Weekly Hello

It seems that astrologers have been talking forever about the configuration that is forming at this time. And, of course, when anything is hyped to the extent that the Jupiter-Pluto opposition et al has been hyped, it runs the danger of ending up a damp squib. However, nothing is for nothing, as they say, and even if aliens don’t land on the White House lawn or Atlantis rise from the Atlantic seabed, events that bear the signature of this alignment will have mighty consequences.

In my new video on Barbault’s Basket, I talk about the boom-bust nature of the Jupiter-Pluto opposition. We all love boom times and it is tempting to think that they will go on forever, but nothing goes up and up, at some point they start to go down. Sometimes the bubble bursts in a spectacular way and sometimes it takes a while for the downward trend to be observed. But, in regard to the Jupiter-Pluto opposition, which is exact on 19/20 July, this is the peak of a cycle and the moment that a trend is reversed. And we could be looking at trends in conflicts and markets, currencies and administrations and on a collective and individual level.

The late André Barbault who was the first to write about the basket formation that is taking shape now, which is made up of sextiles between Jupiter-Uranus-Neptune and Pluto and an opposition between Jupiter and Pluto, saw this configuration as the entry into a “Golden Era”, however, he also described it as “the end of a long depressive cycle “ and anticipated shifts in power.

I am a little sceptical about the great leap in consciousness that may be taking place under the umbrella of this configuration. Mystics and psychics talk about being able to move consciously between realities; others speak of increasing empathy and knowledge that springs from nowhere. And maybe the signature of this alignment will be on humanity’s next evolutionary step. I hope it is. But what I do know is that the world in which we live is an increasingly dangerous place and the events taking place now are fundamental to our ability to thrive, if not survive.

Food for thought at this incredibly important time.