2021 ANNUAL ASTROSCOPE by JOHN DELANEY http://www.delaneyastroscope.com/2020.html PRELIMINARY STATEMENT FOR 2020 and 2021 Saturn conjuncts Pluto in Capricorn, exactly, on January 12, 2020. Since Clyde Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona discovered Pluto on February 18, 1930, Saturn has conjuncted Pluto only twice, until now:    1) Saturn conjuncted Pluto in Leo on August 10, 1947; and 2) Saturn conjuncted Pluto in Libra on November 7, 1982.   Those who lived through these years, felt its energy & remembered its worldly events will most likely be alarmed to know that they will undergo such psychic electricity yet again.  Those with sophisticated knowledge of astrology will endure further alarm as they realize that Saturn conjunct Pluto in Capricorn colors the entire year of 2020. 2020 represents the balsamic end of the previous Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 22 degrees Taurus on May 28, 2000 in preparation for the subsequent Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020. If one asserts that the year before the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction is analogous to the day before a New Moon, Saturn conjunct Pluto in Capricorn represents not only the supremely baneful yet cathartic climax to the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 22 Taurus on May 28, 2000, but connotes the indelible karmic coloring of the subsequent cycle – in this case, the twenty-year Jupiter-Saturn cycle from the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020 to the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 18 Libra on Halloween 2040. Finally, astrological masters will endure supreme alarm as they recall that the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 22 degrees Taurus on May 28, 2000 represents the last of nine Jupiter-Saturn cycles in earth signs, commencing with the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 5 degrees Virgo on July 17, 1802. Saturn conjunct Pluto in Capricorn therefore also represents the supremely baneful yet cathartic climax to the complete series of nine Jupiter-Saturn cycles in earth signs in their entirety – excepting the first Jupiter-Saturn cycle in an air sign, when Jupiter conjuncted Saturn at 5 degrees Libra on July 24, 1981, and which overlaps with the last Jupiter-Saturn cycle in an earth sign, Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 22 degrees Taurus on May 28, 2000. However, will Saturn conjunct Pluto in Capricorn connote the indelible karmic coloring to the complete series of nine Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions in air signs ending with the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 28 degrees Aquarius on April 7, 2199? And, of course, the Pluto Return of the U.S.A. on February 21, 2022, July 11, 2022 and December 28, 2022 does nothing to assuage anybody’s alarm. ARIES 2021 Both Democrats & Republicans agree: 2020 represented an unprecedented year in human history. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 had already afflicted so many people, cities, states, provinces and countries with the entrenched consequences of their bad decisions – but what exactly caused the COVID-19 pandemic? Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm) But 2020 was not only about COVID-19 – not by a long shot. Accept that 2020 represented a countdown to the end of the old order, dating from 1800, as we prepare for the next two hundred years. Read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. This very tricky political speed bump, the stop sign designed to last twenty years, forces these politicians, and you, to speak with caution not only as Jupiter conjuncts Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021, but also for the next twenty years – mainly, but not exclusively, because what appeals as theory fails as practice.  This theory-practice polarity, this pitfall of expressing exactly what you think politically, then making political alliances based upon it, are most pronounced at the very beginning of the cycle. Those who speak with caution gain the advantage, and those who don’t fall behind an eight ball from which it will become very difficult to extricate themselves as Jupiter transits Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021. Know who you are, based upon who you were when you were growing up, as you deal with more experienced adults with their well-defined political interests, which they will also further as aggressively & as secretively as possible during Saturn in Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023. Chances are that your political beliefs may not be well-defined because your economic interests are not well-defined, either. Experienced business leaders always have well-defined business interests – especially now, as experienced business leaders face logistic crises far beyond their decades of experience during 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026. Disregard jokers who resurrect that terrible & ostensibly ironic slogan from the Eighties as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021, “Whoever dies with the most toys wins – and Jeff Bezos is winning!” Think maturely about macroeconomics rather than immaturely about Jeff Bezos’s trophy wife. These are powerful people dealing with the broadest & most important issues in society – and you can be in a position to influence them for you & yours as Chiron in Aries sextiles Saturn in Aquarius from January through July. How? If, as suggested, whether or not your political or economic interests are well-defined, you can learn all that you need to know & more as extremely smart & visionary blue-blooded politicians who forgot more than entire populations ever knew rise to the surface during 2003-CO1 in Aquarius throughout November 2020 through December 2029. The North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021 demands that you negotiate with more savvy. Be careful not to yield negotiating advantage to one whom, as the late great astrologer Sydney Omarr would warn, “knows the price of everything & the value of nothing.” Realize during Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021 that the personal courage & strategic thinking, upon which you acted over the last couple of years emerged out of an understanding of your own personal motivation – and that your own personal motivation, the reason you get up in the morning, emerges out of your knowledge that you are part of your family during Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021. If you don’t want to do it, it’s not in your interest to do it. It’s that simple. Resist temptations to indulge negativity. Not the dictates of nation states, but the common sense of worldly circumstances brought about by COVID-19 demand an attitude & worldview of austerity during Pluto conjunct Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023. Indeed, the pain that some youth will feel during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022 will affect subsequent generations in the same way that the Great Depression, the Sixties & Reagan did. The popular undercurrent? An undertone of constant complaint within retail stores everywhere during Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March. Quote John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, during Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May for those who simply do not know how to behave, “Saving face in the midst of unpleasant circumstances is the Savannah way.” Intervene to forestall potentially emotional & violent episodes as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus square the North Node during March and April. Theory is not practice. Political ideology may drive why politicians agree about how much to spend upon necessities over which both sides agree, but Saturn square Uranus from January to July declares that the issues are about how much these things cost – nothing else. You not only should accept, but, in fact, you should be grateful, that some forces, and, in fact, much larger forces, are beyond your control. The economic damage done to retail accelerates appreciably as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021 – whether or not a fire burns down a commercial strip in your local area. You may want to stand on the popular side of the fence as Jupiter trines the North Node in late February – but until you hear what those academic experts really say, your political support won’t amount to a hill of beans, as the extremely unwieldy, obtuse & expensive logistic & financial problems of the later stages of the COVID-19 quarantine & the impatient eradication of municipal law enforcement services at the end of the George Floyd protests will flummox even the most experienced legislators in the city, state, province & country during Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022. What should you be doing during all of this? You learn what really motivates your family during Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021 – and you hear stories about your family as you were growing up that you never heard before after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020. Don’t shrug – who you are within your family informs who you are as a person. Furthermore, if a professional offer seems to you to be the offer of a lifetime or the absolute meaning of your life during Mars conjunct Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March, then do not resist the fire at the pit of your stomach or the longing of your soul. . . no matter who objects. Even so, there are many who do not know what they don’t know, and even more who refuse to acknowledge that they don’t know anything! Consequently, reflexive, hostile & self-serving flippancy will dominate much public discourse during Chariklo in Aquarius from February through August. Whatever! Instead, notice how those who master what they know & believe stick to their script under extreme duress & do not care if they are or are not popular as Saturn trines the North Node from April through September. Strive to emulate them after considerable homework, study & discussion throughout Chiron sextile the North Node during May and June. A massive amount of photography will determine a legal verdict during Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trines Elatus during March. A picture renders the 1000 words of a lawyer – any lawyer – moot. You will distance yourself from all sorts of people with whom you disagree regarding such political opinions during 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June because they use the buzzwords of dog whistles to cover up their low-minded self-interest. You learn more not only about how so many people verbally claim an altruistic motive for a nefarious intention as Echeclus in Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025 reminds you that you dealt with the same manipulative crap in your family, in high school, at the local bar & gym, amongst “friends,” Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trine Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June demands that you refuse to allow any falsehood, deceit or lie to go unchallenged –as well as any expression of a really bad & debased attitude. Provide air so as to compress negativity to dispel toxicity. All that “elephant talk” becomes meaningless during Jupiter in Pisces during June and July. The true character of each individual is self-evidently manifest. There is nothing to say – but there is a lot to negotiate. People who have no shame nevertheless have things that you need. Develop newfound skills at emotional detachment when dealing with business during Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September – particularly as those with no shame try to swindle you. One way to maintain detachment: Realize as Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022 that some of these shameless negotiators are actually on the brink of ruin. Shamelessness is an attempt to escalate tensions during 2003-WL7 sextile Bienor conjuncts 1996-TL66 from May to October to induce to lose your temper, giving the shameless an excuse to pull some truly intolerable maneuver. Stick to your number when dealing with a demonic accountant as Nessus sextile Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023. Say a prayer or three for the demonic accountant’s secretary as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextiles Uranus from August through December. This suits you fine. You are beginning to take control of your own life & to make money – serious money – starting during 1999-OX3 in Taurus from June through October. Redecorate your home in preparation for a lucrative new era as Echeclus conjuncts 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June. You put out your calling card and let people know that you are ready to work. Political adversaries force dormant contentious issues during Jupiter opposite Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July. It is no longer morally valid simply “to mind your own business” – particularly in circumstances which require a hero or heroine to save the day as Cyllarus transits Leo from August 2021 through January 2022. Give as good as you get & do not back down. Hold your ground until the battle begins anew with new players on both teams during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas. Disregard the acute bias for or against you by supposedly neutral professional authority figures during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October only at your considerable long-term peril. This does not suggest that you should become a magistrate or law enforcement official – to become a law enforcement official would require training in surveillance where one will wait for those whom they presume to be guilty to do their illegal act. Now, Thereus in Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025 may favor those Rams doing such surveillance – but only if they are legally empowered to do it. There will be plenty of available work in surveillance as an upsurge in, and upgrade of tactics surrounding, identity theft & large-scale retail theft explode during Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022. Simultaneously, more rogue & corrupt cops attract media attention during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September. If neither of these trades are part of your field of endeavor, use this energy to keep on top of job listings & chances to move up in the workplace. But you can & should intervene to help someone in trouble. Be inspired by a random act of pure courage by a local police officer or insanely brave citizen to do your own moral, civic or manly duty during Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September. Moreover, realize, concurrently, that politicians & law enforcement figures who have recent powerful victories on their side will use Jupiter trine Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September, to make an extremely powerful ideological statement. Furthermore, if you also notice that certain dishonest individuals gain unfair advantage & garner unearned wealth (“unjust enrichment”), then 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2021 through March 2022 asserts that you should stand up for what is right & to report what you know to law enforcement. Honor cops who demonstrate an honorable face & self-respect during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December. Indeed, go one step further & start a real conversation with a forthright, savvy & opinionated cop during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October. Don’t be surprised if this cop promotes you . . . to citizen, sometime throughout Hylonome sextile Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025, “Jesus loves you, buddy.” Apart from your duties as boy scouts and girl scouts, those who shape society who have been discussing the progress of various agendas over the course of 2020 now commence to move ahead to the next stage of action during Chiron sextile Saturn during November. That acute bias for or against you by supposedly neutral professional authority figures during late summer now works for or against you & your team during Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December. Speak & act circumspectly. Note the attitude that these players & their audiences adopt during Mars in Scorpio during November. Many of these people on both sides will succumb to slash & burn changes not only to the original agenda but also to “Plan B” in their desperation to rush through or to stop this agenda now & throughout Chariklo in Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028. Many will cheat outright, now & throughout 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028. Doesn’t matter. A standoff is a standoff as Saturn squares Uranus during December. Even so, do not, under any circumstances, succumb to nihilistic, misanthropic, anarchistic desperation about your city, state, province, country, society at large, humanity or planet during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 square Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022. Ten to ten is the same score as one million to one million – most likely more than a million as & throughout 2001-BL41 in Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024. Even if the standoff is ten million to Mitch McConnell (especially about money), Jupiter square the North Node in late December reminds Aries the Ram that it matters not who has the moral high road but who has the power of the purse, both now & throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. Be warned: The baneful power that the purse yields becomes much more apparent as Pluto trines the North Node from January to March 2022. while your ability to change the course of events in either small or large ways outright disappears as Jupiter transits Pisces from January through April 2022. Don’t overestimate your own importance.   TAURUS 2021   Too many cops seem seriously enervated by how busy a year 2020 turned out for them. Did all that hard work do any good? In general, yes, no and maybe – but really, as Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasize the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020, no. Too many cops on the street usually represent a symptom rather than a solution. Too many cops appear when a plethora of problems plague unimaginative politicians and crime begins to skyrocket. And these too many cops represented a side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, itself caused by Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm): The lack of mobility & freedom. But, truth be told, what cops encountered throughout 2020, including the George Floyd protests followed by riots & looting, could not legitimately be assigned to a mere matter of municipal policing, but truly fell under the rather ethereal & disturbing realm of the rewriting of the last two hundred years of history – read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. Why did cops endure the brunt of the violence of this backlash of history? Because the vast majority of the individuals protesting, rioting & looting could not tell you who John C. Calhoun was if the prize was $1 million – plus, of course, a brand-new car. While a lot of your neighbors might not want to hear it, making sure that your neighborhood is safe is not the exclusive responsibility of the local police department. Walk around the neighborhood & be left alone during Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021 to scope out whoever is doing whatever – whether they like it or not – during Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021. Let all that fade in the rear-view mirror as you realize that political solutions involving the police will prove much more complicated & obtuse than anybody ever anticipated during 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026 – particularly as criminologists & politicians study the influence of the COVID-19, of the George Floyd protests followed by riots & looting, and the synergies created by both, throughout all American cities, during the COVID-19 summer of 2020, throughout Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022. Politics exert an undue amount of influence over everything. Shift your attention back to the local area & your own life. Notice proposed changes or future developments in your local neighborhood or city during Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021 – and notice which businesses are closing for good after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020. Realize that customers & consumers will spend their money on one business or another based upon political motivations as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. Thank God that better minds & saner temperaments intervene to save the day from escalating conflict as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021. Create, or heed and, in fact, research, photojournalistic essays about empty commercial frontage in various American cities as you try to pinpoint the reasons & people who created the problem as Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trines Elatus during March. The future ruthlessly approaches. Political issues effect twenty-year change commencing Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021. Know who you support & why during 2003-CO1 in Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029 – but be very circumspect as you discuss it during Saturn in Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023. People who say too much without paying attention to whom they say it during Jupiter in Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021 pay a heavy price later as Saturn corrects such errors later from 2021 to 2023. It may seem that you need not be so careful in your speech as Saturn squares Uranus from January to July – but, really, people are high-strung & ready to argue. You may have just mentioned arithmetic, mathematics or economics – which, frankly, may not now be politically correct. You may think that such a statement is funny, but it really is not a joke. Indeed, the North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021 challenges you, “Do you really trust all the people with whom you do business?” Some want a pound for the price of an ounce, while others do not even pay you at all. And the attitude! The relationship between merchant & customer during Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March has never been worse – but it will not improve throughout the rest of 2021. Really, listen more than you speak & maintain direct eye contact in conversations involving business & politics as Chiron in Aries sextiles Saturn in Aquarius from January through July. Better yet, rather than listen to people around you babble on while responding as if on pins & needles, Jupiter trine the North Node in late February advises you to write “social commentary” about political discourse for newspapers & on your blog, reinforcing the moral validity of the fluffy yet naïve ventures which the idealistic espouse. Then, write further social commentary about how such naïve ventures actually play out in the real world as Saturn trines the North Node from April through September. Finally, write the extremely perverse “worst-case scenario” during Chiron sextile the North Node during May and June. All of that presumes that you are a writer or a journalist. If you are a merchant: Name your best price during Mars conjunct Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March – and stick to it. Play to win big profit. Accommodate nobody. If you have an actual idea which involves what you discuss when you engage in such commentary but which does not follow this progression, Chariklo in Aquarius from February through August advises you to develop it behind the scenes in silence, as you also develop a timeline where you wish to discuss or to launch it. Before you do so, however, the social commentary currently prevalent should serve as a launching pad from which you wish to promulgate this new idea unrestrained. Most of all, you don’t want others to associate you with slash & burn, half-assed, extreme statements as represented by 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June – especially as the attitude in the marketplace & on the street during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022 is so fearful, bitter & grim. The undercurrent of negativity will not go away easily. Children, nieces, nephews & grandchildren will not understand the open hostility of their criminalized family members towards certain merchants & companies as they embarrass that younger generation mercilessly in public as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus squares the North Node during March and April. Such younger generation are oblivious & unaware as to how certain institutions & individuals are protected by both government & a ruthless private sector plutocracy as Pluto conjuncts Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023. Indeed, if those younger family members watch over time & ask discrete yet penetrating questions throughout Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022, they may be able to compile a historical profile of why their older family members react to certain individuals & institutions with such outright hostility – although a soft rebuke of the standing order by a more mature elder or younger family member during Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May will help put the picture in a more impersonal context. “Too many people in the public know & have known about such favoritism for so long that none of them are willing to tolerate it any longer.” With such pronouncement of revisionist status quo by an experienced wise individual, prepare to evacuate, not to return for several weeks or even months, when certain individuals, whether merchants or customers, issue ultimatums amidst vulgar insults & curses as 2003-WL7 sextile Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 from May to October. Now, if you named your ideal price, then got it, particularly for a new business, then you will soon thereafter enjoy ideal conditions for high volume customer clientele during Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trine Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June. You must do everything in your power to win over the highest percentage of these customers as long-term clientele immediately. With most people you will get only one chance. All these people haggling & negotiating in all their different ways during Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September give you a chance to learn who everybody is. Do not chase customers away during the first meeting. Luckily, the political consequences of various complex issues become apparent enough to visualize yet nebulous enough from which to backtrack as Jupiter transits Pisces during June and July. Discussing, verbally, all local & familial issues as thoroughly as possible during Echeclus conjunct 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June will yield very positive results. Indeed, everything that you need to know comes into hyperclear focus, like every single detail of a Hieronymus Bosch painting, if you discuss all necessary issues with all partners & locals during Echeclus in Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025. Move forward with confidence during 1999-OX3 in Taurus from June through October until you reach a very clear stopping point. Then, consolidate gains. Politicians will then try to steamroll you verbally with the well-oiled rhetoric of their local agenda during Jupiter opposite Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July, but they fail. After all, you know what’s good for your family, city, state, province & country during Cyllarus in Leo from August 2021 through January 2022 – assert it so that others will work to ensure that it becomes & stay that way. What makes such knowledge awkward is that it might directly oppose or dismiss the social commentary that you had developed throughout your writing earlier in 2021. Cooperate with legal counsel & powerful local partners to further this agenda during 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2021 through March 2022. Younger, cocky & mischievous local cops who respect you as a tough local citizen who toes a straight line will throw their support behind you during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September – much to your surprise, even though they sometimes fear you, because you are a “tough sucker.” Ensure, moreover, that those working for these agendas also work to protect your children as Thereus transits Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025 as you seek out unique opportunities for them & for yourself. Both you & new clients decide whether or not you want to deal with one another over the long haul as an episode that occurs during Jupiter trine Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September cements your long-term reputation. Best foot forward & on the high road! Around the same time, those curmudgeons who gave merchants & companies such a brutal time earlier in the year take a liking to you during Nessus sextile Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023 as someone who not only knows whereof they speak but who will also tell you to go to Hell in any number of languages. Your conversations with such curmudgeons, most of which begin with & invoke the more colorful amongst hostile, bitter & aggressive local merchants & customers, during Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022. become the stuff of legends, not only locally, but particularly amongst curmudgeons’ younger family members who hear the two of you talk during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextile Uranus from August through December. If you managed to maintain silence about political opinions & to maintain a low profile in the beginning of the year, then adversaries & politicians who oppose you will panic during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October as they realize that you flew under their radar, and they will commence to challenge you openly in publicity & in sneaky bureaucratic fashion in ways that only you will actually know. The more desperate the attacks, the more it will be clear that such politicians feel that your advantage is insurmountable. A “political endorsement,” or lack thereof, by a deeply respected old-time superior officer during Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September either commence or kills momentum. Recent support you earned not only from the rank & file police but these charismatic bosses begin to penetrate the larger community during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December and during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October, respectively. Fierce momentum accelerates as political advisors & big bosses who oppose you are forced by circumstances to challenge you during Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December. Extreme change with a vengeance during Mars in Scorpio during November. Former allies, or allies with whom you may soon publicly split, insist that now is the time to launch those radical agendas during the beginnings of Chariklo in Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028 as adversarial & contradictory headwinds give it just the amount of lift it needs. Again: Listen more than you speak & maintain direct eye contact in conversations involving politics as Chiron sextiles Saturn during November. Indeed, it shocks you how passionately some speak of you throughout Hylonome sextile Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025.  Despite the awkwardness of opposing ideas that you not only championed but actually created, hold your ground during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas as you favor what’s good for your family, city, state, province & country during the ruthless & unforgiving contrarian political tempests of Saturn square Uranus during December. Indeed, when an economic disaster proves them wrong as Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 square Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022, very few people will admit it, but will only echo the false complaints of Trumpista Republicans, “This fake news is just the tip of the iceberg of yet another conspiracy.” One big obstacle in the way of such a radical plan: Easy to understand shortcuts will always be popular – and never more so than during 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028. So many people will support such easy-to-understand shortcuts during 2001-BL41 in Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024 – but Jupiter square the North Node in late December insists that just because a majority of millions of people are wrong does not in any way, shape or form make them right. Sigh! If you didn’t have so much experience as a brick wall, you might begin to think the job was really hard – but then, you get paid for it, in spades, as Pluto trines the North Node from January to March 2022, “I know you think the job is easy but there a not a lot of people who can do it.” The job’s not that easy. Then again, the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 reminds you that you really need to take some time to think about it: You have so much experience as a brick wall, and you do so well at it, because the indignation & insults of the world, “the school of hard knocks,” had to build that brick wall brick by brick by brick like an old-world bricklayer who may not know English, but who will not be fooled. Your recent assertions, in that persona of implacable & unyielding brick wall obstinacy, in contradiction to the collective masses of opponents, created changes impossible to reverse during Jupiter in Pisces from January through April 2022. Such a massive & unforgiving obstacle is worth its weight in platinum. Respect the value of your stubborn character.   GEMINI 2021   Gemini the Twin spent years, if not decades, improving their personal financial habits in the hopes that, one day, they will have turned a corner & left their personal debt miles behind in the rearview mirror. Never in your life until Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 have you had enough money to secure a loan with collateral that you could pay down with a paltry amount of interest so that, like rich people, you wind up buying what you need and want with other peoples’ money – and, lo and behold, you turned that corner. Your car did ninety on a straightaway with no traffic as the hot sun baked your debt like horse manure in the middle of a fresh-paved modern highway. Then Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 brought COVID-19 with it – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm – and the ensuing worldwide quarantine began. Rather than worry about if you were going to die in a plague, you wondered how the COVID-19 quarantine would affect your personal finances. But once you saw the stimulus money that the Republicans were dishing out, you realized that you really were witnessing an unprecedented moment of both financial history & history itself – read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. Keep in mind, however, that the influence of the COVID-19 quarantine economic stimulus package during 2020 seriously discombobulated the overall profile of the macroeconomy as some stocks became inflated while others are seriously deflated during & beyond Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022. Somebody’s making money & somebody’s losing their shirt during November. Who & who? Ask a lot of questions during Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021 – get a lot of correct answers after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020. Realize, for instance, that, during & throughout Pluto conjunct Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023, certain plutocrats invest in extremely rarefied stocks or public placement offerings in the public & private equity markets intended to serve only other plutocrats. On the other hand, walk out of the smoky crowded movie theater long before the stampede that commences when the individual screams, “Fire!” during 1996-TL66 conjunct the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021. Be prepared at a moment’s notice for massive melt-ups, unexpected furloughs & unannounced collapses. One consequence of such macroeconomic uncertainty will be that bosses now be forced to make both the org chart & the physical infrastructure of the company impossible to visualize or to model, making it way too obtuse & unwieldy to observe as they withhold it permanently & aggressively from their employees as 2002-GZ32 transits Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026. However, to assert that certain people lack the intellectual acumen to analyze the complexity of the situation would be unnecessarily kind – in fact, certain people are too dense to realize how badly this would hurt them. Avoid such idiots – you will have more than enough to consider because bosses will envy, fear & dislike you as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. Protect your interests during Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021. Hold onto realtors’ phone numbers – but give it a rest during Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021. While you would much rather oppose one of those idiots completely unsure of their own economic self-interest, the fact remains that you are (most likely) not a plutocrat, nor will you ever be one. Therefore, when bosses & their hand-picked minions, like Donald Trump & Jared Kushner posing as the “Cornflakes” couple in Grant Woods’ American Gothic, demonstrate their misanthropic & unprecedented meanness during & throughout Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022, you, unlike your (you are loathe to say the word) peers, will not be surprised in the least. Indeed, on the phone you will be with your broker to discuss wheat you must do to further your own self-interest during Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May – as so you should. But you should not be surprised when bitter, ruthless, hostile & hateful bosses & plutocrats forget you during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus square the North Node during March and April – their malice is predestined. But there is only so much control that even such bosses & plutocrats have over your finances & your future. Once you realized that money was not & will not be the critical issue, you could then turn your attention to the upcoming Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius on December 21, 2020, the first of four Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions in Aquarius over the next two hundred years, only to learn that, no matter what philosophical premise you took, you would only reach – or rather, hit – a brick wall. This is no casual disagreement. Either or both you & the people with whom you will be dealing, or, more likely, discussing platitudes, may lose their temper. Diplomacy becomes necessary for survival. You cannot win any argument no matter whose side you take as Jupiter conjuncts Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021. Do not forget this fleeting moment – it should direct your behavior for the next twenty years. Do not interpret this as an invitation to back off. Just like you, adversaries now form their opinions for the long haul. Even though you can’t quite connect all the dots, you must trust your instincts – you see it better than everybody else. For that matter, you might be the only one who sees it at all! This underwrites the major lesson you will learn as the North Node transits Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021. How is anybody else going to trust what you think, believe & intuit unless you believe it yourself? Much depends upon whether you are dealing with mission-critical issues that receive a solution in real time, or if you are making progress researching astronomy, astrology, science, religion or philosophy for the ages. Otherwise, follow an extremely adept local blue blood cast in the role of lawyer or politician or public relations executive throughout 2003-CO1 in Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029 to determine if a decision must be made now or if all can simply engage in dialogues for the purposes of mutual enlightened discourse. During Jupiter in Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021, preaching to the choir will make you, and everybody else, intellectually & verbally lazy. When engaging in such dialogues with allies, minor obstacles to communication & discourse will allow you & many others to take the easy & lazy way out, especially during Jupiter trine the North Node in late February, that adversaries & enemies would not allow – such as deliberately delaying defining critical terms. However, if you or others are engaged in contract negotiations, litigation or a criminal trial, opponents, lawyers, judges & the media, as well as professional academics, will punish you & everybody else mercilessly throughout Saturn in Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023 if you refuse to define terms. You must prepare for the occasion when you will be able to claim the advantage. By the time that Mars conjunct Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March, you must not only maintain a position where nobody can criticize you, but you must in fact be in a position where you can serve as taskmaster to everybody in the room. You can win with grace & charm or you can win ugly. If you choose grace & charm, then those who lost to you will try to throw mud on your spotless white shirt during Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March – but if it doesn’t bother you to win ugly, you can just toss more mud right back at them. Is this wise? No. Once you abandon the high road, you can only go lower – and all sorts of people will pave the way to go lower with you. You will encounter fewer problems if you know with whom you are dealing & why. Once you sort such simple logistics clearly, you can consciously begin to develop more sophisticated discourse about politics, astrology or in another language or languages during Chiron in Aries sextile Saturn in Aquarius from January through July. Don’t make your own defeat any worse than necessary by attempting to argue against the ironclad truth of clear journalistic photography as Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trines Elatus during March. For the most part, Saturn square Uranus from January to July declares that it will be clear when problems will need to be solved in real time because everybody will be talking about a budget. As such, when opponents, lawyers, judges & the media, as well as professional academics, ask you to define your terms during Saturn trine the North Node from April through September, they will also ask you make, model, manufacture & price. Allies & adversaries impressed by your replies will ask you more questions further afield about a variety of competitive products within the same market as Chiron sextiles the North Node during May and June. If you know, tell. Broad & deep knowledge about retail & wholesale prices of products during this time period will give you credibility to test the waters by expressing your more esoteric ideas during Chariklo in Aquarius from February through August – as long as you see that you have earned a reputation as a “thinker,” stop, “You know, that guy is a really deep thinker who actually, you know, thinks.” Laugh if you like, but it is such detached intellectual philosophical curiosity in the face of widespread bankruptcy & ruin throughout Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022, rather than bitter & hostile regret, that will earn you the awe & respect of the masses. Such mental detachment notwithstanding, crackpot schemes abound because everyone is a scientist during 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June. Emphasize your pragmatism. As for your pragmatism – congratulations! Echeclus in Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025 notices that you have such control over your finances that you have become the fiscal conservative that your dad always wanted you to be. Indeed, the glow of dad’s pride gives you the deep emotional strength needed to face the accumulation of worsening economic conditions, perhaps at the hands of an economic terrorist, as 2003-WL7 sextile Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 from May to October. Still, your dad, you & your broker all know that you couldn’t have done it . . . without your broker. Speaking of your broker: Upgrade your investment strategy to a much more lucrative projected output during Echeclus conjunct 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June. Your own calculated effort & newly loyal clientele help you overcome a rough patch as you earn record profit during Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trine Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June. But don’t gloat – consolidate your gains before confronting unexpected new stumbling blocks & opposition during Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September. Acknowledge the treacherous changes in market psychology, whether during the sudden, insanely, unconsciously irrational & enthusiastic Bull Market during 1999-OX3 in Taurus from June through October or inexplicable pessimism during Jupiter in Pisces during June and July. Such treacherous changes include the spike in malice amongst misanthropic bosses, regulation, law enforcement officials & authority figures who suggest an audit of your books, financials or taxes during Nessus sextile Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023. Of course, all this is an attempt to upset your emotional equilibrium & self-esteem, which others envy & resent. Therefore, while a certain level of pushback against such (most likely) empty threats is appropriate during Jupiter opposite Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July, because such psychological manipulation will continue, don’t overdo it. Younger employees who work for such misanthropic bosses, regulation, law enforcement officials & authority figures will regard you as a rolling can of open garbage as they hold their noses around you during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextile Uranus from August through December. Accept this for the psychological warfare that it is. Don’t dignify it by demonstrating our own psychological weakness by expressing explosive anger, either in the moment or at any time throughout Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022. Focus instead on your allies, like your broker. Your broker studies both the stocks & the psychology – and if your broker says, “Let’s take profits,” or “Let’s ride this stampede,” during this phase, you can trust that your broker has done your broker’s homework. If, in fact, you actually feel comfortable enough to let your broker trade with your money – not just for the long run, but to buy & to sell stocks to make money on the differentials of a single week, day or even hour – then suggest this to your broker during Cyllarus in Leo from August 2021 through January 2022. However, what your broker will suggest will be that there is only a very small amount of such activity which is actually worthwhile & honorable, as that broker will strive to teach you basics & fundamentals of investing & making money that you don’t & should know – especially since you are considering trading. Another more important reason to avoid day trading is that these misanthropic bosses, regulation, law enforcement officials & authority figures who planted mental hand grenades in the swamp of your scattered brain know that you would be seeing shadows of their subterfuge amidst the various barometers of your quotidian existence during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October. The cunning of such prominent individuals to spook you make appraising the obstacles of the market & the economy objectively that much more difficult during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September. As you will currently be mentally unsettled, Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September can throw you off your horse & throw you for a serious loop.  Reality stabilizes & ruthlessly states the status quo of all current affairs during Jupiter trine Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September. Recalibrate your intellectual, emotional & romantic core. Indeed, the pursuit of money for its own sake is a waste of time. Instead, Thereus in Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025 advise you to consider what property, furniture, equipment & all sorts of stuff you will need to buy for a new apartment or house in order to make it a home. Part of making that new apartment or house a home lies in taking care of the particularly special needs of your children – about which you will be thinking, planning or creating – as 1998-BU48 transits Libra from November 2021 through March 2022.  Get back on that horse during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October & correct that error. Because you are short of the money that you need for your financial goals, possibly in your 401K or to pay down a mortgage, talk with bosses about a raise, or take a class or a series of classes that can yield a better position & a raise, during Hylonome sextile Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025. Also, talk to your broker about obstacles in the market or economy which frankly confound you during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December. Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December puts you at the height of your influence. Sophisticated discourse about politics, astrology or in another language or languages finds an outlet as Chiron sextile Saturn during November. More people are willing to entertain your more esoteric ideas as Chariklo transits Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028. More than anything else, you are extremely ready to pursue meaningful ambition to make your permanent mark on culture & sociology during Mars in Scorpio during November. Ultimately, quacks still quack & take extreme shortcuts during 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028. Moreover, everybody is still a scientist, is still getting their Ph.D., is still a living guru of the manifest abstract light (with a tax-deductible non-profit) as 2001-BL41 transits Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024. Which is why it is so important that you demonstrate as Saturn squares Uranus during December that you are just as practical now as you were earlier in 2021. Assert during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas, “You have to untangle this for me. Why would I invest any time or money in something that doesn’t make any sense?” Force those selling to you to explain what they sell in terms you understand & categorize. Maintain a placid temperament with irrational idealists even though such irrational idealists will refuse to maintain a placid temperament with you as Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 square Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022. Indeed, many irrational idealists will doubt your “pragmatism” as they challenge your fiscal conservatism during Jupiter square the North Node in late December. You don’t have to say anybody is wrong, “Everything requires risk, but I don’t like that risk – once you lose the money, the money is gone.” Truly words to live by throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. Preparing against untenable risk is the best plan you can make to prevent that negative scenario – “Once you lose the money, the money is gone” – from happening to you & to those whom you advise during the very spooky shadow of Pluto trine the North Node from January to March 2022. Your workload increases significantly during Jupiter in Pisces from January through April 2022. Take care of your health.   CANCER 2021   While you felt great about yourself & how you were developing at the end of the last decade, you were really sick of everybody else, even to the degree that your spouse, mate or lover exhibited the same negative attitudes that those all those others exhibited. You just wanted times to change. The impersonal, control-freak, hyper-efficient, bottom-line approach which so many people refuse to question strikes you as an inhuman way to deal with people. Particularly when these people make a mistake – there is no reason to apologize, there is only a reason to correct errors – because that’s good business. Well, that’s good business to a Jeff Bezos Amabot with a market capitalization larger than some continents – but Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 remind you that such behavior is not good business to you. Then COVID-19 came as a result of Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm. It became difficult to know what the correct thing to do really was, to know the correct way to deal with other people – and whether that mistake was really the correct thing to do in disguise. Then the whole thing got bigger. Throughout the year, actions & words which for years, if not decades or centuries, were right, suddenly became wrong, and vice versa. People on all levels of authority who firmly believed that they took the proper course of action were shocked at their rebuke. In the end, this did not overwhelm such authority figures with confusion, but, instead, it made them bitter with disgust, until they realized that, as society worldwide approached the commencement of a new order for the long term with the upcoming Jupiter-Saturn conjunction on December 21, 2020, we were all counting down the old order with it. Read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. Moreover, and darkly, with that Jupiter-Saturn conjunction happening at 0 degrees in that lonely sign of Aquarius in Cancer’s 8th house of sex, death, crime, joint finances, the occult & what is written on one’s tombstone, you, whether you are with your spouse, mate or partner, or otherwise, face the consequences of the New Age in the new world order. . . alone. Go slow – the twenty-year lesson beginning Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021 reminds you that even though you go it alone, you are not an island – others will feel the effects of your decisions, whether good, bad or indifferent. Then again, thieves double-cross & betrayers back-stab throughout the North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021. This is a real problem for you. Cancer the Crab is not slick, but naïve & gullible. Complicating this dynamic further, 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026 states that, while fixing what you perceive to be broken in your relationship may be harder than finding somebody new, anybody new you might find will never, ever actually match your criteria for a relationship which has become ever more demanding. Even though the criteria for your relationship may have changed or evolved, you yourself cannot deny as you evolve throughout Pluto conjunct Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023, that the criteria for one who is to be in a relationship with you is becoming more, not less, rarified & specific. Consider settling with whom you have, with all their flaws – especially when you consider that what you now perceive to be many of the flaws of that spouse, mate or partner may simply be as a result of many of the changes that the COVID-19 pandemic has placed upon all of us beyond your that spouse’s, mate’s or partner’s, or, indeed, anybody’s, control. Other planetary influences suggest that you may be unwilling to do that. Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021 indicates that you will not be willing to stay with a partner to whom you will hold a lower standard than yourself. Furthermore, you know what you want to do & why you want to do it with your money, skill & energy during Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021 – and you want worthy support for it. Then again, this can all represent the quixotic vicissitudes of your ruler, the Moon. The more that you mythologize yourself, the more that you tend to mythologize your spouse, lover or partner. Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May confirms that you expect that others will consider you great. If that is the case, then spouse, lover or partner must consider themselves great as well. A great couple – Jackson Pollock & Lee Krasner, Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward, Bill & Elaine deKooning, Bill & Camelia Crosby, Eric Fischl & April Gornik, Brad Pitt & (DON’T GO THERE!) – presuppose a couple who, whether undergoing championship greatness or absolute Greek tragedy, the relationship between the hero or the heroine is greater than the sum of its parts. And, as painful as tragedy is, Cancer the Crab perceives it to be solipsistic mediocrity. Even so, as you make do with your lot maritally, romantically & professionally, you now know during 2003-CO1 in Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029 why that unattached or unmarried politician, group leader or activist harbored such limitless self-esteem earlier in 2020. Whether you admire, revile or ignore such people, you see their ascendency as a signal that you must begin to make many more decisions for yourself. Conversely – especially if you choose to continue to enjoy the comfort & security of a specific committed relationship – realize, as you observe this individual, and the changes in yourself, how such “independence” can lead to both adrenaline highs . . . and adrenaline lows. In this context, if you get drunk on freedom during Jupiter in Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021, expect the harsh, protracted hangover of karmic payback during Saturn in Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023. Go slow! All that being said, realize, before you walk in the door, that bosses, power brokers & political partisans, already harbor protracted, entrenched and, for the most part, irreconcilable policy positions as Saturn squares Uranus from January to July. Don’t make this your problem. Bosses redouble their extreme aggression during Neptune in Pisces square the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. In many cases, this causes injustices in the workplace, perhaps against you, Stay out of the line of fire. To that end, ask power brokers & bosses what they really want to do during Chiron in Aries sextile Saturn in Aquarius from January through July. Of course, it annoys you – annoys you deeply – that bosses not only judge you, but make judgments against you. One on level, however, circumstances force them to judge somebody. Such latent propensity to judge remains dormant in many environments, including the workplaces, as old-timers enlist rookies in their high-tech slavery during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022. Now, in the end, the person complaining the most & the most bitterly during Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March is certainly guilty & has already been caught – really, the audiotapes, videotapes & photography caught it all as Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trines Elatus during March. But that doesn’t mean that those who judge so bitterly won’t curse the name of the innocent deliberately in an attitude of spite during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus square the North Node during March and April! Realize that what these bosses, power brokers & political partisans face with companies, cities & institutions really are the same issues that you face in your personal life – specifically, how to handle the finances in a budget. Jupiter trine the North Node in late February states that everybody wants money now – pleasure. Saturn trine the North Node from April through September states that everybody will need money later, perhaps much more money – insurance in lieu of pain. Chiron sextile the North Node during May and June indicates that somebody or something will have to persuade these bosses & you where “Jupiter” ends & “Saturn” begins – and not to let anybody deceive themselves about this fundamental economic truth. Nobody is immune from total devastation as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021 – and, while the effect upon you may be only second-hand or derivative, it may nonetheless impact you significantly. Whatever your decision regarding your spouse, mate or partner, complications surrounding that individual regarding their job makes it even more difficult to communicate with them, and especially to be with them in the midst of their thoughts, as Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022. Be grateful that this spouse, mate or partner brings with their problems an acute awareness of the fundamental reality underwriting society’s current complex problems. Why be grateful for that? Because Chariklo in Aquarius from February through August denotes that too many people employ rationalizations wherein restrictions will not apply to them & they will get along just fine. Many of these people will try to and will intend to & will actually eventually comply, once they get beyond their clearly delusional rationalizations. Many others – many, many others – outright disregard the rules, engage sharp practice, break the laws, stampede the barricades & outright cheat during 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June. In such context, recall that catalogue that you made of the motivations of the various friends & acquaintances after Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021 – so that you would be ready before one or another of them would try to take unfair advantage of your trusting nature not only after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020, but also long before Mars conjunct Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March leaves you vulnerable to bad faith & betrayal. You will now know if your initial analysis was correct. Withdraw sharply. Refuse to get involved. Withdrawing sharply is extremely important because the guilty will cast aspersions – the only thing that they do well. Indeed, such people will bring whoever & whatever they can down with them during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022. Thereafter, the fickle winds help them destroy everything else around them during Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September. In the end, however, all sorts of extremely low losers will converge to help doom & gloom fall back on all those who started it throughout 2003-WL7 sextile Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 from May to October. Stay away! Ultimately, your ambitions, not only professionally, but also spiritually & creatively, as well as your appetite for what life has to offer, transcends the audience of doom. You not only ascend in status from “barely surviving” to “thriving & living” as Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trine Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June, but you also begin to realize how much more is possible for you in the near future. You learned only recently that if bosses were willing to convict you in the absence of a crime (“Believe me, this one will get around to breaking the rules soon enough!”), someone else out there would be willing to exalt you in the service of helping to manifest your most heartfelt ambitions – and thus the mentor appears during Nessus sextile Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023. Your spiritual journey may serve to provide you with a rather strange, cosmic and, shall we say, non-conservative reputation amongst associates of your spouse, lover or partner during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September. Is this good or bad for one or for both of you? Neither of you will know until some intolerable “big cheese” associates gives you the thumbs up or down during Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September. Until then, exotic has its upside. And don’t stop the rookie college groupie from joining the Magical Mystery Tour during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextile Uranus from August through December. Don’t be selfish with the splendor of the divinity. However, in order to get from the down & dirty workplace to the altar of the temple, a workplace confrontation may be necessary & overdue as Jupiter opposes Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July. If you ever plan on going back, try to make nice as you leave – but if they are going to kick you out of Hell, burn the bridge under their feet so that they will fall into the river Styx as they try to follow you! Write an agenda of what you want to accomplish over the next five years – the “Five Year Plan” – or start a novel, play or painting that will take you the next five years to finish during Echeclus conjunct 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June. You see all of this more clearly than makes you feel comfortable during Echeclus in Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025 – particularly because you know that that evil nine-eyed monster forever lurks in the room directly next to you throughout Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022. You know how you must respond in order to move through life according to your plan & agenda – but you really want some validation for doing what you are supposed to do when you are supposed to do it. This is why Jupiter in Pisces during June and July gives you such peace. But those just cover your emotional, religious & spiritual needs. Political & professional allies induce you to demand the truth & to obey its consequences along with them during 1999-OX3 in Taurus from June through October. You had behaved honorably & nobly over the past twelve years – your ego demands that now you deserve to carry yourself with such honor & nobility & to have all other people treat you in this manner during Cyllarus in Leo from August 2021 through January 2022. (Not everybody, unfortunately – notice closely, albeit with some stealth, those individuals in your social circles & neighborhoods who never speak but who observe everybody around them a little too intensely during Thereus in Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025.) Furthermore, in your family, as well as in your neighborhood, school, city, state, province or country, you & everybody else are truly equal before the laws, and each one of you should be treated as such during 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2021 through March 2022. “Treated equally before the law” will be a phrase to heed closely as Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October once again enters your 8th house of secrets & criminal activity. Those who know you hear the phrase “treated equally before the law” & roll their eyes as they look at you – at least until the knockout blow that occurs as Jupiter trines Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September shocks everybody. While certain cops & power brokers have unexpected comments to make about you & your role in the drama during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December, wait for the super-savvy ringleader & official boss to deliver their final word – perhaps delivering a eulogy for the death of true justice during Hylonome sextile Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025 – during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October. Then, “politics” – “politics” with a capital P, “Politics” – begins anew during Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December. Just as you did earlier in 2021, you defer to authority figures & ask power brokers & bosses what they want during Chiron sextile Saturn during November. The math has not changed, yet bosses, power brokers & political leaders have still refused to come to an agreement during Saturn square Uranus during December. Times have now changed. Act much more in line with animal instincts as Mars transits Scorpio during November – if you are wise, you’ll use it to have sex with a lover or marital partner as if they were some horny twenty-five year-old looking for it in some sleazy bar. That’s not vice – that’s virtue! Vice? Mathematical rationalizations (supply-side economics is one memorable example) as Chariklo transits Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028. However, if you are some neo-Keynesian economic guru & have developed some new system that solves all problems, do it now & do it proud. But 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028 declares that many such hot shots are one-hit wonders & outright frauds – but, truth be told, not everybody is a social science theorist, appearances to the contrary, during 2001-BL41 in Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024. However, certain social science theorists who become really popular during Jupiter square the North Node in late December really know how to add. Of all things! None of these rationalizing, deficit-spending, social science apologetics carry any weight. Hard work, long hours & sticking to a budget make a comeback during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas, “It worked for Dad & it can work for us, too!” The wolf who made their home out of happy horse manure & Elmer’s Glue will curse the gods whom he blames for his fate during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 square Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022 – but he has nobody to blame except himself. Of course, if you take economics seriously, you will read Saskia Sassen & Thomas Piketty throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 to learn how the world got to where it is today since 1980 – nobody can read these authors in a hurry. Then again, if you take your economics seriously, Pluto trine the North Node from January to March 2022 states that you already know that Marx, in his “Theses on Feuerbach,” proclaimed, “The philosophers have interpreted the world, in various ways – the point is to change it.” The Five-Year Plan you wrote earlier in 2021 beckons as Jupiter transits Pisces from January through April 2022. You & your people might be making your mark on history right now.   LEO 2021   Absorb new knowledge like a brand-new sponge in ice cold water as your burning passion for knowledge shines a targeted light in the darkness. Join workshops, meet like-minded brains & keep a journal where you brainstorm while integrating all your new knowledge. Write essays & short stories in that same notebook or on separate pads of paper that form new ideas derived from, yet radically dissimilar to, your current status. Then, when your old colleagues & employees comment about you, “That one really drank the Kool-Aid,” as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021, thank them – and thank God. But how did you get to here from there? Really, all blessings are in disguise. After all, you never really minded work. Work is a path to wealth and power – and you like wealth and power. Furthermore, with Capricorn ruling your 6th house of work, you often got to be the boss, training employees who would one day get to be bosses themselves. You worked to gain wealth and power as you got the respect of bosses for being a boss and training bosses who all worked to gain wealth and power. You like work. You did not take the responsibility, honor and good will of your employees and colleagues for granted. You asked the same colleagues & employees the same questions & the same requests, and they answered & executed them, because you & they did the same thing you & they have always done. So what happened? Truth be told, change is both sudden & protracted. You were subject to too many people saying and doing too many things well beyond your ability to control them. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 declared that all those new employees come with too many different types of ambitious personalities for even a skilled boss and manager like yourself to control. You would have caught up – later rather than sooner, but it would have happened. But, then, because of Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm – COVID-19 happened. Everybody: Go home. Everybody: Work from home. That’s fine. The longer you had been in the workplace, the more likely you had undergone some type of natural or sociological cataclysm which kept you & everybody else out of the office for . . . um . . . a few days. Could have been a coordinated terrorist attack on the World Trade Center & the Pentagon. Could have been the Boston Marathon Bombing. Could have been an earthquake, a tsunami, a Stanley Cup Finals riot. Three-quarters of the state may have been burning in a wild fire. Wow! That’s heavy, dark & scary – but it will pass. Get it to me the first of the month. But this COVID-19 pandemic quarantine never seems to end. All those cataclysms of the past that happened separately now seemed to recur all at the same time – except for the Stanley Cup Finals riot, which happened in Vancouver about ten years ago & on 82nd (Whyte) Avenue in Edmonton every year along with Messier, Gretzsky & Jagr back in the day. Instead, a repeat of the Rodney King Riots coming out of Los Angeles in 1992, and subsequent municipal riots in cities all across the United States, not Canada: The George Floyd protests, followed by riots & looting, interminable subsequent municipal riots in cities in the days & weeks & months that followed George Floyd’s arrest & death outside Chicago Unbeatable Prices within Powderhorn Park of Minneapolis all across the United States – sort of like Wilt Chamberlain & the Los Angeles Lakers turning back the clock as the Minneapolis Lakers during the Martin Luther King Riots in the late Sixties.  You concluded that you never saw anything like this in your life. Which is as it should be, as 2020 wrapped up all sorts of things that had happened before – long before – you were born. Read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. But why was all this happening now? Because the reemergence of that superior intelligence which you experienced earlier in 2020 – and which will not be going away anytime soon – spells hope for you as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029. A promise for deep & meaningful change is real – that change commences during Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021 and continues for twenty years. Which superior intelligence was that? The brilliant new intelligence whom you encountered last spring is unlikely to be what one would call a “friend.” Indeed, what this brilliant mind asserts about the ignorance that they see around them makes you wonder about the depth of their knowledge & intuition as their worldview seems more alien than shocking. Absorb what they say as they say it. Don’t be surprised if they disappear as quickly as they arrived. This individual heralds your new awareness & level of intelligence as they ascend to a different frequency of radar during the North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021. But you complain, “This accelerated awareness doesn’t seem to be doing me any good.” On one level, your complaint is absolutely valid. The ruthlessly ignorant refuse to cede you any territory whatsoever as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. Certain employees & bureaucrats, as negative & intransigent as in the past, certainly want no correction & no guidance to difficult & thankless logistic problems, but now seem to be enlisting a new generation of hostile nuisances to further thwart progress as Okyrhoe conjuncts Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022. The same uncertain & unenlightened client representatives complain with the same or accelerated hostility during Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March. Making matters acutely uncomfortable, these old & new obstacles to progress in your infrastructure not only continue to impede you but also begin to give even the most cooperative client representative a hard time during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus square the North Node during March and April. You may see the concomitant photographic evidence; you may read about it in emails; you may not even know about it – but Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trines Elatus during March declares that it exists. However, what you don’t notice is that none of you are actually given enough room to do any of your jobs in the first place. These nuisances would just love to interface even more – but the powers that be have put in place shields to protect you & your people throughout Pluto conjunct Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023. The powers that be structured these shields in such a way that, just for your information, you may know who it is that is trying to disturb you during Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May – information which will prove useful as this process continues. Finally, once clients make clear & final decisions as Mars conjuncts Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March, everybody will be on the same page & there will no longer be any reason to complain about anything . . . anymore. As for yourself during 2021, you have a choice of partners & paths: You can choose the partner or the path which champions the easy way & the low-hanging fruit as Jupiter transits Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021 or the partner or the path which champions the hard way & the permanent gains as Saturn transits Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023. Recall earlier in 2020 when you made a list of who opposed your newfound quest for knowledge & why during Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021. You will meet a surprising like-minded soul with a story to tell after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020. As a result of your discussions with this individual, the whole story will make sense to you. Luckily, almost immediately, you notice that, because you will be dealing with unprecedented, obtuse, unwieldy & complex workplace & personnel problems amongst the convoluted upgrades & wholesale modular displacement of 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026, you will want constant access to a taskmaster in order to pick their brains throughout Chiron in Aries sextile Saturn in Aquarius from January through July. Be happy that you made as much progress as you did during Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021. Look forward to enhanced dignity as you adjust, temporarily, to the moribund power structure, during Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021. Once you take care of that, you will feel much more comfortable. You can once again operate efficiently within your wheelhouse. You’ll negotiate, haggle & argue with colleagues, rivals & bosses about the budget as Saturn squares Uranus from January to July – you’ve done that before. You’ll charm clients by suggesting to them what you might want as Jupiter trines the North Node in late February, then you beseech clients by informing them of what you really need as Saturn trines the North Node from April through September. The determination of the final number between you & clients during Chiron sextile the North Node during May and June may be challenging work, but you’ve done it before – and you enjoy it. Partnerships challenge & can annoy. The more capable of your partners are inclined to discuss what is possible (and in their distinct favor) rather than what is likely as Chariklo transits Aquarius from February through August. The outright shysters (“seems to be even more of them than usual”) will take you for what they can get as 2001-KF77 conjuncts 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June. But your colleagues & employees – the capable, ambitious & intellectually challenging individuals who made your life interesting for so many years – now become an unbearable logistic headache during Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022. First of all, COVID-19 could infect everybody at the office – but you’re not in the office. Or are you? Well, when will you be there? And how many people will be there? With you there? You can complain about your partners all that you want – unlike your employer, they do represent & actually achieve progress. Moreover, you make so much progress with such partners as Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trines Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June that you would be wise to find a way to let them to help automate many administrative tasks so that you will be forever free of nuisances in the bureaucracy. Bosses will commit to helping you to isolate & to get rid of one specific, old, encrusted, entrenched pain in the infrastructure as Nessus sextiles Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023 – first by transferring while threatening their newly corrupted younger sidekick to a different department during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextile Uranus from August through December. Do this proactively before the client begins to howl in pain about something entirely different or new as Asbolus conjuncts Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022. (Ultimately, however, this outburst is simply a worthless assertion of a nuisance to be brazen, as fed-up chiefs have already laid down the law of the land which such obstacles to progress must now & will follow – or else.) Bosses will demand that you make these changes in administrative policy in writing during Echeclus conjunct 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June. It will be a lot of work, but the intensity & duration of the headaches will lapse much quicker than if you let the calcified status quo with the same old tired names & faces continue. Realize that you don’t have infinite time – when clients complain about high expenses during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022, they are hinting that they may be in danger of going bankrupt. Do not wait for the other shoe to drop. Get together an emergency meeting of the brain trust at your job during Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September to determine what to do for & how to help such clients in this “pre-emergency.” Get back to such clients quickly & bluntly with your proposal during 2003-WL7 sextile Bienor conjuncts 1996-TL66 from May to October. Realize that the term “domino effect” did not emerge out of a vacuum. Take a disagreement with partners behind closed doors during Jupiter opposite Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July before both sides create inestimable damage by raising their voices out of control. Believe it or not, various bureaucracies & infrastructures keep track of such complications, and keep them in order & under control – albeit not moving forward very fast – as Jupiter transits Pisces during June and July. Both consciously & unconsciously, all of how this effect you & yours personally integrates very well into your brain during Echeclus in Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025. However, all that unconscious & conscious thought, feeling, meditation & integration usurp time from conscious action – although, if you strategize such conscious action carefully, you can be much more effective in what you try to achieve than everybody else. Bosses, however, believe that more is better, always, during 1999-OX3 in Taurus from June through October – but bosses themselves will be unable to complete the tasks necessary to sell your wares & services under budget & for (even a slight) profit. A harbinger of your true long-term power emerges through your inherent nobility as Cyllarus transits Leo from August 2021 through January 2022. For that matter, you are not the only person out there feeling this change. Even though your job duties or positions have not changed, partners begin to treat you differently, with more respect during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October. Many of your direct employees begin to salute you during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September. Your top lieutenant begins to call you “boss” in different languages during Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September. As there is no opportunity for you to act upon such power & nobility, contact current & recent clients & vendors as Thereus transits Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025 to determine who now has work & who is available. Final decisions about disputes & unresolved agendas upon which you have worked with partners all year are etched in stone during Jupiter trine Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September. You give your top lieutenant marching orders during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October. Your top lieutenant rallies the rest of the troops during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December. New laws take effect as 1998-BU48 transits Libra from November 2021 through March 2022. New ways to take advantage of & to evade new & old laws happen all around you during Mars in Scorpio during November. Draw firmwide boundaries with partners & the leadership about how all of you plan to handle loopholes in the law during Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December. Get, and stay, in touch with that taskmaster from earlier in 2021 as you all struggle with rapidly changing conditions as Chiron sextiles Saturn during November. Partners who didn’t originally acknowledge that they cannot afford what they demand, both within their budget & as part of their narrow constituency, gain more power & authority during Chariklo in Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028. New negotiations & drafting of budgets become that much more challenging as a result as Saturn squares Uranus during December – particularly as you deal with cheaters, on & off, throughout 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028, and as you deal with droves & droves of new partners, enemies, rivals, cheaters & a bunch of people just plain lost throughout 2001-BL41 in Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024.  More annoyingly, those big-time entrenched nuisances that served to obstruct progress for years now begin to obstruct progress of your specific employees, commencing when Hylonome sextiles Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025. It is clear that these nuisances want to make such obstructions permanent. Clients express bitter contempt for these “professionals” & their “professional” arrangement as Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 squares Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022. Another front on a long-term war. Despite this, negotiations will be settled. You hold the podium & the gathered throngs clap for you during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas. Jupiter square the North Node in late December defies mathematical reality. Don’t worry – mathematical reality will reassert itself more & more throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 – beginning, with a vengeance, during Pluto trine the North Node from January to March 2022. Unfortunately, because Jupiter in Pisces from January through April 2022. will now empower those who intend to obstruct you, it behooves you to recall wise military strategy, “In order to stamp out corruption, you must first let it thrive.”   VIRGO 2021   A lot less slack exists for you to maneuver during the North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021. Particularly in the career sector, life becomes a lot more black-and-white, yes or no, in or out – outright binary. Does this bother you? As it relates to your or your son’s manhood, yes. Not every social issue, legal issue, personal issue, political issue is about manhood, is about authority, is about control. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 rather obnoxiously asserted that testosterone should have been out of style, but was not – mainly because too many men, too many policemen, too many rebellious black men, too many policemen, too many men elected to office who refused to wear a COVID-19 mask, for whatever reason, believed that every social issue, legal issue, personal issue, political issue is secretly about testosterone. Do these men have a point? Well, to be charitable, wearing a COVID-19 mask, whether one is a woman but especially if one is a man, encroaches upon adult identity, character, personality, sexuality. It is not cool, it is not suave, it is not fun, it is not fashionable – and it reinforces, to men, that men in society are hamsters. Herein lies some of the real damage done by the astrological cause of COVID-19, Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm – before one person actually died of the virus: The further emasculation of manhood. Refrain from scoffing. Stop parroting the science of Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Fauci is a brilliant scientist accustomed to laboratory conditions, hospital environments. It is understandable, albeit extremely undesirable, that patients within a hospital wear a mask, wear a patient’s gown, to adopt the garb of sickness & weakness so as to negotiate one’s way within a medical institution. However, it is a massive shock that Dr. Fauci underestimated that we should replicate hospital conditions throughout a quarantine of our entire society. Think more clearly about what upcoming male students becoming men will have to endure next during 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026. With circumstances surrounding crime, student athletes & alpha males turning ugly so quickly, consider that the local political sentiment during Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021 may require snap judgments dividing black from white, which in turn may dictate life-or-death or freedom-or-prison circumstances – especially after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020. During such worst-case scenarios, athletic coaches, parents must restrain team, spouse & family members from aggravating school administrators, cops & other authority figures by begging them to change or, worse yet, to dismiss, their decisions as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. Positive messages are much more painful but infinitely preferable. Teammates regrouping in private with leadership to forge a statement towards those in the community who feel angry & vulnerable during Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021. Highlighting the actions of a hero, even if that hero is a youngster who died at a tragic young age of a lethal disease, during Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021. Nevertheless, realize what unconscious social maladies COVID-19 is implanting in young boys’ & young men’s psyche so that they will develop neuroses in order to accommodate & to adapt to social discourse both in the short term & in the long term during Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022. Is it therefore logical to concede that COVID-19 is a hoax perpetrated by the deep state? Just because unseemly & unsavory world developments now venture beyond the pale does not imply that it is all the handiwork of the Illuminati, the Bilderbergs or the CIA. What it does suggest is that the genders, and men specifically, are carrying too much psychological baggage just before the next Jupiter-Saturn conjunction on December 21, 2020 that they cannot distinguish their neuroses from the truth. As a result, such youth, and particularly such young men, require a lot of protection from & deep training about such shifting social mores throughout Pluto conjunct Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023. The timing is entirely forgivable, as men now release 200 years or so of psychic garbage in their brains in preparation for the next twenty, as well as for the next two hundred, years, respectively. Read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. Which brings us back to the question, “Does this bother you?” As it relates to your job or profession, no, not at all.  While the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction at 0 degrees Aquarius can represent any number of things to any number of people, including politics, hard science, astrology & aviation, to Virgos specifically, it represents, more than anything else, technology as the workplace – in that there is no doubt. However, what seems inevitable will not happen immediately as disputes exist about where to go, how fast & with what during Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021. However, once it all does begin to move, it will definitely favor disciplined Virgoans who feel more at home in the professional workplace than anywhere else, especially since one of the many worst-case scenarios that could come to pass as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021 involves the firing, or even the arrest of, incompetent bosses whom you could very well replace – a reality which could very well manifest as the result of your own very aggressive professional effort as Mars conjunct Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March. Testosterone, baby! This may seem like a short-term dispute, but it really represents a twenty-year trajectory. In the short term, those who want more immediate gains will favor launching quickly as Jupiter transits Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021, believing that ad hoc changes along the way will be enough. Saturn in Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023 favors the step-by-step monotony of perfection so that there will never be a reason to stop & to go backward, to recall profit, to reimburse customers & to pay regulatory fines. The former will do whatever they want & the latter will take over, pay the price & drive the train thereafter. Indeed, you ignore those who control the power of the purse during Saturn square Uranus from January to July only at your considerable peril. On the much more positive side, realize that those dazzling, accelerated opportunities to upgrade the technology of the professional workplace reoccurs, this time to stay, as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029. Realize from the onset that this “upgrade” really is a twenty-year gig – make the right decision at the onset & you will firmly place yourself amongst perennial champions. Unfortunately, domestic, marital & personal concerns will not run as smoothly as professional concerns. A younger family member lines up with a hostile, bitter spouse or in-law against you as Okyrhoe conjuncts Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022. Even though, as a rule, things go your way at work, this alliance commences as bosses & their peers complain very vocally, either trying to reverse a recent change, or to force a new one, during Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March. Furthermore, while you were wise to talk with boys in your family by the greater issues brought upon all of us as or as the result of the political & medical issues of the day earlier in 2021, the admonitions & lectures that family members now give such boys during Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May only serve to prove that the point was not fleeting. You will have all the information you need about a younger family member & a hostile, bitter spouse or in-law to stop family members in their tracks as they simultaneously prepare to interrogate you about what is going on in the professional workplace during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus square the North Node during March and April. Focus not upon family relations but strictly upon what gets you ahead in the professional workplace – such as, for instance, videotape or extremely clear computer-generated statistics or both about the professional performance within your workgroup amongst rival factions in the workplace as Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trines Elatus during March. Avoid teams who are in a rush to get everything done at once even though they will grab the early lead as Jupiter trines the North Node in late February. Instead, study regulatory safeguards as Chiron in Aries sextiles Saturn in Aquarius from January through July. Choose your own team for the long term. Determine with equally conservative power brokers what money you will need to invest upon regulatory safeguards as Saturn trine the North Node from April through September in order to make them a reality. Then, use your operating budget to make those investments as Chiron sextiles the North Node during May and June. The leadership of such teams will include those who speak fast, speak well but speak no facts, because such individuals will do as little research as possible on what needs to be done during Chariklo in Aquarius from February through August. Expect such leadership to complain the loudest as Bienor conjuncts 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022. As a result, a lot of mistakes will happen with such teams as they implement agendas, enjoy 20% success, redress, enjoy 60% success – followed by those who take short cuts & cheat accompanied by droves of people who have no idea about what they are doing, during 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June. As you confront such a mixed bag, bosses & power brokers behind the scenes will prefer to administer a much more heavy-handed, brutalist & punitive approach then will be effective against all sorts of people, but particularly against the few who can solve the problem, during 2003-WL7 sextiles Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 from May to October. Although you move up the ladder & settle securely into a position of real influence doing so, Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trine Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June forces you to get involved in the thrust & parry of opposing professional factions seeking to get their way. As a result, you lose sight of the big picture – which is why that, as things settled down, the input & the deep insight of a new professional & office political ally is so valuable to you during Echeclus in Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025. For one thing, this new ally will tell you why opponents pose as your partner, and vice versa, during Jupiter in Pisces during June and July. For another, this new ally should be able to inform you what the stock market or economic augury represents during 1999-OX3 in Taurus from June through October. You assimilate all this information as quickly yet as thoroughly as you can so that you may determine what to tell, and how to lead, your own colleagues, students, players & sons, during Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September. To that end, tell your own colleagues, students, players & sons exactly who to avoid, exactly why, and exactly how you will punish whoever does not obey, during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September. Positive relations with a difficult yet loyal spouse augur well for both stock market investment & speculative travel during Nessus sextile Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023. Think big but do not take even small risks. Writing your own agenda or overarching vision about what you or both of you are trying to advance during Echeclus conjunct 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June will help you keep on track. A younger family members, in-law or groupie will help both of you to maintain enthusiasm for the idea during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextile Uranus from August through December. If you have all your ducks in a row & your act together, launch as Jupiter opposes Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July. Deep free-floating fear forces upper-level management to implement even more punitive measures as Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022. As a result, a noble upper-level management executive supervises you clandestinely during Cyllarus in Leo from August 2021 through January 2022. It baffles you why upper-level management would be monitoring such high achievers as you. Such upper-level management is not doing this to you alone during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October, so under no circumstances should you lose your temper. Most likely, it involves unfinished business with a professional colleague who had gotten into trouble in your workplace in the past during Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September. Even so, if you are involved with a professional relationship or circumstance to the extent that it affects you emotionally, then it indicates that you are not doing what you should be doing. There is no reason to maintain such hypervigilance indefinitely. By the time that Jupiter trines Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September, this episode will conclude, you will all learn or infer the true story, and you can & will move forward. Coldly, sharply, objectively appraise the lay of the land for your next opportunity throughout Thereus in Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025. Heed the recent travails of a prominent colleague as lessons learned going forward during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October. Some men whom you tried to protect now acknowledge & believe that social mores are indeed changing as regulators place sanctions upon their behavior during Hylonome sextile Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025. For your own part, Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December gives you professional awards & promotions for a job expertly done! Sublimate professional annoyance & anger to maintain a modicum of cold-blooded ambition during Mars in Scorpio during November. Once again, stick strictly to correct math & arithmetic as the power of the purse rules contentious politics during Saturn square Uranus during December – and stick to politically correct obedience to hierarchical authority as you again study regulatory safeguards during Chiron sextile Saturn during November. Discuss with partners how to handle what you need but can or cannot afford within or despite the restraints of your operating budget during 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2021 through March 2022. Determine what your men need that you can afford during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December. That way, you will be in a position to discuss what to do next with the more radical yet intelligent within your workgroup throughout Chariklo in Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028 as you build a meaningful & expansive political alliance. This will help you not only keep the cheaters & the one-trick ponies at bay throughout 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028, but will also allow you to scout out the crowded field for the very best talent as 2001-BL41 transits Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024. More importantly, forging meaningful alliances with the more radical but intelligent amongst the workgroup will allow you to take what others will view as a much more revolutionary stand (“Fiscally Conservative Democrats for Mathematics & Arithmetic”) as Jupiter squares the North Node in late December. Realize, however, that you can’t push negotiations too far during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas – certain conservative power brokers will only open discussions on very narrow terms. For Virgo, fiscal conservatism represents upward professional mobility throughout the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 – with your first big score happening around Pluto trines the North Node from January to March 2022. Jupiter in Pisces from January through April 2022. will only get so far with any of the innovations & changes that you had wanted & planned to make from the very beginning. Envious bosses will therefore use that as an excuse to attack your reputation during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 square Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022. Be mindful to keep your public agenda of what you expect to achieve much less ambitious than your private agenda. Always overshoot your public agenda in the face of a jealous enemy. Fulfill as best you can your ambitious personal agenda before the ruthless face in the mirror.   LIBRA 2021   You look at your local downtown, take off your COVID-19 mask & spit in disgust. The federal & state governments’ debt skyrocketed because of COVID-19 quarantine, medical & stimulus payment costs – but municipal governments have skyrocketing debt because a bunch of twenty-somethings rioted, looted & vandalized the downtown core of your local city long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long after all the legitimate protesters of George Floyd’s arrest & death went peacefully home. Idealism does not represent the current zeitgeist – “disillusionment” does. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 mercilessly assert something we already know: People – especially people in power, politicians, business leaders, educators, cops – will not live up to their best selves. They will disappoint, they will lie, sin and break laws. They will horrify. This will not only happen out in the world but also amongst you & the people in your life. When unexpected news, perhaps involving a legal discussion involving a woman or sexual harassment – whether the said news is good or bad – emerges, it turns the tables on your political stance. While you can move past such incremental table-turning here in the beginning, the North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021 declares, because this will be the sole modus operandi for so many people, that you must be ready to play that game proactively before somebody else puts you behind the eight ball. But in the world, it is worse than that. Individual citizens across the entire political spectrum, including right-wingers in Lansing, Michigan & left-wingers on Capitol Hill in Seattle, all lowered the lowest common denominator of our shared humanity. At least those people who lived in Powderhorn Park of Minneapolis, enduring the random & unexpected tragedy of George Floyd, had reason to act out & through their unbearable rage. However, at the end of the day, when it became clear how broad, deep & sweeping the damage to our cities really lies, it becomes clear that the solution to those new problems will be so difficult to envision, to identify, to create & to implement throughout when 2002-GZ32 transits Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026 that not even a team of McKinsey consultants could envision the entire agenda from top to bottom, from beginning to end. Why? One argument lies in the assertion that the COVID-19 quarantine was way too intolerable. Maybe, maybe not – but the COVID-19 quarantine, which occurred as a result of COVID-19, which in turn occurred as a result of Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 (Consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm) represented the best response to leadership to something well beyond human control. Ultimately, however, the COVID-19 quarantine merely set the stage for an unleashing of the violently conflicted unconscious of greater humanity dating back two hundred twenty years. Read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. There is hope. Despite the hot mess that bad behavior across the political spectrum caused in our cities, states, provinces & countries, hope reigns supreme. Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021 really does represent the cleanest of clean slates in the last two hundred and twenty years. This does not constitute an invitation to indulge irrational exuberance. While the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction auspiciously commences a twenty-year trend, in the short term, too many countervailing forces cancel each other out. As petty as it is, the bad faith & corruption of colleagues & employees cause a stink as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. Execute damage control quickly so that the bad news does not spread too quickly too fast. Also, refer back to that list where you catalogued every legal dispute, philosophical argument or political ideology last July so that opponents may do their shuck & jive to double-cross you from your blind side during Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021 – then double up the pace after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020. Brilliant minds at the top of various political tickets will be around for quite a while as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029, but most of what they hope to achieve will come through, or be stopped by, votes.  Enthusiasm does not constitute intelligent strategy. So-called allies will seek short cuts as Jupiter transits Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021 – and these short cuts could have destructive consequences fairly quickly. First, identify what will sink the ship as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021 so that you can prepare the best defense of all: Ruthless, extremely aggressive & high-scoring offense. Then, it is up to you to find the correct yet hard way to do things during Saturn in Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023. Acknowledge that partners working with you will have to find ways to make the hard way work both in practice & in public relations during Chiron in Aries sextile Saturn in Aquarius from January through July. Lead the way! The power of your innocence and crystal-clear good faith shows through during Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021 – and you feel the power of both your own & your allies’ inherent heroism during Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021.  Finally, the first, most difficult, most enduring yet simplistic obstacle lies in the budget – Saturn square Uranus from January to July suggests that you & your team will need something, or an awful lot of somethings, that your team simply cannot afford. Using political popularity or a partisan political majority to demand money that is either scarce or officially unavailable as Jupiter trines the North Node in late February can cause you economic problems as you will need similar amounts of money later in 2021, but will also cause political hostility amongst very judgmental political adversaries inclined to hold grudges as Saturn trines the North Node from April through September. Better to agree to disagree before both sides are scheduled, or forced to, negotiate, as in an arbitration or mediation, as Chiron sextiles the North Node during May and June. The long & the short of it is that you really do not know what you need to do in order to heal your family, city, state, province or country & you have no clue how much money or time it is going to cost you. Still, you must protect your family, city, state, province or country throughout Pluto conjunct Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023 until you figure out the agenda along with its price tag. Demonstrating & publicizing your sponsorship in protecting that your family, city, state, province or country by memorializing it in a brilliant public relations photograph during Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trine Elatus during March will smack of pure genius. Allowing the media to mock you by portraying you as an overbearing mother smothering a family, city, state, province or country during Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May also further serves you. Comment, “You can call me ‘Mom’ – wasn’t that the nickname of the leader of Quebec’s Hells Angels? Pretty tough guy for a nag.” Are there other paths to take? Well, an innovative solution to a staunch problem has some merit, some flaws & some political support during Chariklo in Aquarius from February through August. Unfortunately, bad, borderline illegal, quick & dirty shortcuts are more popular amongst the newest, least informed & greatest number of partisan political followers during 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June. Be particularly suspicious of corrupt & dishonest local politicians & their operatives who suddenly become way too friendly with you throughout Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022 – they may be trying to execute a particularly complex & convoluted way to entrap you. Assert the non-negotiable self-evident legal clarity of the straight & narrow path during Mars conjunct Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March. Better to be saturnine doctrinaire than to flirt along the borderline of the lunatic fringe. You have to realize that for all the activity & energy that you & your allies expend, you will be faced with adversaries & opponents who do nothing but watch you throughout Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022. In fact, you & yours will be so busy that unpleasant legal decisions & public statements by your opponents during Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March will be the first time that you realize that hostile & bitter dissent exists. That is why nasty, harsh & mean legal pleadings by those silent opponents blindside you so dangerously as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus squares the North Node during March and April. The legal status that you considered a remote & unlikely worst-case scenario becomes a lot more disturbingly plausible during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022. The idea that you can lose at such high stakes increases the activity on both sides as 2003-WL7 sextiles Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 from May to October. You review all the correspondence, evidence, timelines & the amount of money involved on all sides during Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trine Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June and you realize that, the more you look, the more that you find. Closure remains maddeningly just beyond your reach. Panic becomes possible during Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September. Yet it is all an illusion. You review all the correspondence, evidence, timelines & the amount of money involved on all sides & realize that that the numbers don’t add up during Echeclus conjunct 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June. You are allowing your own hyper-expenditure of adrenaline to undermine your confidence needlessly. This emotional liberation from your convoluted legal problems proves quite compelling. Indeed, your entrenched opposition to a specific political rival mirrors that opponent equally entrenched in opposition to you as Nessus sextiles Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023. What you believe is bigger than something that directs your actions but it is also actually a tangible part of the infrastructure. Echeclus in Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025 makes you realize that all these “political issues” really are, at root, just plain human & economic problems. As a result, you get your first taste of these extremely large & complex legislative bills or large-scale contracts which account for accommodating the needs of various but conflicting groups during Jupiter in Pisces during June and July. As a result, the sight of a political opponent’s hardworking younger political assistant puts you in distinctly philosophical state of mind as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextiles Uranus from August through December.  Protracted negotiations exhaust everybody during Jupiter opposite Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July.  Unexpectedly, contrary to this spirit of political horse-trading, you see a lecture, public speaking event, musical performance or play with a larger-than-life talent, spirit or message during Cyllarus in Leo from August 2021 through January 2022. You cannot help but be enthralled by this ostensibly ideal human being – but keep your wits about you. The type of individual fully capable of not only reading but in fact writing “the fine print” as they read every line of the congressional budget to seek out their own personal “line-item vetoes” will hover around you throughout Thereus in Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025 to gain cumulative ongoing incremental advantages over you, like death by a thousand cuts. Scarier yet, the Bull on Broadway across from the old Standard Oil Building in Lower Manhattan seems to come to life with barbaric, subhuman vengeance in ruthless & vicious pursuit of that almighty dollar – but only as a harbinger for things to come – during 1999-OX3 in Taurus from June through October. Political opponents disappointed that these worst-case scenarios which made you worry were totally unlikely upgrade these worst-case scenarios during Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022 only to scare you even more as you & many allies consider all different ways to help your family, city, state, province or country during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September. This lets loose a flurry of activity during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October. Indeed, one long-time ally & local power broker wants to make a big move in your behalf during Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September – provided, of course, everything is alright. Is it? You won’t know for certain until Jupiter trine Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September – but once you know, it will be over permanently. You & that long-time ally & local power broker shake hands on a deal as your name & the air are cleared during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October. Followers fall in lock step during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December. Thereafter, you enlist the cooperation of churches, no matter how weak they seem & whether they have any money or not, during Hylonome sextile Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025 – which is a better political move than it currently seems. You have more than enough confidence to determine whether all this energy flows in its proper proportion & direction during 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2021 through March 2022 – and so you should. Once you are satisfied that you are going in the correct direction, you accelerate the velocity during Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December. Despite the fact that all hear the clarion call for greater political radicalism during Chariklo in Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028, it only serves to induce you to retrench yourself into your foundation of fiscal conservatism. First, you check with existing alliances as Chiron sextile Saturn during November to determine if you all are still on the same page. After you are reassured, then Mars in Scorpio during November piques your detective’s instincts & you begin to sniff around. You distinguish the cheaters, sharp practitioners & rookie hot shots represented by 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028 from the hundreds & thousands just trying to learn the game during 2001-BL41 in Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024. Then, when that ostensibly ideal human being makes you an offer to do a deal during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas, you know it is right. You do not hesitate. Therefore, you are neither surprised nor empathetic when sour-souled adversaries suffer broad & extended loss as Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 squares Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022, “One gets what one earns.” You maintain your credibility amongst more radicalized partisans as you lead the “Democrats Know Mathematics, Too” contingent as Saturn squares Uranus during December. However, do you believe in mathematics, arithmetic & economics enough to buck the trend as Jupiter squares the North Node in late December? “I don’t care if the numbers do not add up – this involves human rights!” Taking an unusually contradictory conservative economic opinion will win you a political victory, alone, during Pluto trine the North Node from January to March 2022, that you would have had to share with so many other people earlier. However, the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 is not a continuum, the sum of all your different stands divided by that number, but, really, a statement of what you really believe – compounded by Jupiter in Pisces from January through April 2022., ruled by the principle that the total is greater than (the sum) (the multiplication) of its parts.   SCORPIO 2021   The best part of 2020 – in your not-so-humble, Scorpionic opinion? The COVID-19 quarantine. You really could have done without COVID-19, of course – if it sounds like a plague, acts like a plague & kills a quarter of a million Americans within nine months, it is more of a plague than a flu. But, the COVID-19 quarantine? You don’t really like that so many people died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic – and you really don’t want them to die. But, really, some people are absolute total jerks. These people behave like total jerks to get what they want, then leverage their jerk behavior to get even more. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 declares that there are more of these jerks in and around you than ever before. Boy, do you hate them! And they don’t like you. Do you care? No. You’ll just stay in quarantine & forget that you, personally, exist. You’ll study more & more why COVID-19 happened – astrologically, as a result of Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm. You’ll mock President Donald Trump for calling COVID-19 “the Chinese virus.” You’ll supervise your various workgroups remotely. You will launch your Zoom team meetings on time. You can act as if everything is normal for as long as you like. Others will take note of each & every time you violate what they deem to be legally unacceptable professional behavior. Don’t take this lightly. Although you personally feel that everybody must tolerate the threshold of bad behavior that you have established as a baseline norm, what you are really doing is laying the groundwork where somebody could outright lie about something that you never actually did to them – because everybody will want to believe that you are guilty. And guilty you will be. Don’t misinterpret the danger signs – the North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021 demands that you change your ways. You’ve gotten away with bad behavior for a long time & therefore feel that you should be entitled to get away with it forever – but one strike against you sets a precedent. Once that happens, the legal dynamic changes. Consider how many undeclared enemies who are too afraid to challenge you personally or in court would be willing to change their current public position about you. Is there anybody amongst them lurking in the background who will, after you suffer one or two key defeats, attempt to bring you down completely later in the year as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021? You unwisely want to feel a sense of urgency before you get started. When you feel circumstances force you to take action or to make an important snap decision under duress as Mars conjuncts Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March, you will realize that you waited too long. There is no reason for you to put yourself in that position. But you do not view everything sarcastically & cynically. The bad, undignified & barbaric criminal behavior horrified. The interminable & legitimate Black Lives Matter George Floyd protests segueing to endless riots & looting in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland West, New York & Philadelphia exhausted. The extremely right-wing notorious plot to kidnap & to assassinate Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitman confounded. Municipal public relations surrounding too many cops working overtime too many days in a row controlling, or trying to control, too many radical people, all of whom were supposed to be in quarantine, alienating so many – before two cops pushed a seventy-two year-old man to the pavement on his face in Buffalo, New York. Unseemly, dishonorable, inhuman. Why? Because of the irrepressible psychic bilge of the United States of America finally pouring out after more than two centuries. Read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. Long story short, this was the end of the world & a lot of the people knew it, and they responded by soiling their personal destiny, inherent human dignity & professional reputation. Will you still have enough influence to champion the new kingpin or queenpin as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029? They may not seem like an otherworldly rock star with their election results & poll numbers as Jupiter conjuncts Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021, but get real & face the facts: This commences the next twenty-year cycle: This is the changing of the guard. That recently appointed new authority figure, whether law enforcement, regulator or boss, will represent you extremely well throughout Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021 to that new professional ally in your absence during Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021. For your own part, you must look at yourself & your behavior through the eyes of a prosecutor litigating against you during Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021 so that you will be able to fathom & to strategize against hidden undeclared enemies coming forward after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020. Don’t change habits. Think of yourself, Scorpio, first. Ideally, you really should appoint yourself a proxy through whom you can issue your instructions, work with vendors & supervise your employees as they protect your public image & professional reputation as Pluto conjuncts Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023. Will you do what is ideal for you? Hard to say. Again: Do you maintain a modicum of credibility? Appraise yourself & your public performance objectively before a magistrate of the law passes judgment upon you officially & permanently during Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May. The more you are able to answer this question positively, the more that you will be able to set up a whole system of delegation that will confuse aficionados of org charts so as to dispatch your orders with accuracy as well as alacrity as 2002-GZ32 transits Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026. As a result, the political capital that you needed in order to put that system into place will not be immediately depleted but should begin to grow immediately – as long as you don’t blow your dwindled political capital making mistakes during the beginning of their reign as Jupiter transits Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021. Accept that, anyway you look at it, either a bitter employee or a bitter you will complain about the victim that one made of the other as Bienor conjuncts the North Node in Gemini during March. Don’t forget that those who love you to death sing your praises to the sky while your enemies spit in the wind out of pure disrespect as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. Don’t try to change anybody’s mind, but simply use that convoluted system of delegation to control & to collar the troublemakers as Chiron in Aries sextiles Saturn in Aquarius from January through July. Hang in the deep background & build that political capital slowly during Saturn in Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023. From your own personal political perspective as one lone individual, you are not too worried about undermining your own credibility & dissipating such political capital during Saturn square Uranus from January to July – you don’t believe in borrowing money from other people, the banks or the government to spend that money on things that you cannot personally afford. However, Jupiter trine the North Node in late February indicates that others in your company, party, city, state or province will spend that money on things that they cannot personally afford as they borrow money from other people, the banks or the government. You might be the voice of reason who vetoes such nonsense during Saturn trine the North Node from April through September because, “We have found another way,” during Chiron sextile the North Node during May and June. Speak up when it matters. Conversely, be on the lookout for a work colleague or employee who converses garrulously & warmly with you, then tries to shut you off like a light switch in order to induce a hostile reaction from you during Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022 – a hostile reaction which just may be illegal. Refuse to be manipulated. Keep negotiations conservative. Realize that more radical, reckless & extreme factions within your company, party, city, state or province who upped the ante on borrowing what your company, party, city, state or province cannot pay will also up the ante as you try to restore correct mathematics, arithmetic & economics during Chariklo in Aquarius from February through August. These more radical, reckless & extreme factions possess a modicum of common sense, but also a gambler’s instinct. However, yielding ground to them upfront puts you in danger of validating stupid & uneducated rookies, cheaters, naïve players with disturbing amounts of sheer cunning & completely oblivious wannabes as 2001-KF77 conjuncts 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June. The people you & others employ who actually work for the city cancel each other out in a bureaucratic mindset. What you need to encourage is for a local journalist like The Toronto Star’s Christopher Hume to write an extensive & opinionated blog or newspaper column which opines about many different valid directions that your city, state or province could take over the next twenty years during Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trine Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June. Open up the comments board to both the highest praise & four-hundred-word didactic complaints & corrections during Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September. Write either a book of recommendations or predictions of these many different valid directions that your city, state or province could take over the next twenty years, an entirely unrelated business plan addressed towards a foreign city or government or a self-admitted solipsistic masterpiece of fiction with more intensity than anything ever written by Carlos Fuentes himself during Echeclus conjunct 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June. No matter what your age, your job title or your marital status, Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022 worries that you need to come to terms with the fact that you now want to have blunt, unvarnished, unrestrained & violent sex with an attractive but, more importantly, savagely sexy &, oh, entirely pornographic member of the opposite sex who, more than likely, will be ostensibly but not illegally younger. You really do not want to handle how this oppresses you – you really want the sex. Indulging sex with your lawfully wedded spouse contradicts the illicit nature of the planetary energies, but, as it does not contradict the written law, this solution to your problem has some merit. But, truth be told, you want to have this sex in secret & on the downlow so that nobody will know, except that you want the sex to be so oh so barbaric & ferocious that it garners the unwanted media attention that you secretly crave, so as to flaunt your inner, unexpressed stud or babe, as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus squares the North Node during March and April. This whole psychological dynamic makes a better Cindy Sherman biographical photograph during Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trine Elatus during March than a porn movie or illicit novel. Documented orgasms serve as the ambrosial nectar of pure sin. Confluences & crosscurrents emerge. The full picture informs you as you stare at it during Echeclus in Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025. You’ve waited for it to happen as you prepared for the time that all those who disagree with each other nonetheless agree with you, which commences, as a brief augury, during Jupiter in Pisces during June and July. Unfortunately, as foretold, an enemy committed to destroying either you or, failing that, themselves, see this as an opportunity to go all or nothing during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022. Fortunately, you simultaneously inherit a hunting partner committed as you are to scoring the big game as Nessus sextiles Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023. Interrogations of you by law enforcement during 2003-WL7 sextile Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 from May to October have less impact upon you than your new business partner’s assistant working in your mutual behalf throughout Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextile Uranus from August through December. As long as you play for a goal while your enemy opposes another player (that other player being you), you are guaranteed victory. In fact, this commitment to such negative envy, competitiveness & interpersonal malice guarantees your opponent’s eventual downfall as Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022. Business partners & money people tell you what to demand & what business partners & money people will be willing to provide during 1999-OX3 in Taurus from June through October – not only in the short term, but much further down the line. Bodybuilders serve as bouncers while well-dressed thin men dressed sharply in bright ties & well-cut suits like FBI detectives keep you & everybody else in line during Cyllarus in Leo from August 2021 through January 2022. Serving as a lynchpin to all this activity: A showdown between outside big money & local municipal power brokers during Jupiter opposite Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July. Do not overestimate the value of a savvy & experienced new ally who can appraise new people & a new situation fast throughout Thereus in Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025. Indeed, you need to rely upon this individual’s knowledge & dispassionate temperament, starting immediately. Allow this new player to answer all questions in your behalf & in fact in your absence during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September. Invite this new player into an intimate interpersonal meeting with a high-level player, and allow them to speak before you, at length, during Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September. Let this new player make public statements before you take the podium to make your own remarks in the same vein during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October. Give this new player the gravity necessary to steer them from saying anything too flippant & too insulting to your adversaries in public, thus undermining the ultimate message. You must cooperate with the consequences of legal verdicts, including those targeting you, as Jupiter trine Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September. Changes will be made in your city, state, province or country during Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December as a result of this decision & there is nothing you can do to change it. Do not underestimate the ruthlessness of local prosecutors, detectives & law enforcement officials who love not only doing their extremely punitive jobs, but who would also get visceral pleasure getting the credit for a big bust of a local individual that they work to orchestrate personally during 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2021 through March 2022. The sophisticated hierarchical support network of your infrastructure reports back to you of new challenges & new problems during Chiron sextile Saturn during November – which confirms what you felt in the wind during Mars in Scorpio during November. The rank & file’s mayor might not support you during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December – but, ultimately, what a key influential power broker says during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October, goes. Either way, your no-nonsense, take-no-prisoner style of public speaking can gain you the permanent popular support that inevitably terrifies the U.S. government throughout Hylonome sextile Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025. The common sense of more radical, reckless & extreme factions within your company, party, city, state or province becomes increasingly more apparent during & throughout Chariklo in Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028. A big part of it is all about the money as Saturn squares Uranus during December, of course – but now you & your allies need more money than you personally & professionally would normally request. 2001-BL41 in Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024 warns that too many idiots think “more is better” – as if they never have to pay any of this back. 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028 will use this & whatever other information or circumstances they can get or control in pursuit of what they really want: Power without responsibility. With you & your allies amongst the leadership, will you get what you want & need? Much depends upon how exemplary your professional behavior has been throughout 2021. If you have demonstrated dignity & statesmanship then nobody will deny you during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas – even though they all oppose you. Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 square Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022 forces you to remember that nobody has forgotten how badly a committed enemy has tried to bring you down all year. Earn good faith. After all, victory now will make Jupiter in Pisces from January through April 2022. unbelievably sweet & some parts of 2022 incredibly delicious. Say, “This is what we need & this is what we can afford,” during Jupiter square the North Node in late December. Even though no spike payment is scheduled, make a very generous spike payment as Pluto trines the North Node from January to March 2022. Rivals, partners & bankers will determine your status for the long term of the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 via these two actions. You will get one chance.   SAGITTARIUS 2021   Early on in 2020, trouble lurked where you couldn’t see it. Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 displayed an ostensible primrose path to prosperity, wealth and peace ranged wide indeed. Such a path proved to be an illusion. The mainstream housewives concentrated upon COVID-19, “Where exactly did COVID-19 originate?” (Wuhan, Hubei, China and Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm.) But you knew from the jump that that would satisfy only the mainstream housewives. The COVID-19 quarantine proved quiet yet boring. Sag the Archer waited for the other shoe to drop. Then, George Floyd got arrested – and, then, George Floyd died. You looked at it hard, cold & long. “It is an episode – it is just another episode. But it is close to the beginning of the summer where a pandemic requires that everybody obey a government quarantine – the timing is bad.” Things started bad & got worse. Once vandals emerged from amongst the George Floyd protestors to start knocking the Confederate statues down & spray-painting them, knocking over Theodore Roosevelt outside the Museum of Natural History in New York City for good measure – the same TR who got in trouble with the Republican Party for inviting Booker T. Washington to the White House – you wondered, “Who changed the channel?” Nobody did. You realized, consciously, that this was indeed bigger – nobody needed to convince you that this represented the redress & reproach of the past two hundred twenty years in preparation for the next two hundred years. Read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. In a truly unprecedented transition, for perhaps the first time in your life . . . you rooted for the cops, “Damn! They really are taking a beating.” Luckily for you, as a Sag, you are not inclined to believe what you see if it just doesn’t make sense – and, as far as you are concerned, none of this made any sense at all. However, the explanation of all that happened – that this is the end of the last two hundred twenty years in preparation for the next two hundred years – puts it all in context. But don’t expect too much too fast – after all, the past is prologue. Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021 represents the beginning of the next two hundred years – let people get used to the idea. The fundamental point is that all that happened in 2020 had nothing to do with you at all while what commences with the 2020 Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, for the next twenty years, can be all about you. In a way, you have to sign up for it. How? In case you missed the message, the North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021 is telling you now that you need a mate or more partners – and that you need a mate or more partners to be happy – to keep trouble out of your life. Then, to act upon ideas that both of you hatch. Again, in the very beginning, don’t do too much. There are a lot of mistakes to be made, particularly in the very beginning as Jupiter transits Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021. Don’t bomb & flame out before you are ready. You get more & more chances to see the elite of such endeavors – of which you have become one – as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029. Learn from masters serving as personal mentors as Chiron in Aries sextiles Saturn in Aquarius from January through July. Continue to do all due homework throughout Saturn in Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023. Hone your craft. That’s the long term & the big picture – let’s put it in the here & now. Of course, you may get a traffic ticket in 2021 (“Better watch how you drive your car, buddy”), but really, ask yourself, “What is the absolute best & absolute worst that can happen to me & to us with such mate or partners?” as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021. And how likely is either polar extreme? This is not rocket science. You already know what corners you cut . . . routinely. All of this will cost more dollars, American Express points, hotel rewards points & frequent flyer miles than you had originally anticipated – and you don’t even particularly want anything yet. Do you want something – or, more clearly, something expensive? Perhaps you do. Well, if you have doubled your net worth during the year, then can you lay down a big, fat down-payment on property and still feel rich? Maybe. Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021 wants to know how much the rest of that house costs after you plop down that down-payment. (And where is that money going to come from, sport?) Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021 wants to know how long you will have to wait before securing that inevitable promotion. (Seems kind of remote for something tagged as inevitable, wouldn’t you say?) In the meantime, you can depend upon an expense account or upon your employer covering any number of your financial work-related expenses as Saturn squares Uranus from January to July. However, relying upon that too heavily – or in some cases, using it at all – opens the door to hostile professional & political backlash, particularly amongst rivals in search of your Achilles heel. Chariklo in Aquarius from February through August advises you to prepare, or simply just to integrate, new, free or cheap shared technology into your professional workplace. Zero dollars in expenses will contrast nicely with competition gaming the professional expense system within employer’s accounts as 2001-KF77 conjuncts 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June. Any rumors that you are gaming your employer’s expense account are like kryptonite to Superman. In order to protect your income, finance & net worth as you handle personal & financial responsibilities, Pluto conjunct Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023 demands that you protect yourself & your reputation not only from such accusations but in fact anything which threatens them. Spouse & family seem overworked. Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022 warns that you & a younger family member may be taking care for another younger family member for longer than you think. Your spouse is already overwrought with too much work & too much trauma during Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March. Consider taking out a bank loan during Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May to provide short-term & part-time help to your spouse & to give younger family members some rest before they argue & complain during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus square the North Node during March and April. Explain, “We only take photographs of ourselves as a happy family, not to share with litigators poised to file charges against . . . some of us,” as Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trines Elatus during March. Finally, don’t issue it in the form of an ultimatum, but simply say to your spouse, “Look: We either move forward together – or we don’t,” during Mars conjunct Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March.  Gather together or write your “lottery ticket” – a portfolio of your acting performances or a manuscript of your novel – as Chiron sextiles the North Node during May and June. If you need to write a lot more pages or to videotape some more sessions, then do so incessantly & relentlessly during Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trine Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June until you’re done. You have voluminous & variegated resources at your disposal during 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026 because you, your finances, your spouse & even your pets require infrastructure. Indeed, the more that you rely upon your own resources professionally, the less that your employer can conduct surveillance upon you throughout Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022. Know when to use the resources of your employer or your client, and when to rely upon your own– and why. Indeed, to use your employer’s or client’s resources at any time during Jupiter trine the North Node in late February will induce such rivals to paint you as the complete spendthrift, almost immediately, during Saturn trine the North Node from April through September. More importantly, however: Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021 demands that you consider the physical & psychological needs of your spouse or potential spouse as you accumulate all this money, points & perks. Without telling this spouse or potential spouse . . . everything . . . about your personal finances, Retrograde Echeclus reentering Gemini just before December 2020. advises that you talk to them about one or another such reward program or bank loan. It may help your romantic relationship in both the short term & the long term. You certainly don’t want your spouse to compensate for emotional fears & insecurities by spending money that neither of you have. Your extended family & your mate or potential mate clash as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. Solve this problem. Ask penetrating questions. Back to work! Conspicuously curb all unnecessary expenditures as you hold onto our liquid income as Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September.  Keeping your employer from harassing you about how you handle their money is particularly important as you focus not only upon the expenses surrounding your family, including both children & the elderly, during Jupiter in Pisces during June and July. but also upon real estate, retirement income & inheritance money during Echeclus in Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025. Explain to your spouse that you are or that you will be financially solvent & sovereign by certain date as Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022. Keep it simple. Work very hard to make money for your clients & bosses during 1999-OX3 in Taurus from June through October – if you do so, you will make money, too. Make a promise with your spouse during 2003-WL7 sextile Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 from May to October that the two of you at the end of the month will review your finances to see if you will be able to take a particularly ambitious vacation in the near future. To that end – making your spouse comfortable & happy – you make a plan or take a series of courses designed to increase your pay scale as Nessus sextiles Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023. Talk to your spouse about the necessity of taking out secured bank loans in order to take advanced classes during Echeclus conjunct 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June. Also, use some of that money to give some relief to a younger family member, as you also spend more time taking care of an elderly family members, as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextiles Uranus from August through December. Talk to bosses in private & in earnest about the trajectory of your long-term career, without making it look as if you are asking for a raise, during Jupiter opposite Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July. You cannot take partners’ loyalty, mental state or health for granted during Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022. Monitor their whereabouts & truthfulness. Keep handy the telephone numbers of specific doctors, specific ambulance services, hospitals & the local police. Expect that certain bosses intend to challenge you, whether to make you look good so that you can get a promotion, or to make you look bad so that they can fire you, as Thereus transits Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025. Flippancy during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October can make the entire workplace laugh as security leads you out the door during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September, but it certainly doesn’t serve your long-term professional interests. Do the truly noble thing, which may involve serious money, during Cyllarus in Leo from August 2021 through January 2022 – but, in order for you to be viewed as “truly noble” (to get credit for your noble acts) . . . Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September insists: You must obey the law. Both allies & enemies will be watching during 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2021 through March 2022. You obeyed the law or you didn’t. Of course, you weren’t the only one who either obeyed the law or didn’t. However, during Jupiter trine Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September, all sorts of authorities confer & come to all sorts of conclusions about all sorts of people, including yourself. Therefore, during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December, you do or do not get to keep your salary. Therefore, during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October, your boss either fires you, gives you more responsibilities without compensation or gives you more responsibilities with a raise or promotion. Say the right thing – and say them without creating waves with an undertone of sarcasm – during Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December. You use this money to take care of our elderly family member, family & home, and, as a consequence, become broke, for several years, during Hylonome sextile Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025. Your professional reputation as both a cost-cutter & one who pays their own way empowers you with a project into which you can sink your teeth as Chiron sextiles Saturn during November. Keeping costs down is still a part of the job as Saturn squares Uranus during December. What you are trying to get – huge market share or an unreal profit margin – may indeed be subject either to regulatory costs or whether or not you are allowed to keep such profits at all during Mars in Scorpio during November. Reduce pressure on spouses of family members regarding an elderly family member during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 square Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022 or somebody will crack mentally. Take care of the front end first: Reduce your expenses to an actual ongoing credit rebate during Chariklo in Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028, “Wow! That’s seriously cheap & powerful technology.” Scorched earth economic warfare is necessary for you to distinguish yourself not only from hoards of the nameless & the faceless as 2001-BL41 transits Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024 but also from the ruthlessly unscrupulous cheaters & one-trick ponies as 2001-KF77 transits Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028. Consolidate expenses ruthlessly so that you pay out considerably less money during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas. Your ability to outright eliminate your expenses puts you in a position to negotiate & to land a big money deal as Jupiter squares the North Node in late December – as long as you can run the business that you landed from that big money deal even more economically than how you actually landed it during Pluto trine the North Node from January to March 2022. Indeed, the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. will remind you that the only part of the equation of the profit margin that you totally control – market price minus expenses – are the expenses. Make your bosses as happy as possible as quickly as possible so that you can concentrate on reversing the course of illness of an elderly family member & so that you can turn your house into a much happier home beginning Jupiter in Pisces from January through April 2022.   CAPRIC1ORN 2021   First things first. You need more air in your lungs & brain. If you cough, cough, cough, cough, cough – guess what? Your lifestyle is unhealthy. Greed is also not good – people will try to steal from your company or you if they feel that you are getting more than your fair share. The North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021 announces this in basic terms: You need air & you need to get rid of envy which breeds theft. Now the bad news. You had been warned – hundreds if not thousands of times since the beginning of the Millennium, including the recent part just previous to & during the Presidential Administration of Donald J. Trump: Throughout the seemingly never-ending onslaught that is Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020, the forces of nature, the international capital markets, the United States of America, the social consequences of climate change, homelessness, the police, Fox News, CNN and the ACLU may all try not only to challenge your control, but may indeed try to knock you off-balance, hoping to knock you off your feet so that you fall flat on your face, causing you so much direct personal pain that you become numb to embarrassment or humiliation. Then, COVID-19 hit, and you asked: How can this possibly be about me? Answer: It wasn’t – it was about Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm. The quarantine was quiet for awhile & you figured that people would leave you alone. Which they did. It wasn’t all about you. This was the calm before the storm. First, Minneapolis cops arrested George Floyd. Then, George Floyd died. Then, the George Floyd protests started – first in Minneapolis, then in New York, in Seattle, in Portland West, then absolutely everywhere. Then there were the rioters & the looters. Then people attacked cops & cops attacked people. This was all about you again. This was about the breakdown of law, order, the city, the nation. You heard the alarm, but you misinterpreted why you woke up. This was not about you. This was not a bad dream – this was real. But it was the end. It started around 1800 and ended 2020. That was so the next thing could start in 2020 and continue to 2200. Read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. It was not & is not about you. It was about separating yourself from the past in preparation for tomorrow. You knew the future when you saw it. Really, what looks ugly & green to you now are merely questions of style. 2003-CO1 in Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029 confirms that all your hard work in learning the substance of that visionary politician’s or new political ideal’s message to which you had been introduced when that visionary politician or a new political ideal leveled the partisan playing field early in 2020 has paid off – and will continue to pay off in spades. By the time that Jupiter conjuncts Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021, you will begin to walk that talk of that politician or ideal from early in 2020. It looks ugly & green to you in the beginning, but that’s okay – you will have twenty years to practice. Now is only the time to make the announcement. Nothing of any substance can be done yet. Practice walking that talk only in private as Jupiter transits Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021. Discuss the nuts & bolts of that politician or ideal with a savvy mentor or like mind as Chiron in Aries sextiles Saturn in Aquarius from January through July. Know when it is important to show what you know or to remain silent throughout Saturn in Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023. All that being said, ultimately, change is imminent & you are an agent of change. Realize that a refusal to make changes can manifest in horrific worst-case scenarios as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021. All of this is easier said than done. You have gone through myriad personality & identity transformations since 1984, but, during 2002-GZ32 in Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026, you become an obtuse physical obstruction – to yourself! You are going to get in your own way. Identify the symptoms before they impede you. How’s your health? Is your spouse saying, “Oh! You’re losing weight!” (whether you are or not) during Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021? Are you able to (walk) (run) (bike) three miles instead of one on a daily basis after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020? (Ex‑)(S)(s)mokers: Are you coughing coughing coughing coughing coughing coughing? Redress inappropriate & potentially deadly health habits. Buy home surveillance equipment, and, if you are a merchant or retailer, stifle large-scale retail theft mercilessly, to the fullest extent of the law, with armed security on hand, as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. Stay out of the spotlight so that you don’t look like a fool dancing around yourself like a reckless Sufi tornado. And don’t try looking at yourself in the mirror to try to figure it out! Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022 declares that you need several mirrors looking at the mirror which is looking at you to determine why you look the way you do – all in one piece in one place. Strangely, during Saturn square Uranus from January to July, it does not matter if you are a Congressperson, an executive, a movie producer or a housewife: You cannot outspend your budget. This is not a popular attitude to take at the moment – even though, of course, it is not an “attitude,” but a law of economics. However, despite the lack of popularity of such an “attitude,” explain this fact of life & law of economics to employees during Jupiter trine the North Node in late February, no matter how little they like it. Indeed, you can tell them right then, or you can wait until Saturn trines the North Node from April through September, to let them know how generous you are being by not firing & not furloughing them right then & there. Stipends, loans & grants received from governments, large-scale corporations & wealthy individuals during Chariklo in Aquarius from February through August must be used to pay bills, invoices & debts. You absolutely must distinguish yourself from those who will be reckless & irresponsible with such money as 2001-KF77 conjuncts 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June. After all, you have got to find a way to save your business during Chiron sextile the North Node during May and June, and you don’t want to refinance your home to pay ungrateful employees. Indeed, Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March signifies that discontent amongst colleagues & employees in your workplace approaches an all-time high. In many ways, you must, but, ultimately, you cannot, veil how you feel when you speak, or even as you stand silently in public appearances, as Pluto conjuncts Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023. The bitterness with which your voice cracks as you make a command during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022 weakens your authority. The nobility of the leadership amongst those who oppose you during Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May makes you look bad. Worse yet, you don’t seem to learn your lesson at all, as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus square the North Node during March and April suggests that you wonder why your colleagues & employees are not considering how you feel when it should be the other way around. Only after you learn who is stealing, embezzling or sabotaging your business or company as a result of self-evidently irrefutable videotape during Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trine Elatus during March will you know who your core enemy is & how to reform your workplace. Catching large-scale thieves red-handed in the act during Mars conjunct Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March represents the last straw. The extreme negativity of your professional workplace will continue throughout Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022 & has yet to peak, but change can now begin. Researching who did what to you, why & what they intend to do next emerges out of interrogations & investigations conducted when Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trine Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June. A cursory look at your accounting & inventory financials during 2003-WL7 sextile Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 from May to October suggest that somebody stole a lot more than you expected & realized. The situation becomes so acutely disturbing that policies & actions which you would have considered extreme at the beginning of 2021 seem like a new baseline norm during Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September. Back to your spouse. How’s your marriage working out? Are you both thinking of what you need to do in order to approach the future together? Tell your spouse what they must do to make all the big dreams that you share happen during Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021. Explain how much debt you both must eliminate by the end of Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021. Whatever your professional position, you have more people asking you questions & favors & requests as Jupiter transits Pisces during June and July – and each one of these individuals requires a personal response. At the same time, who is taking care of you? The answer, very positively, is a well-informed spouse, mate or partner also aware not only of everything with which you are dealing, but also how that everything affects you, as they also follow current events everywhere in your hometown & in the world during Echeclus in Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025. But, truth be told, nobody need tell Capricorn the Goat how to maintain their own personal, professional, financial & artistic interests. As an inventor, as an art dealer, as a writer or artist or as a savvy businessperson, you are on time & up to date with your homework on the innovations of the day as you put your money & tools to the task throughout Nessus sextile Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023 – the front of the Ferris Wheel in Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of Bicameral Mind! Write your own personal five-year plan based upon what you see right now as Echeclus conjuncts 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June. A worthy & savvy apprentice pushes you further faster during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextile Uranus from August through December. However, take a financial risk, a huge financial risk if you like, that you can pay back with money that you have now, without betting the entire farm, but only if you so very proactively choose, during Jupiter opposite Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July. Don’t threaten to bankrupt yourself for glory & greed. Both you & your partner are aware of the scale of your domestic & business operating debt as Cyllarus transits Leo from August 2021 through January 2022. You don’t like this feeling & are itching to make aggressive business moves so as to make more money as 1999-OX3 transits Taurus from June through October. Go slow: Even though regulators are poised to level changes during Thereus in Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025, you can influence them to take your side as you explain your problems with theft & embezzlement. Be openhanded & open up your financials & official inventory to such regulators during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October to let them know explicitly the problems that you now endure. Moreover, realize & explain to such regulators that such hardened & embittered employees are blind & have succumbed to total hubris as they plan further acts of destruction against you during Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022. Let such regulators know all the extreme actions you have already taken during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September. Explain, “Plan B is where I started,” during Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September. If you have enough information & evidence, make arrests – but, if not, plan a sting op – as Jupiter trines Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September. Prosecutors are itching to go to court as soon as possible as 1998-BU48 transits Libra from November 2021 through March 2022. It becomes more important to align your attitudes, words & actions with those of that ideal visionary politician during Chiron sextile Saturn during November as different factions demand more than they now get during Mars in Scorpio during November. You have a lot of people in your charge who need more than you can provide during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December – even if you take the most drastic action possible without borrowing a lot more money during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October. Command, “Do not confuse what you want with what you need,” during Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December. Embellish with a wry & cruel smile, “If I run out of money, you suckers are in real trouble,” as Hylonome sextiles Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025. Hold onto discretionary funds for as long as possible during Chariklo in Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028. Frauds & cheaters will take all of it quickly during 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028 – but so many people will need it so much more throughout 2001-BL41 in Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024. On top of that, Saturn square Uranus during December states that your numbers have not changed. Don’t convince yourself that you can carry more debt than you are able during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas. Remember: You must put yourself in a position to pay for the thieves who are trying to destroy your business as Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 squares Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022. Knowing what item in your budget represents your negotiating partner’s or adversary’s real number is mission-critical during Jupiter square the North Node in late December, as it allows you the latitude to be generous while maintaining your poker face. Even so, the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 reminds you that the buck does stop somewhere – and that somewhere is with you. Negotiations will not be either so explicit or mean-spirited as Jupiter transits Pisces from January through April 2022. Even so. Pluto trine the North Node from January to March 2022 reminds you that your budgetary decisions create wealth & poverty not only for you in the long run, but for everybody else, right now. Give those rose-colored glasses to one of your more idealistic lovers.   AQUARIUS 2021   Van Winkle! Wake up & grab your axe – or your guitar. You are entitled not only to feel dark but to quote some great artist’s transgressive nonsense! Indeed, you are firmly of the opinion that not enough citizens have the brass or the balls in their official capacity within the illegal monarchy – or debased democracy – and the North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021 agrees with you. The radio only plays songs from albums that you bought in college – on vinyl! Where are the bands with members born in the Seventies & Eighties – or even the late Sixties? They are out there – find them! Then there is this question: “When was the last time I got out my guitar & played music myself?” Well get out your guitar & answer that question right now as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021? Rome’s going to burn now, sucker!  Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020 unequivocally confirmed that you had been living in a societal or economic construct of some other individual or social group’s worldview for far too long. Past partners & even past rivals express extreme disgust for the upfront abuse you endured during Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021. Current & former work colleagues corroborate what you describe in social gatherings at restaurants & bars away from the professional workplace during Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021. Then, COVID-19 created by Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm – sent everybody home in March. This means what? That you will continue to be living in a societal or economic construct of some other individual or social group’s worldview – but it will no longer the same individual’s or social group’s worldview to which you had become accustomed for far too long. If you were a professor of sociology, you might find such circumstances fascinating. However, given that you had to live through them, you found the entire circumstance foreign & slightly disturbing. Then, when video of George Floyd’s arrest outside of Chicago Unbeatable Prices in Powderhorn Park surfaced, your memory of Rodney King in Los Angeles in 1991 made you believe that you were watching a heretofore unreleased back episode of Star Trek or The Twilight Zone. But it was all real. Disturbingly real. Then, when protestors for George Floyd, or rioters following on the footsteps of George Floyd protestors, began to knock down & to vandalize statues not only of Confederate soldiers & politicians in Richmond, Virginia, but, in fact, of Teddy Roosevelt in New York City, it began to dawn on you that this entire circumstance was not about one thing, but was about everything, that is not only happening now, but that had ever happened, in the United States of America, almost since the beginning. Read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. All this stuff seems to happening without any relationship to you, and without any of your input – which is fine with you, because you don’t approve! As for the professional workplace: As 2002-GZ32 transits Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026, new physical boundaries & all types of Chinese walls make the office a more complicated labyrinth than it has ever been. Daedalus would neither recognize nor like it. Even so, your professional workplace is not a disorganized flash mob, waiting for an electronic or vibrating ping to coordinate an attack against you. You learn definitively exactly what you need from your job during Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021 so that you are in no danger of outperforming, doing worthless overtime hours where you would much rather be having fun doing whatever you do with your friends – or your children – after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020. But you still want to know – what does any of this have to do with you? Good question. The answer: Congratulations! Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021 appoints you the twenty-year poster child for the new world anarchy. Realize, however, that the blessing is distinctly mixed – the honor does not work for you, but you wind up working for it. Make no mistake about it: You – and others more famous & more powerful than you – represent the flash point as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029. You have become the alternative – without offering to provide any solution to the problem. So, long story short: Change is coming, there is nothing you can do to stop it, but you represent it, although you don’t contribute to it – yet. The golden goose who hasn’t laid any eggs yet – exactly the sort who needs Secret Service clearance as well as a pair of undercover detectives to protect them – and not just from themselves. Six months ago, you would have laughed, long before long-time professional allies betray you to align with bullies & enemies as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. You didn’t see that for a country mile! At least now you have sufficient reason to be paranoid. So what exactly is all this about “change?” No answer is immediately forthcoming – so lie low during Jupiter in Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021 as you allow your face on the poster to communicate the ideal. Furthermore, realize that any action that you take on behalf of the ideal as Saturn transits Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023 confuses everybody else – and confounds you. Like a politician going into hostile territory, Chiron in Aries sextile Saturn in Aquarius from January through July declares that you need a public relations expert, or just a savvy friend, to explain to you who other people see when you walk into the room & what other people hear when you speak. Until such a public relations expert appears, some generalizations will help. First, Saturn square Uranus from January to July suggests that your idealistic intellectual detachment deeply unnerves people primarily, if not exclusively, concerned about money. Second, your generosity towards those who need money as Jupiter trines the North Node in late February engages those who actually dispense such money as Saturn trines the North Node from April through September. Knowing this beforehand, Chiron sextile the North Node during May and June suggests that you allow those two sides to negotiate for themselves rather than become a mediator or arbitrator destined to receive the same aggravation in the process. Despite hostile remonstrances from both sides of the table, you may be tempted to offer solutions on others’ behalf as you think outside of the box. Indeed, engineering consensus is your bread & butter, it is how you make your money – but, unfortunately Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022 denotes that consensus amongst adversaries is a fragile and sometimes bitter endeavor. Partisan factionalism is sensually & tactilely palpable during Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March. Luckily, both sides will reject your innovative solutions, despite their clear intelligence, during Chariklo in Aquarius from February through August. Be grateful if both sides do accept it, then it would force you to negotiate with common cheaters & frauds who do not like your deal because they must answer to everybody else & their cousins during 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June. Ultimately, securing the engineering of consensus amongst adversaries by cutting a dark deal during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus square the North Node during March and April would not only defeat the purpose by also sully your professional reputation & legacy as it befouls your soul. Really, a clean noble failure on a noble case during Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May does more for your reputation in the long run. You don’t need to stoop to conquer. Indeed, even if you get absolutely nothing done (if you are lucky) over the early part of the year, a photojournalistic essay about you during Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trine Elatus during March, with your smiling talking head dominating the cover or the front page, will make you realize what a star you have become. (Don’t overlook that short pithy quote you made in 18-point fount at the top of the page during Mars conjunct Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March, either.) Even so, all that you are in the eyes of ambitious, partisan adversaries is the opponent, one who is, in the words of Jackson Pollock, “a strong personality to react against. However, as “the opponent,” you must ensure that your adversary does not view you as a figurehead mannequin who is merely useful for photo ops, but one for whom it is necessary to research their profile throughout Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trine Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June so that they have an informed idea of strategies you have adopted & on which you have acted in the past. (For that matter, this is the type of political astrology book you should write yourself, entitled Politics According to the Moon, perhaps starting when Echeclus conjuncts 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June.) Indeed, such ambitious, partisan adversaries will suggest that they are more than willing to go down with the ship during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022 – but you for one see the rowboat deployed to prevent such a leader from getting any part of their body wet. Force that individual to cooperate & to negotiate with you by raising the stakes to effectively crush their entire constituency during 2003-WL7 sextile Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 from May to October. Don’t be afraid to throw that wicked inside pitch – and to do it in such a way during Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September that the batter will be unsure what you plan to throw next – and how you plan to throw it. Luckily for you & your idealism, the evolution & devolution of circumstances becomes too complicated for your open-hearted but casual input. Truly, power brokers far beyond the corner office, far beyond the mayor’s office, beyond our state capitol, right up the deli delivery boy who delivers lunch to Mitch McConnell in Washington, DC, are trying to find the right way to protect you, your boss in the corner office, your shareholders, the mayor, the delivery boy & Mitch McConnell from disease, liability & unemployment so earnestly amidst rapidly changing circumstances in the professional workplace during & throughout Pluto conjunct Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023 that the effort is anything but open-hearted & casual. Rapidly changing circumstances in the professional workplace cause complexities & changes in the budget which nobody foresaw during Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022. If this is not your responsibility, stay out of it – and be grateful to do so. Really, it is more than enough to develop a realistic & idealistic appraisal of your own job in the professional workplace – which, as Echeclus transits Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025 indicates, you do. This stabilizes finances as Jupiter transits Pisces during June and July. This provides order at home at 1999-OX3 transits Taurus from June through October. You are due to score an impressive & powerful legal victory during Jupiter trine Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September that will provide you with wide & considerable attention, despite the dismissive attitude which envious & powerful opponents show during Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September. Simultaneously, the stability brought to bear both within your finances & in your home life attract different blessings. Your ability to bring consensus between difficult & extremely divided sides put you in line to make a financial killing as Nessus sextiles Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023, providing money for you to invest in your physical home, adjacent property or specialized education for your children. Furthermore, your elegant, insightful analysis during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October gives you the courageous foresight to address the ultimate inevitability of a personal tragedy amongst those who forever demonize their personal & political opponents during Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022. Your ability to bring people from the fringe to the middle has extreme positive financial consequences, as well as moral implications – it is likely that you will need to have skilled & promising recent college graduates to help you do your idealistic handiwork in & around the office as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextiles Uranus from August through December. Realize, however, that this causes envy amongst masses of people with no means to oppose you personally & directly during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September. Be warned, however, that a personal rival or opponent, as opposed to a political opponent, wants something or somebody that you have during Jupiter opposite Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July. Prepare to do direct battle on the battleground designed by the nature of the competition that you & your rival broach. Therefore, don’t do anything extreme, radical or drastic to endanger a very positive legal footing legally as 1998-BU48 transits Libra from November 2021 through March 2022. This will empower you to commence a truly noble & upstanding long-standing relationship with prestigious & wealthy new professional partners as Cyllarus transits Leo from August 2021 through January 2022. Warning! Automobiles & computers present special problems for the Waterbearer throughout Thereus in Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025. Make sure all your insurance payments are up to date. Do not make it easy for your children to borrow your car. Accept no rides from strangers or reckless drivers. Be prepared to photograph license plate numbers associated with criminals or accidents. Upgrade the virus protection on your computer. Learn from experts how to recognize when your computer is being hacked. Don’t get lazy & cavalier with your speech as Chiron sextiles Saturn during November. In fact, even though a high-end peanut gallery hectors you publicly during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December and envious & powerful opponents remain dismissive during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October, despite your recent clear winning streak, Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December advises you not to speak at all unless you have something very specific & substantial to gain. Indeed, expressing sincere concern for the weakness of your political opponent actually serves to fatten your bank account as Hylonome sextiles Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025. It makes one almost want to become virtuous!  Powerful, borderline violent & sometimes outright criminal bosses, power brokers & crime lords go on the warpath as Mars transits Scorpio during November. Ironically, however, you notice how certain of the more noble of such capitalists actually have better ideas than your political allies, who fight each other tooth & nail for attention. Seal their selfish fate as you support the generosity & vision of your capitalist, free market political opponent during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas. Stop thinking about your happily ever after yellow brick road to everlasting Marxist prosperity as vicious & greedy capitalists, covetous of the fact that you are trying to spend their money, will be more than willing to kill some New Age, 21st Century, share-the-wealth Huey Long power brokers throughout Saturn square Uranus during December. If you realize, sooner rather than later, that vicious & greedy capitalists will allow you to think whatever you like as long as you do not create, and actually implement, problems for them, then Chariklo in Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028 can provide you with any number of simpatico partners. You might actually engage in more, and more lucrative, relationships with, vicious & greedy capitalists if you cheat for them during 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028. But you will get caught, they will dump you & there will be any number of individuals willing to take your self-destructive place during 2001-BL41 in Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024. Pay your mortgage, rent & bills, and force yourself to be satisfied with that, as Jupiter squares the North Node in late December. Ironically, you benefit from those who forever complain that they do not get their fair share, but ultimately heed your call to compromise with adversaries during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 square Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022. The fiscal security that the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023 provides blesses you – don’t you realize that there are millions of people across the globe willing to die or to kill to secure what you take for granted? “Of course I realize that!” you respond throughout Jupiter in Pisces from January through April 2022. “That is what happens when people refuse to be content with all the good things that they have.” Be careful – Pluto trine the North Node from January to March 2022 may teach you all about this whether you are willing to listen or not.     PISCES 2021   When you first heard that the COVID-19 quarantine would go into effect in late March, you lamented that this new massive catastrophic historical international overlay would further complicate your worldly adult duties & take you further away from your family, your friends & the flow of life. Although the karma of the time, at that time, the North Node in Cancer, involved learning about how important children and romance are, Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Chariklo, Amycus, Hylonome, Pholus, 2003-CO1, 2001-KF77 and 2001-BL41 all emphasizing the South Node in Capricorn from November 2018 through May 2020, denoted that you would learn how important children & lovers are by dealing with adults and politics and work. The impediment to adult human business brought about by Pholus conjunct the South Node from February through April 2020 – consult Zane Stein’s analysis of Pholus & viruses at https://www.zanestein.com/pholus.htm – was clear & obvious to all from a remote distance.  Appearances deceived. You were not at all prepared for how totally new technologies would liberate you from the spider web of adulthood to bring you face to face with your family once again. You had & you have no way of knowing how long your period of delay & alienation from the professional workplace would or will be. You take it all as a blessing from God where you can spend more of your time with your family & your friends. Now, this emphasis on home & family throughout the North Node in Gemini from June 2020 through December 2021 is not without joy – but it’s also not without work nor pain. That pain, even if it is merely represented by acute fear of what can go wrong, shakes you deeply. You must now proactively take responsibility for all that can happen. Then, of course, the worst-case scenarios that can come to pass infect your dreams . . . and, in some cases, come to pass . . . as 1996-TL66 conjuncts the North Node in Gemini from October 2020 through February 2021. Things got strange. The government started handing out more money than you have ever seen in your life. More businesses closed their doors permanently then in recent memory. Then, Minneapolis Police Department, who tried to arrest George Floyd outside of Chicago Unbeatable Prices in Powderhorn Park, killed him instead. A local bystander videotaped about 45% of the entire event on his cellphone, which, fairly soon, induced protests, riots & looting in every major city in the United States. Now, as you make progress with making more money & placing money where it will do the most good, you scold your family mercilessly for their bad behavior as Neptune in Pisces squares the North Node in Gemini from December 2020 through January 2021. (Is their behavior that bad? No, but you can’t help but realize how bad things can get in the long run. As a result, your standards are evolving.) Eventually, while you are even more grateful to spend more time with your family, children & friends, you really began to wonder, “I’ve never seen anything like this – really, what is going on?” When, or rather, if, somebody explained to you that all this drama ends a two hundred twenty-year cycle, only to begin the next two hundred twenty years, would it make any sense to you? Read the Preliminary Statement for 2020 & 2021 above. You also let your conscious & unconscious mind reside in the realm of negative possibility. Your imagination becomes a curse rather than a blessing. You realize during Retrograde Echeclus from October 2020 through February 2021 that children who are now a joy will become adolescents & then adults with their own free will. You want children not to grow up & to remain frozen in time during Retrograde Cyllarus from Halloween 2020 through March 2021 – but children will obey time & not you. You will work out like a demon at the gym during Retrograde Thereus from December 2020 through April 2021 to ensure that you will not die – but you know in the end it will not work. Then, as your children become adults & as you get older, your children transform into arduous adult responsibilities after Retrograde Echeclus reenters Gemini just before December 2020. You need to focus your mind on here & now. Fight the momentum of your fear. Get a grip on reality. Squarely face that, as Jupiter conjunct Saturn in Aquarius during Christmas and the early New Year 2021 states, in the mantra of the next twenty years, that time moves forward whether you or anybody else likes it or not. Does the lack of warmth bother you? Not in the least – you’ve learned not only to accept it but in fact to expect it. For one thing, others in your social circles have worse problems. Allies upon whom you relied for years, if not decades, become subject to unfathomable changes as a result of the influence of high technology on the org chart as 2002-GZ32 transits Capricorn from mid-December 2020 through December 2026. You & all of us now move from the humanity of adulthood to automaton amidst automaton integration. Prepare to act in contradiction to your own human nature in order to secure your paycheck. You have accustomed yourself to overall sweeping changes. That new high-tech maven or political visionary that all of you prefer to live without returns for good (and for no good) as 2003-CO1 transits Aquarius from November 2020 through December 2029. Prepare for whoever runs the conveyor belt to turn up the speed a notch or two. Warning: This is not an invitation to race time as Jupiter transits Aquarius from December 2020 through April 2021 – you will lose. Instead, you must learn how to survive time as Saturn transits Aquarius from December 2020 through February 2023.  How? Saturn square Uranus from January to July presumes that you either have time (or, alternatively, speed) or money. Chiron in Aries sextiles Saturn in Aquarius from January through July shows you how to use money & advanced technology to survive (or to buy) time (or, alternatively, speed) This will prove easier than it sounds. Foolish people either overestimate their position or misplay their advantages, or both, as Jupiter trines the North Node in late February – but they won’t feel the effects of it until Saturn trines the North Node from April through September. You gain the negotiating leverage to get what you want & need as Chiron sextiles the North Node during May and June. The emotional realm proves much more stressful. The anger of a family member is so bitter & toxic during Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini during March that it seems multigenerational. Your own physical pain, particularly in your heels, back & feet, accelerates significantly over time, both during the day & throughout the year, making you more & more vulnerable all the time, no matter how big & strong you may be, as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus in Pisces from February 2021 to February 2022. You mention this to family members during Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus square the North Node during March and April in the hopes that they show some compassion for you, but, at best, it only causes them to fear you, as if you exist to reward & to punish. Well, if you can have understanding, at least you have order. Therefore, make whatever decisions you must as Mars conjuncts Bienor conjunct the North Node in Gemini in late March so that all of you can move forward. You have the benefit of insight as long-term allies, still surviving, show you what they need to do in order to continue as Pholus conjunct 2002-GZ32 from December 2020 through November 2022. You don’t need to know who it is that is protecting them to realize that they currently enjoy such protection as Pluto conjuncts Amycus in Capricorn from December 2020 to February 2023, giving their children enough oblivious freedom to live their lives freely as children throughout (and hopefully beyond) Cyllarus opposite Pluto conjunct Amycus from March to May. It gives you enough liberty to indulge bittersweet laughter as you alternatively witness the “innovative adjustments” propounded by fools as Chariklo transits Aquarius from February through August. (It also infuriates you to see how many people profit by cheating during 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 in early Aquarius from April to June.) A photograph or videotape you see in which a younger family member is breaking the law as Jupiter conjunct Crantor trine Asbolus conjunct 1996-TL66 trines Elatus during March forces you to intercede. You must reverse the sophistication of sin back to the purity of God’s innocence as Echeclus in Gemini & Cancer trines Jupiter in Aquarius & Pisces from April to June. Invariably, a cloud of guilt attracts a cloud of doom as Bienor conjuncts 1996-TL66 in Gemini from May 2021 to May 2022; as clouds of guilt & doom attract negative associates who escalate negative scenarios as 2003-WL7 sextiles Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 from May to October. Guilt, doom & evil associates attract circumstances which demand personal punishment during & throughout Asbolus conjunct Bienor from August 2021 to July 2022, attracting an uncaring group of law enforcement, probation & correction officers throughout Chariklo, 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, all Retrograde in Aquarius & Capricorn, from May through September. Nip this downward spiral in the bud immediately! Expect to experience joy & to learn from ongoing spiritual & material epiphanies referring to your worldly experience dating from the transit of the North Node in Cancer from November 2018 to May 2020 as Echeclus transits Cancer from June 2021 to June 2025. Anticipate the sublime blessings & myriad epiphanies that will be bestowed upon you throughout all of 2022 during a brief transit of Jupiter in Pisces during June and July. Write poetry, fiction or newspaper articles, or write more experimentally, as Nessus sextiles Uranus from June 2021 to June 2023. Write about a child in the voice of an adult & then as a child from the perspective of that child as Echeclus conjuncts 1996-TP66 in Cancer during June. Hire loving high school or college student, preferably a niece, to type it up, as Okyrhoe conjunct Nessus sextiles Uranus from August through December. If you throw a punch during Jupiter opposite Thereus conjunct Mars at the end of July, you can accidentally kill somebody & go to jail. Resist & shun violence. Focus upon being a much more practical, worldly being. Beware of predators, hackers & conmen in your environment casing you & yours for various vulnerabilities as Thereus transits Virgo from August 2021 through June 2025. Keep your head down, nose to the grindstone & work hard during Retrograde Jupiter in late Aquarius from August through October. Act upon best-case scenarios & guard against worst-case scenarios in the workplace & the stock market during 1999-OX3 in Taurus from June through October in preparation for a larger, long-term investment. Lots of friends & associates who want to make small talk wonder what is wrong with you during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both Retrograde in late Capricorn during August & September. A good friend of yours actually broaches this subject with you during Retrograde Chariklo in late Capricorn in September. The truth is that you are awaiting the conclusion of a personal legal matter as Jupiter trines Mercury, stationing from Direct to Retrograde, in late September. You basically hope that things go well enough so that friends & associates who want to make small talk will notice that you feel better during 2001-BL41 & 2001-KF77, both in Direct Motion in late Capricorn, from October to December & so that you can explain briefly that “it wasn’t a big deal” to a true friend during Direct Motion Chariklo in late Capricorn in October. Once you do, you will hear some unhappy news about one of these associates as Hylonome sextiles Neptune from November 2021 to March 2025. Consult lawyers about long-term issues involving property & large-scale long-term financial strategies during 1998-BU48 in Libra from November 2021 through March 2022.  At the gym: Escalate or deescalate strength training, depending upon your body’s current makeup, as Cyllarus transits Leo from August 2021 through January 2022 – but also do enough cardio so that you can sweat the computer monitor, bicameral mental stress from your brain during Direct Motion Jupiter in late Aquarius during November & December. Avoid watching TVs mounted to the cross-trainer. Abundant professional opportunities during Mars in Scorpio during November gives you great reason to pick up the pace. Use money to gain speed as you take more Ubers & cabs during Chiron sextile Saturn during November– but only when necessary. Other people waste their adrenaline as Saturn squares Uranus during December – you cannot afford to do so. Expect another cycle of negative behavior from younger family members during Bienor conjunct 1996-TL66 square Neptune from December 2021 to March 2022. Ensure all the negative channels for such negative attitudes are now closed to them as you prepare to handle a different set of consequences. Ultimately, you aim to be the least cerebral, most physical individual in the office during Cyllarus opposite Chariklo conjunct 2001-KF77 conjunct 2001-BL41 during & after Christmas. Form new partnerships with radical players during Chariklo in Aquarius from November 2021 through January 2028 if it furthers new professional opportunities. Shun cheaters like the plague during 2001-KF77 in Aquarius from December 2021 through December 2028 but cooperate with hot, trendy one-hit wonders – that way, masses of talented rookies will compete for your attention as 2001-BL41 transits Aquarius from December 2021 through January 2024. You make the final decisions about the best of the new players as Jupiter square the North Node in late December – decisions based upon your innate & acquired knowledge, not upon “Instagram Likes.” Why? Because it is all about how value monetizes, or translates into Loonie Dollar Peso, during the North Node in Taurus from January 2022 to June 2023. Who will provide such Loonie Dollar Peso? Professional connections who have known you for a dog’s age as Pluto trines the North Node from January to March 2022. You begin to earn your share of warmly given, generous rewards for all that you have done, and for who you are, as Jupiter transits Pisces from January through April 2022.   To contact John Delaney directly: delaneyastroscope@delaneyastroscope.com