Mythic Zodiac

August 2018 Forecast

I was watching Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth on Neflix last month.  These are the interviews of Joseph Campbell by Bill Moyers that were broadcast on PBS back in the 80’s.  It was great to watch it again. At one point Campbell was talking about initiation rituals that took place when young men were abandoned in a deep, dark cave, suffering a simulation of death and then experiencing a rebirth when they came out. At the same time that I was watching the program, the Thai soccer team members were going through the exact same ritual.  Also at this time, we had the Solar Eclipse on the 12 of July opposing Pluto, god of the underworld and of death and rebirth.   Read the article I wrote on my blog about the rescue and the power of intention here.

 

We are still under the influence of the July 27 Total Lunar Eclipse.  It was a powerful eclipse and was on Mars retrograde.  This may have us looking back at our past actions and how we can rectify them.

Mercury turned retrograde on July 26 and will stay retrograde until Aug 19.  This also has to do with the past.  It means going over the decisions we made and revising them.

Dates to Watch:

Note to my Astrology Clients.  Use the Planetary Placement and ascendant sheet to find out if the following aspects will have a major impact on you

Aug 1 – Mars Square Uranus at 2 Aquarius/Taurus.  The commonality between Taurus and Aquarius is that they are fixed signs and won’t budge in an argument and Mars rules arguments and Uranus is a loose cannon.  What to do?  If you have any Personal Planets (Sun, Mercury, Moon, Venus, and Mars) or the ascendant at 0 to 4 degrees of Taurus, Scorpio, Leo or Aquarius, just stay away from other Taurus, Scorpio, Leo or Aquarius people.

Aug 6 – Venus enters Libra until Sep 9. A woman with Venus in Libra in her birth chart wants to be idle wives, eating chocolates and watching the hallmark channel all day.  During this period we may all want to do that. But wait, I don’t want to leave out the guys.  Men with Venus in Libra have fantasies about being a toy boy for a wealthy widow–or two.

          Sun Square Jupiter at 14 Leo/Scorpio.  The way to get through this aspect is to practice self-control.  But asking either Leo or Scorpio to restrain themselves is impossible.  So if you have personal planets or the ascendant at 12 to 15 Leo or Scorpio go ahead, spend money fulfill your desires, see what happens.

Aug 7 – Uranus turns retrograde at 2 degrees of Taurus.  Uranus has stopped in the sky to change direction.  That means that 2 degrees of Taurus is supercharged.  Uranus is rebellious, ornery, and is just waiting for the next protest or revolution to join.  It doesn’t really matter the cause.  Uranus is also a brilliant out-of-the-box thinker.  Take advantage of this period to be creative.  This period from Aug. 4 to Aug. 9 has a major impact if you have 0 to 2 degrees of Taurus or Scorpio.

          Venus Trine Mars at 1 Libra/Aquarius.  Since these are both air signs and Mars and Venus rules Men and Women and the trine is about harmony, this is a obviously a good day for relationships.  BUT Libra and Aquarius love to talk.  They could end up talking themselves right out of the important stuff.

Aug 8 – Sun Conjunct Mercury at 15 Leo.  Leo is a warm, extroverted and generous sign.  This is a good day to make new friends and enjoy yourself, especially if you have personal planets or the ascendant at 13 to 27 Leo or Aquarius.

Aug 9 – Venus Square Saturn at 2 Libra/Saturn.  Don’t look in your checkbook.  You may find that you have been having too much fun and are broke.  Saturn is the Cosmic Cop, the Reality Principle and he is asking you to go on a budget.

Aug 11 – Solar Eclipse at 18 Leo.  This is the third and final eclipse of the summer.  Check out my eclipse report for this eclipse and the two in July.

          Mercury Square Jupiter at 14 Leo/Scorpio. Don’t make long-distance travel plans on this one.  And please don’t talk so much.  Leo does like to blab, but Scorpio keeps secrets. So trust the Scorpio to keep quiet about what you tell them today, but the Leo?  Not so much.  Important If you have personal planets or the ascendant at 12 to 14 Leo or Scorpio.

Aug 12 – Mars backs up into Capricorn Sep 10.  Mars is exalted in Capricorn which means it can operate in a grounded manner especially in career.  Mars wants to move ahead as far as building structures, buying land, and moving up in the Corporate world.  But he is still retrograde so there may be some hurdles to overcome first.

Aug 19 – Mercury turns direct at 11 Leo.  I find Mercury retrograde refreshing.  My mind takes a rest.  Of course, sometimes it totally shuts down.  But today we can start making plans again.

          Jupiter Trine Neptune 15 Scorpio/Pisces.  This is the big aspect of the year. Jupiter and Neptune are both dreamers and so is Pisces so try to keep your feet on the ground. This is great for an ideal vacation, somewhere near the water.

Aug 23 – Sun enters Virgo until Sep 22.  Virgo means back to school, the summer vacation is over.  Time to clean up the mess we made in the summer and to get ready for fall and winter.

Aug 25 – Sun Trine Uranus at 2 Virgo/Taurus.  Virgo is the Virgin and Taurus can be pretty darn bawdy.  But today they are working together.

          Sun Trine Saturn at 2 Virgo/Capricorn. This is a good aspect for dealing with elders.  Or it could mean a growth in maturity.

This is a triple trine, Sun Trine Uranus, Trine Saturn all in earth signs.  This is a good time to make positive changes in your life.  Let go of what is no longer useful, go toward self-expression.  The three earth signs, Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn have problems with change.  On this one, they may find that the change is easy.

Aug 26 - Full Moon at 3 Pisces.  Full Moons bring in a culmination of events and matters started on the New Moon Eclipse of August 11.

          Venus square Pluto at 19 Libra/Capricorn.  You see psychopaths everywhere.  You are judging your loved one too harshly.  Back off.

Aug 27 - Mars turns direct at 28 Capricorn. If you have personal planets or the ascendant at 26 to 29 Capricorn, this is the time to move forward with your plans.

Aug 28 -  Mercury Square Jupiter at 15 Leo/Scorpio. The verbal jousting can turn into real arguments today.  Especially if you have personal planets or the ascendant at 13 to 17 Leo or Scorpio or even Taurus and Aquarius.

 

OUTER PLANET TRANSITS:

JUPITER  is now in Scorpio. This month Jupiter moves from 14 to 17 degrees of Scorpio.  Jupiter is about growth and expansion especially in travel and education and also in the area of your life ruled by the house in your natal chart that holds 14 to 17 degrees of Scorpio.   Scorpio types are into growth, they are always looking at ways that they could better themselves, especially emotionally and psychologically.  Jupiter in Scorpio will help you with that.  But in Scorpio, he can also bring excess in all the things that are not good for you.

SATURN is in Capricorn until 2020. This month Saturn is retrograde and will back up from 3 to 2 degrees.  If you have the ascendant or any personal planets at 2 to 3 degrees of Capricorn or Cancer, you may be in store for some hard lessons around the issues ruled by the planet and the house the planet is in or rules.  While Saturn is in Capricorn he is asking about your ambitions, your career, and your work ethic.  In Capricorn he is right at home and wants to build something, make plans and succeed in the outer world.

URANUS is in Taurus until Apr 2026.  He will retrograde back into Aries this Nov until March 2019.  While in Aries he will cover 28 to 29 degrees.  This month he will stay at 2 degrees of Taurus.  He will turn retrograde on Aug 7, If you have personal planets or the ascendant at 0 to 3 Taurus or Scorpio, you feel a need for freedom and you want to make some radical changes in your life.  I believe in “cooperating with the inevitable”.  If you have Uranus in a challenging aspect to your ascendant or personal planets, go on a long vacation, move or make some major changes in your life.

NEPTUNE (creativity, sensitivity, escapism, dreams) is in Pisces until 2026.  He is retrograde and moves from 16 to 15 degrees of Pisces all month. A lack of focus, a sense of drifting or an inability to see a betrayal or disappointment until it's too late can be experienced by those of you with the Sun or Personal Planets at 15 to 16 degrees of Pisces or Virgo. For the enlightened out there, Neptune can also bring artistic, musical, creative expression, increased dreams and spiritual insights. Watch for some really inspired films to come out during the time Neptune is in Pisces. 

PLUTO is in Capricorn until 2023.  This month Pluto is retrograde and stays at 19 degrees this month. Profound changes will be felt especially by those with the ascendant or personal planets at 17 to 21 degrees of Capricorn or Cancer.  What needs to die in order to be reborn?

Have a good month.

Janet Kane

www.mythiczodiac.com

 

 

 

 

Thai Soccer Team Rescue

I’m sure we were all absorbed in the rescue of the twelve soccer players and their assistant coach. They were trapped for sixteen days in a six-mile long deep cave. It all began on June 23^rd when the parents of these boys texted the team’s head coach that their children had not come home for dinner. The coach knew that the assistant coach had taken the boys into the cave so he ran there and saw their bicycles at the entrance of the cave and asked for help. They were discovered inside the cave on July 2nd. At this point the situation looked hopeless since the cave was flooded, the oxygen levels were falling to blackout levels and the monsoons were coming. The children were perched on a slippery ledge above the current. Millions of people all over the world were praying that they would be rescued, and by July 10th, against all odds, they were all out of the cave

One way to explain the improbable positive outcome of the rescue is in Paul Levy’s new book, entitled Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, where he makes a powerful argument that consciousness is key to understanding how the universe works. In the book, he relates how the manuscript had been sitting on his computer for months and he was having problems getting it published. One of his dream groups gathered in his home and each person focused on one intention - to get his book published.  Within days of this meeting, he received a friend request on Facebook from Jean Huston. She read and loved his manuscript and told her publisher about it and it was soon published.

You may wonder what the rescue has in common with Levy’s book.  As Levy writes, “When a group of people set their intentions into alignment with each other, magic can happen. Their shared intention gets imprinted into the very quantum field that in-forms and gives hope to our universe in a way that can really make a difference in the world”. I think this magical rescue and the way Paul Levy got his book published are two examples of the quantum nature of reality Since millions of people around the world were setting an intention that these boys would be rescued, it created that situation or in quantum terms ‘the wave function collapsed’ in a positive manner. At the same time, Levy’s dream group’s intention enabled the timely publication of his book.

The double slit experiment was the scientific experiment that revealed how consciousness not only is a part of the universe but that we as observers play a major role in continually creating the universe. In the double slit experiment photons or subatomic particles passing through a device with a double slit form an interference pattern of light that results in diffused dark patterns on a screen just as expected. In other words, the photons act as a wave.  But if a person could watch each photon individually to see which slit it travels through, the photons will act as particles and no interference pattern shows on the screen. You just see marks where each photon hits. If there is only one slit in the experiment the photon always appears as a particle. Levy says, “So not only does the photon know whether both slits are open or not, it also know whether or not we are watching it and adjusts its behavior accordingly.” The one who observes the experiment actually affects the outcome of the experiment. The moment of observation ‘collapses the wave function.” It determines whether the photon acts as a wave or particle.

Levy says “Quantum physics’ new perspective can potentially liberate our mind from the mental straitjacket of the classical mechanistic worldview, in revealing new creative orders of freedom that we can step into at any moment—even right now!” The saving of the Thai soccer youth by intention is a wonderful example of a new Uber myth for our world—the Quantum Myth.

Janet Kane

7/18/18

www.mythiczodiac.com

 

July and August 2018 Eclipses

 

Eclipses On July 12, July 27 and August 11, 2018

Note to my Astrology Clients.  Use your Planetary Placement and Ascendant Sheet to find if the following eclipses will have a major impact on you.


The eclipses in July and August are taking place in the signs of Cancer (the family), Leo (the leaders) and Aquarius (the outsiders and revolutionaries). 

The ancients believed that during an eclipse,” the mighty will fall". They believed that rulers are born or die at the time of eclipses.  President Trump was born on a Lunar Eclipse in 1946, Prince William was born on a Solar Eclipse in 1982 and Princess Diana died on a Solar Eclipse in 1997. The energy from an eclipse can last up to six months and also become active up to a month before the actual eclipse.

They bring endings and beginnings, births and deaths.

Partial Solar Eclipse on July 12 at 20 Cancer

This eclipse will be visible in Southern Australia only. 

Solar Eclipses tend to relate to sudden events that disrupt our day to day functioning; they are the crisis that seems to come out of nowhere and that suddenly demand all of our conscious attention and focus. They tend to stir things up on a physical and conscious level much more than Lunar Eclipses

This eclipse is in an opposition to Pluto making this a very intense eclipse and may bring up Plutonian themes such as the underworld, psychological trauma, and rebirth.

The effect of this eclipse started on June 13 and as I write this there is a Plutonian theme being played out before us as we watch the Thailand Soccer team attempting to be rescued from a cave.  This reminds me of the other similar Plutonian event I wrote about in 2010 – the rescue of the Chilean miners.  Hope this also has a positive outcome.

This eclipse impacts President Trump’s Saturn in the 11^th house.  He could get blocked and delayed by groups he works with (congress?)

Total Lunar Eclipse on July 27 at 4 Aquarius/Leo.

 A Lunar Eclipse can make us more aware of our patterns, and our unconscious motivations. They can bring up old memories and feelings.  On a Lunar Eclipse something will end and on a Solar Eclipse, something will begin. A Lunar Eclipse is an opportunity to break habits or eliminate socially conditioned patterns of thought and behavior that stand in the way of self-realization. 

Full moon eclipses can bring things to completion that you have been working on. The Sun opposite the Moon lights up the Moon and brings previously unexamined areas of your life into awareness. Repressed energies emerge for confrontation and resolution.  Pay attention to your dreams. Lunar Eclipses are more emotional than Solar Eclipses. 

This eclipse on July 27 affects two signs – Aquarius and Leo. Aquarius wants to belong to groups that are working to save the world.  Leo wants to work on their close personal relationships.  This eclipse is about connecting to a greater purpose than self. This brings in activist energy.  The inter-relationship between these two signs mirrors the inter-relationship each of us has with our urge to be accepted into the larger society and contribute to that collective unit via our personally generated creative expression. In the US chart, it affects the two money houses,  2 and 8.  Uranus is in the financial sign of Taurus.  We could see some shakeup around US banks. 

This eclipse is conjunct Mars and Square Uranus.  This can be upsetting. We can butt heads with others as quick tempers are easily aroused.

Also, those of you born in the years from 1940 to1945 will have this lunar eclipse on your Pluto. This could bring up past memories and traumas to be healed. This might be a good time to visit your local hypnotherapist.

Remember that planetary energies are archetypes and archetypes can be expressed in many different ways. It’s really based on your consciousness and how you decide to work with these energies.

Partial Solar Eclipse on August 11, 2018 at 18 Leo.

This eclipse will be seen in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.

This aspect is conjunct Mercury and Square Jupiter. The only danger with the square is excess. You can over-react, overreach and promise more than you can deliver. This is about hyperbole, especially in legal matters. (Jupiter rules the Supreme Court).   We may hear some exaggerated claims from both sides on Supreme Court issues.

I’ve heard from an astrologer who says that President Trump doesn’t use the Birth Chart we have all been using showing a birth time of 10:54 AM EDT which was taken from his Birth Certificate.  He uses a time of 9:51 AM.

I hate it when there is a dispute in a U.S. President’s chart.  He is the leader of the country and we can do a lot of accurate forecasting for the US if we have the right time.  I have redone his birth chart for 9:51 AM and he has 18 Leo rising.  That means that this eclipse will be right on his ascendant.  That is a big deal.  Anytime an eclipse hits an angle (Ascendant, Midheaven, IC or Descent) it creates a major impact.  The ascendant rules the immediate surrounds of a person including his body.  An eclipse here can indicate health issues, a move or change in the people surround you.  So with this eclipse, we may be able to see if the 9:51 AM birth time is correct.

How will these eclipses affect you?

Eclipses are contrary to the status quo. If impacted by one of these eclipses, your life will not run on the same track it has been on.  But that can be a good thing. Some view eclipses as release and renewal points.  If your birthday falls on or is close to the dates of an eclipse your life will change dramatically in the months and years ahead. An eclipse is more powerful if the shadow falls where you are living or on your birthplace.

Eclipses repeat every 19 years.  We had solar and lunar eclipses at the same points In July and August of 1999. Look back at what happened then.  This will continue a theme that was playing out at that time. 

An eclipse tends to emphasize matters related to the house it falls in on your natal chart and what planets it conjuncts or opposes.  The areas ruled by the houses or planets will demand more attention, thought, energy, and time from you, at least until the next eclipse. Eclipses open doors and invite you to come in, illuminating and stimulating areas of your lives that need our attention.

The Partial Solar Eclipse of July 13 at 20 Cancer will affect you if you have personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and/or Mars) or the ascendant at 17 to 23 degrees of Cancer and/or Capricorn. Also look at your natal chart for the house that holds 17 to 23 degrees of Cancer.

The Total Lunar Eclipse of July 27 at 4 Aquarius/Leo happens on a full moon as all Lunar Eclipses and two houses in your natal chart will be affected. This eclipse will impact you if one of your personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars) or the ascendant is at 1 to 7 degrees of Aquarius or Leo.  It will mean the end of one set of circumstances and the beginning of another. Let go! Look at your natal chart for the houses that contains 1 to 7 degrees of Leo and Aquarius.  This eclipse will stir up events related to those houses.

The Partial Solar Eclipse on August 11 at 18 Leo will affect you if you have personal planets (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and/or Mars) or the ascendant at 15 to 21 degrees of Leo or Aquarius. Also look at your natal chart for the house that holds 15 to 21 degrees of Leo.

If any of these eclipses fall on a personal planet, check the list of keywords for the planets here

To see a brief list of areas covered by the different houses in your birth chart click here

I leave you in the lap of the gods.

 

Janet Kane

www.mythiczodiac.com

 

For more on eclipses, see the NASA Eclipse sight  https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html