The year concretely begins now, with the last lunation of the Year of the Rabbit Cat. The Year of the Dragon arrives on February 9, but this final Chinese month, which begins calendar year 2024, is of great importance. With Pluto being on anaretic degree 29 of Capricorn, about to enter Aquarius on January 21, there’s a sense of urgency and, yet, suspense – an alert expectation.
The USA’s Pluto Return has been, again, emphasized since October 2023, when transiting Pluto was stationary on the US Pluto degree (27º Capricorn) and received a square by transiting Mars as he was changing gears – Pluto went into Direct motion on October 11. The American government rushed to affirm “we stand with Israel”, fervently stated by President Biden on Oct 10, and then reaffirmed, as Pluto went Direct on Oct 11, by Secretary Blinken just before boarding for a 6-day trip to West Asia, which included two moments in Israel, followed by a third visit as Blinken also accompanied Biden to Tel-Aviv on Oct 18 – already into the eclipse season (Oct 14-28). And all that support, which included extra weapons of course, while Israeli officials spoke of Palestinians as being animals and promised them a second Nakba.
And here we are, nearly 100 days later. The ongoing Nakba II exceeds the horror and catastrophic destruction of Nakba I (1948) to unbelievable levels.
In the mean time, to illustrate the ongoing US Pluto Return, Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin was recently away from his office for three days due to a surgery and a serious medical condition, without the White House being informed, without the US President having a clue. Truth be told, Biden seems to not really know his own whereabouts sometimes, how is he supposed to know where his Secretary of Defence is? “We stand we Israel while we stumble” would be more appropriate, perhaps? If only that didn’t include dropping so many bombs on civilians along the way, so much destruction.
South Africa’s case brought to the ICJ (International Court of Justice) against the genocide carried out by Israel, and other legal calls for actual justice such as Iran’s preparation to present to the ICJ a petition regarding the assassination of General Soleimani by the US, are highly favoured by the two diplomatic asteroids harmonising with the New Moon in Capricorn, which forms an Earthy grand-trine with liberating and horizon-opening planet Uranus in Taurus, and respectability asteroid Juno in Virgo. Strategic counselling asteroid Pallas in Scorpio joins them as well, with two sextiles. Juno and Pallas have both their thrones next to Zeus-Jupiter’s, the great judge. Jupiter happens to be Earth-trining Mars – an aspect that points to two levels of information here: on the one hand, it brings solidity to fight for justice, favouring the truly righteous, those backed by facts; on the other hand, this aspect speaks of war – Jupiter and Mars are the general and the soldier, now in Earthly action.
Mars and Jupiter were in contact in October too, by opposition, during the eclipse season, as I mentioned back then. They happen to be opposite two now in the US transits – Mars opposite natal Jupiter (Jan 11-13).
The dispositor (host or ruler) of this Capricorn lunation is Saturn in Pisces. Therefore, we mustn’t forget to keep the faith. The new world-system won’t come into existence without a few fights – as I warned back in 2020. But, through these very challenges, the necessary changes take place – and things are put into place.
There’s no way around it: it is a transformative month. The Moon, conjuncting the US Pluto and Pluto in the skies as well, just a few hours after her conjunction to the Sun (New Moon) today, already shows it. Then the Sun conjuncts the US Pluto on Jan 17-19, and transiting Pluto on Jan 19-21 – when both Pluto and Sun ingress into Aquarius; whilst Mars opposes the US Sun (Jan 19-23). With all of those transits but having Jupiter sextile Jupiter at the moment, the “exceptional”empire thinks it can get away with it, despite the long term effects they cannot foresee, anaesthetised also by Neptune on the IC (root of the chart and internal reality).
The Full Moon in Leo on Jan 25, when this lunation peaks, will be in opposition to transformation lord Pluto, enhancing it. Pluto in Aquarius speaks of a whole variety of specifics, one thing being power to the people.
Go AnsarAllah. Go Hezbollah. Go Palestinian Resistance. And the Axis of Resistance. Go German farmers, too.
Importantly, when Pluto enters Aquarius, he enters the Great Mutation’s degree – Zero Aquarius. That is precisely where Pluto was – for the first time in this cycle – when we felt the drums, heard the trumpets… announcing the new era, with Xi’s visit to Putin in Moscow (March 2023).
Fear not. Stand your ground. Balance patience and readiness. Some detachment is needed to cross to a new level. Transform whatever is necessary for the new era to arrive, in due time.
Oh, and Yemen will thrive – Pluto in its favor, Jupiter on its side.
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Blessings on the New Lunation, everybody.
