Rick DiClemente's Starself Astrology Newsletter for October

[ricochetastroman]

Isn’t WALL Street the most Capricornian thing you can think of?

Welcome to October. Granted, it’s been weird. And so many people I’m talking to are wondering “what’s going
on?” Well, many, many things actually. Approximately 2/3 of the 50 people I’ve talked to or gauged said they
experienced “unusual light-headedness or downright dizziness” during August. Some went to the E.R. room. I feel
the two eclipses triggered that, notice, I’m careful not to say they “caused” it. Especially the eclipse on 8/16
with Neptune was as weird as expected. I’m hoping everyone is finding their grounding again by now.

A friend of mine wrote this to me just after that time:
“As for the month of August, and the time frame when we had the "Blue Moon" or whatever it is called, the
psychiatric unit where I am a nurse was incredibly HORRIBLE! Now you are shedding some light on what we were all
experiencing. We had a full house and everyone was extremely bizarre and strange or agitated and aggressive, and
we found it necessary to use seclusion for a few which is not the norm...but necessary at times. And you are
right, things have now, very much, quieted down, thankfully!”

NEPTOON

We are dealing with monumental issues now: Saturn opposing Uranus will be exact THE MORNING OF THE ELECTION
and Pluto will begin its final, no-turning-back-to-Sagittarius ingress into Capricorn on Thanksgiving Eve. I
will write much more about Saturn and Uranus next month.
For now, I want to ask you to keep in mind that the guitar string between these two planets is tightening to the
breaking point. And just as expected, instead of trying to see each other’s points of view (Saturn symbolizing
the conservative “Right” and Uranus the liberal “Left”) and finding ways to work together, we continue to play
the old blame game. Imagine all of us walking around with one arm just to prove that we are “right?” To meet the
huge challenges we so obviously face, we all need BOTH arms. The issue is this simple: it’s like parents who
always say no to the kids, vs. parents who always say yes. Both ways lead to dysfunction. We need an intelligent,
wise combination of both - not finger-pointing. The subject is just too yucky for me to go into at more length
right now - I’ll leave that for November’s issue. By then I’ll have more than enough stored-up kinetic energy to
snap that turkey bone into two or three pieces.

Now for the big one: Pluto in Capricorn: “The Bailout.” I’m sure many of you are sick of hearing about it, but,
you’d better get used to it. After November 26, Pluto will stay in Capricorn until 2023. What does all this mean
to you? Every time I ask a group of people in an audience, “Do you feel something different shakin?,” they all
say, “YES!” Maybe it’s kind of a good thing because for once, it is abundantly apparent, even to those who have
traditionally not given astrology much credence, that astrology can be a source of serious insight and guidance.
The article I wrote for Pittsburgh’s “The Point of Light Magazine” and for my web site with fellow astrologer,
Cheryl Crise, sits atop my website if you care to get the background on this epic Pluto period. It can be
accessed at: www.starself.com/polapr08.html

Basically, Capricorn, the bill collector, is here.

This article, as are all of my articles, is not intended to target specific Sagittarians, or Capricorns (heck,
I’m one) but is intended to extrapolate on the collective energies; whether used correctly or incorrectly.
Remember: we all have varying amounts of many different signs in our natal charts.
From 1995 to the end of 2007, Pluto accomplished a great deal in Sagittarius! The world expanded in good and bad
ways and we all got cell phones and IPods! It’s no coincidence that one of our major internet web portals and
search engines is called YAHOO!, is it? Isn’t it fun!? Our religions clashed and we borrowed and borrowed and
borrowed. Every 5 pieces of mail we received contained 2 credit card offers, 2 mortgage offers, and one maybe
legitimate piece of junk-mail. AND NOW WE WONDER WHY THE DOO-DOO IS HITTING THE FAN. Unregulate-deregulate-
unregulate-deregulate.

When Pluto in Capricorn takes the baton from Pluto in Sagittarius, the OLD FORMS (Capricorn) can no longer
support, or manage (Capricorn) the growth and complexity Sagittarius has generated for us collectively. Pluto in
Sag has caused us to realize that we live on one, big, beautiful, interdependent planet. But if Sag has bounteous
spirit, it doesn’t usually have a plan for making the overall social mechanism work - that’s Capricorn’s
bailiwick. (Ben Franklin and Yogananda were Capricorns - but so were Richard Nixon, Joseph Stalin and Benedict
Arnold!) And boy, can you see the busy suits running around Capitol Hill, especially in the past few weeks,
trying to come up with a financial plan! You can’t just patch the hole in the dike anymore.
Maybe our extremely naïve Cancer populace (USA=July 4=Cancer) isn’t so naïve and gullible anymore. We’re tired of
paying the price of greedy leadership. We are starting to pay more attention to things beyond our own noses, and
to demand more of ourselves and our leaders. Faced with the possibility of national/global financial collapse, we
are not as interested now in Sagittarian ideals and theories, attractive as they may be. Instead, we see the
necessity of working together across ideological divisions, toward practical solutions - The Goat is on the
Mountaintop once again (last time was 1779 when the USA dismantled the Old World Order!)

So, it’s a very big story, and what do we do? What. Do. We. Do?
I got to thinking about two things, 1) why is the contrast between Sagittarius and Capricorn so dramatic? and, 2)
how can we use the strengths of the two to fix things? (Disclaimer: As individuals and countries, we’re all a
mixture of many astrological archetypes and energies, nothing is purely Sagittarian or purely Capricornian)


Look at these Sagittarian-Capricornian polarities for instance:

Sagittarius / Capricorn
Optimism / Pessimism
Flighty / Earthy
Risk-taking / Cautious
Carefree / Careful
Cheerful / Gloomy
Trusting / Non-trusting
Reckless / Tediously careful
Borrow / Save
Unregulated / Regulated
Promise / Deliver
Incur debt / Pay now (or ahead of time)
Future takes care of itself, have faith / Insure your future
Unimpeded growth / Limited controlled growth if at all
Irresponsible / Responsible
Undependable / Dependable
No significant sense of duty / Duty bound

I think you get the point. Each sign has its strengths and weaknesses.

So, we got a bigger world during PL in Sag, but do we have the infrastructures to handle it?
We got lots of new houses but now we can’t pay for them.
We got lots of loans only to be defaulted.
We got Sag promises, now Capricorn must pay.

The key is we are not all Sagittarians and Capricorns. They are ENERGIES inside all of us and now is the time we
must learn use them to their best potential. How can we activate our Capricorn side to answer to all that has
evolved while it was in Sagittarius for the past 13 years? (Notice: Windows ’95 came in the same year - a new
easy way to see and surf a bigger world!)

Just some ideas:

Don’t panic and don’t start blaming.
Don’t look for government or some outside agency to solve our problems.
Take the wonderful internet Sag gave us and regulate it but don’t overly restrict it.
Stop running from our problems and pawning them off on future generations
Stop borrowing and living above our means.
If you don’t have a way to afford something, don’t buy it.
Sag has taught us faith; don’t lose faith now because of some recent excesses.
Stop mortgaging your future for the present.
Graciously accept the new BIG world that Sag has created and stop complaining about it and embrace it - build new
wider, more global, robust structures that can handle it.
Sag has developed space; let’s not try to control and own it for profit, and see the planet as it IS: singular.
Take the incredible networks of communications (cell phones, satellites) that Sag created and use them
effectively.
Realize that many reasonable countries have legitimate issues with us - they’re not all crazy.
Reach our hand out to meet and unite with other countries. Tear down the U.N. and start over. Do it right this
time and re-erect it in a third-world-country. The U.N. is prototypically the #1 type of thing that Pluto will
target for demolition, i.e., structures held up by false promises, weak oaths, and smoke and mirrors.

Etc., etc., etc., I think you see the point.

Mostly, recognize the broadening of the mind that occurred during this critical Sagittarius period and don’t
crawl back into our “that’s-the-way-we’ve-done-it-for-years” mentality. It surely won’t work.

I Hate My Planets


So many times I meet people who know a little bit about their own natal chart. A frequent refrain I hear goes
something like this, “I hate that Saturn in my first house!” or “If it just weren’t for that Moon in Scorpio of
mine.” Many, many times the person just isn’t able to see how that one part fits into the whole (which takes a
lot of experience to see.) But, moreover, your planets are exactly where they need to be for your soul to do its
work in this lifetime. You are totally unique - so is your chart. Appreciate what it has - find out more about
it.

You Know What You Want To Do - Part II

Last month I talked about how often times, clients just need to be urged a little bit when they say, “But, I
don’t know what I want to do.” Wouldn’t you know it. Just this past week I had the following discussion:

Client: “But, I don’t know what I want to do, things are falling apart.”
(Neptune was all over this person’s chart = spiritual crisis, a delicate subject)
Me: “Are you sure?”
Client: “I really have no idea, things used to go smoothly, now, all of a sudden, nothing is working out!”
Me: “It may be hard to notice this, but I think you’re going through a spiritual crisis, not a job-market one.”
Client: “Hmmm…”
Me: “Imagine for a moment, a blank blackboard, nothing on it…. You can draw any image on you want to… What would
you draw?”
Client: “Well, I dunno, ... first thing I see, the only thing I want is to go back to God. Sometimes I think
about a monastery.”

End of discussion

The Mysterious Twelfth Harmonic

A harmonic chart is one based on a number. In this case, the twelfth is similar to the 12th sign Pisces. I work a

lot with this chart. The reason is that Pisces is the main mystical sign in the chart. The more I work with this

chart, based off of the natal
chart, the more I tend to see a person’s life contract. Basically, since 12 is the
number being addressed, all factors in the natal chart are multiplied by 12 and
re-cast back on the chart. The results, I have found, are consistent and quite
astounding.

Recently, a frustrated account came to me and after carefully looking through his
weekly calendar, we realized where he was exactly when Pluto entered Capricorn the first time - on January 25th

of this year. At exactly 9:30pm (or the best of his
recollection) he stood up in a meeting of other accountants and said to
himself, “I can’t do this anymore…. I have to do something more mean-
ingful.” He walked out. At that moment, Pluto, the planet that urges us to
BE more, to DO more crossed the descendant of his twelfth harmonic. He had come
face to face with his dharma. A very lucky man. Now he is planning to go back to school
to study for a career in the health field.

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[amitten]

1. I've been having dizzy spells on and off for about a month.

Good to know I'm not alone!

[ricochetastroman]

2. I tell ya, it's crazy I keep seeing

trying my best to narrow it down.
hope u feel betr

[Dover]

3. Wonderful!

I like this:

Mostly, recognize the broadening of the mind that occurred during this critical Sagittarius period and don’t
crawl back into our “that’s-the-way-we’ve-done-it-for-years” mentality. It surely won’t.


And fascinating about the 12th harmonic. Is that available with the chart software as astrodienst I wonder? Would love to hear more about that.

[ricochetastroman]

4. I know no one who does it

I'm doing lots of it, transits to it are incredible.

[I Have A Dream]

5. Another great newsletter, Rick!

As always, thank you for sharing it with us here. :)