Ingress charts for the solstices and equinoxes are very rewarding to explore. For me, each of the four charts for each year are used to have a look at what's happening around that time, as well as giving us some ideas about where things might lead in the subsequent 3 months. I know other people use the Aries Ingress or Capricorn ingress for the whole year, but I like the non-hemispherist utility of using all 4 charts.
Mars rules the chart – this is a season of conflict. The Mars opposition to Pluto is only a degree past exact, and squares the Sun. Power struggles big time! Notice the close air trine from Mars to Mercury (involving sextile to Pluto) – vigorous debate, about non-trivial things, things of great significance that people feel instinctively about. Mercury is right at the Descendant, suggesting that the debate is surrounding foreign affairs and relationships with other countries.
The grand air trine between Mars, Mercury and Neptune is the intoxicating entertainment spectacular that the election campaign and the election itself will become on the airways and internet.
Jupiter is approaching the square of Uranus, only less than 3 degrees out. There is certainly impatience with the apparently slow speed of progress. It is a rather explosive and unstable pattern. Yet the Part of Fortune is wth Jupiter, which is powerful in its own sign. Jupiter rules 9 and 12, so it stands for the media, the intelligentsia, the moral authorities, as well as the secret services and carceral institutions. Considered opinion favours change, but seems to be insistent on laying something to rest.
Venus opposes Neptune. Venus, being Lord 2 & 7, is the treasury and foreign nations. Now Venus has fairly recently turned direct (9-Sep-2007 at 2:14 am AEST) and hence finance and foreign affairs should improve, but it is still only just separating from that opposition. Now with Venus being in 4, this suggests the big-bucks boys and the foreigners are right in our own back yard, but opposed Neptune there’s something glitzy and unreal about it – it’s all a bit fake. With the perfection of the aspect now passed, and Venus having just stationed direct, I suggest this is the image of the APEC summit, now just past.
The people, represented doubly by the Moon (the natural significator as well as Lord 4), are in the mood for politics (in Aquarius), but they’re looking to be inspired and possibly deceived.
Mr Howard is represented by Saturn, modelling himself in a Virgo-practical grey-brown waterproof overcoat in front of the Opera House. What better location for 5th house symbolism? With the South Node, Howard is representative of the past. Unaspected, Saturn is disconnected from what’s really going on.
Mr Rudd is represented by the Moon. Cosying up to Neptune in the house of government, Rudd is certainly popular and probably seen as a bit of a saviour by a lot of people, but perhaps deceptive and untrustworthy by others. The Moon is in Saturn’s territory – Rudd is confidently projecting himself as PM-in-waiting.
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