A fun spin on serious cosmic stuff! Wendell C. Perry has 40 years experience studying astrology and how it impacts personalities & relationships. He's written two books & published articles in astrology magazines. He's happy to share this website so that you, too, can have fun with astrology to help you in everyday life!
These days there is a lot of talk about generations. You hear about the Baby Boom generation, Generation X and the Millennials. Astrology has its own way of measuring generations. It typically involves the sign placements of Pluto and Neptune. Astrologers will talk about the Neptune in Capricorn generation, or the Pluto is Scorpio generation, or the generation born withNeptune in Capricorn and Pluto in Scorpio born between 1984 and 1996, which roughly corresponds with the Millennial generation.
The problem with using the transits of these slow-moving out planets to measure generation is that the planets don’t change signs at the same time. For the Millennial generation, for example, Pluto was in Scorpio between 1983 and 1995 while Neptune was in Capricorn between 1984 and 1997. This means that there was a short period before the Millennial generation started and after it ended that was sort of in between. I call these in between periods generational seams.
People born in the midst of one of these generational seams is caught between two generations. If you were born 1983 with Pluto in Scorpio and Neptune in Sagittarius your are not exactly in the Millennial generation, or the Gen X group that came before. You are part of mini-generation that is occupies both, and the same time, neither space.
Today I’m celebrating the release of my newest book, “Behind the Horoscope: How the Placement of the Sun and Moon Tell a Story About You.” The book deals with the astrological houses and, in particular with the placement of the Sun in the houses. I feel that, just as the sign occupied by the Sun in your horoscope is “your” sign, the house in which the Sun is placed is “your” house. This house placement reveals the area of life in which you are meant to shine. It also represents your mission in this life. You may not choose to accept this mission, but there is always a price to pay when you don’t.
The function of the Sun in the horoscope is always influenced by the placement of the Moon. In my book “Father Sun, Mother Moon” I describe how the Sun and Moon signs work in combination. In “Behind the Horoscope” I do the same thing with the houses occupied by the Sun and Moon. Part Two of the book describes all 144 combinations of the Sun’s house placement with that of the Moon.
You may purchase “Behind the Horoscope” from this website. Just go to the top of the homepage and click on “Our Books.” You can also purchase it from the publisher’s website (www.llewellyn.com) or your favorite bookstore. And, if you want to give more money to Jeff Bezos, it is also available through Amazon.
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Handicapping the Big Race: Part Three
In Parts One and Two of this series I explained the astrological challenges facing both Donald Trump and Joe Biden as they compete for the presidency. Both men are currently under detrimental aspects that exacerbate weaknesses already describe in their natal horoscopes. (Biden with Neptune and Trump with Saturn and Venus.) (Click on Joe Biden and Donald Trump to see those articles.)
But there is a third significant entity involved in this process. That is the United States of American. It’s been said many times that this election is going to have a huge and fateful impact on the future of this country. The transits to the Sibly chart for U.S. seem to confirm this idea.
At the moment transiting Saturn, at 25 degrees of Capricorn, is opposed to Mercury in U.S. horoscope. (Click on Sibly chart to see the chart.) Saturn is currently retrograde and moving very slowly. It will go direct at the end of September, but it will remain close to 25 degrees until shortly before the election. So, it is this aspect that is going to characterize the major portion of this political season.
With Jupiter riding the Midheaven of the Aug.18 New Moon chart (click here to see the article and the chart) I expected to see a lot of hoopla and exaggerated promises. The Democratic and Republican conventions deliver all this and more. If Jupiter were the only significant factor in this chart, it would have been an entertaining two weeks. But, of course, it wasn’t.
I predicted that the square by Mars to Saturn and Pluto in the Tenth House of that chart would bring strong actions involving law enforcement. Two of those actions were relatively positive. The Dept. of Justice announced a successful coordination of federal officers and local law enforcement had resulted in 1500 arrests and efforts by state law enforcement in Georgia located 40 missing children.
However, this positive news was overshadowed by yet another video showing an unarmed black man being shot, this time in the back at short range, by a police officer. This sparked a wave of protest which, on the first two nights, turned violent. This is something I predicted could come out of this aspect but I would have much rather have been wrong.
