Sequestration is a fiscal policy
procedure adopted by Congress to deal with the federal budget deficit. It
generates automatic cuts for each of nine years, FY 13-21, totalling $1.2
trillion. Sequestration was originally scheduled to take effect on Jan. 2, 2013.
However, it was delayed for two months - until March 1, 2013, by the deal
struck on New Year's Eve, called the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. Now,
without Congressional action to prevent sequestration, the first round of cuts
will take place on March 1, 2013. http://bit.ly/IapHZ0
In the post
on the fiscal cliff we had looked at how
the Yod of the Nov. 28 eclipse indicated that the US is more likely than not to go over the
‘fiscal cliff’. In the same post I had
mentioned that the Cap Ingress chart which has a Yod – with Jupiter at the apex
of a Saturn-Pluto sextile - indicated much the same thing. On Jan 1, the
politicians succeeded in kicking the can down the road and now the progressed
cap Ingress chart shows the same crisis brewing for Mar 1 with the Yod
activated by the meridian axis.
The
significance of the Yod was explained by
Nick Fiorenza in the Lunar Planner:
One of special significance is the
Saturn-Pluto-Jupiter Yod that began to form in the previous November 13, 2012
lunar cycle, now with Venus activating the Yod as she moves to the midpoint of
the Saturn-Pluto sextile and lies opposite Jupiter—activating the prominent
Antares-Aldebaran axis.
Venus moves to the Saturn-Pluto
mid-point conjoining Antares in mid-sidereal Scorpio in opposition to Jupiter.
Generally, a Venus-Jupiter opposition can impel an over-confident
over-indulgence and a desire for immediate gratification. Thus it is important
to realize that band-aids used for immediate results do not provide real
solution, neither in our external world paradigm or in our personal lives where
a deep level of healing and evolution is required—something that unfolds in our
continuing evolutionary spiral through time. In addition and as a part of
this Yod, it is also important to realize that the Yod itself (nor the
Solstice) is not some magical gateway that changes the world and our lives in
an instant. Saturn’s influence requires steadfast persistence to build,
albeit from a new place of compassion, wisdom and balance in mid-sidereal Libra
(with the feminine influence of Venus). Pluto’s influence in Sag is one of
holding long-term vision to pierce the veils of illusion and the false beliefs
we adhere to (with Mars’ masculine influence of audacious action in leadership
and which requires a serious redefining of how we use power on Earth).
Venus, lying at the Saturn-Pluto mid-point, is
semi-sextile to both planets, the other inconjunct quality. In this case, the
Yod apex draws Venus along with Saturn and Pluto into an expression through
Jupiter. Venus, lying opposite Jupiter-Aldebaran conjoins Antares, Heart of the
Scorpion, in mid-sidereal Scorpio.
Antares, the 15th brightest star, is
about 700 times the size of our Sun, and is one of the largest stars. It is
quite elongated with a polar diameter about 63% of its equatorial diameter, red
in color, said to rival Mars in brightness when they are seen together.
In classical astrology, Antares is
the star of war and weaponry, and with expounded meaning, to challenge the
established opposing politics (an arena common to the Antares / Aldebaran axis)
with tenacious adamancy. This is especially in regard to taking a stand
against the established conditions of our personal lives and against the
established order or authority directing our lives when those conditions or
that authority are no longer in our best interest nor supporting our
evolutionary freedom and fulfillment.
However, It is only the less aware
who mistake this power point in the ecliptic to mean fight or destroy what one
still perceives as forces outside of self. Antares marks a point of empowerment
in sidereal Scorpio, a point of immanation for those who have embraced their
initiations and claimed their self-empowerment, who have graduated from playing
the victim in life to a predetermined fate, and who have learned to take responsibility
to create their destiny. The Heart of the Scorpion teaches us to realize the
inseparable nature of life, to reconcile the forces within and without, to know
of the oneness and inseparable permeability of the Creation Force—as is
exemplified by Ophiuchus, who demonstrably stands over the Scorpion, the
exemplar of this wisdom. Either way, Antares motivates us to take
responsibility for our reality, for the lives we create, and to "take a
stand" for our truth and to demonstrably and passionately live it.
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