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2020 March Equinox Edition: History of Astrology QU AR T E R L Y OU R N AL A Career OPA’ Astrologer The and 2020 SATURN IN AQUARIUS HISTOR Y of ASTROLOGY MARCH EQUINOX The Organization for Professional Astrology V29 0 1 2020 V 2 8 - 0 3 SEPTEMBER EQUINOX 2019 page 1 QU AR T E R L Y OU R N AL A Career Dear members and readers, Astrologer The MARCH EQUINOX e sincerely hope you are weathering the corona V29 0 1 2020 virus global crisis gracefully and that you remain W safe health-wise and financially. Sometimes we as astrologers wish to be wrong, especially when in this case anticipating 2020 to be so challenging. Yet, I don’t think that the best of us would have predicted that the North Node in Cancer would have the whole world grounded home Transits of the with “imposed” family time! No matter how much we may resist, Cancer North Equinox Node will have its needs met! The collective “slow down” has given nature such an unexpected breather, with ASTROLOGY DAY pollution plummeting, shut down of wildlife markets, and animals reengag- ing where human are receding. Must it really be us or them? Will we finally President’s Report P.2 see ourselves as part of nature and not above it? Perhaps this is a Saturnian moment of accountability and a Neptunian moment of surrender with grace. I OPA LIVE: Spring 2020 P.3 personally hope we overcome this challenge promptly, and that we gain a new Transits of the Season P.12 perspective on our consumerism. Astrology Day Interviews P.18 Sending everyone blessings for safety, support, and health. History of Astrology P.28 Maurice Fernandez President, OPA Forensic Astology P.50 Astrology Research P.56 OPA G OE S AQU AR I U S You likely know by now that our 2020 ASTROLOGY RETREAT is migrating Working with Children’s Charts P.61 online. This was a difficult but inevitable decision. We are happy that the new Interview: Ricky Williams P.64 format will make the retreat more affordable and accessible to many of you, and most importantly, that those of you who signed up will not miss on Saturn in Aquarius P.67 the quality content. These are Jupiter/Pluto times, prompting us to transform Tribute: Noel Tyl P.68 crisis into opportunity. For information about the program, see this edition on PAGE 20, or visit Tribute: Robert Zoller P.70 the OPA website for full details. Editors: Maurice Fernandez, OPA OAR D L E C T I ON S Y 3 Donna Young A new 2-year term for the OPA board will begin on May 23. We are glad that many Proofing: Nancy Beale, of the current board members are committed to continue serving the cause, but Jeremy Kanyo, Donna Young important changes are underway! If you wish to volunteer as a board member, we will Design: Sara Fisk provide guidelines on how to submit your candidacy. Stay tuned. Cover Art: Tuba Gök, see p.60 PR E S I D E N T ’S E POR T © 2020 OPA All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the written consent of OPA, unless by the authors of the articles themselves. DISCLAIMER: While OPA provides a platform for articles to The Dramatic Transits of the appear in this publication, the content and ideas are not necessarily eflecting OPA’s points of view. Each author is responsible for the content of their articles. Season: March-June 2020 MARCH 20 – MARS/JUPITER at 20 Capricorn MARCH 23 – SATURN INGRESS INTO Aquarius + MARS/PLUTO at 23 Capricorn The Organization for Professional Astrology MARCH 30 – MARS/SATURN at 0 Aquarius APRIL 4 – JUPITER/PLUTO at 24 Capricorn MAY 5 – True NODES shift to Gemini/Sagittarius MAY 13 – VENUS RETROGRADE at 21 Gemini OPAastrology.org The Career Astrologer I N T H E T I ME S OR ON A I R U S We must be cautious about unfounded The As Jupiter and Pluto meet in Capricorn, hope and optimism when looking for a governments are gearing up to bail out quick way out of the crisis. However, when JUPITER- industries in free-fall, particularly those well-managed, this configuration can related to the travel and entertainment increase inventiveness and resourcefulness— PLUTO services—this is expected to balloon when feeling cornered and diminished, com- national debts of countries to unprecedent- pletely new strategies and ideas may prove conjunction in ed proportions. productive and prompt a reversal of fortune. CAPRICORN b y ernand ez Born with a he giant and the dwarf, Jupiter and Jupiter/Pluto Pluto, come together again after 13 Conjunction T years for three meetings on April Bill Gates 4, June 30, and November 12, 2020, Warren Buffet around the 22-24 degrees of Capricorn. Gandhi Mandela AG E N T S f R OW T H Bank of England Jupiter and Pluto both represents an obses- Vladimir Lenin sion with growth – Jupiter goes for “bigger Cult Leader Jim Jones Rupert Murdoch is better” and visible expansion, while Pluto’s Johannes Kepler amplitude is internal and less obvious on the Christine Lagarde surface, deceiving in its petite appearance. Mick Jagger Merging these qualities, people born under Jupiter/Pluto cycles are commonly extremely resourceful and able to turn crises into opportu- nities—there must be a gain in every situation. In some cases, this configuration can engender great wealth, materially and spiritually. AG E N T S OF T R U T H Jupiter and Pluto are both truth seekers and this fusion of forces enhances powerful detective capacities. Those born under these Photo credits on p. 39. R influences know deception and cannot take things at face value—they search for the hidden, inconvenient truths and can reveal conspiracies. versies?) may certainly be part of our future SATURN IN conversations. B U R S T I N G U B B L E S Will science reclaim its authority during Jupiter and Pluto both represent the Saturn in Aquarius, or will it be under fur- potential to go BIG, from material wealth AQUARIUS ther scrutiny if science is being used as a (Hello Bill Gates and Warrant Buffet), to icon- weapon for political agendas? ic influence (Gandhi and Mandela anyone?), 2020 to 2023 With imposed Corona related con- but just as much as they reflect stock market finement prompting a massive migra- surges, this combination can also instigate b y ernand ez tion online, we can expect the INTERNET massive crashes if there was excess. They INFRASTRUCTURE to become overloaded. inflate and deflate vigorously. aturn is already sending its clear mes- Will we be RATIONED for our time online for sage to Aquarius ahead of its official the system to be able to cope? I D E OL OG I C AL AG R E S S I ON and S move on March 22: Saturn in Aquarius will very likely expose T H E I G H T AC I S M the limitations and the vulnerabilities of the Jupiter relates to ethnicity, belief systems, • Social Distancing internet in the course of these three years. and the search for higher meaning in life. • Airline Industry crisis We risk experiencing an internet crisis, With Pluto involved, this can be weaponized • Massive migration to the internet and if all our goods are in that bag, this can and intensified. Those born under this cycle • A return to rely on lead to further destabilization and chaos. can be on either side of the spectrum, the Scientific references The good news – this is a time for gov- perpetrators or the victims. Both Gandhi and • Social support ernments to transcend polarizing political Mandela born under previous conjunctions agendas and support social justice. The had to confront systematic racial injustice and We can hope and anticipate that this expected bailouts and individual pay- prevailed against it. The 1994 Jupiter/Pluto transit will bring scientific development in ments (USA) will cross the partisan lines of conjunction in Scorpio saw the Rwanda/ the light of the Corona Virus crisis. However, Capitalists versus Social Democrats. the ETHICS revolving around the use and Burundi genocide fury with members of Hutu Stay tuned for future updates! and Tutsi tribes clashing with outmost brutali- application of SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY and ty, fueled by racial ideologies. RESEARCH (Phone surveillance, 5G contro- R V 2 9 - 0 1 MARCH EQUINOX 2020 page 3 OPA LIVE SPECIAL ALEX TRENOWETH SPRING 2020 ANGELA TIKI PLANETARY ALIGNMENTS ALAN ANNAND powerful secrets. I seemed to have found seemed to match the themes of Jupiter- something different from what I expected. Pluto and the signs they are in. The Methodology: I wanted to try to avoid cherry-picking but it is rather difficult to 1930 do for such a short article. I chose people Pluto was discovered on 18 February Jupiter- and events based on close Jupiter-Pluto 1930 with Pluto at 17 degrees Cancer and conjunctions. The ones here are just a small Jupiter at 6 degrees Gemini. By the end sample but I would like to investigate a of August 1930, Jupiter was within an broader base of information. I’d be inter- eight-degree orb conjunction of Pluto in Pluto ested in seeing some other ideas as to how Cancer, and by the end of October, they this can be done. were at the same degree (20 Cancer). To find the entire span of Jupiter-Pluto Pluto stationed that week, then turned Conjunction conjunctions and to make sure I wasn’t miss- retrograde, and a few weeks later Jupiter ing out on those tricky retrograde periods, also turned retrograde.
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