quality the two weeks after, and an Aries/Aries quality the last week of the month.
From May 1-10, Mars is in the Cancer decan of Pisces, ruled by the Moon with an additional dose of Jupiter. From May 10-24, Mars is in the Scorpio decan of Pisces, ruled by Mars with an extra dose of Mars. The last week of the month Mars is in the Aries decan of Aries, ruled by Mars with an extra dose of Mars. So Mars’ expression will be completely different as the month develops!
Between May 1-10, Mars will prove agitating to those with planets between 10-20 degrees of Pisces, Gemini, Virgo, and Sagittarius, and from May 10-24, will agitate planets or points we have between 20-30 Pisces, Gemini, Virgo, and Sagittarius. The last week of the month it will have the same effect on planets between 1-5 Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn.
Sign Focus
This month the sign focus is all over the map! We have a very strong Pisces energy the first 2 days of May, after which Venus enters Aries, followed by Jupiter leaving Pisces and entering Aries on May 10, with Mars also shifting out of Pisces into Aries on May 24. While the month begins with Sun in Taurus and Mercury in Gemini, they trade signs between May 20-23.
The Aquarius-Taurus Tension This Year
We’ve finally gotten a break from the intense Saturn-Uranus squares. Last year we were all put through a lot of pressure wherever we had 11-17 Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, and though Uranus is still in that sector, Saturn has now moved past the square until August. Then it squares Uranus through early December, again challenging us to see what matters so we can let go of nonessentials.
Last year we had three squares from Saturn to Uranus; one from 8 Aquarius to 8 Taurus, another with Saturn retrograde at 14 Aquarius square Uranus at 14 Taurus, and a third with Saturn direct at 12 Aquarius and Uranus retrograde at 12 Taurus. These waning (upper) squares between Saturn in Aquarius and Uranus in Taurus mark the culmination of the cycle set into motion with Saturn conjunct Uranus in 1988. Interestingly, in 1999-2000 Saturn in Taurus made its waxing (lower) square to Uranus in Aquarius, so last year activated conflicts dating back 20 years.
We’re Actors On A New Stage With A New Set
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.
The 2020 Solar eclipse on the Summer Solstice is still facilitating a grand reorientation in our lives, including an acceptance of new allegiances and life directions, and the December 2020 Solar eclipse at 24 Sagittarius is still helping us remove blocks to our happiness. The June Solar eclipse at 20 Gemini is already removing irrelevant and extraneous ideas and considerations from our decision making process, and the extremely beneficial Total Solar Eclipse at 13 Sagittarius in early December gave us a promise of major gifts and unique interactive opportunities which will be perfect for whatever we need. Rewards are coming these next 4 years!
We’re still "under the beams" of the Solar Eclipses we experienced in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, and these “cosmic recyclers” continue to remove all that we no longer need in our lives. Take note of where you have 1 Cancer, 24 and 13 Sagittarius, and 20 Gemini, since 1 Cancer aligns us with a larger reality, 24 Sagittarius helps us find happiness, 13 Sagittarius gives us a new identity and love, and 20 Gemini removes what cannot be assimilated or communicated.
The mid-June Solar Eclipse at 20 Gemini continues to shut down parts of our lives in that sector for 4 years to come. All the eclipses in Gemini and Sagittarius are removing old ideas, old perspectives, old truths, and old futures. This month’s eclipses with Sun in Taurus will shut down old value systems in that sector, as well as the Scorpio sector after the coming Wesak Full Moon eclipse in mid-May. All in all, these are some very favorable eclipses wherever they fall in our charts!
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.
The Grand Irrationality
In May, the 7-pointed “Star of Destiny" I’ve termed The Grand Irrationality is in play at the beginning of the month when the Sun biseptiles Pluto, conjuncts Uranus, and septiles Neptune. The second week of the month it’s triggered again when Mars makes a septile to Pluto, followed by a septile to Uranus as described in the Mars section above. It’s clearly going to be a time of more choices and changes as the world navigates a very irrational period!
All of the septile-series 7th harmonic aspects from the inner planets to the outer spiritual planets represent turning points at the hard edge of revolutionary change we’ve been going through for a while. Obviously, this is activated every time the Moon moves through one of the seven “hot zones” of this evolutionary configuration. All septile-series aspects are irrational points representing “forks in the road of destiny” in any larger cycle. I have written extensively about “The Grand Irrationality,” a configuration which has been active since 1994, at my main website http://www.aquariuspapers.com, explaining why all of humanity is forging its future destiny at this time. If you have a planet or point near any of the seven zones, your life is sure to be affected. In May these zones are around 29 Capricorn – 3 Aquarius, 21-25 Pisces, 12-16 Taurus, 4-8 Cancer, 25-29 Leo, 16-20 Libra, and 8-12 Sagittarius.
During the periods these 7th harmonic aspects are in play, if things get weird or crazy, be clear about the choices you’re making. While a lot won’t “make sense,” it doesn’t have to; just be clear about what you’re doing and why. Even though there may be interactions with unreasonable or irrational people, we still have the power to respond in productive ways.
As with “hard” aspects to and from Mars, if that planet (or really any planet) is involved in any non-rational aspect, whether one to our natal Mars or transiting Mars making a non-rational aspect to one of our natal, progressed, or solar return planets, it’s a time to be cautious during the period when the aspect is within a degree of forming or separating. Things have a way of getting strange during 7th harmonic aspects, so those are times to be especially deliberate and thoughtful in choosing our responses.
Primary Action Beats for the First Half of the Month
May begins with a New Moon Partial Solar Eclipse at 11 Taurus, putting the spotlight on that house in our charts. As this New Moon conjuncts Uranus with a host of sextiles and semisquares and Venus conjunct Jupiter, it should be a month of rewards, internal decisions, productive closures and stabilization, and the elimination of unproductive emotional energies.
With Mercury slowing to go retrograde, see the first half of the month as a threshold before turning inward to review recent developments, find new ways of viewing or communicating things, and seeing what comes up as part of a discovery in your Gemini sector.
Because of where Jupiter is, bless the passages with compassion and forgiveness so you can enter the new Jupiter in Aries period unencumbered by ghosts from the past. Because of where Saturn is, be thoughtful and volitional in your choices, stepping back from reflexive responses.
The first half of the month should be very productive, with Jupiter sextile Pluto, Mars sextile Uranus, the Sun sextile Mars, and Mercury sextile Venus all during the first week of May. This is followed by many oppositions and quincunxes the second week, along with Mercury going stationary retrograde and Jupiter changing signs.
Primary Action Beats for the Second Half of the Month
The third week of the month brings us the Total Lunar Eclipse at the Wesak Festival, one of the “Three High Moons” of the northern hemisphere Spring, where a new “Buddha wisdom” comes forth for the entire world. Have a sense of humor as you get clear about your heart’s desire, and you could very well see “the Beloved” make an appearance in your life! As that Full Moon makes a powerful integrative T-square with Saturn, show heart, be creative, and prepare to “pick up and deliver spiritual power” in ways that show you and your world that you have linked “the above and the below” in your life, now able to receive blessings after the death of useless things.
The last week of the month brings an “Old Moon,” offering visions of the future as we complete the themes of the New Moon. With Mars sextile Pluto, efficiency is very high, and when Mercury retrogrades back into Taurus on May 22 and sextiles Mars, we’ll see a shift in our Gemini and Virgo sectors which creates the platform for future developments in June and July. That week also brings us Sun sextile Jupiter, Venus sextile Saturn and square Pluto, Mercury trine Pluto, and Mars’ entry into Aries. Great for seeing to the core of things, with a turning point in who and what we like and why.
Evolutionary Development
This is the fourth month of the North Node in Taurus era! We’re now done with our time of evolving in the sign of learning and communicating, and are now in a time of our greatest development coming through the sign of appreciation, value, and enjoying the best life has to offer.
We’re now about 2/3 of the way through two years of non-stop friction between Saturn in Aquarius square Uranus in Taurus. We’ve hit a bit of relief these next few weeks, so use the time wisely, since that square will be back in full fury beginning in August. Keep eliminating all which is of no use in the future, keep building heart and focused spiritual expression, and remember your inner Spiritual Warrior can never be overcome.
This tension will be greatly relieved by January 2023. Given the tension between Aquarius and Taurus triggered these next few weeks by the Sun, Venus, and Mars transiting Taurus and squaring Saturn, stay focused on your larger ideals, and keep showing heart, taking heart, trusting the heart, strengthening the heart, and radiating the Love you ARE to your world, expressed through a conscious focus, concentration, and intention.
The Sun in Taurus is a time to see the Light of a greater ability to find personal satisfaction on our own terms while maintaining the momentum generated in Aries. Because of the prominent Pisces energies, allow much from the past to flow down the Time Stream, clearing out space for the new already arriving in Aries which is being substantiated in Taurus. This continues to be a time to feel your connection with all of Life, and bless the passages which have helped you to the wisdom you now have. With the continuance of so much Aries Fire, it’s a great time to see how your individual unique spark of Light is part of the greater infinite Light field.
As we’re now in the second year of a new 20 year and 200 year cycle, remember a new era has dawned, so 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.
With recent Capricorn and Aquarius transits, we began a new chapter of crafting our role utilizing forms of personal power in Capricorn to serve the emerging Aquarian ideal. March began the closures we have to complete this month so that what is ending won’t impede the forward movement of the new openings initiated this month while Aries and Taurus are prominent.
Keep substantiating the resources and values of the new era opening for each of us. This month is another harvest month, with gifts for those who can forgive and bless the passages while being open to the abundance promised after we make the space to receive it.
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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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