Weekly Hello

We are in the season of Libra, a time when balance and harmony rule supreme. Of course, that’s an exaggeration. We only have to look out on the world to see that divisions are hardening, conflicts escalating and in our own lives balancing the budget and managing to keep sane and serene through all the madness is hard work.

And talking of hard work, as we move away from Sunday’s Sun-Saturn opposition, the influences lighten and we may be able to see the purpose behind any recent defeats or discouraging episodes and instead come to see Saturn as our kindly mentor.

Christa Pike’s survival after receiving two doses of a lethal injection at her execution was one of last week’s most extraordinary events. I talked about her in my Friday Bite, focussing on the strong Pisces/Neptune content in her chart. She is a victim. A victim of her abusive childhood and a victim of her legal representation who failed to bring her traumatic upbringing into her defence. She may not recover from her “execution” but it seems to me that in an essentially Neptunian way, her life has assumed a greater purpose and brought the whole issue of the rights and wrongs of the death penalty to light in a state that might do well to end this barbaric ritual. There seemed to be a divine aspect to her plight, which gave her “final” words even more pathos.

“I’m going to leave this world the way I spent most of my life. And that is with love.”

My new video goes live tonight and it covers the period from now until mid-October including the new moon in Libra on the 10^th. Pluto looms large on the astro-landscape, which aside from providing us all with the opportunity to dig deep for answers and resources, throws a spotlight on Vladimir Putin and Russia. It is, of course Putin’s birthday on 7 October, and things they are a-changing.