SATURN'S INGRESS INTO SCORPIO - USA

DATA:  October 5, 2012 @ 4:34 PM EDT - Washington, D.C.

This essay has been rather difficult to write.  It will be unpleasant to read.  Nevertheless, it is offered to assist in your survival and those of your loved ones, for knowledge is power.

This Ingress chart depicts the influence of Saturn in Scorpio on the United States of America for a little more than the next two years.  Saturn falls into the 8th house of death and transformation; both literal death and psychological evolution will be encountered, as the nation will be involved in a battleground of constant crises, for the 8th is primarily a house of crisis...a house of purging and purifying.  Whatever has outgrown its usefulness will be removed from our lives, quite often harshly.  In its stead we will be granted a new kind of freedom. 

Saturn, the Grim Reaper in Scorpio, the realm of death, in the 8th of Medicare means a panel will be formed during the course of this transit that will restrict disease-care for elders, leading to suffering and eventually death, for those so chosen.  With Libra on the cusp of the 8th house and its ruler Venus sextile Saturn, morticians will not be among the unemployed.

Accountability is a Saturn function, the 8th house and Scorpio govern debt, taxes, insurance, and entitlements.  Americans will be forced to come to grips with the deficit...the need for austerity is in our immediate future, although it will be selective, as intimated by the new death-care mandates.  While living in the physical universe we need attachments such as money to function effectively.  Over time these attachments cease to support us and instead burden us.  The function of Saturn in the 8th house will motivate us to shed what is holding us back from spiritual and mental regeneration; in most cases it will be done through external circumstances.

There is Mutual Reception between Saturn in Scorpio and Pluto in Capricorn.  They are also in sextile aspect to one another, making their influence less difficult than would occur with a challenging aspect between them.  A rose among the thorns.  Mutual Reception occurs when two planets relate by being in the sign ruled by the other.  They tend to benefit each other through mutual aims, which in the case of these two planets means malevolence and manipulation.  Opportunities will be provided via the sextile aspect.  With Pluto in the 11th house manipulation will come from the legislative branches...those folks whom Americans thought represented the welfare of their constituents...while malevolence will express through avenues such as medicare, medicade, stealth euthanasia, the public's money, and inheritance taxes.   

The conjunction of Saturn and Mercury reconciles the Neptune/Venus opposition, as does Pluto.  That means the tremendous energies of the opposition will naturally flow to either Saturn/Mercury in Scorpio or to Pluto in Capricorn...or equally to both.  The result will be technological advances (Capricorn) by pharmaceutical companies (Neptune) to develop new biotech products that may add longevity to life...and because Pisces, from whence Neptune expresses, is a dual sign, the pharmaceutical companies will also develop new medical (read toxic) drugs to 'assist' those people who have been deemed unworthy of health care in their journey into the next life. 

This is the agenda that must be avoided if you wish to survive.  The first step, if you haven't already done so, is to learn everything you need to know in order to eat intelligently so that you can maintain a healthy body.  And then teach what you have learned to your loved ones.

"And thus I clothe my naked villany

With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ,

And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

King Richard III