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Year of the Dragon – Revision 2 Year of the Dragon – Revision 2

2011-12-31T16:15:00.000-08:00

Year of the Dragon – Revision 2

Arrives 22 January 2012 at the New Moon 11:39 PM PST.

Snakes and Dragons are looking at 2 fantastic years as Snake Year follows Dragon Year and they are in mutual resonance with #1 compatibility. Dragon Year will be trying for Dogs, Dragon’s opposite.

My fraternity brother wrote the screenplay for Animal House. The main characters were all Snakes and Dragons – Classes of 1962 and 1963, born in 1940 and 1941.

THE ADVANTAGES AND THE PROBLEMS OF DRAGONS ARE MENTAL.

Dragon’s prodigious brains always come up with the right answer – AND THAT IS THE PROBLEM. Dragons are the geniuses of the Oriental zodiac. Their “right” answers block them from a higher right, as it were.

My 1964 Dragon Japanese girlfriend was a genius. In many respects she had the finest brain I have ever encountered with overarching rational, creative and INTUITIVE powers. A few years ago she was transiting mental institutions due to alcohol abuse.

The protagonist of “Animal House”, Otter, was a 1940 Dragon. He achieved the highest grades in the history of UCLA Law School after leaving Dartmouth College. He today is a mostly retired attorney and owns a small winery producing Sesquepedalian Sauvignon Blanc.

The 12 Oriental signs, as commonly displayed in paper place mats in Chinese restaurants;

Rat	Cow	Tiger	Rabbit	Dragon	Snake	Horse	Sheep	Monkey	Chicken	Dog	Pig
1900	1901	1902	1903	1904	1905	1906	1907	1908	1909	1910	1911
1912	1913	1914	1915	1916	1917	1918	1919	1920	1921	1922	1923
1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931	1932	1933	1934	1935
1936	1937	1938	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945	1946	1947
1948	1949	1950	1951	1952	1953	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958	1959
1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971
1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983
1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995

The Chinese animal year begins each Western year about 4 February - it does not begin at the Chinese New Year[1]. So, if you were born before 4 February in any year your Chinese animal year is the sign before. Those born 4 or 5 February should consult the link in the endnote below or http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/NewYearDays.htm

The last Dragon Year 2000 was unbelievable for me! I spent the Millennium [remember that?] New Year in India on the banks of the Ganges for a month and then traveled to the Andaman Islands for a month then meandered up to Nepal in March. I ended up hooking up with a nice Japanese girl in Kathmandu. We did a fantastic Himalayan trek together in the Mt. Everest region hiking up to a small Sherpa village near the Tibetan border with a lovely monastery. We were together for several months, parting in Bangkok at the airport at the end of May. She flew on to Japan, I to California.

She is a 1964 Dragon. Clearly, she had an impactful year. To shorten the story a lot, by the end of Dragon Year she was forced by her father, a WW 2 Japanese Army veteran, to marry a nice young Japanese man, mostly to keep her away from me. Me. Who showed up unannounced at her summer place in the mountains of Northern Japan in July 2000.

The bottom line is those born in the Year of the Dragon will have a whirlwind of ….. let me just use Plato’s term - you will be “attacked by Fortune.” Those born in Years compatible with Dragon will have great years also. These are the signs whose compatibility is 1 or 2 below – Rat, Snake, Monkey, Rooster.

Monkeys in particular could use lots of good fortune as they are recovering from 2 or 3 abysmal years. The USA is a fire Monkey. Tiger Year 2010 was the opposite – 6 years apart - of Monkey and brought many problems. Rabbit Year [2011] is an opposite for Roosters and, therefore, difficult. Dragon Year will be trying for Dogs, Dragon’s opposite.

Chinese Horoscope Compatibility

Rat	1
Ox	1	3
Tiger	4	6	5
Rabbit	5	2	3	3
Dragon	1	5	5	3	2
Snake	3	1	6	2	1	5
Horse	6	5	1	4	3	4	2
Goat	5	5	3	1	5	3	2	2
Monkey	1	3	5	3	1	3	5	3	1
Rooster	4	1	4	6	2	1	3	4	5	5
Dog	3	4	1	2	6	3	2	5	3	5	2
Pig	2	3	2	2	3	6	3	2	2	3	1	2
	Rat	Ox	Tiger	Rabbit	Dragon	Snake	Horse	Goat	Monkey	Rooster	Dog	Pig

Compatibility legend

1 excellent 2 successful 3 – good 4 – fair 5 – awkward 6 – clash

Running commentary:

None of the current Presidential candidates are Dragons. The savviest comment I’ve heard so far is the Republican contender has not surfaced yet [12/31/11]. Obama is an Ox – his great year was 2009.

Dragons to watch

David Petraeus, although it appears that his tumultuous phase of the last 5 years is over as of December 2011 and his personal life is accentuated, perhaps leading to retirement of some sort.

Sandra Bullock, Ellen, Anne, Jamie, I’ll add others when I get a round tuit.

[1]

The first day of the animal year is different from the Chinese New Year Day. The animal year starts on the first day of the Tiger month. Tiger month begins from the day when Sun enters ecliptic 315 degree position, which is around February 4 Gregorian calendar. That means the animal month is solar month, not lunar month. This is why many people who born in January or February confuse about their animal sign of birth year. To verify the exact animal sign of birth year goes to use the free online Chinese Astrological Animal Sign page. http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/NewYearDays.htm

Astrological musings on the transiting square of Uranus and Pluto in Cardinal[1] signs from 2011 through 2015

2011-10-27T21:22:00.000-07:00

Astrological musings on the transiting square of Uranus and Pluto in Cardinal[1] signs from 2011 through 2015.

Abstract - Expect revolutions and upheavals of all kinds. A repeating, about 3 times in a hundred years, pattern last occurring from 1960-1972 and intensely from 1965-1967. In the US in that period we could simplify things and say “the military budget won.”

“Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche.” C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections[2]

Uranus will exactly square Pluto in the sky 7 times over the next 4 years. The transiting square is best represented by this 90 degree graphic ephemeris. At the top the wavy light blue line represents the movement or transit of the planet Uranus thru the sky. The wavy reddish line represents Pluto. Where the lines cross the planets come to an exact square aspect in the heavens. The vertical red line denotes the date of one of these crossings. Astrologers believe exact angular relationships like this denote significant astrological energy. If these points occur in aspect to planets or significant points in a horoscope it is likely external, mundane events will occur.

Dates of the aspect

15-Aug-2011	Uranus = 4 Aries 4	Pluto = 5 Capricorn 9	not exact
24-Jun-2012	Uranus = 8 Aries 24	Pluto = 8 Capricorn 24
19-Sep-2012	Uranus = 6 Aries 57	Pluto = 6 Capricorn 57
20-May-2013	Uranus = 11 Aries 14	Pluto = 11 Capricorn 14
1-Nov-2013	Uranus = 9 Aries 26	Pluto = 9 Capricorn 26
21-Apr-2014	Uranus = 13 Aries 34	Pluto = 13 Capricorn 34
15-Dec-2014	Uranus = 12 Aries 35	Pluto = 12 Capricorn 35
17-Mar-2015	Uranus = 15 Aries 18	Pluto = 15 Capricorn 18
2-Feb-2016	Uranus = 17 Aries 10	Pluto = 16 Capricorn 08	not exact

Aspects are calculated to the minute only at GMT – London

Below from http://www.jung.org/tarnas%20book%20review.html with added notes

“Tarnas traces the Uranus/Pluto conjunctions and oppositions from 318 BCE to show how this cycle corresponded to radical mass movements for freedom. Uranus is The Great Awakener, the archetypal symbol for individual freedom and creative ideas and Pluto is the symbol for power and mass upheavals. In aspect, these two dynamic archetypes fuse, combine and increase their force and correspond to archetypally similar events on earth.”

From Tarnas recent examples of Uranus/Pluto cycle follow. The exact heliocentric aspect is noted in parenthesis. I have added the squares of Uranus and Pluto to Tarnas’s list.

. 1450-1461 - Uranus Conjunction Pluto

(1455) [Ur Leo: Pluto Leo]

. 1489-1507 - Uranus square Pluto

(1497) [Ur Aquarius: Pluto Scorpio]

. 1533-1545 - Uranus Opposition Pluto

(1539) [Ur Leo: Pluto Aquarius]

. 1563-1570 - Uranus square Pluto

(1566) [Ur Sagittarius: Pluto Pisces]

. 1592-1602 - Uranus Conjunction Pluto

(1597) [Ur Aries: Pluto Aries]

. 1620-1627 - Uranus square Pluto

(1623) [Ur Leo: Pluto Taurus]

. 1642-1654 - Uranus Opposition Pluto

(1648) [Ur Sagittarius: Pluto Gemini]

. 1674-1683 - Uranus square Pluto

(1679) [Ur Aries: Pluto Cancer]

. 1705-1716 - Uranus Conjunction Pluto

(1710) [Ur Pisces: Pluto Sagittarius]

. invention of steam engine

. 1749-1764 - Uranus square Pluto

(1755) [Ur Pisces: Pluto Sagittarius]

. 1787-1798 - Uranus Opposition Pluto.

(1793) [Ur Leo: Pluto Aquarius]

This was the time of the French Revolution, which Tarnas describes as "an upsurge of tremendous rebellious and liberating energies sweeping the world, with radical change affecting many societies." Also during this time Mary Wollstonecraft's published A Vindication of the Rights of Women. In the US, Britain and France there was the first widespread call for the abolition of slavery. The US Constitution and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen were written during this period.[3]

. 1816-1824 – Uranus square Pluto

(1820) [Ur Sagittarius: Pluto Pisces]

. 1845-1856- Uranus Conjunction Pluto.

(1850) [Ur Aries: Pluto Aries]

A wave of revolutionary upheavals in almost every capital of Europe such as Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Dresden, Baden, Prague, Rome, Milan occurred during these years. The Communist Manifeso and Thoreau's On the Duty of Civil Disobedience were written at this time. Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman led antislavery efforts in the US and the women's rights movement began with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. There were also upheavals in China.[4]

. use of petroleum fuel initiated

. incorporation of Los Angeles

. 1873-1880 – Uranus square Pluto

(1877) [Ur Leo: Pluto Taurus]

. 1896-1907 Uranus Opposition Pluto.

(1902) [Uranus Sagittarius: Pluto Gemini]

Aries There was a rise of radical labor movements throughout Europe and North American and also the founding of socialist parties in England, the US, Russia and France. Emma Goldman, Eugene Debs, Rosa Luxemburg, Upton Sinclair and other reformers and radical leaders were active at this time. Other revolutionary activities were the Boxer Rebellion in China, the rise of revolutionary Chinese nationalist movements and the civil disobedience movement led by Gandhi.

. beginning of the nuclear age – Einstein’s theory of relativity, uranium radioactivity discovered, radium. Rutherford’s suggests in 1903 if “a proper detonator be found, it was just conceivable that a wave of atomic disintegration might be started through matter , which would indeed make this old world vanish in smoke.”[5]

. 1928-1937 – Uranus square Pluto

(1932) [Uranus Aries: Pluto Cancer]

Rise of totalitarian governments worldwide including, in my opinion, the USA! Like the village in Vietnam – “We had to destroy it in order to save it.” liberty and freedom in the USA were destroyed by confiscations of gold, and initiation of Government programs and regulations by Roosevelt.

In Germany the unleashing of elemental forces of the human psyche. Jung describes the rise of Hilter as “personified by the Teutonic mythologic figure Wotan, “a god of storm and frenzy, the unleasher of passions and the lust of battle…” “the German nation was like a raving berserker tearing himself free from his bonds”[6] [Note the similarity with this phrase from the Hindu Upanishads describing death – “Like a great stallion pulling up the stakes by which he was tethered”.

And the unleashing of elemental forces of nature! “It was during these years that physicists first split the atom (1932), achieved the first nuclear fission (1934), proposed creating a chain reaction that would lead to the ‘liberation of nuclear energy for power.” The energy of one Uranus/Pluto aspect re-awakens and furthers the energy of past aspects.

Roosevelt seizes all private gold from citizens – 1933 AND also refuses to pay off gold backed US Treasury bonds.

. 1960-1972 - Uranus Conjunction Pluto.

(1965) [Uranus Virgo: Pluto Virgo]

This period, as the examples above, coincided precisely with a time of tremendous innovation and revolutionary impulses across the world, with both great social upheaval and liberating change occurring in many countries on the planet. During that time in the United States we had the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Freedom Riders, numerous demonstrations and marches, the civil rights acts of 1965 and 1968 and the hippies. There was also civil unrest all over the globe. Tarnas predicts similar upheavals and liberating energies for the next fifteen years starting in 2007 with the square of Uranus and Pluto. The transit will bring about the next evolution of the energies that were started in the Uranus/Pluto conjunction period of 1960-1972.

[Uhhhhh, Vietnam! and many US protests] Tarnas conjectures that individuals born in one Uranus/Pluto energetic cycle come to prominence in a succeeding cycle. Therefore, people born during the 1960-1972 cycle, particularly those with the close conjunction energy from 8/1965 through 8/1966, will come to prominence and be forced to express their natal energy patterns of Uranus/Pluto during the period of the next activation – the square of 2011-2016. In other words, those born during 1965 and 1966 [a Fire Horse Year!] have a natal conjunction of Uranus and Pluto. The energy of the square now will be similar to the action of an igniter for dynamite.

The most significant financial event of this period, IMO, was Nixon in 1971 taking the USA off the gold standard and once again, for the first time since 1933, allowing Americans to own gold. I predict gold will play a prominent role in the 2011-2016 period. Significant similar energies of Texan guns-and-butter Presidents attempting to finance essentially undeclared foreign wars by devaluing the US’s main asset – its currency. That is to say, Lyndon Baines Johnson attempted to pay for HIS war AND create prosperity by devaluing the valuable US dollar. Remember big clunky silver half dollars freely in circulation? They all disappeared in 1964 as ‘Nam heated up. Nixon did the only thing he could by stopping the inter-convertibility of the dollar to gold. Bush II also attempted to pay for HIS war the same way. Remember the planeload of palleted up to $40 BILLION dollars flown into Baghdad by the Federal Reserve that sort of disappeared? http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/helicopter-geithners-ny-fed-40-billion-iraq-money-drop.html Expect another significant change in the relationship of the dollar to gold during THIS time of turmoil.

. 2007-2020 – Uranus square Pluto

(2013) [Uranus Aries: Pluto Capricorn]

No other instance in the past 2000 years of this exact square by sign.

The main areas accentuated and already active are:

. War

. Upheavals of the collective conscience Arab spring movement, re-play of public protest movements in the USA like the Vietnam era. Occupy Wall Street.

. Gold - money in general, prosperity, as in 1930’s square

. Atomic energy - Fukushima tsunami and Daiichi nuclear disaster,

. Housing, the home

. Petroleum – Deepwater Horizon

. 2041-2053 - Uranus Opposition Pluto.

(2047) [Uranus Virgo: Pluto Pisces]

. 2067-2079 – Uranus square Pluto

(2073) [Uranus Capricorn: Pluto Aries]

see the 100 year graphic ephemerides here[7]

Predictions for the USA

Uranus transits the 4^th house of the USA’s horoscope dealing with motherhood, the home, nurturance, the end of life – Pluto begins its transit in the ending degrees of the USA’s first house and spends the rest of the square in the 2^nd house of money, personal possessions, finance.

Pluto is applying to a conjunction with the USA’s natal Pluto in 2022 when Pluto returns to the place it was when the USA began on 4 July 1776.

The US will have its most powerful encounter with Uranus/Pluto in 2014 at the square of 21 April 2014.

A most problematic[8] time for the USA

A Grand Square by transit [in the sky] at 13-14 degrees exactly interacting with the USA’s natal Saturn square Sun with transiting Jupiter conjunct the USA’s Sun in the 8th house.

Los Angeles

The horoscope of the city of LA[9] has 6 planets in Aries with its Sun in a square with the Moon in Capricorn at about 15 degrees. On 3/17/2015 the exact Uranus /Pluto square will conjunct the LA’s natal Sun/Moon square. Expect, perhaps, the city’s dissolution[10].

As a long term investment consider going short the City of LA, especially the basin area from Santa Monica south to the Palos Verdes peninsula.

Others

Perhaps 7% of ALL people, places, things having a horoscope, will experience a strong reaction to the series of impending Uranus/Pluto squares.

The Cardinal signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. Each is astrologically 90 degrees away from the adjacent sign. When Uranus in Aries squares Pluto in Capricorn individual horoscopes with planets or astrologically significant points like the North Node at or near the point of the squares, significant life changes are CERTAIN.

1. I reviewed my ex-girlfriend’s horoscope with my current spiritual advisor today – 10/17/2011. Pluto in Capricorn, square Uranus at 6 degrees 57 minutes in September 2012 comes right on my ex’s [2/2/1944] Venus in Capricorn at 6 degrees 36 minutes. My advisor’s immediate visceral take on it was, “Oh my God. She could lose everything!” Actually, this process has begun – I left 1/2011, her mother died 5/2011, and I suspect she ‘lost’ her dog of 12 years a short while ago. But, there cannot be losses without gains, although it doesn’t usally feel like it at the time the losses/gains are happening.

2. A person in my files has her Moon in Cancer at 6 degrees 47 minutes. The September 2012 Ur/Pl square will come almost exactly on her Moon.

3. In my 250 person horoscope file the only other person with any planet affected by the September square is the son of the woman 2. above. He has Mars in Libra at 6 degrees 03 minutes.

We could extrapolate that maybe 1% or less of the general population has a planet affected by the 9/2012 square and if there are 7 squares over a 4 year period then perhaps 7% of ALL people, places, things having a horoscope, will experience a strong reaction to the series of impending Uranus/Pluto squares. For example, 11/1/2013 the Ur/Pl square is right on my Mercury in Libra.

[1] http://www.astrologyzone.com/tools/cardinal.html

[2] http://www.jung.org/tarnas%20book%20review.html Jung Society of Washington [D.C.]

[3] http://www.jung.org/tarnas%20book%20review.html

[4]

[5]

Tarnas, op. cit, page 193

[6]

Cosmos and Psyche – Intimations of a New World View, Richard Tarnas, Penguin/Plume 2007, page 192

[7]

Below are the heliocentric graphic ephemerides of Uranus and Pluto for 300 years – from 1800-2100

[8]

I was talking to my orthopedic surgeon’s physician’s assistant about my rapid recovery from my last hip replacement and told her of my mountain hiking. She said, “Be careful about falling. You do have a prosthesis in each hip. If you fall it can be problematic.”

[9]

I use April 4, 1850, as that is the date of the city incorporation after it re-joined the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles

[10]

I came to California in May of 1978 as a delegate to a conference held at the LAX Marriot. Before dinner one night I meditated for 20 minutes or longer and when finished went over to the window and looked down. I clearly saw water gently lapping up about 10 feet on all the buildings – the entire basin was about 10 feet underwater. I turned away and looked back and the vision was gone.