THE WINTER SOLSTICE 2000 AD.
The Winter Solstice moment as viewed from London. Notice the finger of fate, involving Mars Mercury and Saturn, focused on Saturn. Notice the Scorpio Moon square a Venus/Uranus conjunction in Aquarius. This chart portrays a time very shortly before a partial eclipse of the Sun. Just three days separate these two astrological events, first this solstice point and then on Christmas Day the solar eclipse.
Saturn on this solstice moment is rising over the UK, more exact over Scotland (Mars sets over Gibraltar). Jupiter too is shortly to rise over the UK and North Western Europe. The Sun is due East in Santiago (where the Moon is at upper culmination and Uranus is rising!). The Sun is rising over Oklahoma City, Dallas and Chicago, (where Mars also culminates). The solstice Sun is at lower culmination at Brisbane, and it is Sunset over Bahrain, Basra in Iraq, Kiev in Russia, and Stockholm in Sweden. The Sun is due west at Rhodes. Mars sets in Madrid. Neptune rises at Hamilton in Bermuda and at Quito in Equador. The Moon culminates over New York. Pluto rises at San Francisco and at Calgary in Canada. Mars is exactly rising in Auckland New Zealand. Jupiter is at upper culmination over Seoul in Korea. Saturn culminates on the MC of Peking. Jupiter and Pluto stand exactly East/West at Delhi. Venus rises at Port of Spain Trinidad, culminates with Uranus above Athens (Exact), Warsaw and Helsinki. Neptune culminates over Tripoli.
The Moon in Scorpio almost at the very end of the Last quarter phase, badly aspected by a very zany Venus Uranus conjunction in rebellious Aquarius. This chart is fixed in nature, fateful, entrenched, resolute. Harsh energies are amassed here. The Solar eclipse three days later has some of the answers to the mystery and implication of this solstice moment. In those intervening three days, Mercury rapidly changes signs and reaches the Sun in Superior Conjunction at the time of the eclipse. Mars also changes sign from Libra to Scorpio. Venus conjuncts Uranus on Dec. 24th, but is still very close at the time of the eclipse. This conjunction dominates both the solstice and the eclipse charts. Expect the unexpected.
