Easter Sunday Forecast

Sunday April 24
It’s a great time for a lazy morning, with the Moon void of course in Capricorn. Allow yourself to gain perspective over a cuppa warm whatteva. We’ll reactivate at 10:59 am, when our lunar companion enters activist Aquarius. Sextiles to Uranus and Venus bring softening insights to our relationship scenario, bracketing the Moon’s Last Quarter square to the Sun at 4°34′ Aquarius/7:47 pm PT. The focused light in the idle [lighthouse] tower shines with the intensity of a locust fight in the tidal hour. In its creeping beam can be seen, far below, a brash hick hawking his wares (a hash brick) while walking his hares, a mock duck and a dairy fox covered in dock muck on the ferry docks, a fawn buyer and a lane mobster at a bonfire eating Main Lobster— “hand-caught and canned hot!”— and a pretty girl with a Yorkie puppy admiring a gritty pearl with a porky yuppie. Also visible in the roving light is a sprawl of schoonerists whose ship, now docked, is covered in the scrawl of spoonerists. Some great change is pending that will be resolved in the coming week as Venus heads into a square to Pluto. This contact carries extra oomph because she is carrying Uranus’s energy to Pluto to integrate the fragments of a new awareness about where we’re headed and what we need to do, both personally and globally. Last Easter we spent that morning in the living room, searching for the previous evening as though it were a dissevered cobra, the sections of which were hidden here and there about the room. . . No matter how cleverly we sought, however, we couldn’t seem to find the head or the tip of its other extremity, the tail; so we were by no means certain of the creature’s real dimension, of how much there was left to uncover. Even when we checked behind what we all thought to be the object which might most obviously conceal a clue— a curiously slashed landscape painting which hung at a disconcerting angle on the fruit-splattered wall— we found nothing but a pair of immaculate formal gloves nailed to the plaster. This is a crossroads for the US as well, as the houses of health and labor are populated. This suggests labor disturbances and police action as workers stand up for their rights and meet with resistance. Public opinion moves toward the side of human (and workers’) rights, continuing a populist movement that supersedes attempts at manipulation through media. This involves not just workers’ rights but the right of all humans to live on the planet without the threat of suffering that radiation poisoning brings.The Last Quarter Moon at 5 Aquarius is symbolized by, “In the land of shades, a council of ancestors of a man of world importance has been called to guide him.” (ME Jones version) Although we can all tap this energy, it is particularly interesting that this lunar event triggers President Obama’s chart so as to suggest just this type of inner experience. Look for a change in direction in his policies to emerge in the coming days, weeks, and months.