Astrology Update - T-Square with Saturn Uranus and Venus

For much of this week Venus, newly arrived in feisty Aries will be setting off the Saturn/Pluto square that is hanging in the background for much of the year. 

Longer, slower moving outer planets inch along quietly in the background until they bump up against a planet or sensitive point in your birth-chart or until they are set off by a quickly moving inner planet transit or eclipse.

It is as if the outer planet configurations act as a store for energy. The longer they hang in the larger the amount of energy that is built up. So, the Saturn/Pluto square which has been in orb since last September when Saturn entered Libra, is still adding to its store of energy. 

If you are experiencing the effects personally, it will be in the form of a mental shift or a process that takes many months to complete. On the surface your shift may have been triggered by an event or series of events. 

Clients want to know when Pluto or Saturn is going to move off so that they can get back to normal life. But the real story behind outer planet transits is that you are changed in the process.

Venus in Aries acts as a catalyst to the Saturn/Pluto combination forming a 'T'-square configuration and adding to the pressure. Venus deals with values and resources, so questions about money, taxes, and limited resources are in the news. Saturn/Pluto's role is to reduce or constrict.

In Philadelphia, for example, the headlines are filled with the drama playing out as the mayor desperately searches for ways to balance the city's budget, decimated by reduced revenues arising out of the current economic downturn. Current proposals include taxing the sale of soft drinks and charging a fee for trash collection. Internationally two dramas playing out. One is the Iceland's public's refusal to pay for the debt of the private bank Icesave. The other is Greece's appeal for a bailout by Germany.

The public, already hard-hit by the economy, senses that they are being asked for more sacrifice and they are not pleased.

With Moon in Capricorn, the emotional energy reflects Saturn: serious, dour, and frugal. We are watching our pennies and remaining cautious as we sense turmoil boiling underneath.

Spending has to be constrained to pay back for past profligacy or cope with current circumstances.

The Venus-Saturn-Pluto T-square is a dynamic combo and one that is likely to catalyze events especially on Wednesday when Mars stations direct. 

Continue to keep you eye on the headlines. They are likely to presage some of the turmoil that will erupt this summer when Jupiter and Uranus replace Venus in the T-square. Except that in July and August, people will not be as polite.

Comments

[gainesville accounting]

Clients want to know when Pluto or Saturn is going to move off so that they can get back to normal life. But the real story behind outer planet transits is that you are changed in the process.

[Ellen Zucker]

I couldnt agree more. But as someone who has been there, I empathize with the client experiencing a difficult transit.