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January 2020

January 2, 2020

Lunar Eclipse Coming

Eclipses come in pairs of solar and lunar. and sometimes in groups of three. So we're due for a lunar eclipse following the December 26 annular solar eclipse. See the December 11 Venus/Saturn & Solar Eclipse.

A penumbral lunar eclipse comes January 10 and will be maximum at 2:20 PM EST at 25:52 Gemini.

TimeAndDate.com offers a clear description of a penumbral lunar eclipse,

A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth, and the Moon are imperfectly aligned. When this happens, the Earth blocks some of the Sun's light from directly reaching the Moon's surface and covers all or part of the Moon with the outer part of its shadow, also known as the penumbra. Since the penumbra is much fainter than the dark core of the Earth's shadow, the umbra, a penumbral eclipse of the Moon is often difficult to tell apart from a normal Full Moon.

TimeAndDate.com also has a very cool video graphic showing the earth's outer shadow penumbra covering the Moon almost completely, and the dark core umbra shadow only approaching the Moon.

Click here for the video

This eclipse will be visible everywhere except the Americas. However, as shown in the below image, because the eclipse will be so faint, you won't be missing much in the U.S., and folks who can view it will see just a faint shading.

As the power of eclipses results from their blocking the Moon (and Sun), and penumbral eclipses only shade the Moon, this one will be pretty tame. It can pass unnoticed.

However, the eclipse season itself is a period of instability as the light of the all-important luminaries is blocked, or in this case, dimmed. It's like the weather instability a cold front brings as it surges across the U.S. and collides with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico. All along frontal boundary, temperatures vacillate, winds surge, and storms of pop up -- some disastrous like tornadoes. So even as this lunar eclipse is so weak it's nearly imperceptible, the celestial weather season -- from before the solar eclipse to after the lunar eclipse --brings spots or points of extreme turbulence on or about the astronomical eclipse date.

Further, this lunar eclipse falls at a delicate time -- as explained in the December 29 Impeachment Chart. That was very dense Vedic Astrology likely putting you to sleep, or howl at the Moon! A short and light entry would have been more digestible, but this entry covered a deeply serious topic, and there was a lot of information to convey. Anyway, staying with the lunar eclipse, five paragraphs from the bottom is this.

As for transits, the Sun is quickly advancing, as mentioned. Now he is at 13 degrees, heading (closely) toward dissolving tomorrow Ketu and nasty Saturn by January 9. In the meantime, mental Mercury transited into this den of lions December 25, passed the hot Sun, will be on top of Ketu right after New Years and on Saturn January 9 with the Sun.

It's not unusual for the Sun to be close to the other eclipse point. In fact, the Sun must be close to, in this case Ketu, since he's directly opposite the Moon to make her full, and the Moon is close to the other eclipse point, Rahu. And it's not unusual either for Mercury to be close to the eclipse point and the Sun, since Mercury is always close to the Sun in Astrology. What is unusual is the Sun and Mercury are within 3 degrees of Saturn, the great malefic.

Orb is the distance in degrees from one planet to another. A close orb, where the energies are intense enough to bring major events, is 4 degrees. On the January 10 eclipse day, both the Sun and Mercury will be inside the 4 degree boundary from Saturn. And during the following few days, when eclipse effects are still raging, the Sun and Mercury will approach and then cross Saturn. That exact conjunction is January 12.

Lunar Eclipse
January 10, 2020 2:20 PM Washington DC

This means that from January 9 through January 13 the Sun and Mercury will be under tremendous stress. Saturn shuts down, even crushes, the governmental Sun and communications Mercury. Major turmoil and setbacks for government and business are predicted.

For the U.S., there could be a tumultuous breakthrough. It would be natural here to expect that means the impeachment process. Trump could have a major mental meltdown. By the end of the eclipse season -- about January 17 -- the political landscape will have changed.

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Doug Riemer

January 12, 2020

Ricochet

The December 11 Venus/Saturn & Solar Eclipse was a first look at this winter's eclipse season. Discussed was an annular (ring of fire) solar eclipse December 25/26 at 10 degree Sagittarius. (Note, this was followed on January 10 by a penumbral lunar eclipse at 25:52 degrees Gemini.)

That entry stated, ...neither Trump nor the U.S. have planets nearby the 10 degrees Sagittarius eclipse location... But intriguingly, when writing this forecast, it came to mind the eclipse could hit another chart, which effects would ricochet back to the U.S.,

The eclipse can and will hit other locations, though not necessarily where the eclipse is visible. As other nations and leaders have planets in the 10 degrees Sagittarius locale, that blocking energy will cause problems -- which can ricochet back to the U.S. Finally, since Rahu is foreigners (especially dark skinned), there's a second influence for the eclipse from dark folks, rather than white.

It turns out the solar eclipse didn't hit any planets in The Celestial Wheel's small library of nation charts. But the lunar eclipse did. And that impact ricocheted back to the U.S. Below is Iraq's independence chart -- per data from CNN. It shows Mercury at 24:03 degree Gemini, less than two degrees from the lunar eclipse at 25:52 degrees Gemini. (2 degrees is the hot zone orb -- distance from the eclipse.)

Iraq Independence
June 28, 2004 at 10:26 AM Baghdad, Iraq

The U.S. assassination of Iran General Soleimani on January 3 fall a week before the January 10 lunar eclipse at 25:52 degrees Gemini. Too, it was just over a week since the solar eclipse. This attack, then, fits with eclipse effects beginning a week or so before or after the astronomical event.

So, even as this was an attack by the U.S. on an Iran leader, because it happened in Iraq, and that country was hit by the lunar eclipse, Iraq has been pulled into that ongoing conflict. It's difficult to know what this may mean, or portend, but certainly widening the U.S./Iran conflict by bringing in Iraq shows yet again that war in the Mideast is endemic to the region.

As Iraq an artificial state -- a forced union of Shiite, Sunni and Kurd -- it is fertile ground for the continuing Muslim conflict between Shiites and Sunnis that has, and still does, define the entire region. Even Israel is just a bit player within the context of the Arabs' and Persians' Muslim sects war. Without understanding the Shiite/Sunni conflict underpins all Mideast contensions, the West must fail in trying to stabilize the region -- which it does so only to get its oil. Iraq's involvement also demonstrates the unintended consequences of Trump's heavy handed and impulsive action, which, done out of anger and ignorance, can have no good end.

Sometimes ricocheting can result in more than one bounce of the bullet.

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Doug Riemer

January 19, 2020

Bullseye

The January 2 Lunar Eclipse Coming explained that during the unstable eclipse season transits of the Sun and Mercury signal major challenges,

On the January 10 eclipse day, both the Sun and Mercury will be inside the 4 degree boundary from Saturn. And during the following few days, when eclipse effects are still raging*, the Sun and Mercury will approach and then cross Saturn. That exact conjunction is January 12.

This means that from January 9 through January 13 the Sun and Mercury will be under tremendous stress.

(*Remember, as eclipses block the light of the Sun and the Moon, the sky darkens and the stars become visible. Thus, eclipses both block and reveal.)

That entry continued by predicting specific results,

Saturn shuts down, even crushes, the governmental Sun and communications Mercury. Major turmoil and setbacks for government and business are predicted.

Today's Washington Post article ‘Once this is over, we’ll be kings’: How Lev Parnas worked his way into Trump’s world — and now is rattling it proved out this eclipse-revealing prediction,

Last Sunday (January 12) , a New York lawyer posted photographs of the shining dome of the U.S. Capitol on Twitter, announcing that he had just visited Washington to give Congress contents of an iPhone belonging to a onetime associate of President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani.

It would be a few days before the implications of his limited message became clear: The Lev Parnas hurricane was about to hit.

That's the bullseye. The Celestial Wheel is unique in predicting the nature and date of this tremendous event.

The business turmoil and setbacks prediction has also been proved out by Boeing's problems, New Boeing CEO inherits crisis created under his predecessor. And because Boeing is so large and dominates exports, the article explains its problems (emphasis added),

Boeing is halting Max production until it knows when the Federal Aviation Administration will approve fixes that company engineers are making to the plane’s software and other systems. While Boeing says it will find other work for idled employees, those at major suppliers are not so lucky. Spirit AeroSystems, which makes fuselages for the Max, said Friday it will lay off 2,800 people.

Boeing is so big that the loss of exports from the Max grounding is weighing on the entire U.S. economy.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday that Boeing is one of the nation’s largest exporters “and with the 737 Max, I think that could impact GDP as much as 50 basis points this year.”

Fifty basis points is one-half of one percentage point. Mnuchin said on Fox News that Boeing could reduce U.S. economic growth in 2020 from around 3% (higher than many private economists forecast) to 2.5%.

That's the second bullseye.

Whether Trump has the predicted major mental meltdown remains to be known. Perhaps that's already occurred but is hidden from the public. Certainly, however, his mind is continuing to fragment.

This is the third bullseye. The prediction, By the end of the eclipse season -- about January 17 -- the political landscape will have changed, is proven out by Republican Senators beginning to support the calling of witnesses that the party, and Trump, desperately need to avoid -- NBC reporting January 18 Key Republican Senators Now Open To Witnesses In Trump Impeachment Trial | NBC Nightly News.

Hmm... what's the plural of bullseye?

January 24, 2020

Smoother Sailing

As the nation grinds though the Senate impeachment trial, it's useful to review previous observations in The Celestial Wheel about this topic.

Remember the December 29, 2019 Impeachment Chart entry? I know, that seems long ago, a fading memory. We're bombarded by so much drama, the mind overloads. Even very recent events fall away as new ones crowd out memories in a continuous, even relentless, barrage upon the consciousness. This is Trump's influence, of course, but also his Republican cohorts, which have been mirrored in tough Vedic planetary energies.

Here are some brief selections from that entry giving karmic flavors to this impeachment,

...the impeachment articles are not only delayed, but there will be a tough battle just to get them out of the House and into the Senate. And then when they're addressed in the Senate, there will be continued discords and fighting until they're rejected.

...the House members will be raucous. As the impeachment chart is about that entire process, the Senate members will be at each others' throats.

This impeachment effort thereby looks to be a drawn-out and bloody battle which ultimately fails -- unless Trump behaves so badly during this process that Republican Senators begin to abandon him.

Still, expect surprises, for there are hundreds of players in Congress, and many, many folks not in government positions are, and will, make their voices known.

Too, crazy and paranoid Trump, with his reputation in tatters, would be emboldened to commit even worse deeds -- drawing more impeachment articles in the House.

The impeachment chart remains afflicted, though slightly less so. Notably, the underlying karma, the Dasas (planetary cycles) of Sun major and Rahu minor, is problematic -- exaggerating the ego while at the same time haunting the solar soul and bringing unexpected and uncontrollable events. This Dasa combination continues until February 19, when Jupiter replaces Rahu. The resulting Sun/Jupiter combination will then bring excellent and wise leadership, as well as some long overdue good fortune. At the very least, the country will begin to grasp the opportunity lost in the Senate not voting Trump out of office.

Considering the broader view of global transits -- where the planets are in today's skies -- below is a transit chart for today. There's now some gathering strength and balance. Mars is strong in his own sign, as is Jupiter, the great benefic. Saturn too, having just changed signs to his own sign of Capricorn, is gradually strengthening in a good way -- promoting stability and responsibility. Mercury and the Sun are okay in Capricorn, with restrictive Saturn so far away, it doesn't harm them. Venus is badly aspected by Mars right now, but she's approaching her exalted sign of Pisces, where she'll be in two weeks.

Transits January 24, 2020

So, while we remain embroiled in this impeachment mess, the celestial skies are generally improving, and with the impeachment chart Dasas becoming excellent as of February 19, we can look forward to better times -- well at least less stressful ones.