by Daniel Giamario | Sept 1, 2024 |
Mercury stationed direct last Wednesday at 21Leo25, Uranus stationed retrograde on Sunday, September 1 at 27Taurus15, Pluto re-entered Capricorn also on Sunday, and on Wednesday, September 4, Mars enters Cancer.
All of these are significant turning points. Let’s try to sort it out as best we can.
Mercury
Within the TOTAMS Astrological Paradigm, when Mercury stations direct, a new synodic overstory begins. The commencing LEO overstory will last for 109 days. Including the preparation time during the just completed Aries overstory, Mercury will be in Leo for 48 days. Now a rapidly brightening morning star, within a week its magnitude will reach -0.7. This a particularly good Northern Hemisphere morning apparition for Mercury. This Apollonian Mercury phase is very much right-brain intuitive and can come across really strong. Note that both Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are Leo Rising.
Uranus
Uranus is now retrograde until January 30, 2025. By July of next year, it will make its first entrance into Gemini, as a prelude to the United States’ Uranus Return beginning in 2027 or sooner. The retrograde degree 27Taurus15 is almost exactly square the United States Moon at 27Aquarius15. This square will be in effect well into 2026. The unexpected, unpredictable and novel events can surely be expected to continue. The days surrounding the station can be particularly marked by Uranian intensity.
Pluto
The final brief dip back into Capricorn began on Sunday, lasting until November 19 when Pluto moves into Aquarius for good, i.e. for the next almost 20 years. This time-frame, of course, encompasses the United States election, as well as any September or October surprises (Uranus). I would expect that these few months may well see a recapitulation of all that has happened since Pluto first entered Aquarius back in March of 2023. Will Aquarius remain detached from what needs composting, surrendering into an AI hive mind, or will this timeframe wake up enough people to see what danger the technocracy poses to organic human beings with a soul and spirit? Higher-octave Aquarius can hopefully recognize that collectivity without the autonomous individual signals the end of freedom!
Mars
Mars in his Gemini synodic overstory, which began back on December 7, 2022, is soon reaching its climax. The final phase of a 25-months process begins when Mars enters Cancer on Wednesday, September 4, at 12:46pm PDT. Cancer is the sign of the next synodic overstory that begins January 15, 2025 at 26Cancer12, at the Sun-Mars Opposition. This phase, when the new archetype of Mars has just been conceived, is called “Gestation and Incubation”.
Mars is noticeably brightening now (+0.5) and will soon be brighter than Aldebaran. A Mars Cancer Overstory is considerably different than Gemini! The higher and evolved purpose of the Cancer Mystery School is to provide nourishment and love to all who we personally love. Often the shadow of that is clannish identification with only our family, tribe, or country. Not to be forgotten is that the United Sates has Venus, Sun, Jupiter, and Mercury in Cancer, and Mars transits these positions from September 7 – October 23, and back over Mercury in January 2025. May this Mars synod expand to the entire family of global humanity! It would indeed be a worthy mission for this next, now birthing, expression of the archetypal masculine in men and women.