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

Minute by Minute

 

Figure 1

Figure 1 shows the external monitor connected to my laptop with a real time display of the planetary positions via Astrolog. As I work at my computer, the screen is constantly updated with the latest planetary positions. Minute by minute the Ascendant is changing and one can't help wondering about the charts of those born under these configurations. The chart shown has the Moon in Taurus conjunct Uranus and the North Node right near the Descendant. The Moon and Uranus are squared by Saturn at the Midheaven and opposed by Venus, Sun and Mercury in Scorpio on the Descendant. Quite a configuration.

The chart is configured for Jakarta and given the size of its population there's doubtless someone being born within a few minutes of the configuration shown. From the perspective of mundane affairs, it can be seen that Jupiter is still moving backwards through Pisces but not for much longer. On November 24th, it will station and then move forward again and back into Aries, reaching that sign very close to the solstice on December 21st. Jupiter will roar through Aries and reach Taurus on May 17th 2023 and not return to Aries till its next cycle. So the first five months of 2023 should see some rapid expansion of food supply problems. As Jupiter enters Aries it will be opposite the granary body of Ceres which gives some idea of what might be in store for humanity.

The chart drawn up for the moment of the Sun's entry into Capricorn, the Solstice, is quite revealing. It shows a very sharp T-square formed by the Jupiter-Ceres opposition and the Sun at right angles to both. All three bodies are in the first degrees of their cardinal signs, quite a powerful configuration and one that promises action. See Figure 2.

Figure 2

We'll see how things pan out in 2023. It should get off to an interesting start.

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.

Winter Solstice 2016

In Brisbane, the Winter Solstice falls on Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 8:34 AM. It's accompanied by a full moon which is a comparatively rare occurrence. According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, a full moon hasn't landed on the solstice since 1948 - the year before my birth year. The astrological chart for the moment is characterised by a powerful grand cross in mutable signs between Mercury in Gemini, Jupiter in Virgo, Saturn in Sagittarius and Neptune in Pisces. Venus is conjunct the Sun and so partakes in the full moon opposition. Sun-Venus is semi-square Jupiter and Mars is quincunx Uranus. Jupiter is almost exactly conjunct the north node of the moon. All in all a quite active chart.