An Astrological Forecast for 2007
by Phil Reckard
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Overview: A tug of war exists early to mid-year between world events and our abilities to remain dispassionate about them, but this is what the Mystic Masters compel us to do. Our higher selves demand we change our relationship with them and become the co-creators of the new world we need to see. Mid-year to Autumn sees a realignment between our perceived limitations and our awesome potentials, but only if we choose to take the necessary actions. Later in the year we can either rest on our laurels or turn them into the helmets of the spiritual warrior.
This is a pivotal year for our species, and we can either sit back or watch it all happen or become the inventors of a wonderful future. We should all consider taking a collective cue by considering the recent complete rewiring of the International Space Station. This is the paradigm for the upcoming year, to completely rewire our inner Space Stations. As above - on many different levels - so below.
Peace,
Phil
Full reading follows.
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As I was constructing a forecast for the New Year, I noticed all sorts of opportunities for things to go horribly wrong on the world stage and in people's lives, but I also recognized patterns that would allow for individuals to successfully navigate the changing planetary conditions. I also needed a framework to keep it under 500,000 words, so I chose to adopt the Holy Days of the pagan calendar to (hopefully) keep things simpler.
These should be seen as complementary to any spiritual path anyone is on, and not meant to replace Christmas, Easter, All Saints Day, or any other religious observance you may hold as sacred, even though all three of these holidays (and others) were "borrowed" from the pagan calendar. Exercise your free-will to call them what you want. No matter what you call yourself, the core teachings of all exalted paths asks us to find the sacred in every thing, person, and in every new day. Any path that incorporates astrology is fine with me!
This calendar is already based on the astronomical events of each year when the Sun enters the four Cardinal signs that herald the beginnings of the seasons: Capricorn (Winter), Aries (Spring), Cancer (Summer), and Libra (Autumn). These Solstices and the Equinoxes are the four major pagan Holy Days, but there are also four "minor" Holy Days approximately halfway between each, and all eight can be celebrated in group rituals or in solitary practices.
I'll describe the charts of each Holy Day and/or important aspects that color the atmosphere of each event, and suggest an appropriate attitude for a ritual or observance. If the descriptions are too much astro-de-gook, just skip to the "ritual" sections.
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Yule/Winter Solstice/Christmas, 12/21/06: The Sagittarius New Moon of 12/20 saw the Sun and Moon exactly 2° beyond Pluto, and all three bracketing the center of our galaxy. Mars and Jupiter squared Uranus is tempered by Mars & Jupiter sextile Chiron, and Venus sextile Uranus. Retrograde Saturn opposed Ceres is softened by the Sun, Mercury and Pluto trine Saturn, and Sun and Pluto sextile Ceres. Ceres is moving quickly into Pisces away from her opposition to Saturn.
Ritual: (Ideally held at the New Moon of 12/20) Ask your Higher Self to bless you in the New Year, and let her give the eulogy at the funeral of your false ego. Pray for inner and outer peace and expect the miraculous intervention of whatever you conceive Spirit to be, just don't be surprised when this image changes in the upcoming months. The events of 2007 will require us to enter the new year with grace and humility in order to allow the Divine to work through us, otherwise our egos will get in the way, and the planets will run over us. This can get real messy, and is hard to explain to the neighbors.
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Imbolg/Candlemas, 2/2/07: This coincides with a Leo Full Moon with the Sun and Warrior Goddess asteroid Pallas Athene conjunct within 0° 12', bridging the gap between Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius. At exactly full, the Moon is the focus of a tight Yod (Finger of God), inconjunct both Mars in Capricorn and Uranus tightly conjunct Ceres in Pisces. The Sun/Moon boomerang once again highlights the Leo/Aquarius axis and the looming exact Phase II of the Saturn/Neptune opposition only 3 degrees and 26 days away. The Full Moon is 9° from Saturn but will be conjunct Saturn later in the day, and Sun will be exactly conjunct Neptune in six days. The first exact Jupiter/Uranus square was only eleven days earlier. Mercury goes retrograde from 2/14 to 3/8, from 10° Pisces back into the last five degrees of Aquarius.
Ritual: All day imagine that every soldier around the world is laying down their guns and dismantling their roadside bombs. Your old ego should be rotting in its grave and happy to be departed, making room for the epiphanies you always knew were waiting for you. Look deeply into your cosmic mirror and see your old self molt away like a snake sheds its skin. Wrap up your old skin, and whatever psychic pharmaceuticals you may have lying around, place them in leftover Christmas wrapping, and then burn the whole thing. Watch the smoke rise into the ethers where your higher self is waiting to dissipate it. Then do the impossible - know that it's gone.
(Special event!: The Chinese New Year is 2/18. The year of the Fire Boar brings a new level of passion for a better future, just don't rely on others to initiate things. Ritualize this day with a feast of roast pork [or tofu sausages] and then imagine your fortune cookie as a message from the mother ship. Eat the cookie first - every last crumb - but wait until you create sacred space to read your fortune. Memorize the message and then burn it. Shape-shift into a wild boar and go hunting for truffles of wisdom. Nibble on your lover for dessert.)
(Other special event!: A mini-ritual could be performed on March 3 at sunset EST. Look to the East and see the Moon rising in total eclipse! For reasons too astro-de-gook-able to mention, ask your inner nurse to heal whatever emotional hurts that may be evoked at that time. Then, get in touch with your past-life as Leonardo DaVinci, and ask him for that invention he never left in his sketches - you know, the one that would put the fossil fuel industry out of business forever? Take a psychic snap-shot of it and then go inside and manufacture it. Mercury will be retrograde, so be careful working with your nano-laser turret lathe.)
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Eostar (Easter), 3/21: The Pisces Solar eclipse of 3/18, conjunct Ceres and square Pluto, comes less than three weeks after the Phase II exactness of the Saturn/Neptune opposition. Saturn opposes Mars and Chiron in Aquarius as well, but was exactly trine Jupiter in Sagittarius on 3/16 (The last Jupiter/Saturn trine was 1994 - remember peace and prosperity?). Mercury in Pisces is sextile both Venus in Taurus and Pluto (Venus trine Pluto) 3/17. Mars is conjunct Neptune on 3/25, and the collective North Node is conjunct Uranus in Pisces on 3/31 as Pluto stops to go retrograde.
Ritual: (Ideally held at the Solar eclipse of 3/18): Chant the mantra "Aha! Aha! Aha!" until your alter ego combines Kung Fu moves with Olympic ballroom figure skating. That old demon self-doubt takes one square on the jaw and gets up laughing at him/her self. The first day of Spring is right there and you know exactly what seeds need to be planted. Watching the network news reports can be detrimental to your health, but there will be a stray piece of news that tells of a marvelous new invention that threatens to put the fossil fuel industry out of business forever.
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Beltane/May Day, 5/1: Yikes! Scorpio Full Moon of 5/2 is part of a Grand cross connected to the final phase of the Saturn/Neptune (and Chiron) opposition. Mercury conjunct Sun in Taurus ramps it up. Mars is conjunct Uranus in Pisces (exact 4/29) as the focus of a T-square with Venus (in Gemini) on one side and Pluto on the other. Saturn turned direct less than two weeks ago and Jupiter went retrograde the first week of April. Saturn in Leo is inconjunct Uranus and Mars, but is setting up a beautiful Grand trine with Jupiter (Sag) and Ceres (Aries) in the Fire signs, with Neptune and Chiron as the kite anchor. Mars enters his ruling sign Aries 5/15, square Pluto, the day before the Taurus New Moon.
Ritual: Celebration time! Not really. This isn't make-or-break time, but it will surely feel like it if we have anything in the Leo/Aquarius axis, Taurus/Scorpio axis, or in mid Pisces. Let's turn it around and celebrate the Universal truth that this too shall pass. Saturn will make his final opposition to Neptune next month and all heaven can break out, but only if we will it into existence. Decisions made today will last for a lifetime, until you change them tomorrow. Ignore the news reports unless you're in the headlines, otherwise just rest assured that it's all made up. Evil is exposed to be the sniveling non-human energetic it is. Redefine "evil" in your personal dictionaries - just be sure to include the antonyms of love, peace, harmony, balance, and justice.
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Midsummer/Summer Solstice, 6/21: Sun enters Cancer opposed Pluto and sextile Mars (heading into Taurus) trine Pluto. Virgo Moon is opposed Uranus and inconjunct a stationing - retrograde Neptune as Saturn makes his final exact opposition to Neptune on 6/25. Mercury went retrograde 6/15 at 12° Cancer and will move back to 3° Cancer on 7/10. Uranus stations - retrograde 6/23. Chiron went retro 5/21. Venus joins Saturn (moving away from opposition to Neptune) on 7/1, only to slow down to go retrograde herself 7/27.
Ritual: Dance is an important component in the Sufi tradition, and is also critical on the Gufi path. Gufi-ness consists of spontaneous spasms of pure joy for absolutely no reason. No matter how screwed up the world seems to be at this time, or because it all seems to be so hopeless, the Universe compels us to act like morons and love everyone and everything unconditionally. Bozo the Clown becomes supreme deity, and Faerie sightings are reported all over the globe. Muggles will gawk at you, but your modern St. Vitus' Dance craze might just become contagious. Don't dance in the road as the aforementioned Muggles don't know how to drive with Mercury retrograde.
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Lammas/Lughnassa, 8/1: Mars in Taurus is the focus of a T-square to the fading Saturn/Neptune opposition, and retrograde Venus moves back into a square with Mars 8/7. Saturn makes his first exact trine with Pluto since 1997 on 8/6, remember peace and prosperity?! Jupiter is trine Sun and sextile Chiron. Pluto is temporarily the focus of a Yod inconjunct Mars and Mercury (in Cancer) after passing retrograde back over the galactic center in mid July. Ceres is square both Neptune and Chiron, but sextile Uranus. Jupiter stations - direct this week, trine Sun and sextile Chiron.
Ritual: Hum the holy hymn Happy Days Are Here Again to yourself all day and then form a choir to sing it joyfully on the front steps of the Hall of the Akashic Records that night. Other songs to sing will be Love the One You're With, I'll Never Grow Up, Oh What a Beautiful Morning, and Ren & Stimpy's Happy Happy Joy Joy. Better yet, sing the songs that each member of your choir have written that are destined to go platinum. Then run into the sacred Hall, find your karmic future, and change it to whatever you want it to be.
(Special event!: Just before sunrise EDT 8/28, go outside, look to the West and watch a total Piscean Lunar eclipse unfold. The ritual to perform at the New Moon of 8/12 is to imagine Sir Sun wrapping his solar arms around Lady Luna to spawn the two fishes that Jesus fed the five thousand with. Correctly performed, this mini ritual will guarantee a similar miracle on the 28th. Good luck trying to explain 5,000 strangers in your front yard to the local constabulary.)
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Mabon/Autumnal Equinox, 9/23: Sun moves into Libra trine Ceres but also as the focus of a T-square involving Mars in Gemini, and a direct Pluto still in Sagittarius ramping up for his final pass at the galactic center. Mars, Moon & Mercury form an Air Grand trine later in the day with Pluto (and loosely Venus in Leo) as kite focuses. Venus stationed - direct 9/8 but won't move out of her retrograde shadow until 10/11, the day before Mercury goes retrograde. Ceres (retrograde as of 9/20) is the focus of a T-square to Venus and Neptune. Saturn entered Virgo 9/2 and Pluto stationed - direct 9/6.
Ritual: Forget the season and plant a new crop at the Full Moon of 9/26. The harvest will be in the middle of the Winter, so gear up for the cold. These obviously won't be conventional crops, so imagine tap roots that reach depths you never thought possible. Start beating those swords into plowshares - you'll need them to dig up the buried treasure that those seeds will turn into. Expect unexpected good news out of the Southern hemisphere regarding devices that will help put the fossil fuel industry out of business forever. Give yourself a psychic larynx transplant to find your new voice, and begin to speak constantly of the power of peace, love, balance, harmony and justice. Instant karma is busting out all over, and the Universe needs us all to be equal partners for the peaceful world we've been praying for.
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Samhain/Halloween, 10/31: Mercury and Neptune both station - direct 11/1. Saturn links up with the collective South Node in Virgo exact on 10/23. Sun, Mars & Uranus form a Water Grand Trine. Retrograde Ceres in Taurus is inconjunct Jupiter and square Neptune, but trine Venus in Virgo and sextile Uranus. The Jupiter/Neptune sextile (exact 10/30) is their first sextile since 1999 (remember peace and prosperity?). Pluto makes his last pass at the galactic center 10/27 until the year 2254. Mars in Cancer slows down to go retrograde in mid November and back into Gemini in late 1/08.
Ritual: Your Halloween costume should represent what you have evolved into since the Saturn/Neptune opposition broke this past Summer. Hopefully, it will look something like a cross between a baby-diaper and a Buddhist monk's robe. Whatever it looks like, be proud of it - you've earned it. This requires a new definition of the word "ego" in your own dictionary - have you become a Trickster or a Treatster? Both Mercury and Neptune move direct to watch Mars lay down his weapons and pick up a twelve-pack. The mind/spirit connection beats blood-thirst every time.
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Winter Solstice/Yule, 12/22: Jupiter conjunct Pluto exact on 12/11 features a loose Grand sextile(!) involving Moon, Uranus, Ceres, Mars, Saturn & Venus in the feminine polarities of Earth & Water signs. (The last Jupiter/Pluto conjunction was 1994 - remember peace and prosperity?). Mars retrograde is opposed Sun, Mercury, Jupiter & Pluto, and the Full Moon of 12/23 is 1° from Mars opposed those four, but Mercury is far enough ahead to form a Grand trine with Saturn and Ceres in the feminine Earth signs.
Ritual: Honor all the war veterans from your past-lives, as well as to the ones struggling with their first experiences home from Iraq. Their courage and resolve need resolution once and for all, to be found in the roar we can all hear from the collective graves of the eons. Imagine new rites of passage for boys that don't require competition of any kind, and imagine a non-orgiastic activity where whomever loves the most wins. Then come on over and sit in front of a massive pepperoni pizza with a fridge full of beer to watch a football game. Celebrate life and whatever unwanted competitions come your way. It's just a game, as is life itself, and as long as we don't develop unnecessary attachments to any particular side or the outcome of the game itself to determine our happiness, we can come to the realization that competitions for the human animal are regrettable, unfortunate, inevitable, but ultimately transformable - so long as we adopt the paradigm of the Mystic Masters - and use every opportunity to find the sacred within the mundane.
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2008 highlights: Pluto moves into Capricorn, Saturn opposes Uranus, Jupiter trines Saturn, Neptune and Chiron align with the collective North Node, oh boy!
See you next year if there ain't no meltdown.
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Just because I'm psychic doesn't mean I can see into the future, otherwise I would've bought and sold thousands of shares of Microsoft by now. My evil twin however has a crystal ball that he swears works pretty well, so I'll let him indulge in predictions for the new year, although I think he's been looking at some other solar system.
Predictions for 2007: Astrological shots in the dark, by Phil O'Blarney.
1. Bush will not be President by the end of the year. Of course, he never has been.
2. The Moslem equivalent of Martin Luther will nail 95 Theses to the door of a bombed-out mosque in Baghdad. He or she will be shot on sight, but will be revered in martyrdom, and these revolutionary ideas will lead to an Islamic Reformation in about 250 years.
3. Hilary Clinton will have an affair with Barak Obama, and they will spawn a love child named Tito who will eventually grow up to become King of the United States of North America.
4. Internet videos will surface showing a sex tape involving Jerry Falwell, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Vice President Dick Cheney, and a recently sacrificed goat named Chelsea. Cheney responds by shooting Chris Matthews in the face with bird-shot and screaming that he hasn't been able to have sex since he found out that his daughter was Lebanese.
5. A Democratic contender for the White House will be seen as the clear front-runner for the 2008 election. Liberal Democrats from Massachusetts need not get their hopes up.
6. An Evangelical TV preacher will be caught having sex with an alien space monkey while free-basing shredded $20 bills.
7. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will get much worse before they get any better, and a Peace movement will build in the US. My little buddy Mister Whiskers typed that one.
8. Fidel Castro will make the ultimate transition, and Cuba will be renamed Miami Island.
9. A scientist from Bob Jones University will announce his theory that black holes are created by gay penguins living in San Francisco.
10. It will be revealed that the 2000 US elections were rigged in Florida, and Al Gore should have become President after all. A laughing Gore responds to the news by saying that he made the whole global warming thing up.
11. There will be earthquakes and floods. This obligatory prediction fulfills a law that astrologers have taken an oath to uphold.
12. The Ford Motor Company will unveil a new SUV called the Land Barge to fill the void left by the discontinuance of the largest Hummer. The marketing campaign will target short, fat, rich Republicans with small penises.
13. The US dollar falls to 90% below it's value of just ten years ago. The Federal Reserve Bank asks the Republic of Ghana for loans.
14. Al Qaeda terrorists send a suicide bomber to blow up the Skull and Bones temple at Yale. The specters of Bob Hope and Doris Day arise from the smoke and ashes to sing a duet of "On the Good Ship Lollypop."
15. Michael Jackson will record a new CD entitled "I'm Not Sure, But I Might Not Be Normal."
16. Hurricane Zsa Zsa will devastate Rehoboth Beach Delaware, Fire Island New York, and Provincetown Massachusetts. FEMA rushes to build a fence along the Mexican border.
17. A scientifically conducted poll at year's end reveals that individuals who practice alternative spirituality now outnumber those who call themselves Evangelicals. Pat Robertson, Supreme Commander of the Flat Earth Society, responds by saying that gay penguins from San Francisco living under his bed are the result of satanic influences that now control scientists brains, and that all future polling should be conducted by using Diebold touch-screen voting machines.
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