MARCH 14, 2022

By Daniel Giamario

On Sunday the 13th at 4:43AM PST, the Sun exactly conjoined Neptune at 22PISCES52.  This pass of Neptune directly behind the Sun occurs each year.  I have always allocated a three day time-frame of power and purpose for these kinds of conjunctions.

There are two important things to keep in mind that this conjunction highlights.  There is much focus currently on the rapidly approaching Jupiter/Neptune conjunction of April 12th at 23PISCES58.  Already now within the important ten degree orb, the energy of this alignment is greatly seeded by the conjunction with the Sun.  When Jupiter rises from the celestial underworld joining four other planets in the morning sky around March 22nd, we should have a better sense what kinds of transmissions Jupiter has received.

*Remember to tune in to our upcoming free seminar about the Jupiter/Neptune conjunction as part of our March Equinox Seminars: 2022 March Equinox Webinar

The other thing is that this is a crucially important transit for the United States chart.  Remember that the US has Neptune at 22Virgo25.  The United States is in the initiatory zone of its second Neptune opposition ever, from March 31, 2021 through November 22, 2022. Click here for Daniel Giamario’s Investigation of the US Chart Series.

As Jupiter approaches its 13th conjunction with Neptune since its discovery September 24, 1846, how shall this be considered– personally, collectively, and particularly for the United States?  There is quite a lot to unpack here, but for now I will turn it over to Dane Rudhyar who explains it better than I ever could:

“Astrologers are haunted with the idea that Jupiter is “the greater fortune” and a symbol of all that is “good.”  But good and fortunate for what-  for the easy way of complacent and nearly automatic repetition of the past!  Jupiter gives good fortune to those who conform, who follow the rules of the social game, the political game, the religious ritual, the way of the “classical” great masters in the arts.  Truly, there is nothing wrong in conforming; and there are vast practical benefits in doing so.  But conforming is not taking the new evolutionary step.  This step-  this new transformation or “mutation”-  requires, like the taking of any walking step, an initial loss of balance, a “fall,” immediately followed by a “recovery.”  To walk is constantly to lose one’s balance, then recover it as the foot again touches the ground a yard or so ahead.

The Jupiter-Neptune cycle is very much like a walking process.  Every 13 years-  and, even more, every 166 years-  mankind should take a step forward, even if only a tiny one.  It should be a step ahead of our past traditional, social, cultural, and religious sense of human relationship.  Unfortunately, such a step tends to lead at first to confusion, disarray, dismay, perhaps temporary blindness and panicky escape “back to the womb” of what may be thought to be a secure and familiar institution or religious organization.  However, progress is only through the confusion and the glowing mist over the hills, yonder.  There is no way ever of going ahead, except through!”

–Dane Rudhyar, The Jupiter-Neptune Cycle, paragraphs 23 and 24

By Erik M Roth of Inspiral Nexus

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Vesta slides into the sign of Aquarius about 4 days after Mars and Venus ingressed into Aquarius.  We are still in a transitionary state from the conjunctions of Mars and Venus with Pluto.  Pluto is only 2 degrees aways at 28 degrees Capricorn, still in strong position over the Pluto natal position of the United States (meaning still in the US Pluto Return).  Vesta moving into Aquarius, though, perhaps can be another piece of the energetic shift away (and subsequent release) from the multiple conjunctions in Capricorn in February and March.

Aquarius’ essence has much to do with a spirit of innovation (beyond traditional modalities) and expanding consciousness without limits.  It is also a global-level perspective of thinking.  Aquarius can be expressed as an idealist revolutionary thinker experimenting with novel methodologies largely ahead of where current society is at any given time.  Aquarius represents the leading edge of thought, not necessarily being bound by any conventional normalcy.

Vesta in Aquarius brings a sense of special reverence and sacredness for what the mystery school of Aquarius symbolizes.  Vesta rides Aquarius from March 10th to May 24th with much of that time with Venus (about a month) and Mars (about five weeks).

We can inquire during this time with all three planets in Aquarius about the nature of how we break from old patterns and try out new things.  We can see where in our own lives we need a spark of change, realizing the limits of our own structures and systems we depend upon.  We may find ourselves trapped in a bubble of our own making in consciousness and technology.  Do we consider ourselves freethinkers?  Or is it only the daily grind of living?  Perhaps survival demands it but even a potential need for unorthodox thinking while in survival mode or in our daily grind is necessary for us to emerge into the next phase of our journey?

As the “sacred hearth within”, Vesta can help us understand the “unconventional scientist-wizard-theoretician” in us.  This isn’t only how we define science today but more of how “science” was experienced thousands of years ago, long before the so-called “age of reason.”  It is a sense of the “observer” and how we may detach from ourselves in fully seeing ourselves as an unbiased witness.  Vesta helps us bring that to our own personal altars.  Maybe that altar is in the sky or symbolizing the sky brought down to Earth.

There is also a sense of more spiritual service with Vesta, meaning how can Aquarius be of service in the world?  How can radical, revolutionary thought show up to assist humanity with a touch of the concept of universal love?  Aquarius is being expressed through Vesta, the symbol of the Priestess herself and her profound connection to Earth.  It is an odd couple, but one that will require alchemy in all of us.  With Mars and Venus in Aquarius too, this could be a way for communities to come together in sacred response and highly unusual and revolutionary ways.

MARCH 7, 2022

Prelude to the Shadow of Aquarius- Revisited

By Daniel Giamario

The anticipated second exact morning sky conjunction of Venus and Mars happened at 11:12PM PST Saturday March 5th at 0Aquarius01.  Mars had entered Aquarius at 10:23PM PST, followed minutes later by Venus at 10:30PM PST.  This is nearly the exact place of the recent Jupiter/Saturn conjunction of December 2020 that I speculated was possibly a “Divine Conjunction”, heralding the end and beginning of an entire 26,000 year precessional cycle (see my recent vlogcast on this here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeCQ6uKhFAk&list=PLuA7VkRftTNoJ78sNEo0x5ab94YoG5is2&index=5).  Within the current Venus/Mars Saga, which our school calls the Rapunzel/Dumuzi saga, this morning star apparition will last until Venus and Mars leave a 10degree orb on April 12th.  Venus and Mars are currently a good 43degrees away from the Sun, and well placed for morning viewing before dawn (along with Saturn and the slowly fading Mercury).

Looking ahead, later in the month, Venus catches up with Saturn on March 28th at 21Aquarius42, followed by a Mars/Saturn conjunction on April 4th at 22Aquarius21.  Within our understanding of the Venus/Mars Saga, this portion of the greater 26 month time-frame mythically corresponds with the time-frame that Rapunzel and the Prince re-unite and “live happily ever after”.  But are there greater global implications at play?  Relative to Male/Female relations, this is now the union of the synodic overstory of Venus in Capricorn with the synodic overstory of Mars in Aries; now being played out in the sign of Aquarius.  Certainly the attention is on Aquarius, but which Aquarius?

Just as the subject of the “Age of Aquarius” has created a great deal of confusion, I am not referring here to the controversies around when this “Age” begins.  (Our school believes the shift is the time-frame of 1962-2034).  Instead, I emphasize the great confusion that abounds regarding the difference between the constellation of the Water Bearer that references any age shift, and the “sign” of Aquarius.  These are so often confused or unknowingly used interchangeably. I will be writing and speaking to this issue repeatedly as we progress through this month.

As Venus and Mars have now entered the sign of Aquarius, and will soon join Saturn in Aquarius, what is the intent (both Shadow and Light)?  The issue here is the sign of Aquarius—not the Water Constellation of the Water Bearer as a symbol of a New Age (relative to the March Equinox).  The constellation is Water, the sign is Air.  I plan a deeper dive into this often seen misunderstanding.

My sense is that the traditional ruler of the sign, being Saturn, is very much trying a top-down control of the sign of Aquarius.  On a world stage, this suggests the technocratic hive mind fake unity run by a scientific elite (actually with the religion of “scientism”) to impose their vision of collective global humanity without our awareness or conscious acceptance of it.  Remember that Pluto soon enters Aquarius.  As I will explore as these weeks unfold, the Venus/Mars conjunction in Aquarius has major implications in the unfolding race towards transhumanism and transdgenderism, with the not so hidden motive of removing human 1.0 biological sexuality.  This includes the hijack of the word sex with “gender”.  That I have explored extensively in previous videos. CLICK HERE to watch.  I suggest a deep inquiry into these subjects over these next weeks, hopefully with you getting direct transmissions and insights from Venus and Mars directly.

Meanwhile Jupiter is currently on the other side of the Sun, in the celestial underworld, gathering insight and strength as he approaches his fateful encounter with Neptune,