Venus in Sagittarius - Faith in the Future

Our hearfelt sympathy and support for the community of Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

From the 17th December, 2012 Venus sets off at a canter through the fire lands of Sagittarius to scour for new sources of stimulation and enchantment after her intense sojourn through the watery depths of Scorpio. She would normally spend her time having a laugh, enjoying the festivities and buoying up who ever she greets throughout the holiday season until the 9th of January, 2013 when she will have a much more serious attitude in earthy Capricorn. However, the Sandy Hook, Connecticut community has not been allowed this celebration, right now the community is suffering indescribable pain and insurmountable grief after losing 28 lives, including the perpetrator, to unspeakable, tragic violence visited on them on the 14th December, 2012. 20 of those killed by the 20 year old gunman Adam Lanza, a member of this community, in one of America's worst mass shootings, were the ages of 6 and 7, little girls and boys in two kindergarten classes in what was previously, the 'safest town in America'. 

Venus has been quite intense in Scorpio for the past month and we have had to adjust to this way of being. The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary took place while Venus was in Scorpio and yet no discussion of astrology aspects right now seem entirely appropriate or will reverse the situation or indeed bring about the only miracle this Christmas the grieving families of Sandy Hook will want. 

The Sagittarian centaur will take us forward and all of us need to believe and have some faith in a better future. It is still party season for so many of us, where the clown of the zodiac, Sagittarius normally likes us all to shine. Don’t be fooled though this sign is also a deep thinker and is always thinking well ahead of the game. Hunting out the good and chasing after the truth gets Sagittarius gears moving forward and Sagittarius loves a good run out, only made better with an ideal to aim for. A Sagittarius Venus will generously take us all along for the ride to admire all the amazing views and sharing the experience. 

Guru Paramahansa Yogananda has Venus in Sagittarius introduced many westerners to yoga and meditation.

'Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself..'Bizarrely, Mother and 1st victim Nancy Lanza and Adam Lanza, lived on Yogananda Street, Newtown.

Nancy Lanza may have been a 'prepper' stockpiling food and guns she was preparing for the worst - 

TEOTWAWKI ('the end of the world as we know it') became a self fulling prophecy in this sad story.

Sagittarius will want us to apply our attention to the bigger picture and to what we know to be good and positive. With Venus the goddess of what we love here for a while, Sagittarius will urge us to reach out to the world, expand our perspective and if not actually be chasing a dream spending some time making a new one. It will want us to be brave and to explore what is important to us, what really matters, how we invest our time and what sort of future we want to put our faith in. Venus in Scorpio made sure we left no stone unturned in our surge for desire and to merge with those we love. She has been seductive and used highly persuasive methods to get what she wants. However, Sagittarius is now running the Venus ‘Love ‘n Money Show’ so if we need to dig out some heat-proof gloves because its 'showtime' and about to get hotter. Stop all that silent, mysterious sexy treatment, now is the time have it all open and out, fling the windows and doors wide and down the rabbit hole.

Writer Lewis Carroll has Venus in Sagittarius, best known for children's favorite Alice in Wonderland

We will all have this coming month where our relationships may get a bit more rowdy and bawdy. It will become that much more important to relate on an equal and honest basis. We may need to banish the darkness and demons by talking openly about them and then if all else fails metaphorically running after them with the Centaur's massive bow and arrow. Before we get too carried away with idealism, it may also be the case that we get much more tactless, insensitive and loud. It could all get a bit too much with just about everything, food, drink, revelry, honesty, blurting, buying, giving, singing, whatever. In keeping with the season, excess may end up being the name of the game or part of another adventure.

Writer Mark Twain has Venus in Sagittarius and wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
modelled on himself as a child

Venus likes to indulge anyway ( Venus Come Out Of Your Shell). Anointing the body, making it look, smell and feel really good is what she is about. Feeding the senses are another huge aspect of her delight as she adores beauty in all it's forms. Venus also has an innate appreciation of the finer things in life, art, culture and social interactions. Venus obviously desires relationships and everything concerned with them but she is surprisingly highly attuned to aspects of gaining, controlling and distributing money as well. Venus also view fairness with a sharp eye and puts it high on her list of needs. A run through our Venus list gives us an idea on just how fundamental and central Venus is to our lives. Love and Money is the name of her game and getting those two things sorted out will make most people feel that they have a good handle on life. Denying the need for money, the need for love or to deny the need for both is unusual.

Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Sagittarius-attuned’. We all have degrees in our birth chart which looks out for any Sagittarius vibration, our personal Sagittarius antenna. It will be good to look at how smoothly the matters connected to our Sagittarius house and/or planets run and if they are functioning as well as they could an how we can set up improvements and find the real treasures.  

Writer robert Louis Stevenson has Venus in Sagittarius wrote the children adventure, Treasure Island

If you have Sagittarius spanning the 3rd house zone you may find your words have been falling like a hod of bricks or  in fact reaching a level of inspiration which may need to go global. All depends on what your goal may be, yet for this month it will be likely that your goal gets plural and becomes goals, or grows in size and becomes wide-sweeping, most probably both.

If your own Venus is in Sagittarius then you already keep the faith and now here it is your time so go for it. Welcome in new arrivals, people or money, this will be your time to have the ‘Wow factor’. 

If you are a Sun sign Sagittarius then hey, this is easy for you. Well yes up to a point because even a ‘yeah give it to me straight’ Sagittarius has its limits, finally and being kind and generous is a biggie that needs re-fuelling sometimes. However, your hearts desire for emotional freedom and companionship will get an extra boost and this month may be just the time for you to find exactly what you want.

Writer Khalil Gibran has Venus in Sagittarius wrote The Prophet
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.

Over Christmas and New Year we recognise 'tis the season to be jolly' and the avuncular Santa Claus is the embodiment of Jupiter, the ruling planet of Sagittarius. Santa travels the whole world in one night, after all, he is overtly generous and lets out an all resounding all pervasive call for laughter 'Ho Ho Ho'! Let us all keep faith in the future and hope we will all feel the impulse to be generous, kind and loving. Whatever we believe, whoever we believe in, it is finally about how we behave towards one another. It is our humanity and our compassion that makes us heroes and gives us enough faith in the future to send those arrows of hopes and dreams towards the stars.
                
Singer Neil Young with Mercury in Sagittarius (Mercury in Sagittarius - Postcards from an Optimistic Mind) the Sun makes up the Sagittarius trio of the moment (Sun in Sagittarius - Big Time Adventures on Horseback) 
credits: heavy.com & mark ovaska & lawrencedagstine 
posted by pippa ponton & jphibbs

Venus in Scorpio - Depth of Field

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has her Venus in Scorpio,
now endorsed by Warren Buffett to run for President 2016.
 On the 21st November, 2012 she brokered a ceasefire in Gaza, with Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Palestine's President Mahmoud Abbas and Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi.(Hot Spots & Lightning Rods - Uranus/Pluto 2nd Square 
December 2012 farewell tour of Europe as Secretary of State, taking in, Czech Republic, heavily reliant on Russian fuel, Northern Ireland, still in disarray over the Union Jack vote and the flag being flown only on designated days and meeting with Pakistan Foreign Secretary in Hina Rabbani Khar in Brussels. She has also reaffirmed the 'red line' to Syrias use of chemical weapons and has talks with NATO allies to station Patriot missiles in Turkey to fend off attacks from Syria after and official request for help. 

After her charming travelogue through the abstract, airy terrain of Libra, from the 22nd November, 2012 Venus slid seductively into the dark, engulfing waters of Scorpio to find some new sources of stimulation and enchantment. She will spend her time beguiling and hypnotising whoever she greets here until the 16th of December, 2012, when she races off towards the edge of new frontiers on the horizon of Sagittarius wide open spaces.

Venus is hard wired to indulge the senses, feeding the body, anointing it and making it look, smell and feel good. ( Venus Come Out Of Your Shell). Venus also loves beauty in all it's many glorious forms. She shows appreciation of all the finer things of life, art, culture and social events. Above all Venus will concern herself with relationships, especially of the romantic kind but also business and social connections. Money and fairness are also major hotspots for Venus desires. It is very clear just how fundamental and central Venus is in our daily and aspirational life if we look at how love and money is working out for us. If only we can get those two things sorted most of us feel then we can get a really good handle on life. We may try to deny one of those drives but it is unusual to try to deny both or at least not intentionally.

Pakistans Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has her Venus in Scorpio
she has many fans and admirers for her looks alone and has been the subject of salicious gossip and rumours since she became part of the government in 2004. She has been linked to Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's son, however, the claims are also believed to be part of a plot by the feared Inter-Service Intelligence agency to damage her reputation because she facilitated a UN investigation into thousands of missing people detained by the security forces.

Venus has been charming in Libra (Venus in Libra - Grace & Danger). She perfected the ‘smile and wave’ method to try and get what she wanted and for the past month has got all of us used to this way of being. We have probably been much more diplomatic and conscious of making sure we get the pleasantries and appearances perfect or at the least make sure that things looked more attractive. How very different it is  going to be now that slinky Scorpio is running the love and money show. The sound of many of us taking a deep breath and perhaps a last deep gulp of Libra airs and graces probably will echo and resound as we find ourselves before the Scorpio Venus gaze. Does Scorpio's reputation for passion, sex, dark desires and outright full on dirty dancing begin to stir something deep within us? Well good, because we all know that is exactly what it is supposed to do. Scorpio Venus wants intensity and needs us to apply our attention to intimacy in all its styles and various formulations. 

Scorpio also wants us to plunge the depths of everything, crisis, passions the profound and the hidden (Sun in Scorpio - Stare Into The Deep Shadows) Oh yes, Scorpio Venus will want us to prey and tease these things out from their hiding places, those dark corners and locked rooms. Scorpio Venus like any form of Scorpio concerns itself with Power. The need for it, highlighting the lack of it and gaining endless supplies of it. Venus in Scorpio can overly concern itself with gaining unlimited Power-aid and then also the surplus-storage of it and all its styles and covert and overt mechanisms. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin former KGB spy has Venus in Scorpio
Has got rid of critics who did not support a Kremlin backed law tightening controls on civil rights groups funded from abroad. Opponents say this is part of his campaign to suppress dissents as it forces non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who engage in 'political activity' to register as 'foreign agents'.

Power can come in may forms and with Venus the goddess of Love establishing her boudoir in Scorpio for a while she will also urge us to sample the delights of merging. Let's be blunt Scorpio Venus loves to get naked and will strip off or get others to strip off clothing very easily because she knows these hidden layers of protection are merely fabrications and finally so much dross. She will also want us to be emotionally, if not physically, honest with ourselves and to lay our very souls bare. She will want us to be seduced by people, places and life in general and in turn be seductive ourselves. Stop all that Libran skimming over the surface and diplomatic charm, now is the time to ‘get in there’ and really feel something. In the most part we will always be on various stealth missions pursing or tightly holding tight to our chosen prizes as we set off our very own Scorpio Venus heat-seeking missiles.

We will all have a month where our relationships may get a bit more raw and passionate. It will become that much more important to relate at an honest emotional depth and face whatever darkness or demons are hiding our psyches ‘basements’.

Astrologer Stephen Arroyo has Venus in Scorpio he sets astrological concepts in psychological terms
 Person to Person Astrology: Energy Factors in Love, Sex and Compatibility
 

Before we get too carried away and Scorpio will want us to get carried away. It may also be the case that we  will get much more jealous, highly secretive and very manipulative as Venus snakes through Scorpio. In fact we keep the vision of the Jungle Book snake, Kaa, with its swirling hypnotic eyes 'trust in me, trust in me', sucking you in so far that you will not even notice your soul has been invaded or interrogated. 
                                                        
If things don’t go our way, at this time, we may resort to these pattern of emotional power games, skillfully maneuvering our way towards what we want or believe we need. We may seduce with an unstoppable force, especially sexually.

Bunga Bunga party host, personal friend of Vladmir Putin, media tycoon and ex Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is Venus in Scorpio, charged with abuse of power and under-age sex, fraud, tax evasion... but is still free, threatening a political comeback. Known for blunders, he tried to defend himself with the remark,
'...its better to be fond of pretty girls than be gay' and in response to a blackmailer 'the only thing they can say about me is that I screw around'

Key to understanding what is going on for us is to look at where in ourselves we are ‘Scorpio-Sensitive’. The degrees in our birth chart which attract any Scorpio vibration is our personal Scorpio antenna. It will be good to notice how smoothly matters connected to our Scorpio house and planets run and if these concerns are functioning as well as they might or in need of adjustments and improvements.  

If you have Scorpio spanning the 3rd house zone you may find your words have an exceptional power and your persuasive talents may be quite formidable. If your own Venus is in Scorpio then this may be a good time to welcome in new arrivals whether in the shape of people or money. This is your time and you will know exactly how to work it. Sun sign Scorpio's this stuff is probably easy for you but even a sock-it-to-me Scorpio will have its limits and just having control of matters is vital to you. Your hearts desire for emotional depth and intimacy will be strong and this month may be just the time for you to find it.

Our ability to ‘go-there’, the 'need to greed and feed' our passions and our desires and to relate to others in a much more profound way, will increase. We will want to pull out secrets, we may want to stand firm around heart felt issues both for ourselves and for others and we will begin to reveal some of our more hidden depths. 

Chinese lawyer/business woman Gu Kailai has Venus in Scorpio. She was convicted of the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood and received a suspended death sentence. Rumours on Social networks that she hired a body double to appear in court and serve her sentence and the rumours are so rife that China banned the use of the term 'body-double'. Hiring a body double to go to jail is such a common practice in China apparently that the Chinese have a term for it 'ding zui' which means substitute criminal.

The exposure meter for a photograph can be set to an overexposed 'white-out' or go into 'wide-angle' and reveal too much or give away just enough for us to 'get the picture' but also an edgy uncertainty. We may get to see the whole picture but be dealing with shadows and vignette edges or we may only get to see a glaring bland, blanket with no subtle features at all. This month we may have the chance to pick our depth of field filter for our life atmospherics. Soft-focus, hard hitting or a full on scandal ridden blow-up. How much can we really handle

Actress/Singer/Model/Muse Jane Birkin has Venus in Scorpio

credits: reuters & correonis & pakistantoday & huffington post
posted by pippa ponton & jphibbs

Scorpio Solar Eclipse - The Path Of Totality

A total solar eclipse involves the Moon passing between the Earth and the Sun
The Moon's circular shadow is cast over the earth under 'the path of totality'
 we appear to see the Moon covering the Sun.

On the 13th November, 2012 there is a burst of Scorpio energy in the form of a Total Solar Eclipse. A jab of Scorpio energy that focuses the attention and wakes up the system, whatever it touches seems to draw blood and healing antibodies towards it, a combination which occurs at deep subterranean levels, often outside conscious knowledge or control. This eclipse will occur at the point of 21 degrees Scorpio and this is where ‘the system’ will receive its injection of 'kill or cure' Scorpio serum. 

Scorpio wants us to feel something so what do we feel about this eclipse? Lets imagine lighting a fuse on an impressive firework like a roman candle or rocket, then standing back and looking up to watch the display. We feel safe enough no doubt from this distance and we will be absorbed, engaged and delighted by it. Get too close, however and the danger is immediately apparent because it will be blinding, ferocious and completely out of any comfort zone we know. Our Sun is that magical gift of fire that keeps on giving and in return we have given the Sun our awe, admiration, honour and respect throughout the ages. A Solar Eclipse, when the New Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth blocking out the light from the Sun reminds us of the importance of this connection. Although we can often take our relationship with the Sun for granted it is almost impossible to imagine a moment of life without it until an eclipse breaks that connection, even if it is for just those few moments.

Ancient cultures would honour the Sun and they would worship Sun deities and readily acknowledge its intrinsic importance. In the past, an eclipse was often associated with a time of disaster because it was impossible to accept the 'disappearing' Sun at all. Apocalyptic famines, floods, deluges, droughts and general panics, due to unusual events with plagues and en masse disease all appearing to be connected. The ten Biblical plagues of Egypt, for example, are now explained as a chain of natural events leading to a possible solar eclipse. Water turning to blood coming about after the eruption of the island of Thera, now Santorini in Greece and the resultant volcanic pollution. The Thera eruption polluted the water causing the fish to die, the frogs also left the water which led to an increase in insects and disease. The volcanic eruption caused really unusual weather conditions meant hail ruined the crops, bringing in swarms of locusts who love the wet bred fast. The unusual darkness, however, the ninth plague, was the volcanic dust in the air and a probable Solar Eclipse.

Even when we understood more on a rational level the time of an eclipse still continues its long associated with periods of menace when anything unexpected, life threatening and harmful could have the potential to burst on the scene. Equipped with our ‘modern’ mind sets, to this day, we can still feel the hairs rise on the back of necks as we watch the Sun literally disappearing during a solar eclipse, the stillness in the air and the unnatural imposed dark (Vampires, Gemini & The Solar Eclipse). Whilst marveling at the spectacle we all know the Sun will come back into view but for many of us, if not all of us, unconsciously triggered within an ancient part of our psyches and deep inside our brain there still is some part of us that registers a full alert.

As for the fireworks well they are so much more impressive on a clear night than when it is cloudy or overcast but this solar eclipse will not be visible in the northern hemisphere and if we want to literally see it we will have to follow it across the International Dateline, twice. It is especially visible in Cairns, Australia, New Zealand and Chile and is listed to start on the 13th November, 2012. It will be seen in north east Australia at dawn on the 14th November, 2012 but as the shadow path heads east, it has to cross the International Dateline again, moving back in time to the 13th November, 2012 as it heads off towards a west of Chile sunset.

1st Antarctic Total Solar Eclipse viewed by mankind 2003, unusually right on the horizon

As a solar eclipse it should be relatively unobscured by any celestial ‘traffic’ either as it passes along its visible path in the Southern hemisphere. The only red light along the celestial path seems to be a square aspect between Mercury and Neptune, causing more than a little muddle for the clearest of thinkers and orators. OK, so on top of all this emotion we will have to watch what we say as well and that is easy within our present Scorpio-complex. What else can we expect when both the Sun and the Moon are in Scorpio but more complicated emotional landscapes. Like glaciers made up of ancient water with labyrinths and hidden arteries of emotional material teetering on the edge, waiting to break off into a series of icebergs, calving into an endless ice field that still needs to melt and then what? Will we be overwhelmed in a tidal wave of emotional material that has previously never seen the light of day. (Mars in Scorpio - What LIes Beneath).

We have also been under a Scorpio Sun that has been operating its follow-spot on the world stage as well as on our own emotional minefields. Now it is being followed by the Moon so closely that for a moment it will be eclipsed. Main stage we have also got Saturn acting as a life jacket in Scorpio or maybe 'Saturn's strait jacket' urging us to be a bit more dispassionate, or at least 'keep our heads above water' and 'stay afloat' until he gets the measure of things. Here we have Saturn in Scorpio, sleuthing with objectivity and compassion and systematically contending with not being drowned in feelings. It appears that Scorpio is generally where the action is in our charts, just now. Saturn will be continuing to carry out investigations there for a couple of years and the solar eclipse wake-up calls will be stepping across the Taurus/Scorpio polarity until 2014. This is also where the moon's Nodes are until March 2014. (Axis of Power & Possessions -Scorpio/Taurus) Not an easy time then as none of us are really willingly to go to 'Pandora Box' openings. Those boxes are really heavy to carry around, everything starts to rot in all this icy Scorpio water and anyway things either unexpectedly bob to the surface or get washed up and discovered by Saturn in Scorpio beach combing. (Saturn in Scorpio - Snake Charmer Karma)

Cairns in Queensland, Australia will be the place to be about an hour after sunrise on the
14th November, 2012, where the moon will completely cover the solar disk and then display
a total eclipse of the sun for about two minutes. 50,00 visitors are expected but cloudy skies are predicted.

We will have to look to our Scorpio planets, houses, zones or angles in our charts. If this is your Ascendant, Sun or Moon you will have to start to take notice the potential changes that can come with these intense circumstances. This will also involves the couple of degrees either side of the eclipse path of 19/23 degrees Scorpio and pulling in its opposite sign of Taurus and also the other fixed polarity of Leo and Aquarius.

What could it mean for us if we are caught up in its sweep as the infa-red Scorpio searchlight begins its scan? If it is your Mars, for example, or your 1st house zone then it is these aspects of your psyche that will receive an invitation to entertain the wake-up call of this Scorpio eclipse. With Mars, your attention will become much more focused on what you need to do to ‘get what you want’ and how to express your drive as well as your frustration, which is only thwarted drive, in a more productive and healthy way. On or around the eclipse you may want to initiate a project or at least instigate a situation and know that you will have to wait for the fruits of this energetic, brave, proactive play in a few months time. Mars will always be up for a fight though so bear in mind the need to exercise some caution and as much patience as you can.

Listed here are Heads of State and countries whose birth charts have the 19-23 degrees of Scorpio falling on a natal planet. I have used the Whole Sign House system aware that some added variables could alter or change some of the charts.

China: Has Venus at 19 degrees in its 9th zone of ‘International Relations, Ethics & Legal System’.

India: Has Jupiter at 19 degrees in its 6th zone of ‘Service, Workers & The Public Servant’.

Pakistan: Has Jupiter at 19 degrees in its 8th zone of ‘Financial Institutions & Transformation through Crisis’.

Iran: Has Uranus at 20 degrees in its 12th zone of ‘Hidden Enemies, Subterfuge and Corridors of Power’. 

Iranian Fajr-5 rockets launched Gaza strip

On the 15th November, 2012 sirens sounded in Tel Aviv for the first time since the Gulf War, causing panic, crippling the mobile phone service after missiles were fired from Gaza towards the city. The Israelis have said that the missiles fell short or into the sea while the Palestinian militants issued a statement claiming responsibility saying that they had fired Iranian made rockets. Tel Aviv is about 80 kilometers from Gaza suggesting the use of the Iranian Fajr-5 rockets, which have twice the range of the rockets previously used by Hamas. On the 16th November, 2012 one rocket landing in a field outside Jerusalem.

Spain: Has Saturn at 20 degrees in its 10th zone of ‘Government, Ruling Classes and Status’.

The U.K Prime Minister David Cameron: Has Neptune at 20 degrees in his 2nd zone of ‘Personal Finances & Assets’.

Poland: Has the Sun at 21 degrees in its 11th zone of ‘Helpers & Governing Legislature’.

Afghanistan: Has the Mars at 22 degrees next to Pluto at 24 in its 1st zone of ‘Personal Space & The National Mythology’.

Palestine: Has the Sun at 22 degrees in its 3rd zone of ‘Communication and Transportation Networks & Neighbouring Countries’. 

Hamas declared 'Open War' with Israel after the assassination of Hamas leader, Ahmed Jabari on 14th November, 2012, he was held to be responsible for extreme terror attacks inside Israel. Hamas then declared that Israel had 'Opened the Gates of Hell' and began to set off longer-range missiles, thought to have been provided by Iran and reaching Tel-Avivi and Jerusalem the densely populated cities of Israel. Palestinians are posting tweets and blogs focusing on the Isaraeli attacks on Gaza, recording and transmitting drone attacks and explosions and then broadcasting live to the Arab world, in particular.
'We don't want to get into Gaza if we don't have to. But if they keep firing at us … a ground operation is still on the cards....'If we see in the next 24 to 36 hours more rockets launched at us, I think that would be the trigger.' Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon (CNN 17th November, 2012).

Hamas one of the two main political groups in Palestine won a majority of seats in parliamentary elections but never took control of Palestinian, still led by President Mahmoud Abbas, of the main rival party, Fatah who control the West Bank. Hamas is regarded as a terrorist group by the U.S., Israel and Europe. Hamas really wants to encourage its growing alliance with the new Islamic leadership in Egypt and other Islamic regimes in the Arab world and so its aim is not only military but diplomatic. 

Jordan’s King Abdullah: Has the Moon at 23 degrees in his 11th zone of ‘Helpers & Hopes for the Future’.

Bear in mind the recent American presidential elections on the 6th November, 2012. Right on the day of the election with a Mercury station all the political pundits appeared stumped and baffled saying that it was too close to call the winner. (U.S. Presidential Election Astrology - Obama vs Romney). One of the major astrology markers indicating President Obama's re-election was this solar eclipse occuring in his 10th house zone of Status, Reputation and Authority.

Also keep in mind that an eclipse will leave its fingerprints on the celestial windowpane for about 6 months. It may be easy to forget about it as it passes over and we move on with our lives but remaining conscious around the issues highlighted by this Scorpio eclipse for however brief a period will prove worthwhile. Our eyes are drawn to the area anyway. On the weekend of the eclipse there may well be an incident a surge of emotion an easily identified event which will mark the spot. X may be where the ball lands but the ripples will continue to reverberate for up to 6 months later, remember. What happens during this solar eclipse is the seed that will sprout in a few months time.

Read Julie Demboski's A Little Something on the Upcoming Eclipse for a great interpretation of the Eclipse Sabian Symbol here
Read April Elliott Kent's Big Sky Astrology for her insights on where the 2012 Eclipse falls in your chart here
               
credits: universe-beauty.com & nasa/getty & earthsky & nasa & astronomical association Queensland & wired science & CNN & Haaretz
Gloria project
posted by pippa ponton & jphibbs