2022: What Does The Year Ahead Hold?

I want to approach this question in terms of the chart I drew up for 8:10am in London on January 13th 2020. I feel this is the seed chart from which all the events of the past two years have sprung. See Figure 1.

Figure 1

This is a remarkable chart featuring as it does the conjunction of Sun, Ceres, Pluto, Saturn and Mercury. The interplay between Saturn and Pluto is key here because the former represents the force holding together existing structures and the latter is the force that is transforming their very foundations. When we look to the year ahead, we need to look at the current and upcoming angular relationship between these two planets. Yes, Pluto is a planet!

Figure 2

Figure 2 shows the transit picture as of today, December 30th 2021. At the moment it can be seen that Saturn is relatively inactive, not aspecting any natal planets significantly. However, there is a very active T-square involving transiting Ceres/North Node at the apex in square to natal Venus and natal Moon. Transiting Jupiter is passing over natal Venus which serves to amplify the energy of the T-square. With Ceres involved, it would seem that food shortages caused by supply chain disruptions will dominate the early part of the year.

By June 3rd 2022 however, transiting Saturn moving rapidly through Aquarius will station in 25°15' in rough semisextile to the natal stellium in Capricorn and closely opposite the natal Moon in 26°24' of Leo. I'm not emphasising house positions here because I arbitrarily chose sunrise on January 13th as the time of the chart. Transiting Ceres will have reached the natal North Node by this time. There's an interesting line up of Mars in 7° Aries, Venus in 7° Taurus and Ceres in 7° Cancer. This is just transient of course but it synchronised with the Saturn station. The suffering of the public (represented by the Moon) will reach its apex around this time and maybe subside a little as Saturn retrogrades. 

Saturn will retrograde to 18°35' Aquarius by October 22nd 2022 before moving on into Pisces in 2023. That's looking too far ahead. To my mind, the start of June should bring some interesting developments.