Ceres Transit of Moon

Ceres has an orbital period of 1,682 days or approximately 4.6 years. Tomorrow, moving forward, it will pass over my natal Moon. Figure 1 shows the situation:

Figure 1: my transits for July 29th 2021

The other significant but even more "transient" transit is that of Mars over natal Saturn. Transient though it may be, it can be seen that for the next couple of days there is a T-square formed between transiting Jupiter, transiting Mars and natal Saturn and transiting Ceres and natal Moon. The apex of the T-square is the natal Moon and transiting Ceres at the cusp of my second house. 

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Yesterday, after some days of lethargy, I began to do some exercise: stretching and walking within the boundary of the house. Physically, I had been feeling rather badly but yesterday's exercise has helped lift my energy levels so that today I feel somewhat rejuvenated. Hopefully I can continue this somatic renaissance.

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The influences of Chiron, now retrograde but only recently turned stationary retrograde, and Pluto remain steady.

Chiron Station

Figure 1 shows the transits affecting my chart on July 15th 2021. What caught my attention initially was that yesterday transiting Chiron stationed in 12°56' Aries and today it has turned retrograde. It will station again in 8°26' Aries on December 19th 2021. See the post on my Astrology blog titled A Closer Look at Chiron that was created in anticipation of Chiron's entry into Aries on April 17th 2018. Chiron spends about eight years in Aries but only about 1.5 years in Libra.

Figure 1

There are other activity that I've also marked in Figure 1. These are:

• Sun approaching my IC in about three days
• Ceres in very close semi-sextile aspect to my Ascendant
• Uranus exactly square my natal Pluto
• Jupiter retrograding toward an exact opposition to my natal Saturn in late July
• Mars and Venus separating after their exact conjunction a few days ago

Pluto of course hovers over my MC and will be doing so for quite some time.

More on the Mars-Venus Conjunction

In my Astrological Meanderings blog, my latest post on Periodicity of Mars-Venus Conjunctions contained the information that conjunctions of Mars and Venus recur in roughly the same position of the Zodiac every 32 years (plus 0.5 to 4 days). As an example:

• 16°17' of Leo at 12:21am on July 13th 1989
• 19°49' of Leo at 8:33pm on July 13th 2021
• 23°26' of Leo at 7.42pm on July 14th 2053

This means that my natal Mars-Venus conjunction recurred around April 3rd of 1981 and 2013. I doubt whether I'll see the next conjunction which will be in 2045. The conjunction in 1981 occurred on April 5th at 11:27am in 14°44' of Aries. See Figure 1.

Figure 1: 1981 conjunction of Mars and Venus

The 2013 conjunction occurred on April 7th at 11:59am in 19°57' of Aries. See Figure 2.

Figure 2: 2013 conjunction of Mars and Venus

I'm hopefully starting to make better use of this blog by addressing broader, impersonal issues in my Astrological Meanderings blog (such as Periodicity of Mars-Venus Conjunctions) and then applying them on a personal level to this blog.

Gromit's Passing

My dog, Gromit, passed away shortly after midnight on July 12th 2021. Figure 1 my birth chart with the planetary transits superimposed and drawn up for 12:01am in Jakarta:

Figure 1

Pluto, conjunct my MC, dominates my chart at the moment just as it did when my brother passed away on June 8th of this year. The area around my Ceres-Pluto conjunction is quite active with the Moon, Venus and Mars all close. Mars and Venus will be exactly conjunct tomorrow and I wrote about this conjunction in my previous post. Other transits also affect this area, including:

• transiting Saturn opposite natal Ceres
• transiting Uranus square natal Pluto
• transiting Chiron square natal Ceres-Pluto
• transiting Moon trine natal Mars-Venus and natal Chiron

In fact, natal Chiron in the eighth house forms a transient but near perfect Grand Trine with the transiting Moon and my natal Mars-Venus (with transiting Chiron conjunct my natal Sun and very near my natal Mars-Venus).

Mars-Venus Conjunction

On July 13th 2021, Mars and Venus will be conjunct in Leo. Other dates for the conjunctions of these two planets are:

• February 16th 2022 
• March 6th 2022
• February 23rd 2024 

In this forthcoming conjunction, the latitudes of these two planets are very close, 1°39' versus 1°11' north latitude. Their longitudes become identical 19°48'57". See Figure 1.

Figure 1

The conjunction occurs in Jakarta when Jupiter in 1°21'R of Pisces is conjunct the Ascendant and the Moon in 2°45' of Virgo is conjunct the Descendant. The early part of these signs are sensitive areas for Desy and myself who have natal Sun and Saturn respectively in the first degree of Virgo. I'll be watching this imminent conjunction with interest. It is less than a week away.