ASTRO-WEATHER SEPT 2024
By Barry Rosen
September starts with a new moon in Leo on Sept. 2nd  in Purvaphalguni Nakshatra (Leo 13.20-26.40) not far from a fearful Saturn opposition the morning of Sept. 3rd—not a great way to start out the month with low and fearful emotional energy. The Saturn opposition with the Sun is not far away into Sunday, Sept 8th. This is often difficult a difficult one for leadership and upsets by the masses and given the political landscape, it’s always difficult to watch the news.
Saturn /Sun oppositions create power struggles at work with bosses and co-workers and fathers and sons and given the Saturn is debilitated in the D9 chart/ Aries until Oct 3rd, it could be tenser than usual. There are lessons to learn around power struggles around respect and looking up to leadership and at the same time it sometimes needs to be torn down if it gets doctorial. Â
Saturn is retrograde until Nov 15th  and that often adds an edge to the market and everything. It is debilitated in the D9/Navamsha chart until October 3rd and that will create more anxiety in general.
The Lunar Eclipse is at 1.28 Pisces on Sept. 16th as eclipse season takes off. Next year on April 14th, Saturn and Rahu will be conjunct the eclipse point triggering some intensity. If you have key planets in the 0-2 degree area of Pisces like the Sun, Moon or the Ascendant and you are running a Rahu/Moon or Moon/Rahu period, you may have a more intense episode around it. Always good to do extra meditation and fasting around eclipses. It is only partial lunar eclipse but it is visible in North and South America and Europe and Africa and is in the nefarious constellation of Purvabhadrapada (Aquarius 20- Pisces 3.20) which is connected to secret activities and has a Jeykll /Hyde quality.
Jupiter trines Venus from Taurus to Virgo exactly into Sunday, Sept 15th and that expansive energy will be felt most on Friday, Sept. 13th. It can  lead to overspending and sensual indulgence. Venus gets out of debilitation and goes into Libra on Sept. 18-Oct. 12th and that is always a light spot for the year supporting relationship, the arts and general good feeling. Mercury goes into exaltation in Virgo Sept 22nd-Oct 10th and that is also another bright spot for the month increasing business and communications. Ketu gums up the works a bit there around Sept. 30th scattering mental energies and focus but it is a quick conjunction having only a 2-3 day influence.
Mars remains in Gemini the whole month and we have written about it and it is in the difficult constellation of Ardra (Gemini 6.40-20.00) most of the month and this can churn up emotional storms and even physical ones and we are in Hurricane season to it may be a bit more tempestuous than normal.  Mars in Gemini can stir up verbal fighting and we have the Sept. 10th Presidential debate going on. Kamilla is Libra Sun (for status and power)  and will suffer the 12th house transit of debilitated Venus during the date and seems like to do a Joe Biden repeat. Some astrologers are thinking that Kamilla is Taurus rising and it would be a 5th house transit in the sign of debilitation Trump is stronger with Mars transiting his 11th and ascendant Lord, the Sun, strong it’s own sign of Leo.   We are still not going to predict the election because it stirs up too much division in our country and you can be sure that neither side will be happy with the results and it will be a long late fall and early winter.
The Solar Eclipse is at 17 Virgo on Oct. 2nd and is not visible in North America but it is impacting heavily South American and Chile and Argentina. Still all our general guidelines around Solar Eclipses are always worth paying attention to and we will write more about it.
Overall with Mars in Gemini, the US 7th house of enemies, we have to be alert for unexpected eruptions in September. Geopolitical cycles are at extreme levels and you can tell with the energies in Belrus/Russia/Ukraine and Gaza/Iran/Israel  and China/Taiwan that something bigger could pop and that will derail are calm world. Jupiter is still strong enough and there are enough bright spots with Venus going into Libra Sept. 18th and Mercury into Virgo Sept 22nd, that if we can get through the tensions of the first part of the month with the Sun/Saturn opposition, that things will settle down.
As always, be compassionate, help those in distress, donate to charity and create good karma for yourselves as it seems difficult to change things that are not in our control and we have to be at peace with them.
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ABOUT BARRY ROSEN: Barry Rosen has been teaching classes in Investment Astrology since 1990 and began teaching the other aspects of Vedic astrology specialized courses online in 2017, including Dashas, Transits, Personal Finance, Health, Longevity, and Death, Nakshatras, The Spiritual Dimensions of Vedic Astrology, Secrets of the Houses, Relationships and many more. In his consultations, he focuses more on the emotional and mental patterns in the chart and their impact on consciousness which can create waves of illusion blocking you. A good consultation should help you witness the play of karma so that you are not gripped by it; you can transcend it and realize your Divinity, becoming the commander of the planets and not the victim. Barry Rosen also operates a blog on Facebook under Barry Rosen and Astro-Yoga and his professional astrological website is www.appliedvedicastrology.com. He can be reached at support@appliedvedicastrology.com.
