APRIL 2021 GLOBAL ASTROLOGICAL OVERVIEW

 

April 2021 blog

The sign of Aries influencing the planet currently till the 19^th, ruled by Mars, is a confident, assertive and competitive sign and likes to take the initiative… It likes a confrontation and is fiery in response …. It does not like to be dictated to or lose control. There will be some obvious stand offs between nations re principles, ideology and policy and the military might will be on show. We already have Myanmar and China in defiant mode and even Europe is in rather in irritated/divisive state re the pandemic and vaccines. Authorities are coming under scrutiny as they push their luck.

Even in the UK the police are being challenged by sectors of the population, about freedom to demonstrate and in the States the police are being called to account in terms of racial issues.…. Of course, a collective global anxiety about and impatience with the Covid situation is creating much psychological stress and it manifests easily in a desire to somehow take control of what we can … when so much is rather anarchic, scary and out of control.

 Particularly angry days when power struggles and confrontations are on the cards, are strong between the 15^th and 19^th when the Sun and Mercury are squaring up to Pluto.   That can manifest on a personal level as well as socio/politically. Pluto so often brings dangerous power struggles when challenged.

 Positively, the thrust of both Jupiter and Saturn continuing in the sign of Aquarius (science, innovation and detached big picture wisdom) is furthering the ability to move forward with progress in squashing the Covid epidemic. The problem is that politicians are making it become a little too much based on the altar of competitiveness and nationalism. The vaccination programme will move forward, if we can rise above the ego angles related to the successes.

 However, the very constructive alignments this month of Mercury and Venus with Jupiter and Saturn are very hopeful.

 What we do need to be wary of is the ongoing tension now between Uranus and Saturn, which continue to square up to each other.

Uranus, positively, is very innovative, but also potentially alarming as he fosters necessary change/awakenings and has an unpredictable, impulsive quality, that can be very liberating, but can, negatively, be impulsive, rash and rebellious. Saturn, by contrast is pro status quo, cautious and clings on to safety and indeed practicality and brings reality checks. Negatively that can block progress, but positively, the reality that Saturn reveals, can be a constructive block on excess, rashness and unwise risk. As a pair they have always clashed, but in good coordination one can offset the extremes of the other. They must cooperate.

 Uranus is now in Taurus for the long haul till the end of April 2026 and Saturn is in Aquarius till March 2023, but because Uranus rules Aquarius, we have the potential for great compromise between these planets, despite the uncomfortable square alignment. There can be a mixing of the old with the new, positively in terms of progress.   The problem lies in a need by many for a libertarian approach to life on principle, as humans’ hunger after freedom(Uranus) and because some see it as an insult, or an oppression, to have restrictions .   However, in contrast to that, with Saturn, there is a need for collective discipline, if necessarily imposed, to protect us all. That conflict is still running on and will in some capacity, for another 12 months.   This is a major theme of the pandemic, freedom versus restrictions, or the economy before restrictions. 

This balancing act is fundamental to the outcome.

 

We have the phrase being repeated of “until everyone is protected, nobody is protected “re the vaccine rollout.

That sums up the principle of the current combination of both Saturn and Jupiter being in Aquarius (the future/humanity) and underlines the need to get that compromise between Uranus and Saturn, even though they are uncomfortably aligned. Freedom through responsibility, is the only way to move forward.

Where Uranus, continuing in Taurus is also very definitely awakening us in terms of tumult and unpredictability, is on the effect of climate change on mother earth, which Taurus is very linked with … Eruptions re our planetary infrastructure are thick and fast now and Uranus is certainly bringing the alarm signals in that context, about what we really need to address.

The issue of money, security and value systems are also Taurean issues and that is going through a chaotic period of change and transformation that will last till May 2026. It is unpredictable … but it will awaken us to a whole new vista as to our relationship with our current financial system and its necessary revolution/evolution. The extreme of this, is misuse of technology in terms of money and gimmicky financial innovations, that are transient and with little long-term substance.

 Capricorn is a sign that in extreme form equates with conservatism, ambition and is very much a traditional sign of class, power and capitalistic values, and a clinging to the past establishment. England is a Capricorn country and indeed nationalism and a superior colonial attitude are still strong among many conservative politicians, and indeed within the psychology of many of the population.

Pluto (power and intense determination) remains steadfastly in Capricorn (2008 till the end of 2024) and is hugely driven to underline and protect the status quo of political and financial power (Capricorn) and cling on to the past. This is contrasting with the very different next-door sign of Aquarius, which is where Saturn and Jupiter have been since the start of 2021. Aquarius is about the future, not the past and the need for change and the need to look at the bigger existential, progressive picture and to incorporate a humanitarian, rational and fairer value system. Aquarius is linked to a more, what is perceived, as left-wing philosophy. Hence that clash between two value systems is now being seen so strongly in several countries i.e.  between authoritarian regimes and a populace who want freedoms and democracy.

  It is interesting how since the beginning of the year the Royal family in the UK have experienced a basic divide within the family, between the old order and a rebellion against it.   Aquarius and Capricorn are now basically in battle with each other.  Pluto, it is worth noting, is however ruthless when threatened.

 It was very telling when Boris Johnson last month declared, in a supposed to be private, political meeting, that the vaccine success in the UK was because of capitalism and greed, implying those qualities were therefore a force for good. He quickly redacted it when he realised what he had said, but it showed the true value system he supports, and a lauding of greed.

The truth is that the success was not about those principles. it was based on and motivated by the humanitarian necessity principle of scientific achievement and was mostly funded by NGO’s including the UN and the NHS, in order to ensure collective survival, which in certain times are the only way forward, even though money would be made too by the pharmaceutical companies as a fringe benefit for them. The motive was certainly not money, it was collective human survival.

 It is however interesting that we now also have much transference of large company investment away from coal and oil, into new green energy sources, not just because it is essential to save the planet from destruction, but because many companies now recognise that the new focus on future energy sources, is now where financial gain is to be made… The two are not totally incompatible, but simple greed alone is never going to be a way forward, in any context in the future.

 When Pluto moves into Aquarius in 2025 till 2044, we will see a huge shift in power and value systems, but wherever Pluto is, there is always huge power that can be handled wisely or abused. In Aquarius also, there is the potential for very wise use of, or indeed also abuse of the new, especially technology (an Aquarian area) and that will be the issue.  The quality of the motive is always everything in life.

 Hence what we have now is that Pluto (power) still in Capricorn (the established economic system), is doing everything to protect the economy and the current value system but having gradually to give way to and compromise with a new order, in which the value system must be about planetary and human survival and what values must be adopted to make that possible… (Aquarius). Without that realisation and shift of focus, the concept of current capitalism is completely defunct, as there will not be a habitable planet on which to enjoy the luxuries of what money can buy.

 The ongoing and very upside of Neptune in Pisces (since 2012 and occurring only every 165 years) has created a new awakened sense of the value of and beauty of nature. The lock down has underlined that new consciousness, as we now notice what was side lined in our busy lives before.  Note that all children born with this planetary generational placement i.e., between early February 2012 and February 2026, will be a generation who have a very strong love of and respect for nature and all its creatures; and they will demand it is all looked after and totally respected. This is no coincidence, it is timely and necessary.

 Our future survival depends on that happening.