By necessity, each
of us is focused upon the narrow concerns of our life. Education, job
choices, relationships, family ties are all up close and personal. However,
these personal issues are being conducted against a backdrop of what is
taking place in your neighborhood, city, state, and nation. The national
conditions are also tied to global or foreign policies that affect the
economy, and the very safety of our country.
Astrology
as a Guide to a Sharp Personal Focus
For example: Suppose
your plans to attend college were dashed because one of your parents lost
a job that could have supplied the money to pay tuition. At that point
it might have seemed a good alternative to go into one of the military
branches, which promised educational opportunities. It might also have
put a budding romance on hold because of the new uncertainties with which
you were dealing. Once you are in the service, you learn that you are
needed in a foreign country more than in the classroom. Result: The changing
economy in your town affects your parent, which changes your college plans,
which alters your personal relationships, and ultimately places you on
the world stage.
The Big Picture
: Saturn’s position can be interpreted to show that foreign intervention
slows the United States economy.
Sharp Personal
Focus : Planetary patterns in the birth chart intersect with the
transiting planets (for the present time), that affect the part of the
chart that describes education and foreign travel. Another possibility
would have been to travel to a foreign country to further the education
if another source of financial support could have been found.
Or consider this
situation: You are struggling to choose a new career path. You have prepared
for a career in a field that is not expanding. You have been unable to
land a job in your city. You can go to work for a company in another state
and leave family and friends behind, or you can go back to college and
add more marketable skills that will provide a job in your hometown. (For
example: A journalist elects to get a teaching certificate and teach in
his local high school.) The changed economic downturn that was nationwide
became a personal issue when he was forced to adjust to new conditions
in order to make a living.
The Big Picture
: The planetary patterns for the United States chart show stress
upon the economy because transiting Saturn and Pluto are aligning with
the overall global condition.
Sharp Personal
Focus : The birth chart shows the close family ties. Another person
might have been willing to move in order to get a job. The same tendency
to place family first would make teaching young people a good career choice.
Saturn connecting with the birth chart shows the delay or interruption
of plans.
Another scenario:
You learn that one of your children has a life threatening medical condition.
The doctors are confident that with the proper treatment, the outcome
will be good. Your boss informs you that because of a tightening economy
and fewer orders for your company’s products, they are forced to drop
the health insurance program. You have two months to make a new arrangement.
Your search for new coverage makes it clear you will be unable to afford
the cost. Result: You become focused upon the political conditions that
seemed so remote a few short days before. Will you be forced to liquidate
all of the family’s assets in order to qualify for public assistance in
order to obtain the treatment your child must have?
Big Picture:
The planet Uranus is forming challenging aspects to the State chart
in which the person lives. The possibility of lack of political support
for social programs, due in part to the economic downturn, is great.
Sharp Personal
Focus : When the planets Saturn, and Pluto connect with sensitive
areas in the birth chart it often brings national or global issues into
the personal life. When Uranus is added to the mix, as it has been for
those born in the mid 60’s, it can cause people who were not formerly
very political to react in a strongly political manner.
Big Picture or
a Strong Personal Focus Both are areas of study for the professional
Astrologer. One of the services we provide is to act as interpreter and
strategist as we assist our clients in learning how to adjust to both
realities. Planets move in cycles. The easiest cycle to observe is the
relationship of the Sun to the Moon. They are together at the New Moon,
First Quarter, followed by the opposition (180 degrees), then to Last
Quarter, and back to the new Moon or beginning of the cycle. All of the
planets in our Sun or Solar systems move through their cycles in relationship
to the planets in our birth charts.
The patterns can
be studied months and years before they happen. Astrologers who follow
political or economic trends often write about them months or years before
the patterns are exact. The same is true about your personal birth pattern.
You can use these insights to time periods of growth and times of consolidation.
Remember you decide how to respond to the “planetary weather” that affects
your personal situation.
