A NEW YEAR’S BLOW

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Hillary Clinton’s current health issue can be tied to the transit of the North Node to her Ascendant where it is conjunct natal Mercury and the South Node in a half nodal return. When she fainted following dehydration around December 10, 2012, the aspect was activated by transiting Venus (ruling the 6^th house of illness) crossing the recent solar eclipse point (21°57 Scorpio) and contacting her Ascendant and the natal and transiting nodes. 

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With Venus involved, the injury probably appeared more benign than it actually was. However, since Venus rules the transiting South Node, there was loss associated with the lesser benefic (a loss compounded by the influence of Scorpio where Venus is in detriment). Transiting Venus, carrying the energy of the transiting South Node was conjunct natal Mercury and square natal Saturn, which expressed outwardly (conjunct the transiting North Node) as an injury to the brain in the form of a concussion (Saturn ruling the 3^rd house of the mind).  Structural damage to the skull and thinking process is further indicated with natal Saturn situated at the South Bending of the transiting nodes.
             Three weeks passed before an MRI showed a blood clot in the brain. By now, transiting Mars (blood) was in Aquarius square her natal Sun, reflecting the life threatening event.  Natally, Hillary has the Sun and Pluto in mutual reception, and Mars is conjunct Pluto in Leo, suggestive of a genetic blood disorder arising from circulatory issues (heart’s pumping capacity). This aspect is currently trine progressed Jupiter (which magnifies everything) and was activated by transiting Venus (ruler of the transiting South Node) when she was hospitalized. Although Hillary is said to be responding well to treatment, the transiting North Node is still approaching the Ascendant, the solar eclipse degree, natal South Node and natal Mercury, and square to natal Saturn, an indication she is not yet out of the woods.

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THE NEWTOWN MASSACRE

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The event chart of the elementary school shootings that killed twenty young children and six adults highlights the nodal axis and the South Node ruler. At 9.40 a.m., the time CNN reported the shooting began, the transiting North Node was conjunct the event MC. As I describe in my book, the angles and the nodes are astronomically – and astrologically – similar. I envision the angles and nodes as windows that allow the entrance of the astrological energy that brings aspecting planets to life. With the node and the MC together, the window is broad, and the incoming force is all the more powerful.

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            In the event chart, Venus, the ruler of the South Node was conjunct the North Node. In Scorpio, the planet of happiness, relationship, and love, is in detriment and more likely to express negatively. Since planets conjunct the North Node manifest outwardly, and the South Node ruler is typically related to loss, sacrifice, or sorrow, this was what Venus brought to bear to a children’s school on a cold December day: heartache, sadness, and loss of love.

            Pluto, ruler of the North Node, was in a yod with Saturn and Jupiter. Pluto is currently in partile sextile to Saturn and the planets are in mutual reception; both were quincunx Jupiter, debilitated by sign and retrogradation. The configuration was activated by the Moon, which had just left the degree of the apex planet, Jupiter, and its conjunction to Pluto. I view yods as a frustrating combination of energy that has no resolution. This yod expressed in the irrational actions of a twenty-year-old with assault weapons, and helpless children and teachers with no avenue of escape. The configuration describes the outward manifestation of terror and death to innocent children in an environment under the control of authority and typically assumed to be safe.

            Mercury in detriment in Sagittarius is also significant as it is in the degree of its first station on November 6, 2012 – a degree activated by the station. Mercury was opposite the November 28^th lunar eclipse degree of 6°47 Gemini, while the debilitated Jupiter was conjunct it. A lunar eclipse denotes culmination and events that unfold quickly and have far-reaching effects.

            I suspect that when the birth data of the shooter (and victims) are known, that the eclipse degree, nodes and yod will contact significant points in natal charts. Until then, the investigation continues, and a heartbreaking weekend ten days before Christmas unfolds without twenty children and six teachers who leave behind presents under joyless trees and loved ones asking ‘why’?