Summer Solstice - Ingress Chart Washington, DC

Happy Longest Day of the Year, One Day Late.

Summer Solstice for U.S.

June 20, 2008 7:59 EDT Washington DC

Sun 1 Cancer; ASC 23 Sagittarius; Moon 26 Capricorn; MC 14 Libra; NN 20 Aquarius

The 1st & 7th Houses of this chart contain the opposition between Sun-Venus and Pluto so any kind of emotional tug-of-war seems a prominent feature of the Summer as far as the U.S. goes. Venus rules the Midheaven, Leo in intercepted in the 8th House so the Sun doesn't rule a cusp and Pluto rules the 8th House. This certainly describes a battle for all Executive positions, especially for the Presidency. Don't know what it means that Leo is intercepted in the 8th House other than that finances will be very prominent in this battle. We've already seen this as Barack Obama flip-flopped on campaign funds issues. (I agree with why he did this (as far as I can understand it which may not be far) but also realize that he has no clue how things run in a Democracy and is acting like a spoiled brat doing this stuff just because he wants to, more and more like Bush as every second passes. Uranus is still in Pisces, we're not out of the woods yet. Where's Dennis Kucinich in this race? (I forgot how to spell his name.) I need someone to vote for. With the sign of consultants, Libra, on the Midheaven and its ruler conjunct the Sun and DESC I think this is a serious issue that will come up. Anyway, I'm giving my own opinions already but with Venus opposite Pluto everyone's going to be feeling emotionally drained by the time Summer is over. I really wish Jessie Ventura would run. I'd vote for him. He's got umph. We could all be Americans again if he would be Prez.

As already stated Pluto is in the 1st House. That's a power thing. Jupiter rules the Chart and is also in H1 conjunct the Moon in Capricorn. These 3 together are good for anything competitive. The Presidential Election. The Olympics. Jupiter rules Opinions, Luck, Education, Lawyers, Publishing and the Moon rules Women, the Public, Real Estate, Land, Environment, Food, Nurturing. Will be interesting to see if U.S. women do very well in the Olympics. In this chart Venus is out-of-bounds and both conjunct and parallel to the Sun so is very strong. Venus rules the Judicial System through Libra and Money through Taurus so this looks very important.

The other prominent Axis is the 2d-8th house. Saturn rules the 2d House and is placed in the 8th House. That's depressing. The Nodal Axis also lies across these houses in intercepted Leo-Aquarius. Neptune-Chiron-NN are in the 1st House of Banking, Money, and Values. Mars is conjunct the South Node in the 8th House of Investments, Taxes, Insurance. This maybe shows some deceit and corruption brewing. It could also show a lot of risk taking and wish fulfillment through the Leo-Aquarius vibe. Hopefully this will show investments in risky, wise innovations. And over all of this cautious Saturn rules. And Saturn is in trine/sextile to the Pluto opposition to Sun-Venus. It shows that the Government will be playing with everyone's purse strings. Wonder what Leo intercepted in the 8th will do to the price of Gold. Neptune in the 2d shows money through Oil & Gas and other Neptunian subjects like Glamour, even Coffee, even Morphine, you know the drill.

I remembered that Astrologer Dean Bensics (hopefully he'll give a reading of this chart over at Noel Tyl's forum) looks up Astrolocality Charts from off the Ingress Charts and this one is interesting. The Mercury DESC Line runs close to Chicago where Obama is from. Mercury rules the Descendant in this Ingress Chart. The Saturn MC line runs through Arizona where McCain is from. The Pluto ASC line runs through Washington. And a Mars Line runs through Northern California and up through Portland and Seattle. Will the Vice Presidential Picks be from off of the areas indicated by these lines as well?

The Aries Ingressesssesssss, 2008

While reminding myself once again that the Mars-Pluto opposition is not anywhere near finishing I located a cruddy chart. I mean, really cruddy, except for losers and artists. It's the Aries Ingress chart for this year.

Aries Ingress
Mar. 20, 2008 5:48 UT (or close to that)

The Ingresses are the Ingresses just because that's when the Sun is most angular. The Sun here is right on the first degree of the Zodiac. In the London Chart, the Sun is also in the 1st House, angular. And it's only aspects are the squares that it makes as apex to the Mars-Pluto opposition. Mars is in the 4th House where it's always a Bull in a China Cabinet and Pluto is up in the 10th House trying to control everything. That's a total too many Cooks spoil the broth type aspect.

Pisces Rises in this chart and Ruler Neptune is in the 12th House so there's sure to be some poison added to that broth. Actually, Neptune and Saturn are about to continue on with one widely orbed version of last years' opposition. If you weren't a total victim at that point, expect to get a kick now.

The next day, the Moon will move into Libra in order to make a Grand Cardinal Square right pretty dang close to the Aries Points for my tastes. Then the next day, the Mars-Pluto opposition will finally end. I wonder if anything or anybody will be left alive. My ex-stepmother will probably become President.

Boy, I really need for this Mars-Pluto opposition to be over. I can't possibly get anymore forks to form on my tongue at this point.

Springtime!!!! Aries Ingress

Chart I pulled up for Aries Ingress Chart for Washington DC is:

March 20, 2007 8:18 pm Washington DC

Sun 0 Aries; ASC 13 Libra; Moon 27 Aries; MC 15 Cancer

This is just an experiment. I have very little experience in reading Ingress Charts. Ingress Charts are based on the solstices and are used to look up political and world affairs. They read the "Aries Point" charts for each year as if there's something special to be gleaned from these points.

Visually what pops out is Sun conjunct Ceres in H6 to the degree and squared by Pluto in H3. That's the big square in this chart. There is a big story in the news about contaminated pet food that has been killing pets. H6 = household pets and hygiene. Be sure to never feed your beasts anything made with animal byproducts. The stuff the food companies consider to be animal byproducts is enough to make you lose your lunch. Which is another H6 manifestation. Also, this could lead to power struggles in labor and in educational facilities.

Venus is very strong in this chart meaning that Money and Diplomacy will dominate. Whoever can say it nicely and make money off of their words at the same time will dominate. Venus is ruler of the chart and is in Taurus which is the sign that it rules. It's also in H7 in the house that it rules. It's also an earth singleton. (Obama is a Taurus). And it's conjunct the Moon in Aries. So Washington and the U.S. will be diplomatically trying to resolve issues around the War in Iraq and wherever else we're killing people (As an American I'd be the last to know exactly which spots these are).

Venus in Taurus has it's own security issues at stake and money, as usual, will be the deciding factor in all outcomes at this time. This is amplified by the fact that Venus is conjunct the Moon which rules the MC. We'll be seen as big Crabs. Watch out for U.S. pincers that come at ya from the sides. And don't forget that we are sensitive people underneath all this armour. There are also 4 planets in the 5th house of speculation which repeats the money theme. I'd like to say that 5th house rules children as well but I think we've left them behind years ago at this point.

The U.S Chart (Sibley with Sagg Rising) has Sun at 14 Cancer conjunct the MC of this Ingress Chart and also Saturn in Libra right on this Ingress chart's ASC. Sun square Saturn sounds like Government problems. These problems will be exposed because of the contact with the ASC and the MC. Our future is being decided right now. MC and ASC don't have any squares other than to each other.

Hopefully with all those planets in the 5th house we'll get some good movies to watch in our theaters. Bread and Circus.

The Saturn-Neptune opposition lands on the 5th-11th house cusps with Chiron-Mars conjunct Neptune in Aquarius on H5 cusp. Let's hope that indicates business growth and innovation.

Uranus is still conjunct the NN in H5 in Aquarius. So hopefully that also indicates innovations in business. Well, we could hope for food and healthcare for the needy, but Saturn on H11 probably means we'll be stifling our wishes for awhile in favor of world domination.

What else? Mercury is also in Aquarius, apex of a small triangle to the trine between Venus-Moon and Pluto. Wow, that sounds like something where Women step in and take over.

There's a great technique that someone on a forum used with the last Ingress. He looked at just the 4 Harmonic chart which shows stress points. Then he looked for aspects from this (the 4th Harmonic) to the angles of the Ingress Chart. Venus is at 15 Leo which sextiles the ASC, but Saturn is at 16 Libra conjunct the ASC and squaring the MC. It looks like we may be held responsible for our actions. Venus is so strong, though, we may be better at playing with others than in the past.