Astrological Meanderings: December 2017

Tuesday, 26 December 2017

Summer Solstice 2017

Here is the Greenwich-based chart for the Southern Hemisphere's Summer Solstice and Northern Hemisphere's Winter Solstice:


What's particularly noticeable and applicable world-wide is the very close conjunction between the Sun and Saturn in Capricorn. Here is the timetable of Saturn's passage over the next few years:

Saturn will occupy the sign of Capricorn from December 19, 2017 --> March 21, 2020; and then finishes up its transit from July 1 to December 17, 2020. Here are some key dates:
  • December 19th, 2017 - Saturn enters Capricorn 
  • March 21st, 2020 - Saturn enters Aquarius 
  • July 1st, 2020 - Saturn Rx enters Capricorn Dec 17, 2020  Saturn enters Aquarius
Of course Pluto has been in Capricorn for quite some time now, entering most recently on January 26, 2008, at 2:50 AM in Greenwich Mean Time and "because of retrograde motion, Pluto backed into Sagittarius on June 14, but re-enters Capricorn on November 27, to stay in this Zodiac sign until March 2023, making its first entry in Aquarius on March 23.
So we have some fifteen years of Pluto in Capricorn" (taken from this site).

Saturn will be conjunct Pluto on January 12, 2020 at 22d37m (for one time only during the current cycle). The period around this time should be pivotal in ushering in a new world economic order.