I've been watching the approach of this year for a while now with something resembling apprehension, if not dread. It's the year Pluto will oppose natal Saturn for me and square Neptune, while at the same time, because of a natal Saturn/Neptune square, Saturn will conjunct Neptune and square itself. An astrologer friend once told me she thought I'd be spared the worst of the Pluto/Saturn opposition precisely because of the Neptune placement, and while it's ridiculously early days right now, I can only say so far so good.
Of course, as Pluto moves so slowly, the opposition to Saturn continues way into 2011 when Pluto stations opposite the Lord of Karma for August, September and October, but by then Saturn will have moved off natal Neptune and be doing much more funner things like opposing the Sun, while transiting Neptune will be sextiling natal Venus, but even I have to draw a line somewhere and I'll get back to this year and cope with that first.
The thing I most hope doesn't happen is that someone close to me will die and leave me money, as transiting Pluto is currently in my eighth house. As Pluto inches forward to oppose Saturn for me, money is, to put it mildly, tight - not surprisingly, as I have an apartment in New York and a house (and car) in New Mexico and a total income of $1,000 a month from my taken-early Social Security. I think I made about $5,000 last year from free-lance work, so I'm living on what is supposed to be my retirement fund, which I'm ever-lastingly grateful to have and which will get me through another three years or so.
If I stopped eating, wearing clothes, taking the subway, feeding the cats, buying them kitty litter, having electric light and gas to cook with, using the Internet, paying taxes and paying property taxes and insurance, the money would last much longer, but somehow that doesn't seem like too viable an option.
As much as I would dare to make a prediction, I'd say the house will have to go, astrology or not, although as always the astrology backs it up. Saturn square Saturn will bring up something that happened seven years ago or so, and we bought the house in 2002. My second Saturn Return was in 2003. Natal Pluto is in four. Natal Saturn is at the end of two. When transiting Saturn conjuncted natal Pluto in 2006, I felt forced into buying out the man I originally bought the house with rather than sell it - not a time I would ever like to repeat - so with Pluto opposing Saturn, resources, er, dwindling and structures in my life passing away (friend who lived on floor above me for 30 years moved in November) it does seem like a bit of a no-brainer.
Enough of this obsessing over what is really nothing but a waste of time -- attempting to predict the future. What will happen will happen, without being too fatalistic, and looking on the bright side, I get my bus pass in April when I'm 65 and will have health insurance as well. Can't be all bad.
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