You Say You Want a Revolution?

Here’s how to read this transit both personally and collectively, plus today’s forecast:

* Uranus in the sign of the ram wants to push through its revolutionary agenda at all costs. In the sign of Mars, this is a rebel with disregard for due process. This is the media on a crusade. This is one populism vs. another. This is change at all costs, now, yesterday, and get out of the way! Uranus in Aries is a lightning rod whose contact sparks and fuels multiple different ends of the ideological web simultaneously. Uranus in Aries is the random mutation, the sudden leap, the breakthrough, and the 360 turnabout. Uranus in Aries smashes, batters, and breaks paradigms, and isn’t afraid to use force, to be fueled by revenge, and to keep singular victory as its focus. Uranus in Aries does not care about odds, numbers, polls, or statistics. Uranus in Aries is force over fact. Uranus in Aries is also the ignition lighting and powering the resistance and the overthrow of oppressors.

* When we pit Uranus in Aries against Jupiter in the balance, well, look around! Jupiter in the balance wants order, peace, checks on power, reviews, and fair minded diplomacy. Jupiter in Libra is the dignity of the peace-maker, the poise of the ambassador, and the virtues of justice, kindness, patience, and harmony. Jupiter in Libra asks us to judge or discern wisely, to not rush to conclusions, and to consider results evenly against all the facts. As Jupiter is currently retrograde in the balance, Jupiter is moving backward, in an act of revision, toward an opposition with the fiery rebel in the home of the ram. Justice, fairness, equality, patience, and the law, are moving into a conflicted, tense, and creatively dynamic relationship with the lightning rod rebel. The system will be changed, battered, and challenged, as much as the rebel will be taken to task, or held to answer before the higher powers. The rebel isn’t above the law, but the law is always subject to hypocrisy and abuse. For these reasons it’s hard to separate truth from faction, fiction from a just cause, and empowerment from hatred.

* Though all of the above make the most obvious sense politically, these themes are personal right now as well. Look to the Aries/Libra ruled places in your birth chart, and consider that we are each potentially riding a fine line between breakdown and breakthrough, revolution and irreparable damage to a working system or relationship we are perhaps undervaluing personally. Also, remember that powerful surges of creativity, resistance, and opportunity should be held in check by careful consideration, balanced judgments and cautious diplomacy.

* Meanwhile, Mars is coming to intensify all of the above in the next few weeks, and it’s more than likely “shit will get even wilder.” We also have a solar eclipse coming through. No joke, this is one of the more intense series of transits in 2017…even though we’re only a few months in…we’re living in an intensely revolutionary moment. For many it will be just as revolutionary on a personal level as it will be on the collective level.

* Finally, despite all of the drama above, today the Moon has several very nice and smooth aspects, including a trine to the Sun, which is generally very supportive, productive, and auspicious. When the lights connect harmoniously, support comes, doors open, and we find what we’re looking for, or we receive that nod of assurance that we’re moving in the right direction. So use today’s window of support wisely!