The Transitioning of America (Part 1) - Chiron

In previous posts I have written about the ingress of the outer energy points (Chiron from Aquarius to Pisces, Uranus from Pisces to Aries, Neptune from Aquarius to Pisces, and Pluto from Sagittarius to Capricorn).  Just one of these energy points changing signs is significant, consider the shift in the US and the World when Pluto moved from Sagittarius (Expansion) to Capricorn (Responsibility) at the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008.  During this current span of five years (2007 to 2012), all the outer energy points will transition from one sign into another and we can expect what we have received so far, a world in massive transition.  

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Our wound to face while Chiron was in Aquarius dealt with idealism across the spectrum of our lives.  Chiron entered Aquarius in March of 2005, just five months before Hurricane Katrina.  The sheer lack of preparedness and subsequent failures following the disaster was a wound of a very different sort than the September 11, 2001 attacks (under Capricorn and to our financial center).  Throughout its journey, which ended in February 2011, America elected a President on the slogan of Change, We Can Believe In and got the Same Old, Same Old.  At the time of this post Congress has one of the lowest approval ratings in American History and the President is fairing little better.

What can we expect with Chiron in Pisces? Pisces rules spirituality, dreams, and the larger consciousness of humanity.  We can expect the wound to take shape around those energies from 2011 until 2019, when Chiron will permanently enter Aries.  In the US chart Chiron resides in Aries in the 5th House (Sibley Chart, Whole Signs System).  Americans actually wound themselves through their independence and warrior approach.  No country has more successfully broken apart community and family at the micro and macro level than America.  The uber independence ideal has created a fractured health care system , a stagnant education system, and host of other ills no longer fully offset by the benefits.  In the current direction, what do you think we can expect when Chiron returns to its original position in April of 2024?  Will Americans heal this wound or be wounded more deeply, thinking the way forward remains the path of extreme individualism?

Chiron also functions as a bridge between the inner energy points, ending with Saturn, and the outer energy points beginning with Uranus, so it connects the individual with larger human consciousness.  Chiron is currently transiting through America's 4th House (of Family and the Inner Life).  One interesting outcome of the Great Recession has been the sometimes forced reconnection of family as adult children and baby boomer parents find that they must rely on each other if one or both get swept away in the tide of economic contraction.  Old or unresolved wounds around family will likely emerge with renewed and forced dependency.  Healing will come in the form of renewed family connections, the creation of new non-standard families, and the re-localization of communities.  In April of 2012 Chiron will conjunct Natal Ceres (the Harvest), retrograde back over nCeres in August, and complete its final forward pass in February of 2013.  The 4th House sees a lot of activity; the Progressed Sun is nearly conjunct nCeres now, Progressed Neptune will reenter Pisces in February of 2012 and conjunct nCeres in April of 2015, and Progressed Pallas is approaching the midway point through the house.  In all, we will see a refocus (pSun) on family while dealing with dreams/illusions/delusions (pNeptune) about family as we strategically think about family and its purpose in our lives (Pallas).

What this time appears to offer through these massive transitions, at least for Americans, is a rejuvenation of family, but not along past lines.  Uranus just finished its journey through the 4th House and "awakened" and "revolutionized" the American family.  If we try to "go back," as will be one of the strong suggestions during this time, we will find greater difficulty than if we find a way to mesh our strong individualism with a strong sense of family ... and, perhaps, more importantly, the inner life.  Do not be surprised if, as resources and wealth dwindle writ large in the coming conclusion to the debt supercycle, people find a greater need for a more secure and abundant inner life instead of an outer life of consumption and constant distraction.  Chiron will focus us all on issues of family and inner life, especially as the placement of Chiron plays out in the specific location of each individual's chart.

The Perfect Storm Approaching (Uranus Square Pluto)

I was asked this morning what I thought the square with Uranus and Pluto would mean for the world starting in 2012 and going on until 2015. Based on human behavior as I see it reported in the mainstream media, blogs, and fringe media, I am willing to predict a global depression. The thing about naming a depression is that it usually takes a few years in to actually get the human denial machine to own up to it. When the global depression is written about one day in the future, the dates may reach as far back as 2007, the beginning of the Great Recession. Actually, for history buffs, the original Great Depression worldwide and in the US occurred from 1873 to 1896. This time period was renamed the Long Depression after the 1930s Depression earned the moniker the Great Depression. Maybe this one will be the Greatest Depression or the Really Great Depression.

We have a perfect storm brewing, mainly due to the collusion of population growth by way of non-renewable resources that we are treating as if they are renewable. I have yet to find even the staunchest conservative who would claim that more oil is being created at the same time and/or rate we are consuming it. Basically the argument boils down to how much oil do we have left and is it enough time for human ingenuity to pull our assess out of the fire when we use up all the non-renewable resources (including not only oil, but natural gas and uranium as well). You see, we do actually live on a planet with infinite resource, we just can't live the American/European lifestyle on a purely solar/wind/water energy plan. And even those plans require using some non-renewable resources to help in the capture of the energy. When religious texts say the meek will inherit the Earth, they must be predicting the time when non-renewable energy reserves are gone and the entitled people who live on them find they really can't manage to stay alive; they are not hardy enough to live without their petroleum based medicines or wise enough to return to living off the land (especially suburbia). I'll probably be one of the entitled to bite the dust, truthfully.

Hence, the Dark Ages prove one vital message for humanity ... we can go "backwards." 2012 to 2015 will be the spark of the mother of all spiritual forest fires. Oil and other non-renewable resources are part of our spiritual test, one we have failed miserably and will, apparently, continue to fail. Here's how you can learn that we are on the edge of failure; follow the stories about new energy source extraction and you will see it is more costly and more dangerous (deeper wells required, more out of the way places to get to it, more unstable methods to get to it). Eventually it will cost more energy to extract energy and that is the end game.


What makes this kind of prediction a bit more reliable than previous end of world scenarios. Well, we're actually, really reaching the limits of the biosphere for the first time in human history. We have operated with a frontier mentality for so long that we actually believe the planet is a limitless frontier instead of a round ball enclosed by an atmosphere that is like a true boundary. Use up all the non-renewable resources,that took millions of years to produce, in less than 50,000 years, and most aggressively in less than 5,000 years, and exponentially grow the population and you can see that we are actually reaching the upper limits of what the planet can sustain. You can not expect good things to happen when you treat a limited environment like an unlimited one. Let me use a basic logic problem to illustrate my point:


Let's say you have a container filled with a certain amount of water that constantly renews itself. An organism comes long an sustains itself by consuming the water. Luckily the consumption of the water at a certain level does not break the renewal process. So, to begin with, the new organism consumes and discovers there is plenty left over but never studies the closed system because the organism is NOT LARGE ENOUGH to see that system is actually closed and has a limit. So the organism consumes and expands AS IF the system expands with it or has no limits. But in truth, there is an optimum point when consumption will actually damage the renewal point and essentially break the system. That's humanities path at the moment. And if people, generally, are more worried about the future, globally speaking, I would argue that people quietly, in some deep subconscious recess, are generally realizing that we are hitting the limits of the system, especially the non-renewable energy limits. And more to the point, deep down, these same people know that truly renewable resources cannot ever REPLACE the lifestyle created by the non-renewable sources, much in the same way people considering divorce know that they will take a lifestyle hit if they have to go live on one income or have to start earning enough to maintain separate residences.


In the end, the Uranus/Pluto square is not about a new invention to "keep the status quo" but a globally enforced behavior change that we could consciously choose, but most likely will not. Greed, short sightedness, and an unwillingness to manage human population will lead to the mother of all bubble bursts. I know this is not uplifting stuff and truthfully, I just wanted to get it out. And let me tell you, I would be more than happy to somehow be "proven wrong," but I bet the horses I see and watch run. What I see is massive debt and insolvency that can only come with fiat currency and interest rates because we went off a natural resource standard (gold, which would have forced us to live within a certain limit), accelerated consumption of non-renewable resources, continuing population growth until outside pressure exerts enough force (via starvation, disease, war between heavily military nations for remaining non-renewable resources, unnatural disasters involving the pursuit of non-renewable resources) to reign it in.


Will the world actually end, no. Will humanity, as a whole, have to cut back, as in the number of human beings on the planet, yes. That will not be fun and it will be the end of the world for a lot people; their end. It will be messy for the world, painfully so. But deep down, I don't think we have to go the unthinking route, the denial, pretend it won't happen route. I think we can make conscious choices to make a better future, I just think its going to take the rough and tumble, dark side of Uranus/Pluto to get us woken up on a large enough scale to make the necessary changes.

More samples of Pluto in Capricorn

Stores That are No More (Photo Series)

Recycling the Suburbs

Don't Own, Share!

Pluto's continuing work in Capricorn

America's Foreclosure Wasteland

Macro EU - DOA

The Lost Generation and Merging Credit Bubbles

The first square with Pluto and Uranus is still a year away! Systems are failing to be restructured. Or written another way, "Systems are failing, to be restructured."

Pluto Working Hard In Capricorn

Hello all, instead of an audio blog today, I thought I would provide real world examples of Pluto doing its work in Capricorn. Keep in mind that it is only 7 degrees into the sign and currently "backing up" (retrograde) until September, when it will get all the way back to 4 degrees before moving forward, which will allow Uranus to "catch up" and form an exact square in June of 2012, the first of 7 until March of 2015.

The US Housing Market and the Shadow (Plutonian) Inventory

Nuclear Fallout from Japan (Youtube video of Helen Caldicott) - don't be surprised if this video disappears.

Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid now in the discussion of cuts, but not the Military (article about the US All-Volunteer Military)

Education on the Ropes (see the movie Waiting for Superman)

Another Big System in Turmoil - the NFL Lockout and a sample of its potential impact

European Debt Crisis

As you can surmise, the list can keep going: US states bankrupt, Middle East unrest (over the whole region), rising Energy Costs, increased Severe Weather (storms of the centuries), Class Warfare worldwide, and on and on. Like a Hurricane building strength, we are only at category 3 and will reach category 5 during the 2012 to 2015 years. The very last remnants of the Pluto/Capricorn storm will not come until November of 2024. So, in the meantime, what to do?

Build your social support network; you may find you need to rely on people in ways you never thought you would (like moving in with them, carpooling, and bartering).

Accumulate assets where you can when you can; so long as the Government prints money, your savings account dwindles. If your retirement is a forced gamble in the casino of the stock market, consider long-term conservative investments. Pay off your mortgage if you can, own everything you can outright (cars, appliances, and so on).

Downsize, learn about your local community, figure out how things work (look under the hood of your car, know where your electrical box is inside your home, and how to repair or build something ... anything).

Take care of your health! Exercise regularly, eat organically, get regular check-ups. Take care of your eyes and teeth.

And most of all, work on your spirituality. What is the meaning of your life in the cosmic drama; why are you here now. What is your responsibility as a human being among human beings living on a living planet that provides for your needs. Wake up and if you are awake, help others wake up. Intervene in life, teach and share.

A Flock of Black Swans - Uranus Ingressing

If the entry of Uranus into Aries is any indication of things to come, then we can expect a flock of Black Swan events to fly through the world over the next seven years while the energy point travels through the Cardinal Fire sign.

Regress, Progress, and Ingress

In my previous entry I talked about some big decisions coming up in the US this week, possible Black Swans. The NFL labor contract was set to expire last night at midnight and the US Federal Government was set to shut down two days ago. Both situations reached the "11th" hour because two opposing groups could not agree. So what has been decided; in both instances the groups have agreed to allow themselves more time to disagree in the hopes that one side will eventually give up or give in and the other side will get what it wants. In the meantime nothing actually changes. Welcome to the "not" results of energy points ingressing. An energy point is in a state of ingress when it moves from one sign to the next. Pluto completed its ingress in Capricorn at the beginning of 2009. Neptune and Uranus are set to ingress this year into Pisces and Aries respectively. This blog entry is about the behavior we are likely to experience during these transitions.

Below is the US Chart for 3/4/2011, which is the chart I was looking at while recording this entry. Click on the chart to open it in a new tab or window and see it enlarged.