by Robert Phoenix

for all signs

While I have experienced the energy of the new year to be invigorating, to say the least, I wouldn’t be surprised if you’ve been stuck or even in reverse. We started 2010 off with two planets in retrograde (Mercury and Mars) and another (Saturn) going retrograde after the year started. So there has been an inherent sense of re-tracing, re-tracking and going backwards since 2010 kicked into gear. That’s not inherently bad unless you’re on some sort of deadline and getting things done is an imperative. At that point, you have to have a deeper understanding of your personal chart to get a better sense of your cycles.

This is where transits and a transit reading can come in quite handy. Even if Mars is retrograde, let’s say it slides back into a trine with your natal Sun or Ascendant for ten days — you’d want to make real use of that cycle and time. So just because there are inherent blocks with the opening cycles of 2010, all is not lost. In fact, there’s some real magic going on, even with the challenging squares.

Corporate Clash with the Individual

Saturn in Libra is Squaring Pluto in Capricorn. This is a major, major event taking place on the collective and personal levels, but as we’ll see, they are not thoroughly indistinct. When SCOTUS recently ruled in favor of corporate rights as individuals, especially as it relates to campaign spending, we saw the hard energy of that square in action. Pluto in Capricorn represents the raw and bestial power of the corporate leviathan, whose tentacles are growing and stretching into every crevice of our society. Saturn in Libra represents the rights of the individual, equality. In a very weird way, SCOTUS applied the formula of the square directly to the ruling and voted in favor of equality, individual rights for all. On the surface, this sounds wonderful, but beneath it all, corporations are anything but individuals and the relationship between individuals and corporations is anything but equal. It leveled the playing field unfairly and tilted the balance of power in the distended direction of not just corporate America but corporate Earth.

According to The New York Times, this is basically how they framed the decision: “The 5-to-4 decision was a vindication, the majority said, of the First Amendment’s most basic free speech principle — that the government has no business regulating political speech. The dissenters said that allowing corporate money to flood the political marketplace would corrupt democracy.”

Under the auspices of freedom of speech, SCOTUS also knowingly allowed corporations to have almost unlimited spending power. But the decision came down under a Saturn/Libra Retrograde, which says to me that this decision may not be as binding as people might think. What I mean by this is, is that it might have had it’s seal of approval by the highest court in the land, but I would venture that somewhere down the line, there will be a key challenge when it comes to first amendment rights on the individual side and SCOTUS will reluctantly have to rule in favor of the individual. Look for this to manifest in the realm of the internet and web publishing, which could undermine future efforts to control speech and content on the internet.

Transformation of Relationship

Personal relationships are also going through HUGE transitions and transformations right now as a result of the square. Power plays are coming into focus in all relationships; who has it, who wants it, who diplomatically negotiates for it, etc. Finances and the economy as a trickle effect of Pluto in Capricorn are also impacting and stressing relationships. Things are getting very real and people are being forced to deal with resources and power, inside and out of relationships. It’s either pull together time or pull out. Luckily for us, Jupiter has shifted into Pisces and is moving towards a sextile of Pluto. This is a great energy, especially as it applies to relationships and moving on. The energy is one of dissolve and moving to higher ground, not hard breaks and exile. Kindness and compassion are available for couples in transition and Pluto in Cap supports personal ascent. If you stay together, let the highest spiritual value and the desire to have a truly balanced relationship in all things be the order of the day.

Love, Imagination and Dreaming

Jupiter’s energy in Pisces is very, very different than last year’s Jupiter-in-Aquarius love fest.

Jupiter in Pisces is kind, loving, imaginative and forgiving. Again, we see the quality of dissolving playing a large role in all things, including time. Be prepared to experience non-time, missing time, lost time, timelessness, you name it. Jupiter in Pisces is an ocean of time, not a river. Daydreaming and night dreaming are highlighted. Reality becomes much more fluid in the days, weeks and months to come.

So what does that mean for you in February, leading into March, where the energies of Uranus/Pisces, Neptune/Aquarius commingle?

It’s Doppelganger Week on Facebook and in the spirit of doubles, twins, clones and dopes, I’ll be dropping your dope from some other tradition in your scope. Enjoy.

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