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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 October
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A Look at Our Recent Presentations
Our March 23 event featured Robert Wilkinson discussing the Solar Eclipses Splitting the United States 2017-2024. We examined the path and degree positions of three recent Solar eclipses (2017 Leo eclipse, 2023 Libra eclipse, and the 2024 Aries eclipse) which have cut the United States like a pizza! We got an in-depth understanding of what eclipses are, how they work, how to compute the length of eclipse effects, and more related to these “cosmic recyclers.” This talk will be available for purchase once it’s edited.
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 synodic cycles and how they marked the 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, and is a far ranging discussion with high level synodic cycle associations coupled with periods of 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. She took us on a journey of the various Chiron returns to the July 1776 independence chart, and correlated the Chironic cycles with various changes in the evolution of women’s rights in the US from then to now.
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. So far 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 internationally known and loved astrologer 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. As there have been requests for copies, this will be professionally edited and made available for a charge.
What’s Coming in Our October Presentation
This presentation is not to be missed!
Our October 26 presentation will feature Professor Robert discussing Transmuting Squares and Oppositions to Good Effect. These are themes in my featured cover article for Horoscope Magazine and it was very well received.
I believe the opposition is the most beneficial aspect of them all, and squares allow us the power to steer events even though unfortunate times. When we know how to work constructively with our natal and progressed afflictions and how to transmute frictional transits to good effect, we become Masters of our Destiny.
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 November 23 talk features popular astrologer Andrea Gehrz speaking about Teleology.
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 each January I assemble predictions from dozens of astrologers around the world and compile them in a talk. As soon as we set up the 2025 calendar I’ll post it here.
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 October 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 October puts the focus on the Libra and Scorpio sectors of our chart. The month begins with Mercury in a Superior conjunction with the Sun at 9 Libra, showing the next few months will be about us “returning to Source” for inspiration and a re-connect with what inspires us. We have many powerful and important configurations happening this month, including a Grand Water Trine the first week of October with Venus in Scorpio, Mars in Cancer, and Saturn in Pisces.
Continue to make as much forward progress as you can in October, since Mars is slowing down, preparing to go retrograde in December. This month also sees Jupiter going retrograde, preparing to review our Jupiter lesson of July through now, and Pluto going direct, with the next few weeks finishing our Pluto in Capricorn lessons for this century!
At this point, we have planets in Capricorn, Pisces, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Libra, and Scorpio. As you can see, they’re spread out across quite a few signs, showing all those areas of our charts are active according to which planet is in which house. Remember too that this time of year is about endings, harvests, and saying goodbye. This year that’s especially strong due to the Lunar eclipse at 26 Virgo/Pisces which will play out through the next two weeks during the time the October New Moon Solar Eclipse begins its SIX years-long effects!
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 Annular Solar eclipse at 11 Libra on October 2, which will begin shutting some things down in that area of our charts.
The first half of the month features Sun square Mars, requiring “right action” wherever we have mid-Cancer and mid-Libra. Show balance, discipline, organization, and the ability to do your own thing in your own way, withdrawing from unproductive situations as soon as you recognize them for what they are. As Mars takes a very favorable trine from Venus, it should be clear what is to be done and which way the flow is going. Add they are both trine to Saturn, and it seems all we need to do is remember this is all a rehearsal for 2025’s closures and new initiatives. .
Pluto leads the outer planet occupied span through early 2025. July began a long run of oppositions to Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus beginning with the oppositions to Saturn and Neptune by Venus in August which heralded the oppositions of Mercury and the Sun to those planets in September. This month almost completes the run of oppositions with Mercury and Venus opposed Uranus which portends the Solar opposition in November.
The oppositions to Pluto by Mercury, Venus, and the Sun helped us see to the core of things, and uncover hidden agendas, corrosive attitudes, and underhanded methods. These will help
us anticipate the intensity of Mars opposed Pluto three times later this year, in early November, early January, and late April 2025.
Now that 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 retrograde and tracking the path it traveled between late April and early June. It will be occupying its 2024 Shadow zone between 13 and 20 Pisces through February 2025. We have begun to receive the promise of that which nourishes us “at the end of our day of labor,” and October finishes our “rehearsal before the battle” while encouraging us to find an appropriate “camouflage” so we can do what we have to do.
The Spiritual Field
We continue to be blessed by the closest Neptune sextile with Pluto in 30 years, with Uranus joining the “three note chord” by 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 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 a lot done quickly in October if we find the right rhythm and balanced perspective, adjusting what needs adjusting to facilitate the flow. Mars has now begun its long term occupancy of the area between 18 Cancer and 7 Leo, so get used to it! This month is about decisions to act, to consolidate and protect what needs protecting, and learning to play good defense.
This month Mars activates the house(s) where we have 16 through 30 Cancer. The first half of the month activates 16-22 Cancer, and the second half of the month activates 22-29 Cancer. So the first half of the month has an agitating effect on planets between 16-22 Cancer, Libra, Capricorn, and Aries and the second half of the month it’ll have the same effect on planets between 22-29 degrees of the same signs.
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
October begins with the Solar eclipse at 11 Libra, showing that some things will be shutting down over the next 6 years in that area of our map. As the Superior conjunction fell just 2 days earlier, it’s clear this month is about us “returning to Source” to find a new inspiration as we let go of old ways of communicating what we know to bring balance into that area of our lives. Because the New Moon is tredecile Jupiter and tredecile Pluto with Jupiter biquintile Pluto, those with planets near 2-6 Pisces/Virgo, 8-12 Aries/Libra, 14-18 Taurus/Scorpio, 20-24 Gemini/Sagittarius and 26-30 Cancer/Capricorn can expect very favorable serendipitous events and experiences.
The first week of October also brings Mercury quincunx Saturn, so make adjustments and show good Leo and Taurus skills. With Venus also trine Saturn, slow and steady is the rule. Mercury squares Mars on October 5, so slow down and be cautious from October 4 to 6. The Sun quincunxes Saturn on October 6, so whatever you thought or understood at the Mercury quincunx needs to be implemented when the Sun makes the same aspect.
Jupiter goes stationary retrograde on October 9, with Venus as the nozzle of a Yod when She quincunxes Jupiter and Chiron on October 10. The second week of October also brings Pluto going stationary direct on October 11 and Mercury in late Libra being the focus of a Yod as it quincunxes Uranus and Neptune on October 11/12 just before squaring Pluto on October 13 and then entering Scorpio.
As October 12 also shows Mars square Chiron, the Sun opposed Chiron and Sun trine Jupiter followed by Sun square Mars on October 14, you can bet there’s going to be all kinds of releases and power demonstrations wherever we have mid-Capricorn. As Venus makes the first opposition to Uranus on October 14, go slow during that weekend and Monday, since haste will likely bring wreckage.
Primary Action Beats for the Second Half of the Month
The last half of October begins with Venus trine Neptune and sextile Pluto, favoring all planets we have in the late degrees of the Earth and Water signs. Venus enters Sagittarius just after the Full Moon at 25 Libra/Aries on October 17. That Lunation features a T-square with Pluto creating a void in late Cancer which will be triggered by Mars at the end of October and beginning of November, culminating in the Mars opposed Pluto just before the election.
The Sun repeats the Yod with a quincunx to Uranus and quincunx to Neptune between October 18-20, so expect “multiple expansions through sacrifices” squeezing your spiritual focus wherever you have late Libra. During the third week of October the Moon moves from Pisces to Cancer, while the last 10 days of the month show the Moon moving from Cancer to Scorpio.
The fourth week of the month shows Mercury trine Saturn on October 21, and Sun square Pluto followed by the Sun’s entry into Scorpio on October 22. The entire week should be inventive and productive with Mars sextile Uranus, and the week ends with Mercury repeating the Venus Yod with Jupiter sextile Chiron on October 26/27. The last 10 days of the month have Mars trine Neptune, which culminates on October 28 along with Venus square Saturn from mid-Sag to mid-Pisces, affecting planets we have in the middle of the mutable signs.
However, the end of October is the entry to the powerful aspects in play the first weekend of November, when the New Moon at 10 Scorpio promises us “reunions” which mark the emergence of a new group cohesion. Add Jupiter sextile Chiron, Mercury trine Mars, Mercury sextile Pluto, Mercury entering Sagittarius, Mars opposed Pluto, Venus opposed Jupiter, Venus trine Chiron, and Mars entering Leo all happening on November 2 and 3, expect a lot of tension in the air, showing both polarization and promise, intensity and humor, with new bursts of energy coming forth spontaneously!
Evolutionary Development
This is the fifteenth 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 continues our reward and nourishment “after our day of labor.”
The Sun in Libra is where we glimpse new archetypes appearing in our lives, new relationships or new ways of relating to old friends. Now that we’ve had 6 months of the Sun illuminating Aries through Virgo, we begin a new 6 months of the Sun illuminating Libra through Pisces. Having had the benefit of the practical stability of the Grand Earth Trines in September, now we get to adjust, refine, sacrifice, and eliminate what we no longer want to carry forward.
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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