posted January 06, 2011 02:53 PM            

Each year we look forward with anticipation and hope wondering what does the New Year hold? Some very Interesting planetary alignments herald in 2011.

As 2011 begins Jupiter the expansive planet and Uranus the anything goes planet finish their transit through the last sign of the experiential zodiac wheel of life, Pisces. This tells us that how we end things is as important as how we begin things. Pisces is the natural ruler of the 12th house of karma, debt, and self undoing. It's also the 12th house of philanthropy, compassion, faith and divine intervention. The places it rules are prisons, hotels, hospitals and secret places. When minds are focused on everything bad that is happening around us and to those we care about, we naturally fear the worst. It doesn't help that 2012 is fast approaching and we could be wondering what's going to happen to us. Jupiter and Uranus in Pisces can easily take your mind off of what's really important and spiral you into panic, doom and gloom. It can leave you wondering does anyone really care. The 12th house rules karma. It's the culmination of experiences and the final test. We've been here before, we all know what to do.

It's an astrologer's job to translate what the cosmic consciousness is telling us through the planets. What the higher reality is telling us through the planets is that just when you think things couldn't get worse, you can always rely on divine intervention, because things cannot be 100% bad, there is always the light at the end of the tunnel, there is always something good to behold and experience too. Jupiter and Uranus in Pisces the 12th house of the zodiac suggests we are all ending some phase of our lives. No matter where you are in life, starting high school, starting college, beginning your careers, families, winding down your role as a parent or embarking on your retirement, it now is more significant than ever. How you end things is very important at this particular time. How you prepare yourself for the time when Jupiter and Uranus move into Aries is also extremely important. If you were heading off to work, you would prepare for it. Get nicely dressed, take care that your pet has water, the windows are shut and the door is locked. If you flew out the door late, forgot to lock the door and just left, you'd get a call at work, that the cat got out, the dog is lost the kids can't get in and worse. So take some time and don't leave things unfinished, clean your life and your house; don't carry burdens, fights and garbage into 2011. Above all be compassionate, to others and give more of yourself.

As Jupiter and Uranus re-enter Aries there won't be any time and you definitely don't want stuff from the past to follow you into what could be a great year! After the 1st quarter of 2011 once both planets are firmly in Aries things start to kick off. Anger at injustices the fall of leaders, governments and institutions that no longer serve the people but themselves gets rooted out. The populations of the world are angry and will take action. Institutions and governments that are too egotistical, too big and too corrupt to serve the people will end. In your personal lives people who are lording it over you, using power, corruption, making false promises and telling you lies will have no place in your lives anymore. April 9th, The Sun, Mercury, Mars, and Jupiter in Aries oppose Saturn in Libra. And herein starts the beginning to the end to the corruption as people both on a mass level and personal level demand fairness, demand a little compassion and demand to be treated humanely. Could it be a massive volcanic eruption or a meteor hitting the earth, it could but historically it was just the uprising of people taking back their power.

The planet Neptune will briefly enters Pisces ruler of the 12th house. Neptune is a generational planet, meaning as an outer planet many people are born with the same Neptune placement, hence the same Neptune outlook. Neptune takes about 172 years to complete its transit around the zodiac. Neptune's entrance into Pisces could renew our faith and have us face some horrible truths about ourselves and others too. The collective consciousness says we are not slaves; we are humans and as such demand compassion.

Many of these transits, Uranus in Aries, Neptune in Pisces and Pluto in Capricorn have historically triggered major collapses of regimes, governments and economies when things have become too corrupt. Not always though...as I have said before"this isn't Granny's depression and we aren't like our granny's at all".

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way...Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 1859