Lake Albano, 1762, by Richard Wilson
The 9th house rises in the 2016 Solar Return with a singleton Jupiter. The Eastern 4th quadrant above the horizon dominance points to the the UKs response to an evidently watching and waiting world. My immediate reaction lies in seeing Aquarius on the Ascendant with the traditional ruler Saturn from the natal chart showing in the 8th house in opposition to Solar Return modern ruler Uranus in the 2nd. But perhaps most curious of all lies in Solar Return 8th house Jupiter’s one-minute partile conjunction to natal Saturn.
I found natal Venus in the 9th especially interesting in this chart since SR Venus was also in the 9th when placed outside the natal chart after I first created the bi-wheel. With the intercepted Pisces Moon-Neptune 1st house conjunction, I don’t expect this to be a fast resolution at all even though the Eastern hemisphere implies much effort and energy might be taking place in the effort to resolve this issue. The question is–given that we’re considering the dynamics of the chart itself–whether or not we’re looking at a disintegration of the bonds between Northern Ireland and Scotland in relation to the rest of the United Kingdom. The chart points to what John Davenport noted as “when Ireland was effectively given Independence, but a letter from the 6 Northern states requested to stay a part of the United Kingdom. Since that time, we have been known as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.”
Since the vote, much of the media–at least what I’ve seen of the headlines and television news coverage–has referred to Brexit as a “nasty divorce.” In her book Persephone is Transpluto: The Scientific, Mythological & Astrological Discovery of the Planet Beyond Pluto, Valerie Vaughan (©1994, One Reed Publications) says, “A main feature of Persephone’s story is the constant cycling of separation and reunion. She separates from the earth plane and her mother in order to unify with Pluto. When she returns to her mother again, she is also separating from her partner and her ‘other’ home. It is a simultaneous separation-reunion. We see this reflected in today’s high divorce rates and legal hassles over child custody, the millions of single mothers, the current transformation in partnering and parenting, the revitalized interest in mother-daughter relationships…”
Further on, she says, “Persephone’s story includes the wandering of a mother in search for her daughter. This, along with the wandering of Persephone herself (from her earthly home to her subterranean one and back again), is highlighted today by the plight of the “homeless” and massive populations of refugees. It is also symbolic of the fact that more people than ever before in history are migrating to new homelands and from rural areas to cities.” [Her footnote: “From the Associated Press (July 6, 1993): The State of World Population report by the United Nations Population Fund states that the unprecedented growth in migration ‘could become the human crisis of our age.’ People are moving from rural areas to cities on a scale unknown in history, with more than 100 million migrants leaving their homes and pushing into territories occupied by others.”]
Transpluto in the unofficial vote tally chart was angular and in the 4th house in opposition to the 1922 chart’s natal Mars-MC conjunction.
In the 2015 SR, Transpluto formed a 24-minute partile conjunction to the MC.
The 2016 SR shows Transpluto intercepted in the 7th house, opposing the intercepted Moon in the 1st. Take note as well since I’ve been working with the 1922 chart, this chart also reveals a 38-minute partile conjunction of Transpluto and the Moon.(Repeating the chart here to allow you to continue to move forward rather than having to scroll up again.)
Solar Return Neptune forms a 30-minute approaching partile conjunction to the natal placement of Uranus in this SR, setting the stage for the Peeling of Life’s Onion–transiting Saturn-Neptune square (it wouldn’t be square by now were the Sun not conjunct and creating the bridge to extend the aspect longer than many might have anticipated).
The February 8, 2017 Lunar Return sets the stage for a receptive Western 2nd quadrant below the horizon dominance. Even in divorce, there must be compromise if there is ever a hope of peace. Many decisions will be made from now through the 2016 Solar Return and the February 2017 Lunar Return. But where the Solar Return will generally show the action coming from the UK in terms of decisions and generating the energy, by February 2017, the action should be coming at the UK, and it’s possible the government–or the voters–will be weighing their options once again.
