2014-15 Lunar eclipse Tetrad and Cardinal Grand Cross: USA in the crosshairs

This lunar eclipse is the first of four over the next year and a half that will be visible across North America, followed by October 8th 2014, April 4th 2015, and another on September 28 2015. Longtime NASA eclipse expert Fred Espenak said “The most unique thing about the 2014-2015 tetrad is that all of them are visible for all or parts of the USA.” Which of course correlates to the time period of the last 3 of 7 Uranus Pluto squares. The last Tetrad of four consecutive lunar eclipses was in 1967 to 1968, and before that 1949 to 1950, with none occurring between 1600 and 1900. This is also getting attention from the Judaic and Christian communities because the eclipses all occur on Jewish holidays. This puts additional emphasis on the Cardinal signs with Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto is signs that initiate new seasons.

I’ve already been feeling this with the Sun engaging in the Cardinal T-square at the beginning of the month, which I referred to as the “shot across the bow”, as we move toward the Cardinal Grand Cross. Here in the United States we had a shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, which killed four people including the gunman and injured 16. Full moons can certainly be a time of tension, and this one is between Aries and Libra, so its energy is between love and war, which may expose hidden enemies and allies. Keeping aware of this energetic could help keep you safe, because social rage is certainly a possibility under this influence. Included in the Full Moon chart we have Mercury square Pluto folks can be obsessing about some thought or idea, so it’s important in conversations to be open to others’ view points and not be forceful in getting others to agree with our beliefs. This may be a time when we experience one thought that dominates the day and leaves little room for anything else. This energy can easily provoke arguments over things that won’t seem important in a few days. If you use this energy to explore your inner world, it can bring light to something that was hidden in the depths of our psyches. Great energy for studying subjects that deal with covert or hidden aspects, such as psychology, magic, or the occult, as well as meditation or yoga, to unveil other possibilities of human potential. 

     The Cardinal Grand Cross this month is very powerful in challenging the status quo. Here is the chart of the 5th Uranus Pluto square, with Jupiter in Cancer and Mars in Libra filling out the Grand Cross. This will be particularly potent for anyone who has planets at 13 degrees of Aries, Cancer, Libra, or Capricorn. Or Nations with heavenly bodies like the United States’ Sun being at 13 degrees Cancer or Russia’s Uranus at 13 degrees Capricorn, or China’s Mercury at 13 degrees Libra. This is a truly pivotal alignment and a very rare astrological event, with Pluto opposite Jupiter and Uranus opposite Mars and those two axis’s at 90 degree angles to each other, occurring between the total lunar eclipse on April 15th and the solar eclipse on April 29th. We’ve been talking about the Uranus Pluto squares for a few years since they began in 2012 and continue until 2015, but the addition of two planets filling out the cross amplifies the energy for change, transformation, revolution, death and rebirth. As we discussed earlier Pluto in Capricorn, at a virtual standstill and at the peak of its power all month, is about transforming hierarchical structures of governments, banks, corporations, and those in power, which has been in a challenging square to Uranus in Aries which is about rebellion, unexpected change, and the revolt of individuals. With the addition of Jupiter in Cancer we feel the overlay of nurturing and protecting our homes and families during the collapse of the world’s elite power infrastructure. In the big picture this is our home on Earth and our family that inhabits this planet, which the power elite seems hell-bent to destroy through corporate environmental disasters that poison land, water, air and living beings, our Earth family. Mars in Libra is about taking action to restore balance, justice, and equality through aggression and violence if need be. Mars is retrograde so this might be a period of reviewing past incidences of police state repression and opposing tactics to understand what might be the best use of force when Mars is direct next month.

No matter how you look at this chart it screams of tension, confrontation, frustration, anger, and resentment. This feels like a pressure cooker whose intensity has no release valve and could turn explosive. This is not meant to be an “end of the world apocalypse” scenario. The planets only destroy what needs to go to restore balance, in the world or in our personal lives. Of course there are things about this world and some people’s individual lives that are terribly out of balance and those instances may seem very dramatic as we deal with climate change globally or our own emotional weather personally. Overall this seems like a clash between the old and the new, as systems fail, structures change, revolution erupts, family patterns transform, ideas and belief systems change, fears are faced, relationships mutate, and motivations are confronted leading to some folks breaking down while others find their power. The best way to weather this extreme energy which will impact us during April and beyond, is to be willing to release what no longer serves and is departing, and join with people whose goals are compatible with your own. Basically we have these four planets acting like spokes on the “Wheel of Fortune”, some are on their way up, others are on their way down, but they will bring a shift in the environment, people, situations, and events for years to come. This is followed by the Sun conjunct Mercury on the 25th which may signal a commitment to the new direction revealed in the days prior, and the Taurus Solar Eclipse and New Moon may offer new purpose, new people, a new script, and a new stage to more forward after being rousted out of our previous somewhat unconscious state.

    Over a year ago when I looked at the future Uranus Pluto squares I realized that the April 21st 2014 square would have Pluto exactly opposing and Uranus exactly squaring the USA’s Cancer Sun, and the final square on March 17th 2015 would have Uranus exactly opposing and Pluto exactly squaring the USA’s Saturn in Libra. As difficult as the transits will be globally, the United States has the front row seat on this rollercoaster ride of death and rebirth, transformation through revolution. Which I believe will lead to the complete collapse of the US’s economy when Pluto moves into its 2nd house of resources in 2016. With Uranus conjunct the US’s Chiron June 25 2015, August 26 2015, and April 5 2016, we can expect those time periods to bring intense events of unexpected wounding and healing. I think Nero can rosin up his bow and tune up his fiddle because another empire is about to burn to the ground, at least metaphorically. 

The big change for Flint trecena is that Pluto turns retrograde on the 14th and engages in the 5th Uranus Pluto square on the 21st which is also a Cardinal Grand Cross with Mars and Jupiter peaking from the 20th to the 23rd. When Pluto, the planet of transformation through a death and rebirth cycle, turns retrograde, which is about reviewing the past, April will require releasing anything from the past that is a burden to our new path. We can choose to let go or we can have it ripped from our hands, we have a choice about how we want to react, but Pluto will take our baggage regardless of our attachment, if it doesn’t have a purpose in our rebirth. What I find interesting about the astrology of April is Pluto in Capricorn slows to a stop and begins its reverse or retrograde motion on the 14th. Planets are said to be at the peak of their power when they are stopped. Pluto represents death, completion, and in Capricorn, the breakdown of structures, to bring about transformation.

Pluto moved into Capricorn in 2008 which was the point when the overly optimistic investments of Pluto in Sagittarius started to crash. Pluto in Capricorn is determined in exposing the darkness, destroying the old order, so that we can rise up like the Phoenix from the ashes to soar again. Pluto will be in Capricorn until 2024, and early in its transit through a sign there is a breakdown phase, where something that no longer serves us is dismantled to create space for something new. Capricorn is about large structures which includes banks, governments, corporations, and religions. This is a time of a cosmic course correction for the entire planet. We cannot continue to harm Mother Earth for the economic gain of a few. Pluto is about power and empowerment which I believe is about our spiritual evolution from being conditioned to live in fear of not getting our needs met, like too many rats in a maze, to realizing there is enough for all, we don’t need to fight each other. We have been sold, and at a high price I might add, the concept of “manufactured lack”. It is the resistance to Pluto’s lesson of letting go of the past, that brings tragedy and pain. Capricorn is about building and achievement and as an earth sign it’s rooted in the material world. The goat climbing the highest mountains is its symbol. Pluto rules the underworld so look for events from underground such as earthquakes, volcanoes, and giant sink holes, and events involving tunnels or subways, and infrastructures in general, but also battles for underground resources, such as oil and fracking. Here in Maine we are battling the Nestle corporation as their subsidiary Poland Springs is taking legal action against the locals over water rights, as they drain the aquifer for profit, while people’s wells are going dry. Capricorn is also about the elderly and in the U.S. we have a political battle over social security, which was paid for by people’s payroll deductions and has nothing to do with the national debt, but because our government borrowed from social security and has no way to pay it back, they want to dismantle this life line for our seniors.

     Pluto was last in Capricorn from 1762 to 1778 where it transformed political and economic structures all over the world, from the end of the Seven Years War when France ceded Canada to Britain, to political unrest in Europe and her Colonies which brought changes to many nations. Catherine the Great came to power after the murder of her husband and went to war with the Ottoman Empire which yielded Russian control of Turkish territories. Poland was divided into three sections owned by Austria, Prussia, and Russia. British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to pay for the cost to quell the Colonial rebellion which then escalated into the American Revolution. That sounds familiar, increasing taxes to maintain control of an oppressed population, resulting in the overthrow of the oppressor. It couldn’t happen again… or could it with Pluto in Capricorn. The previous Pluto in Capricorn time period was 1516 to 1533 which was the time period when exploration of the New World yielded the colonies, but also the anti-Catholic movement with Martin Luther nailing his thesis to the church door in 1517.

   This time of Pluto moving in reverse, has it moving aggressively towards its fifth challenging square to Uranus in Aries, which will be exact on April 21st at 13 degrees. These challenging angles between Uranus, the planet of disruption, revolution and unexpected change in Aries, the sign of the individual, challenging Pluto the planet of death and destruction but also rebirth, in the sign of Capricorn representing structures including governments and corporations, is the most powerful transit of our time. These two titans have exact confrontations an amazing seven times between 2012 and 2015. Usually this type of transit occurs three or five times. Seven times is unusual and very intense. The world will be a very different place by the end of 2015. With Pluto retrograde and Uranus direct, I think this time period will favor individuals in their challenging of the oppressive structures, with sudden unexpected results.

Scott Davis presents the 1 – Etznab “etz-nob” or Flint trecena spanning from April 13th 2014 to April 25th 2014. Also see video here for Pluto turning retrograde, the Libra Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse, the Sun moving into Taurus, followed by Mercury moving into Taurus and the Cardinal Grand Cross.

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