Solstice in Jakarta

At a little before 5am in Jakarta, on December 22nd 2023, the Sun entered Capricorn. This marked the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. As Jakarta is the capital, the chart shown in Figure 1 should be indicative of events in general for all of Indonesia. 

Figure 1

One of the most outstanding features of the chart is the T-square between Ceres, Jupiter and the Sun with the Sun being at the apex. Ceres is in the first degree of Libra and Jupiter is in the first degree of Aries. This is a very active aspect that takes place in cardinal signs close to the angles of the chart. The Sun can be taken to represent the government and so there will be pressure on it to handle newly emerging and rapidly escalating developments domestically (Jupiter in the fourth house) that will involve food and other basic resources (Ceres in the tenth house). 

Saturn is in the third house and, to paraphrase from this source, it is associated with communication and travel, but short travel (by bus, car, bicycle, etc. It can show the way people move around, how they interact with one another, how communities come together, and things like traffic, mass transit, local newspapers. The presence of Saturn indicates that all these activities will be restricted to some degree, especially as Saturn is loosely aspected by Mercury. The close semisextile of Saturn and Neptune suggests that things will not quite be as they seem. There may be deception or chaos and confusion.

The population at large (represented by the Moon) will not be happy. The Moon is opposed by Mars and both are in mutable signs (Sagittarius and Gemini respectively) and close to the Ascendant-Descendant axis. Mercury, Venus and Pluto seem to crowd the second house, a house that represents finances, wealth, and possessions/property of the people as a whole. Both Mercury and Venus are in trine to Uranus at the cusp of the sixth house. There will be surprises and sudden developments in this department but with earth placement of these planets, hopefully stability will be maintained. Let's see how things play out.

I've never been sure how important these solstice/equinox charts are. The exact moment of their happening is largely ignored by the public unlike the start of the New Year which is tracked to the second by billions of people around the world. I'll make sure that I draw up a chart for the start of the new year in Jakarta.

ADDENDUM: December 23rd 2022

The chart shown in Figure 2 is cast for the day after the solstice when the Moon and the Sun were conjunct and when the T-square was made even stronger by the presence of the Moon at the apex.

Figure 2

Earthquake in Cianjur

An earthquake struck Cianjur, about 75km from Jakarta, at 1:31pm. The location of the epicentre was 6°50'S and 106°06'E. Figure 1 shows a chart drawn up for the time of the quake.

Figure 1

The most obvious feature of the chart is the T-square between Neptune, Ceres and Mars whose longitudes are as follows:

• Neptune in 22°41' R in Pisces
• Ceres in 21°12' of Virgo
• Mars in 22°13' R of Gemini

The square and opposition aspects are close and the T-square is closely aligned to the Ascendant-Descendant and MC-IC axes. Jupiter is also involved but less closely. Mars is also involved with the Moon and Saturn in a grand trine. The positions of the three are:

Mars in 22°13' R of Gemini

Moon in 23°53' of Libra

Saturn in 19°18' of Aquarius

Again, the trine aspects are fairly close. The Moon is ominously on the cusp of the eighth house in sextile to Pluto. However, Mars seems to be the key player here located very close to the nadir as befits a disaster than is generated beneath the earth. It is prominently aspected by four celestial bodies, the Moon, Ceres, Saturn and Neptune, that form two structures: a T-square and a grand trine. 

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.

ALGOL

I've long known of the fixed star Algol's evil reputation but was reminded of it again only today when I watched the following video about the lunar eclipse on November 19th of the current year (2021). A transcript of the video can be found at the end of this post.

The author of the video points out that the Moon, at the time of the coming eclipse, will be conjunct Algol. Figure 1 shows a chart drawn up for the time of the eclipse in Jakarta:

Figure 1

As can be seen, the eclipse occurs in the fixed signs of Taurus and Scorpio with Jupiter located near the apex of a T-square in Aquarius. Mars is located earlier in Scorpio than the Moon but will pass over its position (and Algol) on December 9th, which the author of the video says may be the time when the full effects of the eclipse manifest.

I was surprised to find that Algol is not listed among the fixed stars whose positions can be displayed in Astrolog (which is may I had to manually insert it into Figure 1). I used Stellarium to locate the celestial latitude and longitude of Algol. See Figures 2 and 3.

Figure 2

Figure 3

Much has been written about Algol and its malign influence but astronomically the star is quite interesting as well:

Fixed star Algol, Beta Persei, is a 2.1 magnitude, rare triple star and eclipsing binary, located in the Medusa’s Head, carried in the left hand of the Hero, Perseus Constellation. The name Algol comes from Al Ghoul, an Arabic word رئيس الغول  meaning  Head of the Ogre. The English translation became Demon Star, with other names being Satan’s Head, the Spectre’s Head. Algol appears to blink ... every 69 hours, its magnitude dipping for about 10 hours before returning to full brightness again.

Algol, alias Caput Medusa, is the Demon herself. Indeed she is, without doubt, counted the most malefic of all stars in astrology ... Medusa’s Head, the meaning of the Latin title, is being held in Perseus’s hand, which is star β in his constellation. It causes misfortune, violence, decapitation, hanging, electrocution and mob violence.

Algol represents the head of the Gorgon Medusa who was slain by Perseus. Medusa, who was the only mortal one of the three Gorgon sisters, was originally a beautiful maiden, but her hair was changed into hissing serpents by Minerva in consequence of her having become by Neptune the mother of Chrysaor and Pegasus in one of Minerva’s temples. This gave her so fearful an appearance that everyone who looked at her was changed into stone. Source.

The final paragraph in the above quote has connotations of genetic modification that are quite relevant in today's era of "gain of function" research and release. It will be interesting to see how things play out over the next three weeks. I'm sure our psychopathic overlords are planning something special for Christmas.

In conclusion, it is to be noted that:

(The eclipse) will also be the longest lunar eclipse in 580 years, lasting about 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds, and also the longest this century ... (it) will fall just shy of being total; 97.4% of the moon's diameter will become immersed in the Earth's dark umbral shadow at maximum eclipse, leaving just the southernmost limb ever-so-slightly beyond the outer edge of the umbra. Source.

Transcript from video:

hi i'm Joni petrie today i want to talk

about the month of November and we have

some very significant events that are

about to happen in the month of November

one of the main features that i always

look to as an astrologer are eclipses

and we will be having the lunar eclipse

in November on November 19th

this will set up a whole array of

major emotional changes

around the world i've been talking a lot

about the grand

finale what do i mean by that really

what i mean is everything has been

mounting and building

over the past year of 2021

and now everything comes to the

combination point with a major

explosive

event

this will probably be more like in the

month of December and January that we're

going to feel it the most but let me

just tell you

November is the month you're going to

see the direction it's all going in

as we approach the eclipse season what

they are is actually when the sun and

the moon come together with Rahu and Ketu

Rahu being the north node of the moon

and Ketu being the south node of the moon

how powerful is that think about what

the sun and moon represent

they represent the male the female the

whole entire set up here on planet earth

mother father night day

positive negative forces

and i don't mean negative in a bad way i

mean this is the electric charges of

things we have to have this polarity

that makes the world go round

but considering what an eclipse is

eclipses are when you have the darkening

of the light of the light of the sun or

the light of the moon and in that

darkness always

something is revealed when we go into

that darkness think symbolically we

darken and we go into that quiet

darkness where all the secrets and

things can become uncovered

then we have the return of the light

comes back

so in that darkness things are revealed

that we did not know now this goes to

what's going on globally in the world

and it's about time we get some answers

here right

and

it also applies to your life personally

because

there will be something that will be

revealed to you

that you didn't know about in your life

that will give your life great

understanding and meaning so look to

these eclipses as something powerful so

the lunar eclipse that happens

the 19th of November

is

three degrees of taurus which is

extraordinarily meaningful

but then again two weeks following

December 4th we're going to have the

solar eclipse

and this is going to really between

those two week periods bring to light

something that will be

very surprising i might say shocking to

the world so watch how this all unfolds

but going back to this lunar eclipse

that happens on the 19th of November

what i think is going to really be

revealed

is

a lot

of

world leaders

are going to show their true colours

of their

losing their head

explosions of emotion why do i say that

three degrees of taurus where we will

have this

lunar eclipse full moon

is exactly conjunct the fixed star Algol

and this is considered to be the most

violent

and the most destructive

fixed star of the heavens this is

astrology the language of the stars this

star

is said to be

the most violent

they say it represents decapitation

this is huge that the lunar eclipse

happens on this star

so what does that mean decapitation it

means losing your head losing your

temper being out of control

you better watch in your own life don't

let this affect you

in such a negative way as it could

keep your cool keep your calm

and always ask

yourself do i have control over this

situation if you do do something about

it

but let me just say you're going to see

people in the news people that rule

countries

losing it

this is what this is going to bring

about and you know what always happens

out of that i must say

the truth comes out

once something is comes to an explosive

event

then the clearing reveals what it was

all about

this is what's finally happening

at this time

moving into December but as we move into

December let me just give you fair

warning

mars is going to be going into scorpio

triggering where the eclipses are

through December and January and this is

going to be

well let me just say it could be very

war-like

and i have been predicting that this

year of 2021

we'll have the remnants

of war

because people are losing it people are

angry people have been frustrated they

have not been told the truth in so many

instances and we know it now

it used to be that we didn't know

because

the media everything was preventing

things from coming out now people have

the freedom to really explore what's

happening

because we have the internet because we

have

all of these aspects of social media

that we can truly see what's been

happening behind the scenes under the

surface and now

well i gotta say a lot of people don't

have a lot of trust in their leaders

anymore based on what they are seeing

so throughout this month of November we

have one thing and another

occurring continually leading up to the

grand

finale as i've been calling it so we

have this new opening

an opening to truth and opening to

awareness and opening to awakening to

the truth been talking about this for a

while

what a time to be on planet earth to see

all the revelations and the changes

finally coming about

yes we had things a lot calmer before

but we were all asleep before

now we see the reality and the truth of

it all what's behind the scenes

and now

there is so much opportunity for

spiritual growth

and let me talk about what i feel the

month of November how you can use this

for your highest good

especially probably one of the most

meaningful holidays we celebrate in the

united states called thanksgiving it

will be November 25th

it's always on the fourth Thursday of

the month i think it's very meaningful

as well that it's on a Thursday

because Thursday is Jupiter's day

and Jupiter is the planet that deals

with spirituality deals with higher

mindedness truth and there's nothing

more higher mindedness than to come from

a place

of

gratitude

thanksgiving is a holiday that we

celebrate in the United States

it's actually

our birthday in

essence for the United States of America

but

here's what it's truly about this

holiday everyone comes together in a

family family and friends come together

and we celebrate

what we're thankful for

how beautiful is that

this empowers your life in ways beyond

comprehension you see when we come from

a place of gratitude what happens is

that energy that we put out in terms of

respecting

and telling people how grateful we are

and how much we love them

what you put out

is always what's returned back

this is the law of the universe that is

why we're here

we're not here to hate and be angry and

resentful we are here to love

be compassionate

and heal