From Wikipedia:
Harris got his start as the grand champion of Star Search in its premiere season. He gained acclaim and became best known for his winning rendition of the song “Over the Rainbow” on the show… He is a multi-million selling recording artist with nine studio albums to his credit… He has toured extensively in concert and has played to sold-out audiences at major venues including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles’ Universal Amphitheater and London’s West End. He has appeared with the Boston Pops Symphony Orchestra, at the White House and has sung on a variety of television specials and live productions…

Sam’s chart shows Saturn in Capricorn. Saturn is our fears, limitations, karma, blocks and – eventually – our greatest satisfaction. It is what you are here to learn. Saturn in Capricorn (or Capricorn on the Tenth house) has to do with achievement, success, reputation. Success will come slowly or there will be lots of ups and downs along the way. A strong Saturn or Capricorn influence tends to age well with true success coming in the later years.

As a long time fan of Sam Harris, I was thrilled to find the following video and laughed out loud when I looked at his chart and saw his Saturn in Capricorn. You’ll see…

The following is an excellent article written by Christine Barrere, reprinted with permission from her Starfires website.

As of July 2008, we are very different people than who we were even as early as last January 2008. We are clearer, more present with ourselves. We are more in alignment with an interior guidance.

May 1998 — as if an invisible force was no longer carrying part of the weight — the world changed — life got harder. Many more reports of depression appeared. Most of us have felt it. People asked me frequently, ‘What is going on, What happened?’ The optimism of the past was replaced with heavy responsibilities.

1998 through 2007 has been rough for many people, and our mental and emotional states have been deeply impacted by what we have had to deal with on a daily basis. The reason for this is not so much astrological but spiritual.

2005-2006 an age of accountability replaced the age of innocence. We have all been taking a crash course in handling more.

And we have been handling more.

Not only did these new battles strengthen us and enable us to develop and increase our mental, emotional and spiritual skills. Our discernment in understanding good and evil has grown. We have been educated to handle increased complexities.

When is the end of this particular training if we could call it that?

2012.

The eclipse in February 2008 and the conjunctions of numerous planets in the sign of Aquarius was a unique marker point which brought a new release of Aquarian cleansing and freedom. A significant transmutation occurred and as with every step up of frequency, there was an acceleration of awareness. This cleansing created increased abilities to handle more, and has been occurring at the same time where more and more disturbing activities are escalating in our physical world.

That is the dichotomy. We are at the beginning stage of this dichotomy.

2012 is approaching, and along with it are all the many predictions and implications surrounding 2012. What do we believe? What can we expect?

Some say Armageddon is nigh. Others say that the earth is going through a transformational shift where our planet, society will be so different from what we now know. Our today will be so different from our tomorrow.

Yes, the earth is going through a transition. There are more people than ever before. We have more ways to destroy ourselves than ever before, just as we have more ways to save ourselves than we’ve ever imagined.

Psychics predict earth changes. The Mayan calendar of thousands of years ends in 2012. Alien sightings are increasing.

And it seems everyone has the answer…

Our political candidates are all clamoring for change as never before. The media wants us to support their candidate. Big Corporations, Oil, Drug, Banking and Finance… all say that we should buy their version of hope and change.

The question is from where is the answer going to come? Will it come from outside of us in the form of bigger government or bigger business in the form of taking more and more control OR will the change come from within, from inside each of us?

Welcome to Pluto square Uranus.
Beginning 2011 through 2015, Uranus, the planet of innovation and freedom will be in square with the planet Pluto, notorious for its desire to exert subtle but relentless power over whatever it aspects.

This square will create a cosmic tension between freedom loving Uranus and power hungry Pluto. Who will profit and benefit from the creative innovative energies flooding from Uranus? The lovers of freedom, those free spirits with a desire to live their dream to bless the entire world with their brilliance. Or the controllers behind the scenes pulling the strings of governments and corporations?

The Uranian energy of Freedom and Innovation will leave Pisces May 27, 2010 and move into Aries. Aries is the pioneer of the Aquarian Age. May 27, 2010 is the date in which events will heat up. This is the date to brace yourselves.

This Uranian energy will be bursting forth in multiple duplications of itself, all over, popping up here and there, seemingly disconnected, but very much reacting from each other. Like squirting out inventions and inspirations coming through us, inspiring this and that new thing, unable to be contained, with a life almost of its own, transforming the planet through its agenda to upgrade, innovate and aggressively stimulate the impetus towards freedom.

Freedom in what way?

Technology, efficiency, medical, concepts and psychology, healing, machinery, space, matter, science and warfare, economically, nothing will be kept out of the influence of this electrical impulse to transform every part of life, and bring mankind into a higher truth and individuality.

This impetus is to realize our divinity within ourselves, our ‘I AMness’. The divinity of our individuality is to recognize and embrace that each person has their own grand design and purpose here. Aries is the sign of the I AM.

Innovations, inventions, solutions — in every area — will be accelerated. Consider all the advances we have seen in our lives. With Uranus entering Aries these advances will only seem like a warm-up for the real show. In other words, we haven’t seen anything YET!

Uranus in Aries will give us all an infusion of creativity and innovation. This cycle will usher in a dynamic exciting period of innovation where the intent will be to benefit all life. These innovations will have a profound and lasting impact on every facet of our lives.

But let’s be realistic, it is not going to be easy.

Pluto rules large bureaucratic organizations, such as governments and large business.

Can you really imagine any government or large bureaucratic organization not going after absolute power during a Pluto in Capricorn cycle? Not only will they not pass on the opportunity, we will find that they will be pulling out all the stops and really going for it.

Pluto will want Big Government and Big Business to control EVERYTHING, and if Pluto cannot control or profit from Uranus in Aries, Pluto will try to block it from coming forth.

Uranus will want to declare a FLAT OUT NO to anything that will try to limit, control or degrade its expression to serve all life through new ideas, innovations, inventions and solutions.

It is possible that during the Pluto/Uranus tug of war between freedom and control, there be periods of shortages, rationing and interruptions of services. These shortages could show up in any area where this Uranus/Pluto tug of war will want to play out. The undercurrent will always be a conflict between greater control or greater freedom. For example some areas where this conflict could be seen could be gasoline/food rationing, interruptions in electrical service. I suggest you consider acquiring some reserves and think of ways to weather through such a period.

Uranus in action during this time represents us. We are the new pioneers. We are waking up to discover our inherent divinity to create! This is Uranus checkmating the Pluto misuse of power.

Pluto will attempt to put down this spirit of freedom.

We can learn much from the last Pluto in Capricorn cycle, which was 1762 to 1778.

The beginning of that cycle was launched by the miscalculations of British Parliament to take the wealth generated by the colonies while keeping the colonists as 2nd class citizens.

Fortunately the last time Pluto was in Capricorn was a time that was well documented. Studying the thoughts of the people during this period can help us understand this cycle we are now entering. One of my favorites is: ‘The Letters Of Richard Henry Lee 1762-1778 by Richard Henry Lee’

So how could this look in practical terms?

The answer is ‘conflict’. Conflict that can take any number of different forms. From war between countries to war between controlling interests. War is always about who will be in control. ‘War’ when involving Uranus and Pluto always involves large bureaucratic organizations and the enslavement of the many vs. individual ingenuity and the greater freedom for all.

Remember.

Pluto in Capricorn empowers EVERYONE, THIS INCLUDES YOU! We are entering an amazing new era of more power given to us. We can qualify this power each day by making a conscious decision to blend our will with a higher will.

Prayer and meditation is the alchemical necessity to bring in the full benefit of this period AND to maintain our harmony through this transition

Mighty Divine Light! I call for Love to take dominion over the world!

We have a date with the Divine Mother. She is counting upon us to engage our own power with her intent to save the world.

Beloved Divine Mother, release your love, your wisdom, your divine power into my life and lives of all here and now, I call for the Golden Age to be born, remove the strife, the struggle, the ignorance and conflict now. I thank you and release all my will into this mighty Spirit of light to guide and direct the affairs of mankind in this country and in the world.

When we are confused or unsure of what to do, ask the divine light-energy all around you everywhere to move into action:

Miracle healing love pour forth everywhere and transform the earth. Remove the veils from our eyes and inspire us to concentrate through our hearts on truth and liberty in all its manifestations. Let the one true power — love — be infused into the nations and the world.

Look at all the ways people are assuming responsibility with such courage and empowerment. And for those of us still struggling to become more aware, just knowing we may need to go through this transition period in order to transform the complex falseness engrained in our world into truth and liberty, inspires us to keep on the path ever upward.

I know it is difficult to keep going. But you are changing the world. You are making a difference.

Did you ever expect it to be easy?

Vondir.

Christine

PS
When looking at the upcoming elections, I caution you to consider that Neptune is conjunct the U.S. Moon at 27* Aquarius throughout 2009. This will tend to inspire us to feel our needs are FINALLY going to be met nationally. You may think you’re getting a dream come true of a candidate elect but later realizing there is an Aquarian perversion. Rather than the candidate of our dreams we find out that we have another obedient servant to Pluto in Capricorn’s fallen agenda of control and enslavement.

Amy Winehouse joins a list of famous and gifted musicians who have died at the age of 27 … Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrsion.

The age of 27 is associated with a Saturn cycle and particularly with the first Saturn return. It is the age when you face the reality of what you have created to that point. Ideally, you then shift from living as a result of parental and peer influence to creating a life that is based on the true you. more…

My daughter (and reluctant webmaster!) introduced me to the idea of ‘cloud computing’ the other day. In simple form, this is doing on the web what you now do on the computer. It is a wonderful Uranus idea – bold, futuristic – and, like the computer and internet itself, ruled by Uranus.

But then there is Saturn.

Saturn has been in Virgo since the fall of 2007 and has spent a lot of time opposing Uranus in Pisces. Uranus is the new and Saturn is the old. To go forward, first you must go back.

Everyone is dealing with this old vs. new opposition at some time. I’m dealing with it from July 23 to September 5 as it rules both the eighth and ninth houses of my solar return.

While under the influence of the Uranus/Saturn opposition, it dawned on me that the floppy disk is going the way of the 8 track tape and that is a huge problem for me.

I’m a Four personality and I tend to do things the hard, slow, measured and structured way. Until recently, I was content to make astrology and numerology calculations on the software on my 13 year computer that runs Windows 95. I would then move to my 6 year old computer that runs Windows 98 and compile the text for the written charts that I offer for sale on the website. When all the pieces were in place, I would send it to a floppy and move to a computer that could communicate with the web and happily e-mail it off. Now however, I could see that I would soon be obsolete along with floppy disks unless I shifted to another system.

A little history:

I started composing the text for my written charts in the late ’70s and included a 20 to 30 page type-written chart with each consultation. (It was a ridiculous amout of work for the return but I now look at it as a period of internship that lasted several years.) After the consultation, I would take my copy of the written material, copy it and ‘cut and paste’ it — with scissors and glue — into one of several large looseleaf notebooks. As I accumulated the material, it became a little faster to compile each written chart.

The files:

I offer five different types of charts for sale on this site: basic natal chart, solar return chart, relationship chart numerology chart and baby (or youth) chart that is both astrology and numerology. All the files are on the computer but I still have to compile them and, since each chart is very individualized, almost every paragraph is a separate file. There are a lot of files.

For example: a basic astrology chart has three sections:

• the Ascendant and the Planets – 11 elements and each element has 12 possibilities (i.e. Sun in Taurus or Gemini or Aquarius etc.)and each is a separate file.
• the Houses – 12 houses and each house can be ruled by any of 12 signs and each is a separate file.
• the Aspects – each of the 10 planets and Ascendant can be sextile, trine, square or opposition to each of the other planets and each of those possibilities is a separate file.

My 6 year old computer was supposed to be able to write CDs but that drive doesn’t work. It has a USB port but you can no longer get flash drives that are compatible with Windows 98 and it has a zip drive but who-the-heck uses a zip drive anymore? I was faced with the possibility of having to copy all of my hundreds of files onto a floppy disk and then finding a computer that could not only speak to the floppy but could also speak to the ‘net.

That is Uranus opposite Saturn – you have to go back before you go forward. Fortunately, this influence is great for discipline and focus so I am trying to get everything done before September 5 when this influence leaves and is replaced by an unaspected Neptune/Pisces influence — which will be a great time for naps.

Update: I came across this long-forgotten blog today after spending an intensive couple of weeks, again updating my files and procedures. Again with new hardware, new software. I love it all but…sheesh!

One of the constant conversations in the astrological community has to do with the changes in the sky in the past 3,000 years and, as much as I would love to be a Sagittarius Sun instead of a Capricorn, there are a few things to remember:

• For a number of reasons, astrologers don’t pay that much attention to Sun sign astrology — your chart is so much more! Sun sign astrology was popularized because most people only knew their Sun sign. Now, with computers and the internet, anyone can find out about all of their chart.
• Horoscopes are not astrology.
• Nothing changed today – this is one person’s assessment and no sign that there will be widespread acceptance.
• I have often considered the fact that things have moved in the past several thousand years and I am satisfied that the body of knowledge associated with planet placements has slowly evolved at the same time.
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This year’s winter solstice will coincide with a full lunar eclipse in a union that hasn’t been seen in 456 years.

The astrological significance is not the confluence of eclipse and solstice but rather that the lunar eclipse is opposite the current North Node/Pluto conjunction and will intensify matters for those with charts already being affected…like North Korea.



North Korea’s ruling planet is Pluto so any Pluto transit is particularly important and involves ‘face’ – reputation, pride, standing, position in the world etc. The current Pluto opposite Venus/North Node indicates confrontation and power struggle over values and resources.

The next few days will be intense and the effect of the Lunar eclipse is felt (to a lesser degree) for about 6 months or until the next Lunar eclipse.

]]> http://www.thereluctantastrologer.com/2010/12/19/the-solstice-and-the-lunar-eclipse/feed/ 0 http://www.thereluctantastrologer.com/2009/09/08/usa-and-the-saturnuranus-opposition/ http://www.thereluctantastrologer.com/2009/09/08/usa-and-the-saturnuranus-opposition/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:28:06 +0000 Dayel http://www.thereluctantastrologer.com/?p=1537 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.

]]> http://www.thereluctantastrologer.com/2009/09/08/usa-and-the-saturnuranus-opposition/feed/ 0 http://www.thereluctantastrologer.com/2009/08/20/cloud-computing-and-uranus-opposite-saturn/ http://www.thereluctantastrologer.com/2009/08/20/cloud-computing-and-uranus-opposite-saturn/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:08:52 +0000 Dayel http://www.thereluctantastrologer.com/?p=1485 My daughter (and reluctant webmaster!) introduced me to the idea of ‘cloud computing’ the other day. In simple form, this is doing on the web what you now do on the computer. It is a wonderful Uranus idea – bold, futuristic – and, like the computer and internet itself, ruled by Uranus.

But then there is Saturn.

Saturn has been in Virgo since the fall of 2007 and has spent a lot of time opposing Uranus in Pisces. Uranus is the new and Saturn is the old. To go forward, first you must go back.

Everyone is dealing with this old vs. new opposition at some time. I’m dealing with it from July 23 to September 5 as it rules both the eighth and ninth houses of my solar return.

While under the influence of the Uranus/Saturn opposition, it dawned on me that the floppy disk is going the way of the 8 track tape and that is a huge problem for me.

I’m a Four personality and I tend to do things the hard, slow, measured and structured way. Until recently, I was content to make astrology and numerology calculations on the software on my 13 year computer that runs Windows 95. I would then move to my 6 year old computer that runs Windows 98 and compile the text for the written charts that I offer for sale on the website. When all the pieces were in place, I would send it to a floppy and move to a computer that could communicate with the web and happily e-mail it off. Now however, I could see that I would soon be obsolete along with floppy disks unless I shifted to another system.

A little history:

I started composing the text for my written charts in the late ’70s and included a 20 to 30 page type-written chart with each consultation. (It was a ridiculous amout of work for the return but I now look at it as a period of internship that lasted several years.) After the consultation, I would take my copy of the written material, copy it and ‘cut and paste’ it — with scissors and glue — into one of several large looseleaf notebooks. As I accumulated the material, it became a little faster to compile each written chart.

The files:

I offer five different types of charts for sale on this site: basic natal chart, solar return chart, relationship chart numerology chart and baby (or youth) chart that is both astrology and numerology. All the files are on the computer but I still have to compile them and, since each chart is very individualized, almost every paragraph is a separate file. There are a lot of files.

For example: a basic astrology chart has three sections:

• the Ascendant and the Planets – 11 elements and each element has 12 possibilities (i.e. Sun in Taurus or Gemini or Aquarius etc.)and each is a separate file.
• the Houses – 12 houses and each house can be ruled by any of 12 signs and each is a separate file.
• the Aspects – each of the 10 planets and Ascendant can be sextile, trine, square or opposition to each of the other planets and each of those possibilities is a separate file.

My 6 year old computer was supposed to be able to write CDs but that drive doesn’t work. It has a USB port but you can no longer get flash drives that are compatible with Windows 98 and it has a zip drive but who-the-heck uses a zip drive anymore? I was faced with the possibility of having to copy all of my hundreds of files onto a floppy disk and then finding a computer that could not only speak to the floppy but could also speak to the ‘net.

That is Uranus opposite Saturn – you have to go back before you go forward. Fortunately, this influence is great for discipline and focus so I am trying to get everything done before September 5 when this influence leaves and is replaced by an unaspected Neptune/Pisces influence — which will be a great time for naps.

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“Jose Cordova confirmed that a four-year-old boy in the eastern state of Veracruz had suffered from the virus as early as February…The boy was one of about 1,800 people who suffered from a potent flu in the region in February, leading to calls to investigate if there was some kind of new epidemic.” Telegraph


Mexico

In February, the Solar Point for the Mexico Solar Return was in the First house (the country and its people as a whole.) This house is ruled by Pluto at 2 Capricorn. If you put that Pluto on Mexico’s natal chart, it falls in the Sixth house of the country’s birth chart (public health or sickness, epidemics) and is opposite it’s own birth position, indicating a once-in-248-year period of powerful, dramatic transformation.


USA

When the first cases of Swine Flu appeared in the USA, the Solar Point of the Solar Return was in the house ruled by Mercury in the Sixth house (public health or sickness, epidemics) opposite Pluto in the First house (the country and its people as a whole.)

Because of the influence and location of Pluto in both charts, Swine Flu will have the effect of essentially changing the nature of both Mexico and the USA.

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L'Aquila Earthquake

The chart for the earthquake is ruled by Saturn opposite Mars, Uranus.

• Saturn is the old, the traditional, structures, those things that appear permanent.
• Uranus is dramatic change.
• Mars is energy, action, passion.


Italy Transits to Solar Arc

This Saturn, Mars, Uranus combo does not strongly affect Italy’s chart unless you consider the Solar Arc Progressed chart.

• the ruler of the ‘land’ (4th house) of Italy has recently become Venus.
• Progressed Venus is now 21 Virgo next to Progressed Saturn at 23 Virgo
• Transitting Uranus has been opposite Progressed Saturn for a while (and there are reports that there have been tremors in the area since March 20) but it needed the energy of fast moving Mars for action to materialize.


Italy Solar Arc

I found it very interesting the the Solar Arc Progressed chart shows all the points *exactly* sextile to the original chart. Because a Solar Arc Progression moves approximately one degree a year, this would happen sometime around 60 years but there would only be a few weeks when the sextile was exact.

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