Richard Nolle predictions for June 2000:
Last month's
Jupiter-Saturn
conjunction (the
"Great
Chronocrator") was
exact on May 28, but
remains within five
degrees of alignment
throughout June as
seen from Earth - all
the way to July 15, in
fact. From a different
perspective (namely
heliocentric, i.e. as
seen from the Sun), the
Jupiter-Saturn
conjunction becomes
exact this month: on
June 22nd, to be
precise. Looked at this
way, the alignment doesn't fade away until late September. Add it all up, and
what you get is a picture of a Great Chronocrator that refuses to die, but hangs
on for months and remains especially strong in June. It's as if the alignment has
two peaks: the geocentric one in late May just passed, and the heliocentric one
on the 22nd of this month.
With the Great Chronocrator hanging on, you can expect more of the same kind
of watershed political and economic events that were the hallmark of last month -
and indeed, the calling card of the year 2000 as a whole. Years from now, we'll
look back on 2000 as the turning point in a cycle of economic development: an
old cycle sputtering out in exhaustion, a new one emerging from the debris of the
old. The clash between the so-called old and new economies reveals that there's
only one economy. It has gone through cycles of boom and bust down through the
ages - and the contrast between these tends to be most pronounced at times
when new technology is radically transforming the economic environment. With
these two great generational aspects at work this month, just about everything
else more or less fades in comparison.
Always, at such times, there's a cry to protect old industries and power centers,
combined with a rush to invest in the new. Buggy whip manufacturers want
government guarantees, while investors pour money into dozens of auto
companies that won't be around a few short years later. Meanwhile the pundits
proclaim that the new order has ushered in an end to the old business cycle.
Then, all of a sudden, old industries are gone and the new ones are winnowed out
so that a few strong survivors remain and many competitors disappear - either
acquired by the strong, or driven bankrupt by them. And once the dust clears, the
realization is reborn that practicalities like supply and demand trump fashionable
"new realities" every time.
We've been in just such a shake-out period off and on all year, but it really took
off in April as Jupiter drew closer to Saturn and Saturn in turn moved in on its
square to Uranus. Both celestial patterns became exact in May, as seen from the
geocentric (Earth-centered) perspective. Now this month the heliocentric
(Sun-centered) Jupiter-Saturn conjunction aligns to perfection, and from here on
out the Great Chronocrator begins its slow fade from presence to memory.
As I mentioned last month, you can't look for the new paradigm signified by this
last in the earth sign Chronocator series to spring full grown in an instant, like
Athena from the brow of Zeus. It's an ongoing process that will take the better
part of a generation to manifest and be recognized. But the shake-outs that
amount to the birth pangs of the new paradigm will continue this month with much
the same intensity we witnessed in May: death clears the way for renewal, the
techno-media darlings which once had the world on a string are now hanging by a
thread - until even that at last wears through. But at least the dust settles in
June, and that's an essential precursor to any kind of clarity going forward.
Of course there's more to
June than the heliocentric
Jupiter-Saturn conjunction.
There's also a Mercury
retrograde in effect from
June 23 to July 17. You can
count on that whole period
being a comedy of errors in
many respects. Forecasts
and targets get missed,
messages get lost, things
get misplaced and waylaid .
. . it's basically one of those
Murphy's Law episodes,
when just about everything
that can go wrong does.
You might notice the snafus
rearing their ugly heads as
early as June 7, as far as
that goes. (That's the day
Mercury reaches the point
to which it will return at the end of the retrograde in July.) In any case, the smart
move is to plan flexibly so as to accommodate delays, misunderstandings,
interruptions and the like. Go the extra mile to make sure your plans are well
thought-out, your message understood. Assume nothing, take nothing for
granted! Strikes and shortages and travel delays are part and parcel of the
Mercury retrograde experience, so be ready for them. On a more positive note,
Mercury's retrograde is an ideal time to double-check things, to fix up schemes
that went astray, to find what's lost or missing.
There's something fitting - or at least suspicious - about Mercury going
retrograde just a matter of hours after the heliocentric Jupiter-Saturn
conjunction. Houses made of cards tend to come tumbling down, borrowing from
Peter to pay Paul gets caught up in a cash flow crunch . . . such are the scenarios
that shape events around the 23rd. (Workers and producers demanding their fair
share can destabilize markets stretched too thin.)
June also features some risk
windows for severe storms,
flooding and moderate to severe
seismic action (Richter 5 or
greater quakes as well as
volcanic eruptions). First and
foremost among such indicators
is the June 2 SuperMoon
alignment, a new moon at 12
Gemini. A SuperMoon, in case
you didn't know, is a new or full
moon that occurs with Luna
within 90% of its perigee (i.e.
closest approach to Earth). This
is the first SuperMoon since
January this year, and it's tight:
happening within just over 13
hours of the Moon's perigee on
the 3rd. In effect from May 30 to
June 5, and opposing Pluto, this
particular SuperMoon portends an explosive character to the seismic and
meteorological extremes that will accompany it. More show than substance,
these are likely to cause property damage and transport delays without causing a
lot of human casualties. "It could have been so much worse," will be the common
refrain. Usually the havoc associated with an alignment of this sort seems to
taper off the nearer one gets to the end of the risk window. That won't be the
case this time around, because of the Moon reaching maximum declination north
of the equator on the 4th.
Being planetary in scale, a SuperMoon is global in reach: the storm and seismic
potential it signifies can manifest far and wide 'round Planet Earth. Still, glancing
at an astro-locality map shows that there are some particular areas which could
be target zones during the May 30 to June 5 risk window. As noted in my Year
2000 Forecast Highlights, these include a north-south zone that stretches from
Great Britain across the Channel to western Europe, southward down through
west Africa. Another risk zone curves in a northwesterly direction from the
southern tip of South America, up to Mexico and through the western US, and
then out across the Bering Strait. The eastern end of this zone stretches
northeastward from the Indian Ocean across Indochina and China, joining up
with its western counterpart in the Bering Strait. The juncture of these two zones
is itself crossed by a north-south risk zone that runs from New Zealand up to
Kamchatka.
Other lunar equatorial extremes
that signify brief periods of special
storm and seismic risk this month
are centered within plus or minus
thirty hours of the 10th (Moon
crosses the celestial equator from
north to south), the 18th (Moon hits
maximum south declination), and
the 25th (Luna crosses the celestial
equator from south to north).
Another SuperMoon rears its head
at month's end - an Anteblue New
Moon solar eclipse SuperMoon
with the Moon at maximum
northern declination, in fact. While
it won't actually become exact until
July 1, this one will start making its
presence felt on June 28 and
becomes increasingly strong as the
month winds down. Especially dangerous storms and seismic events are in store
during this SuperMoon risk period: batten down the hatches. Again, it's
impossible to specify each and every place that likes under the gun when a
SuperMoon forms in the heavens, precisely because such an event is planetary
in scale. But a look at an astro-locality map for the event shows that the
India-Pakistan border lies along a north-south risk zone during this period - a
zone mirrored half a world away along the Pacific coast of Mexico and northward
into the western US and Canada. Also in the bulls eye this time around is a
sweeping arc that runs across northwestern Africa into Europe, sweeping from
there across northern Russia and then out through the Korean Peninsula and
Japan down to New Zealand. Southern Argentina and Chile, where the eclipse is
visible, may also be at risk of seismic and meteorological events during the June
28 - July 4 period. Because Mars is central to this eclipse, I figure the stormy
skies and shaking ground we'll see around this time won't all be entirely natural
in origin: some of it will be due to human conflict.
Sandwiched between these two SuperMoons is the June 16 full moon. As a
harbinger of strong storms and seismic extremes, it pales in comparison to its
SuperMoon neighbors. Still, you can figure on a higher than normal risk of
severe storms and moderate to severe earthquakes (Richter 5 or greater) as
well as a potential for noteworthy volcanic eruptions.
|
