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Transits of the Season
telescope to examine your fingernail, and we may exaggerate details and wind up mistaking minutia for the big picture. Yet we can also recognize the value of service, and the somewhat Spartan feel of Virgo can encourage that most un-Jovian of virtues, moderation. Health care reform in the U. S is likely to get a boost from Jupiter in the sign we associate with health. This is a topic that was prominent when Saturn was in Virgo( around the 2008 presidential election). Issues around the food supply, such as organic foods, GMOs, and factory farming are also likely to be amped up – although perhaps all sides of each of these debates will benefit equally from additional Jovian hyperbole.
Vesta, an asteroid closely associated with the sign of the virgin, turns retrograde in Aries on August 12th, just a day after Jupiter’ s ingress. Vesta stations square to Pluto in Capricorn – an indication of activism against Big Agra, Big Pharma, and icons of corporate control over our health and wellbeing. Vesta’ s station is likely to subtly color Jupiter’ s time in Virgo.
The Virgo emphasis continues with a partial solar eclipse on September 13th, at 20 degrees of the sign. This was the degree of the second of five oppositions of Saturn to Uranus during the years 2008 – 2010( the first occurred on November 4, 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president in the U. S.). This degree also correlates with health care reform in the United States, so we may see some changes around that issue. Immigration is not especially Virgoan, but the focus of immigration in the U. S. is on Central Americans, who make up a large section of the undocumented labor force in the country, and that is an issue that falls under Virgo. Watch for news in these areas.
Mercury retrogrades from September 17th to October 9th, retracing his steps through the first half of Libra. With the Cosmic Messenger shifting the gears into reverse in Venus’ home sign just after the goddess turns direct in Leo, we may be reviewing aesthetics as well as business practices. Where do we find harmony? Where is cooperation as important as competition?
With Mercury retrograde in Libra, Venus backpedaling through Leo, a solar eclipse
in Virgo and Jupiter entering the sign, a theme seems to be emerging. We appear to be moving towards a leaner, more practical aesthetic. More Lacinto kale and less Kobe beef, more Doc Martin’ s and less Jimmy Choo, more Dr. Oz and less Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Although downsizing is a frightening idea in many contexts, we could be entering a period when sustainability becomes the keyword, and that’ s likely to mean cutting back in some areas. With an economy run by the need for corporations to constantly grow and culture where even weight loss means acquiring a new product, this shift in thinking and values is likely to engender some blowback from the powers-that-be. Transits of the Season
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