USA and the Saturn/Uranus Opposition
On September 15, there will be an exact opposition of Saturn and Uranus. Saturn is in Virgo and Uranus is in Pisces and the two planets have been roughly opposite for about a year . They were exactly opposite on November 4, 2008 (election day in the US) and February 5, 2009.
A Saturn – Uranus opposition is the old versus the new. Forward motion is hampered by structures and conditions built up in the past. Individuals who find change difficult or frightening are stressed and put up road-blocks.
With a slow moving planet like Saturn has been this year — or that Uranus always is — the effect of a transit can last for months. It takes the addition of one of the fast moving planets to trigger off a manifestation of the energies. The degree-per-day Sun will be at 22 Virgo on the 15th and play the role of an instigator.
This Saturn/Uranus energy will be felt by everyone as stress but, for any transit to affect an individual or a nation as a physical event, it must connect with a point in the birth chart.
The USA:
The United States has Mars at 21 Gemini square to Neptune at 22 Virgo. Saturn is moving forward at 24 Virgo and theoretically past connecting with those two planets but Uranus, at 24 Pisces, is retrograde or moving backward so it is opposite Neptune. Once one planet in a configuration is aspected, any other planets in the configuration are also affected.
On September 15 — and a day or two before — the Saturn-Uranus opposition will affect the USA. There will be the clash of the new vs. old forces, exacerbated with the addition of the Mars/Neptune square which produces (among other things) the ugly anger that rises in a form that is difficult to confront with logic or debate.
An important transit always shows up in more than one way. In the 2009 US Solar Return, the Solar Point is now in the 3rd house which is ruled by Mercury opposite Pluto — power struggles over ideas — and, on September 15, the Solar Point will be at 2 Cancer, right on Mercury.
The Ninth and Third houses are involved by both transit and Solar Return. The Ninth House represents legal matters, religion, foreign countries and long-distance travel and the Third house represents communication, short trips and neighbours.
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