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Mars ingress Capricorn

22/8/2018

Mars in Capricorn
When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Sometimes grumpy and hard, this is the champion of endurance tests, the uncompromising goat – patient, reliable, disciplined and faithful, whose strength grows as it is challenged. In and out of the bedroom, after careful thought and with extraordinary stamina, its actions are decisive, irreversible and intractable. Quite capable of cold, merciless anger, this is the most formidable long-term opponent, employing a mixture of Machiavellian strategy, commonsense and resilient doggedness to achieve its purpose no matter what resistance in encountered.

6 Comments

Jena Robinson

21/8/2018 12:51:23 pm

Hi James - it's Jena in Bangkok where I'm having dental treatment - quite a Capricorn thing in lots of ways maybe?
I was wondering how you see things evolving when Mars catches up with Saturn and then when they both connect with Pluto. Seems pretty potent to me - what do you think?

Jena

21/8/2018 12:59:13 pm

Oh I've just looked at an online ephemeris and see Mars in Aquarius so the Saturn Pluto bit of the question is the only bit that applies

James Burgess

22/8/2018 09:33:53 am

Hi Jena, Bangkok is not my favourite place - but I guess it's worth the trip to get your teeth fixed. I can see how Mars Capricorn suggests the operation of teeth...biting is aggressive (Mars), using one of the hardest parts of the body (Saturn rulership of Capricorn).

And indeed its ingress into Capricorn was retrograde...going into Aquarius mid September.

However, you put the finger on the point to look already at the upcoming Saturn conjunct Pluto in Capricorn. I've been looking at this with some personal interest - since it occurs in (wide) conjunction to my Ascendant. Because of that connection I seem to be able to feel it more clearly than many transits.

We must surely consider Trump to be acting out certain parts of the Pluto Capricorn. He bought his way into the highest office and has served history in a way, having revealed the extent to which the ideals that gave birth to democracy and American values have been corrupted by capitalist greed for power and wealth. Interestingly as Saturn plods closer and closer, we can see the wheels of justice grinding exceedingly slowly, but inexorably, towards the day of his eventual comeuppance - one does not escape Saturn!

So on the level of newsy events, it seems unlikely that Trump will escape penalty for his crimes. Yet if he somehow does - and he is a gifted shape-shifter - then his second term of office will begin pretty much exactly as the Saturn Pluto conjunction occurs. That does not bode well for our species. We would perhaps be subjected to the worst bullying since the days of Rome.

The hard side of the transit must include bullying / oppression / forced compliance and such things...yet the pay off comes in the seeding of another cycle of development in human consciousness. The next 250 years begins. And since we die off unless we deal with it very soon, one must assume that climate change is on the agenda. Perhaps the bullies will be ecowarriors! I wonder if history would forgive the Taliban if they took over the world and insisted on compliance with ecological requirements? Imagine a militarised Greenpeace winning and becoming an oppressive world government, which in the fullness of time is recognised historically as the agency through which humanity was rescued.

Of course the bullies might be aliens...

All in all if you have any thing fanciful to do like visit Machu Picchu or Disneyland it might be better to do it in 2019 since the world is likely to get tighter rather than more relaxed.

PS The Pope's deep and sincere apology is also an aspect of this transit I would say - as too was the exposure of the need for such an apology.

On a personal level I am feeling a deep and unavoidable imperative to get my shit together finally and urgently. It feels like I have been a little too self-indulgent and must put this aside now so to be prepared for all eventualities. I am expecting something unexpected, but somehow inevitable, that requires me to step up and be a lot more grown up about things.

James

James Burgess

22/8/2018 04:19:45 pm

Just one more thought...
Pluto is at 27 Capricorn in the USA's birth chart - so this Saturn Pluto conjunction is the start of its Pluto return. We don't know very much about Pluto returns, but how about this: "Grow up or die"

Jena Robinson

23/8/2018 01:12:03 am

I don't like Bangkok either James - in fact I'm not a city person but can get quite fond of a suburb with character. See now that the dental work happened when Saturn was exactly trine my sun which seems meaningful and hopefully guarantees good long term outcome - it's also a saving of $4000 (Capricorn again?) As dentistry in NZ isn't subsidised.
A friend told me to get on with "the work" while Saturn is in Capricorn as it will be a ripe time for it. Trining my sun, Venus, mercury (the latter on your sun) it seems the teacher will be there for me.
Are you a Capricorn asc James? I don't think I knew that.
Your thoughts on America are interesting and I think whatever happens will be unpleasant. God we've made a mess of things.

James Burgess

23/8/2018 11:31:26 am

Like you I have a trine to Saturn (my moon) so find it all very comfortable, especially with a Capricorn ascendant. I do need to try in order to operate self-discipline - which is not always there - but when I do find it I am much more content. I am a person who needs to work and be responsible. When Saturn crosses my Ascendant, this Xmas, it will join Pluto in the First House as a wide conjunction. Already I have noticed people have become more wary of me since Pluto crossed, so I'm not expecting to win popularity contests for the next 20 years or so until Pluto leaves the 1st House.

Yes, we have made a mess of this lovely planet - but even if the species we chose to embody is a bit primitive, there have been some impressive individuals from time to time, and we all have the opportunity to add to their number. When the going gets tough...it's time for the likes of us to get going.

Mars ingress Capricorn

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