Cristina Laird’s Astrology

Much has been said about the Saturn (in LIbra)- Uranus (in Aries)- Pluto (in Capricorn) T-Square, which is reaching its climax at the end of July.
We already know that this planetary formation has never happened in the lives of anyone alive today, only 1929/30′s, there was a similar situation although NOT identical, since Pluto was then, in Cancer.
Yet, the similarities in these two moments in history are quite astonishing. You may read all about it in my article “Uranus in Aries” in this blog-page.
We know that the last time Pluto was in Capricorn and in square to Saturn in Libra, was in 1776, when the United States’ Independence took place.
Meaning, these are important times, from the Astrological stand point, and for everyone alive, it is obvious we have reached a point of no return, and things are finally changing.
For those of you who still think that “things never really change”, I suggest, think again.
Many modern thinkers are finally writing relevant books, and exposing the way many institutions and educational systems, albeit, right at other moments in history, are now irrelevant and decadent.
If you are interested at all in Education for your children, I strongly suggest you read Malcolm Gladwell’s book: “Outliers”. What an Uranian name! (Gladwell, himself has been born with a Sun-Uranus-Pluto conjunction in Virgo) so, I’m sure he has felt an “Outlier” through out his life. The funny thing is that in spite of arriving to a conclusion that people born at certain months of the year and in certain years, have more possibility of success in their lives, he affirmatively disregards Astrology, I wonder for how many years he has investigated this “coincidences” before arriving to such conclusions.
Still, his book is very interesting.
Back to the eclipse, this is a very suggesting New Moon in Cancer, and it presents us with the
archetype of mother and the Great Mother.
This will affect most relationships where this archetype is alive and well, like in the obvious relationship between Mother-Daughter, Mother-Sun, Mother-SonLover (toy-boys), Female Boss, Female Teachers and in particular all those of us, walking the face of the Earth with a Mother Complex.
So many of us!
These are times of real change, of scrutinizing our actions, our decisions and decide what we are doing wrong and right. Is time to understand the difference between mothering and smothering, at home or at work. Where we have to draw the line and create some limits.
Many of such relationships will come to an end or will endure if changes are allowed to take place.
Cancer falls in love with the artist, as if through this relationship, discovers his or her own creativity.
July is the month of creativity all over the world, when most of the music, art festivals take place. Cancer is a creative sign and creativity becomes the focus of Cancerians lives.
Becoming a mother is the ultimate creation.
Juno, Zeus spouse, in Greek late mythology is the archetype of the WIFE, being herself sister, mother and wife of the King of the Gods.
The asteroid Juno is involved in this incredible Solar Eclipse and the struggles between remaining a wife and mother and freedom is an issue for women of the Cardinal signs (especially Cancer), but also Aries, Libra and Capricorn.
But, many of us have some of those signs in our birth-charts, so it affects us all.
The changes taking place now, will have a resonance for many years to come, so in a way all of us will benefit from it.
Far from being a negative time, this is an extraordinary period of time in History, when many good things could take place, especially for those who have been working hard at something.
The archetype of the Mother applies to Mother Earth as well, so the Oil Spill in the Golf of Mexico is a clear situation by which we must all get really mad and shout: enough is ENOUGH! to these big companies and institutions which don’t care about the state of this planet, as long as they make money. The politicians who make nuclear test, not caring what happens to the rest of the planet or the countries.
We must all look beyond our borders, even our neighborhood and see what is going on and get involved in what happens in the world.
If you write, write about it, if you speak, speak out, WE must all take the fry-pan by the handle and make the changes.
We must all stop expecting THEY, whoever They might be, to do the job, it is US, all of US, who must speak up and get involved and get our voices heard.
How many more Spills do we need to get mad enough to take action?
What can you do?
You can recycle, you can leave a healthy life and teach your children to do the same, you can get involved in your children education and not accept everything that the schools tell you, without question.
We can all demand of the politicians what we think is necessary in our communities.
But above all, do not think is OK to cheat, because others do it.
If each of us don’t do it then may be, we can turn this world around and live in prosperity and peace.
Yep! There is a lot WE CAN DO.
May the power of this Eclipse bring the best in your lives and for all the difficult situations that it might create, LEARN the lesson.
IF you are going through a difficult situation then think what decision you took in the past, that has taking you to where you find yourself at.
WE must correct and correct all the time. So what?
There is always that possibility fortunately!
Have a nice eclipse and pay attention to yourself!

This is a particular good win, simply because she has not only made history, being the first ever Italian woman to win at Roland Garros and a Grand Slam, bur because from the Astrological point of view, she has her Sun at 2 º of Cancer, which means that the current scary T- Square sits right on it.
A great example how these aspects affect us according to each individual Karma.
ANd it also proves once more that Saturn (in square to her Sun) and Pluto (opposing it), and Jupiter-Uranus( squaring it), reward hard work.
Great event to remind us that this T-Square delivers a different message for each of us, according to our past actions.
This is also a perfect example of why is so difficult to predict in Astrology, unless we really know the clients past.
She has just past her Saturn’s return!
The time of birth is unknown, if anyone knows it please , please let me know.
Good one Francesca!

On May 26th, Uranus, the 7th planet of our Solar System moves to the sign of Aries, after 83 years. The incredible thing about this event is that Jupiter, in Pisces then, as it is now, accompanies such entry, and by June 8th, there will be a conjunction (0º) of these two planets in the 0º of Aries. At that time, 1927, the conjunction occurred at 3º of Aries.

Uranus, from the astrological point of view, is the planet which represents the archetypes of the rebel, the fight against the establishment, technology, electricity, genius, eccentricity, the different, anything out of the ordinary, non conventional, uranium, the discovery of the new and the different. It takes seven year to go through each sign, which means that we’ll now have a period of seven years of Uranus in Aries, starting now. Coincidentally, a period similar to a quarter of Saturn’s cycle. No wonder that every 6 to 7 years things get revised in our lives. Think of your life journey and see how many things lasted just about 6 to 7 years before undergoing a major crises or ending all together, or 14 or 21 or 28.

Aries, is the first sign of the zodiac and the first fire sign. As Martin Schulman said in his wonderful Allegory of the Creation of the world and the Zodiac: – God said to Aries: – ” To you Aries, I give my seed first, that you, might have the honor of planting it. That for every seed you plant, one million more will multiply in your hand. You will not have time to see the seed grow, for everything you plant creates more, that must be planted. You will be the first to penetrate the soil of men’s minds with My idea. But it is not your job, to nourish the Idea nor to question it. Your life is action and the only action I ascribe to you is to begin making men, aware of My Creation. For your good work I give you the virtue of Self Esteem.” – How wonderful! I wonder which Aries will not relate to that Fate! There is no doubt that Aries is the impulse to be the first. Aries, risks, competes, acts before thinking, argues, fights and defends with passion, its land, its territory and his family. He or she, is the warrior, the soldier, the athlete, the first one.

Jupiter, is the 5th planet of our Solar System and the biggest, and Astrologically is connected with Nature, with our ideals, our beliefs, with long distance travel, especially those which involve some kind of risk and adventure. Other cultures, the foreigner, philosophy, religion, whatever takes our body and our minds to expand our horizons. It is through this planet that we dare to expand and look for what is on the other side of the river, or the Ocean, in the next town, beyond our borders. It is Aries and Mars which initiate the action, but is Jupiter that takes the action elsewhere, beyond the known horizon. It is through Jupiter that we may dare to live according to our highest ideals.

So taking all this into consideration, let’s go back to 1927, when this conjunction that it is about to happen, last happened. The 1st ( Aries) transatlantic (Jupiter) telephone (Uranus) call was made between New York and London. In the Bell’s Co. the first images where sent long distance, and so Television was born. Only 2 year later the first programed TV was on in New York. The first sports commentary in Radio took place, the first spoken film “The jazz singer” was shown in NYC. Amelia Earhart was the first woman pilot to travel solo, across the Atlantic. The fist police woman is incorporated in the Police Force in Dresden, Germany, Jose María Escriva founded Opus Dei, the Academy of Film and motion Pictures was founded and the first Oscar was given.

It is easy to assume now, that great advances in technology will take place, as it is no doubts, already happening, is even possible that the first trips around the Earth with passengers will take place. Richard Branson has been working at this, very quietly.

Unfortunately, many great natural disasters also happened in those years. The great China earthquake where 200.000 people died, in May 1927, Floods in the Mississippi area, the biggest to date killed over 700.000 americans. Japan suffered 3 major earthquakes in less than two months in the same year. IT was in 1930 when Uranus and Pluto where already involved in a square that Wall Street crashed sending the world and the States into the biggest Depression in History, and guess what, Pluto was discovered at the same time.

We all know what happened after that, the emergence of the right wind governments and Nazism, that took us to the Second World War.

The question is have we learned the lessons of the past.? do we need to go through the same experience?

The Conservative party in England has just won the elections. Just. After 13 years of Labour Party reign. Curiously, Jupiter and Uranus where also in a conjunction in Aquarius, when Tony Blair, defeated the Conservatives and Now with another Jupiter- Uranus conjunction in Pisces, the Conservatives win, but only having to merge with the Liberal Democrats. HA! I think we have learned some lessons, otherwise this could have never happened. Nor Obama. It kind of gives me some hope. May be our stupidity learns some of the lessons after all. Saturn was then in Aries, in direct opposition to today’s position in Libra.

Since Pluto came into Capricorn in January 2008, which marked the beginning of the financial crisis, many heads of state have died, unexpectedly forcing the CHANGE.

We are now heading to the closest degrees, this T- Square is ever going to be at the end of July, around the 0º of the cardinal signs. The Uranus-Pluto square will repeat 7 times and it will last till 2016. If we take into consideration the fact that these two planets,are collective forces and represent collective archetypes which we can all relate to, then is easy to assume, that whatever changes are taking place is what we all, as a unit, need. Us, the only human race on the planet.

We know that with Pluto in Capricorn many institutions will suffer major changes as it is already happening. One of the systems that seriously needs our attention is EDUCATION. We keep talking about it, but nothing really happens. Being the mother of a 16 years old, with artistic inclinations and talents, the options for college are still slim. It seems that the only professions people still value are: Medicine, Law, Architecture, Engineering and University professors. When are we going to teach for all children?. Instead of calling all creative children ADHD and medicate them, because we don’t understand their minds.

When are going to teach Astrology, Dance, Cooking, Music along side and with the same relevance as Maths, English, Science and Literature? When? Until when are we going to suppress Uranus in our charts so that it has to react violently to be heard? Would this square between Uranus in Aries and Pluto in Capricorn, bring about this change in our educational system, or are we still too far away from that?

If you have in your chart any contact of Uranus to a personal planet (Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus or Mars) you will understand what I mean. Especially women with this position will, because most of us come from mothers that had to give up their freedom, their profession or even find out if they had the right to one, in order to keep the family going. Sounds familiar? Until when we are going to condemn our creative children to become lawyers, so that by the age of 40, they are so depressed and unhappy that Prosac seems to be the only allied.

Uranus is about the freedom to create, to express what James Hillman calls, our “calling”. Here in Spain where I live, the dream of being true to who are is simply that, a dream. Here most children are taught not to waste time in dancing, or painting or writing because “doing that you will never earn your living”, but the truth is that many people do earn their living doing that. The fear of the risk implied in trying to be oneself, is too much, for some of us, and we pass on that fear to our children, who sure enough, they’ll soon say: “I must go and study marketing or business, or i will never make a decent living out of what I like”. Truth is, there are many young people with a Marketing Diploma, and without a job. We have limit their options so much, that the amount of lawyers that finish each year, cannot get a job.

So we seriously have to review our approach to education, and the structure of our educational system and expand our horizons. Seriously.

Another institution that needs reviewing is Traditional Medicine. We are in serious need to go back to healing the patient rather than fixing a part. We have turn our hospitals in body-shops. If a part of your body aches, you go to see a doctor that sure enough will either replace the part or prescribe a legion of medicaments that will help you with the pain. But what about the origin of the illness? What about the soul? What about looking into the eyes of the patient and establish a conversation to find out what is the matter with his life? The last two doctors i went to, were so busy using the time allotted to me filling up a form in their computer that forgot to look at me. But I did go out with prescriptions and i hardly opened my mouth. If this sound like criticism, it is. Imagine if we Astrologers did that!

So Uranus in Aries, does not have to be a bad thing. There is a lot of interesting propositions for this transit and for those of us, with emphasis in Cardinal signs in our birth-charts, we already are seeing its effect and the changes are already taking place. Uranus, albeit un-predictive , is truly liberating, and at the end of the tunnel, there is light, there is the perspective of meeting our true self and the opportunity to do what we have been born to do.