Jupiter Retrograde 2022 - Personal Astrology by David Sky

 

Today Jupiter retrogrades back to 29 degrees Pisces, the last degree of the last sign. This happens right about exactly as Mars retrogrades at 25 degrees Gemini. Collectively, there is some general sense of completing a cycle, of perhaps some culmination or perhaps an eclipse, not to forget this is happening in the midst of this Scorpionic eclipse season.

Jupiter the largest planet, the Great Benefic, the energy of expansion, optimism, inclusive not exclusive, open minded and lucky is also Zeus the King of the Gods who threw down lightening bolts from Mount Olympus striking humans who dared test his will - in Vedic Jupiter in Retrograde is said to bring Karma. I have my Sun in Sagittarius, ruled by Jupiter, along with Jupiter itself at home there by sign, and Mars and Mercury. I also have my Sagittarius Sun square the nodes of the moon at 29 degrees Virgo and Pisces, perhaps my most challenging natal aspect.

Jupiter first hit 29 degrees 27 minutes of Pisces, my SN on May 8th and this was about the time when I gave up on my YouTube channel that had meant so much to me for nearly two years. At that time, I gave up on a lot and for better or worse laid down into what seems a transformative process over which I feel no control and, in fact, have begun to suspect that this is the very purpose of what I am experiencing now with Pluto transit opposite Natal Moon while not the only challenge playing into this, the most profound. I take note that Jupiter will hit my SN again and finally just before it races through Aries early next year just days before my birthday on December 17th. I think that I am waiting for some kind of mouth to mouth resuscitation from the Universe and my best guess is that this last hit may bring it because the retrograde hit is only days away on November 4th and at this point just cannot yet imagine any kind of rejuvenation.

Simultaneously, Neptune that will be within orb of influence for all of us by transit as to Jupiter as it retrogrades back into Pisces is square my natal Sun that today is exactly opposed by Mars stationing retrograde. Saturn opposes Uranus for me this year as it conjuncts Chiron in its retrograde. The Nov 8th eclipse hits exactly my Progressed Moon now transiting Scorpio, not to forget progressed energy in any of this. My progressed Sun forms an exact semi-sextile to this Jupiter South Node conjunction so for me this must represent a profound karmic ending. My progressed Sun will enter Pisces in July of 2023 and I feel this will represent a profound change for me that will see me now at the age of 62 over 30 years likely to my end here on this earth.

But honestly, I feel now numb like maybe a random piece of wood on the ground. I barely have the physical energy to breathe, it seems. In some strange way, I feel as if I do not actually exist now. I am out of time and out of space. I no longer have the will to meditate and even prayer is almost negated. Oddly, I feel though that this is exactly as it should be and I feel little desire to fight back. Instead of struggling to stand up as I have done so often in the past, thinking much of this autoimmune attack in 2008 and how I was told that I would be dead within a year and how I shook that off and stood up and walked again and how now I instead just remain on the ground looking up passively at the clouds passing overhead with barely the will to think.

This eclipse on the 8th will also be on a Progressed Moon that is separating my four degrees from my natal Venus in Scorpio that was severely challenged last year by a Saturn Square culminating as a long Uranus opposition cleared, a real one two punch for our Gurl Venus. My love life and relationship stood up well to this outer planet scissor effect so what it was about was my own, internal relationship energies that speak as well to a SN at 29 degrees Pisces, my 7th House of relationship. This is something to keep in mind in terms of especially a challenging Uranus transit to ones Venus or the 7th House, that this does not necessarily mean the end of a relationship. It will have to do with Venus energies and relationship in general but think of it always first as a transit that actives natal (and progressed energies) and perhaps in the case or Uranus (or Saturn or Pluto for that matter) as a stress test such as an engineer might do on a bridge to determine the condition of its structural integrity.

Anyway, Uncle Universe. Uncle God. I got nothing. I got nothing but I am in here somewhere still alive.

Mars Retrograde in Gemini 2022/23

This incredible Mars transit through Gemini hitting my 10th house driving me back into study while Pluto steady searches my soul in opposition to my Cancer Moon. It often feels that I am dying physically so, I mean, primarily, and yet I live. What is not killing me is in some literal process of making me stronger.

So long as I live, I vow to drive this crude sword deeper and deeper into the Heart-of-All-Things.

This body and ego self is a ridiculous thing as hapless as any little bird but my true self is indomitable, never born so never to die and I must remind all these planets, kindly but firmly, and even our Sun itself that while all of you will wink out of existence in only a few billion years, the Thing I Am is eternal. None of you are the master of me.

The Pathology of The Machine

It is more than simply approaching childbirth as if it were a disease to be treated by medical intervention. There is a fatalism that is a nihilistic perception of life as being some state of dying staved at any moment only by our next breath. This subtle but pervasive, underlying assumption most common to modernity, it seems to me, lends itself to such things as False Flag attacks like 9-11 and the Covid Hoax because our most basic human dignity of being in and of ourselves is subverted by outer and non human systems turning human beings naturally occurring as any creatures under the sun into slave-victims of The Machine.

Mars Transit to 7th House of Gemini in Mundane Chart of USA

Astrology by David Sky

So using the Sibly chart not to get all into that but this is the most accepted chart and my thought after all is said and done, since July 4th is such a national holiday in America and has been for so long now, I feel like this is where the energy is concentrated.

The coming Mars retrograde especially, but the whole 7th month long Mars transit to Gemini in the 7th house of the USA feels in my bones like the core of the overarching energy of the USA's Pluto Return. What I am looking for in the Pluto Return is both some insight into how so it may play out in our reality as well as trigger points and this Mars through the 7th retrograding just before the mid term elections seems of great, perhaps not hyperbolic to say, even grave import.

While there are many trigger points during this multi year Pluto Return for the USA, given the martial nature of the US since its inception and its present insistence upon aggression virtually worldwide now, I feel we must consider with this transit outside influences having an impact upon the Pluto Return that I see primarily as an internal affair. Pluto in the 2nd is said to indicate finances of the country and certainly that is at play but most of all in a late degree of Capricorn representing the Government, Pluto has been doing its thing of shadow work in this government sign since 2008, going into the hidden, secret and dark places leading up to what most would consider is set to be at least some kind of fundamental transformation.

The 2nd house to me is also fixed earth, an earth house, the ground, so it feels to me that the impact could be more than a transformation in the financial sector. The Square of Saturn to Uranus is huge in this Pluto Return also forming a last hurrah near the time that Mars Retrogrades. Uranus is in the 6th house so two earth houses in this square and squares are always pressure, Saturn to Uranus a tension and pressure between the government and the people in the broadest sense, I think most could agree. I see things unapologetically through the lens of a so called Conspiracy Theorist which I well imagine is how Pluto may be seeing things, come down to it, having been rooting around in those classified basements for almost fifteen years now.

Mars is of course Martial especially in a mundane chart of a country and since the 7th house here is the house of foreign countries and open enemies, it certainly feels like Mars is a potential threat. In this transit just considering two conjunctions, there seems to be a clear martial aspect. First, Mars hits Uranus and anyone who has had significant Uranus to Mars transits especially or Uranus to Mars in synastry knows that this is a powerful combination given to volatile, erratic and rash energies with a strong dose of Who-Knows-What. I have to go back through the timeline and look at everything else during these long seven months because obviously there is a lot going on. Mercury soon will be retrograding over the Midheaven here another government pressure point and surely something will come up and likely around whatever Pluto has dug up from the basement.

Mars Return in the midst of this Mars Retrograde and in the 7th house and much like Uranus points very much to martial energy but with Uranus seems like well could be an outside force acting upon the US perhaps in some unexpected way (screams cyber attack) this Mars Return feels internal to me and my clairaudience, just to be honest here, said when I first laid eyes on it, "Internal Conflict" that I interpretated first as civil war possibly but then thinking about it, perhaps this Mars Return represents a point when the US military stands in some martial fashion at odds somehow with the civilian leadership of the government and given present circumstances worldwide, perhaps in regards to aggression to or from a foreign power.

My disadvantage now is that for reasons of successfully negotiating my own once in a lifetime Pluto transit, I have divorced myself from the information flow of current events. Just include my notes here hoping someone else can contribute and develop this further and I will be going back to this as my energy, much maligned now, allows.

Pluto Transit Opposite Natal Moon: "Unbreakable"

Childhood "Issues" primarily of abandonment, proximity abandonment and physical and emotional neglect along with just being exposed to a highly toxic environment throughout childhood. I thought going into this, naively, "How bad can it be, my whole life has been a Pluto transit to the Moon, metaphorically speaking - this is my bailiwick. I got this". I had some sense that it would be about breaking the family curses, maybe like some advanced degree in breaking family curses.

I think that I mostly had it right only there is always that gulf between theory, no matter how good the theory may be, and reality. So here I am. Transits always stimulate what we have made over time of our natal energies, I remind myself. Pluto on the AC squaring Mercury and Mars for me and the likelihood that I would break someone's face again is extraordinarily low and has been for quite some time because I worked on that energy. But, alas, I am not Mother Theresa here. I just wiped three family members from my life and feel about a million percent better for it. No need to confront them, just a need to find peace within myself which is the core lesson of this transit, I am finding - a powerful and real self acceptance and peaceful core that will be if I survive it, unbreakable.

It comes at a cost and going back to the core of the Pluto energy that this transit addresses energetically, Pluto on the IC is ruthless self preservation: The Survivor.

Not much for bubble gum, rainbows and light astrology and am becoming comfortable with that as well. A lot of what is passing for New Age wisdom is old ass mental illness and projection of unresolved trauma from childhood abuse, the epidemic of epidemics. I do not wish to be a part of anything that is not genuine bone to soul. Sometimes Pluto portends death, horrible death possibly. This is part of life, unfortunately. I have seen it too many times. Astrology is just life, all of life, the good, the bad and the ugly.

The Spiritual in the Carnal World

Orgasm's as spiritual as prayer,

a smile as brilliant as the sun,

a simple gift from the heart,

as exalted as any church litany -

spiritual is right here and now

permeating this carnal world:

One thing does not have to die

so that another thing may live!

Pluto as the Key Evolutionary Astrology: Tool My Mother's Death Seen In My Chart

So looking at Pluto for myself since I am experiencing a Pluto opposition to natal moon this year its most intensive hits and thought to look at when it had hit my 4th house cusp. To illustrate for those who might be beginners, an easy way is to use the Cafe Astrology Ephemeris that is very user friendly, I think. To get in the ballpark if you do not have more advanced software, say using Astro, simply google when did Pluto enter whatever sign you are dealing with and estimate and then use the ephemeris to nail exact aspects. This little exercise alone gives us a great sense of how slow Pluto really is and perhaps this also helps us to get a real big picture overview of soul's purpose always keeping in mind that our natal chart is no accident but a starmap of our Soul's reason/s for incarnation.

Depending of course with Pluto where it is in natal and your age now, in terms of Evolutionary Astrology, almost a first step after examining the ramifications of that natal position is to then look first at all of the significant transits that Pluto has made during our life first by conjunction to angles then personal planets and Sun and Moon, of course.

Pluto is kind of the Sun of our Soul in Evolutionary Astrology in a way so if it does not make a conjunction, then it will make significant major aspect to those angles, luminaries and planets and interpretations can be had via google or youtube that can aid in intuiting what we are seeing. It is not so daunting as it may seem and you can spend as much time or as little as you want in this exercise that in guaranteed to reap great reward in personal insight into our soul's processes, I feel.

I had some general sense that Pluto had hit my IC around the time that my mother had passed in 1997 but was a bit surprised that at the exact time of her passing Pluto was 2 degrees past the IC and exactly within only minutes of orb on my Sagittarius Mercury that is in my 4th house and a two degree orb conjunct the IC and forming a 1 degree orb square to both Pluto in natal and my AC as Pluto is in the 12th for me only minutes off my AC.

Of course, much else to consider but it is all there in whatever transit chart of significance that we may be looking at - pay close attention to the other outer planets especially any aspect to natal or transit Pluto in this exercise and especially consider the house ramifications of it all. But the fact that my mother's death is dead on my chart ruler such as it is at the very time is among many things a real comformation of the power and significance of astrology in our lives.

Evolutionary Astrology lends itself well to more generalized observations that can yield profound insights relying as it does upon archetypes, using wide orbs with an emphasis upon house and sign placements. From this we can drill down endlessly into more and more detail bringing in the personal planets and their kinetic relationship to say Pluto transit to natal moon that can go on for years.