So What the Heck is going on with the Stars?

There is a major aspect that has been impacting us - Saturn in Virgo in opposition to Uranus in Pisces.

Saturn represents form, responsibility, duty - it's considered a malefic (bad planet) and the Karmic taskmaster. Virgo is an Earth sign - noted for their attention to detail and need for security.

Uranus represents radical, unexpected change - like revolution - but these changes can lead to new beginnings. You have to break some eggs to get an omlet sort of deal. In Pisces - emotional, visionary - and deception are some traits of this water sign.

Both Pisces & Virgo are mutable signs - indicating that they can change with not a lot of pressure...(doesn't that sound like the stock market....) This opposition can represent the need to balance new wild change and revolution (Uranus) against the old way things were expected to be responsibly done (Saturn).

We're not done yet. Uranus is retrograde - meaning that it is moving 'backwards' - and will have another direct hit with Saturn next month.

From another astrologer:

Last month we pointed out, both here and in our Matrix monthly, that we are returning to a period with a bowl chart in the sky (edged by Saturn and Uranus, with all planets inside them) for half the month, and a lunar bucket the other half, the first time since 2001. When the Moon is inside the bowl, we return to Saturn-led bowl chart order, and when the Moon is outside of the bowl, our satellite becomes the wildly emotional handle of a bucket chart, and everybody gets crazy. September proved to be uncannily on time, as Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy was announced just when the Moon passed Uranus (surprise!) on 9/14 and broke into the open. All hell broke loose and the world economy went nuts for two weeks until the Moon finished her crazy trek and tucked herself back into the bowl with the conjunction to Saturn on 9/28 and the accompanying massive bail-out bill – the first version of which itself failed, from being introduced on a terminally old Moon, but will eventually in some form put things temporarily back on firmer footing.

The Moon, associated with mass behavior (hysterical or otherwise) is very much the focus as we move back into another similar round in October. The weekend of October 11-12 opens up the next round (two weeks of various panicky forms of “October surprise”), which then closes with the weekend of October 25-26, as again only one-half of the sky is inhabited until after the election. As we also pointed out, Pluto headed for its momentous sign change and the Saturn-Uranus opposition (the edges of the bowl) becoming exact on U.S. election day November 4 also give an extra feeling of ground-swell change, within which we all have little room to steer, the “following sea” of last month’s editorial.

Imagine yourself on a ship in heavy weather – when you’re on deck, it seems like chaos (Moon outside the bowl) but when you go below it feels so much cozier and safer, but you know it’s really not. Go up for air again, if you’re getting a little seasick, and the whole experience repeats. Get used to it, because that will be the rhythm for the next few months and into mid-February, after which the Sun and inner planets begin to spread out of the bowl for a six-month hiatus, before it begins all over again. It’s the pumping rhythm of major change, whether it’s the kind you want to believe in or not…