Do Not Ask For Whom The Opening Bell Tolls

I haven't written much about the Opening Bell Charts. Guess I'm not a very consistent time keeper. Truth is, it's getting kinda depressiony out there ...

But these charts seem to work. I remember way back when speculating that the jobs reports would get really nasty right as Saturn was sitting in the 6th House of Jobs during the February Opening Bell charts. It does this every year but this year is special because Saturn is opposing Uranus and the one consistent thing I've noticed about Uranus transits is that they are eventful.

Uranus transits are not like Pluto transits where you just slowly lose your old life to day-to-day water boarding incidents in the houses where Pluto is placed both nataly and by transit at the time. Uranus transits are easy to mark down on your calendar, kind of like Moon-Mars transits. I know a lot of alcoholics who use Full Moons as an excuse to get drunk. Uranus transits aren't like that either, you can't really plan for them. You just mark them on your calendar and, if Saturn and Pluto are involved you say "The World is about to go to Hell in a Handbasket." when whatever happens happens. Maybe that's why we all become so alienated from each other during these transits. And, as I showed in my blog called "Eureka" about the guy who found Gold in the California Hills, something exceptionally good may happen. You will lose all your friends, though, but if you live in California where everyone's a flake you were expecting that anyway. I've mentioned before Michael Lutin's comment at a lecture that Uranus transits you think about all the worst things that can happen because whatever happens will be unexpected. And he said that with Pluto transits you do the exact opposite because Pluto will manifest whatever you're most afraid of.

Next Opening Bell chart I wanted to look at was Saturn's pass through the 4th House. This house is angular, so important. The 4th House is also opposite the sign/house that Saturn naturally rules. And it's the bottom of the chart. This could show the bottoming. In this case, I don't think so though. Since the Saturn-Uranus opposition isn't even half over this might mean that it's not going to happen yet. Saturn and Uranus are taking their time asking us to look at regulations and how we build our society. What is Governable and what needs Freedom in order to progress? I wonder if Dr. Dolittle's Push Me'Pull You was a Saturn-Uranus animal? Gemini will be rising through most of April so there could really be a little of this going on. Gemini likes to get in there and fix things so this, in combination with the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Aquarius could bring some upbeat situations.

During the Date I was looking at (Apr. 28-29) the Jupiter-Neptune conjunction in Aquarius in the 9th House. The Scholars and the Lawyers will be doing overtime, they're probably the only ones who will be able to bill for overtime at this point. There will be International meetings of the mind. Problem is 9th House sometimes isn't where the ideas begin. That's just academia. Well-fed, back biting, people with opinions who are obsessed with how things ought to be. These scholars better spend some time driving around New York in Taxi Cabs and they had better pay the drivers really big tips for all the ideas that they'll need to pilfer in order to get us out of this mess. Scholars have tenure and people who have tenure can't streamline. And Lawyers can just go out and drum up business by picking fights.

What else? April Dates for when Saturn hits the IC. On Apr. 28-29 the Moon here is going Ape Face over the Ascendant, while Saturn is on the IC and Pluto is on the DESC. That's not a good set of aspects right there. You don't have friends with that type of aspect. The Moon on these days will be out of bounds up at 26 degrees Declination North. It will be ruling both the Chart and the 2d House of Banking, Money, Values. The Moon is further under stress because it will be moving very fast on the Apr. 28 Opening Bell Chart (14 degrees, 30'). On the 28th the Moon will be at 25 Gemini in H12. It will be squaring a conjunction of Uranus 27 Pisces to Venus 2 Aries and Mars 5 Aries. In the Apr. 29 Opening Bell Chart the Moon will be at 9 Cancer conjunction the 8 Cancer Ascendant. It will be in a potentially very violent, turbultent t-square. Moon squares Mars 6 Aries/Venus 2 Aries in H10 and opposing Pluto 4 Capricorn/DESC. On the other hand, the Moon is very much restrained by Saturn and Pluto. The Scholars might actually be able to get the Bankers to behave. Good day to be a fly on a wall in a back room on the East Coast somewhere.

And Saturn will be in Virgo conjunct the IC. Virgo isn't really the most positive sign to have in the emotionally needy 4th House. Virgo's great for public health and for showing up at jobs that no one else could stand but it fails dismally in the 4th House situation. The Scholars are going to send us all to nursing school. This is the house that rules home, housing, parents, feelings, caring, acting like a baby, and the general public and I don't know in which order. 4th House won't look at how to fix a problem, it will just walk in and start doing things, really not very Virgo.

Saturn, down in the dumps on the IC, will be ruling the 8th House of Investment, Bankruptcy, etc. Saturn is now moving Retrograde which means that it is moving more slowly than Uranus from the earth's point of view. The 2d and 8th House will be empty except for the Nodal Axis. North Node will be in the 8th House so it looks like people will either be having Sex, paying Taxes or killing themselves.

Thought I'd also review the Saturn-Uranus opposition now.

We've got 5 hits of them which is kind of a lot. First one was on Election Day at 19 Virg0-Pisces. The last one will be on Jul. 26, 2010 at 1 Aries-Libra. That's the Aries Point. And, of course, Pluto will be squaring them. Remember that Election Day was an awesome time for the United States. We got to elect what appears to be a talented person for our President after a horrifying Political drought of eight years, or maybe the rich people bought him I still would like to know where all those anonymous donations were coming from. We got to take a big leap in healing our racial divides in electing an African-American. At any rate, there were mass crowds (Uranus in Pisces) in the Capital (Saturn). In reality, a lot of really bad stuff is behind us.

The Financial Markets are a mess. Although a couple of CEOs have kindly offered to give up their bonuses for the year, I just read that Banks are charging like gangbusters on the ATM cards that are being handed as unemployment checks. The Bankers are really, really a source of big problems right now.

They are listed over at Astropro here along with a long line of their illustrious ancestor transits: http://www.astropro.com/features/tables/geo/sa-ur/sa-180-ur/SA180UR6.html

Here are the Dates and Degrees involved in the current Saturn-Uranus opposition. What I'm noticing is that the Sun is in Fixed Signs (Resources) for 4 out of the 5 opposition dates. This is a very harsh, masculine expression of an already harsh energy but Saturn & Uranus. Harsh can be ok if it's used to keep the bad people under control and not if it turns the crowds into a bunch of psychotic robots and I guess you really never know which is going to happen until its over. Together this represents the political, mass mind that wants to organize and hopefully unify and reshape into a stronger, healthier set of ideals which can be used constructively towards all things Pisces (not going into right now what that means). :

Nov. 4, 2008 19 Virgo - Pisces
Feb. 5, 2009 21 Virgo - Pisces
Sept. 15, 2009 25 Virgo - Pisces
Apr. 26, 2010 29 Virgo - Pisces
July 26, 2010 1 Libra - Aries