2011 Astrology Forecast

& Shamanic Invocations

Presented November 18, 2010 by

Benjamin Bernstein
of

ItsAllGoodAstrology.com
 Benjamin Bernstein Brief
Bio
 Founder of It’s All Good Astrology, Shamanic
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 Astrological practitioner, teacher, writer and
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 Lectured at three national astrology
conferences (NCGR, The Blast, UAC)
 Benjamin Bernstein Brief
Bio
 Experienced, professionally certified
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 Major 2010 news

 Major earthquakes, floods and volcanic

eruptions
 The BP oil spill
 Greece, Ireland, etc. in financial trouble
 US: unemployment, foreclosures, slow
housing sales, investment withdrawals,
state budget shortfalls
 Healthcare & financial reform
 Republican midterm landslide
 Global spiritual awakening!
 Law of Attraction

Help make good things happen

For yourself and the world!

Vividly imagine the reality you desire as if

it's already real.
Feel powerful, positive
emotions as you visualize.
End with the Karma-Free
Safety Clause: “This, or
something better, now
manifests for the highest
good of all concerned.”
 Astrology’s predictive
power
 Outer planet
alignments affect
history
– Orbs up to 20°
 Cosmos and
Psyche by
Richard Tarnas
 Is Astrology Misfiring?

 Stock market crash predicted for

late 2009 didn't happen
Cardinal Climax less world-shaking
than anticipated
 Is Astrology Misfiring?

Why is the past now a less accurate

predictor of the future?
 What's different now

 The Aquarian Age has arrived!

– New game with new rules
 Increasing numbers of people
globally visualizing peace,
harmony and awakening
– TM experiments
– Oneness Blessing
– New Reality
Transmission
 Aquarian Golden Age

 “Heaven on Earth” inevitable

– According to my shamanic visions
 What's up to us: the ease or
difficulty of the transition to it!
 Indicators hopeful
 Your beliefs about
the future shape it
– Thoughts become things!
 The Future is Our Call!

 A less helpful question: what fate

do the planets have in store for us?
 A more helpful
question: how
can we partner
with the planets
to co-create the
reality which
serves everyone's
highest need?
A Word About the Planets
 Like the hands of a clock
– Showing the time, not causing it
 Physical stand-ins for archetypal forces
 Also living beings
with intelligence and
consciousness
– Delighted to
partner with us,
but we have to
ask them!
 Uranus-Pluto
Square
Exact seven times 2012 thru
2015
– Has been “warming up” for several
years
 In 2011: nearly exact!
 Uranus-Pluto
Square
2011 orb: 1 - 8.5°
– Jan. 1: approx. 8.5°
– Aug. 1: approx. 1°
– Dec. 31: approx. 6.5°
 Within 3° orb June-Oct. 10
 Uranus
Humanitarian Truth-Speaker
Revolutionary Youth
Scientist Paradigm shift
Skeptic Rebellion
Genius Shock
Exile Awakening
Individualist Surprise
Independent Unique
Original Headstrong
 Pluto
Transformation Operates slowly and relentlessly.
Sex "A tsunami moving at the
Death & rebirth speed of a glacier." (Rick Levine)
Truth-seeking A phoenix burning to ash and
Transpersonal power resurrecting
Oligarchy A snake shedding its skin
Secret societies A caterpillar morphing into a
Wealth butterfly
Uranus-Pluto
Square
Aug. 1: approx. 1° orb
 Uranus–Pluto
Square
 Uranus & Pluto’s' first “hard” aspect since
their conjunction helped create the 60s
Square: much more
dynamic and challenging
than a conjunction
Promises to be even
more revolutionary!
 Uranus-Pluto
Square
Wiping out all old structures that have
outlived their usefulness
Radical shift needed in how the global
powers-that-be operate
Governments,
multinational
corporations, etc.
Nothing less will
save the planet
from environmental
catastrophe
 Uranus–Pluto
Square
Archaic assumptions held for centuries must
fall by the wayside if mankind, as well as most
of Earth's other species, is to survive.
endless economic growth
unrestrained population expansion
exploitation of
Gaia's resources
without regard to
future
consequences or
future
generations Rainforest?
What rainforest?
 With Uranus and Pluto in
alignment
(adapted from Cosmos & Psyche by
Richard Tarnas)
Widespread radical social and political change
Often destructive upheaval
Massive empowerment of revolutionary and
rebellious impulses
Intensified artistic and intellectual creativity
Unusually rapid technological advance
An underlying spirit of restless experiment
Drive for innovation…
 With Uranus and Pluto in
alignment
(adapted from Cosmos & Psyche by
Richard Tarnas)
Urge for freedom in many realms
Revolt against oppression
Embrace of radical political philosophies
Intensified collective will to bring forth a new
world
Massive demographic shifts
Fervent, often violent intensity
The excitement of moving rapidly toward new
horizons
 The Last Uranus-Pluto
Square

During the last Uranus-Pluto square:

Late 1920s thru

most of the 1930s
(Great
Depression)
Uranus in Aries,
Pluto in Cancer
(cardinal signs)
This Uranus-Pluto Square

What
revolutionary
transformation
will we
planetary
citizens
visualize into
being for this
Uranus-Pluto
square?
Aspects to
the
US Chart
Sibley chart: 7/4/1776, 5:10 PM,
Philadelphia PA
Numerous challenges throughout the
2010s and beyond
Rulers of two chart angles under
significant stress now
2011 Main Transits to USA
Chart
Pluto opposing Venus (MC ruler)
Pluto opposing Jupiter (AS ruler)
Neptune & Chiron conjunct Moon
Uranus & Jupiter conjunct IC
Uranus & Jupiter opposing MC
Uranus & Jupiter squaring Venus (MC ruler)
Uranus & Jupiter squaring Jupiter (AS ruler)
Saturn return Nov 2010 thru Sept 2011
Saturn square Sun Nov 2010 thru Sept 2011
 Pluto Oppositions to US Chart

Current U.S. Pluto transits most powerful

since Great Depression
Now thru 2016, Pluto opposes US Venus,
Jupiter and Sun!
Venus rules MC: doing business, projecting
power
Jupiter rule AS: public image/persona
Sun: core of identity and vitality; a country's
leader.
These Pluto transits alone: enough to
guarantee profound US transformation through
2016
2011 Planetary Ingresses

 Jupiter & Uranus enter Aries

 Neptune & Chiron enter Pisces
 Pisces -> Aries = dreaming to
doing
 Pisces+Aries= “Spiritual warrior”
 Planetary Ingresses

 Jupiter
– Aries 1/22, Taurus 6/4
 Chiron -> Pisces 2/8
 Uranus -> Aries 3/11
 Neptune
– Pisces 4/4, Aquarius (Rx) 8/4
 2011 Aspects

 All exact outer planet aspects in

2011 include Jupiter!
Jupiter
Faith, expansiveness,
confidence, humor, grace,
optimism, generosity,
luck, hope
 2011 Jupiter Aspects

 Jupiter conjunct Uranus: 1/4

– 3 of 3; priors Jun & Sep 2010
 Jupiter square Pluto: 2/25
– 3 of 3; priors Jul & Aug 2010
 Jupiter sextile Neptune: 6/8 (1 of 1)
 Jupiter sextile Chiron: 7/2 & 12/6
– 1 & 2 of 3; final Feb 2012
 Jupiter trine Pluto: 7/7 & 10/28
– 1 & 2 of 3; final Mar 2012
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 Eclipses

 Solar Eclipses
– 1/4, 6/1, 7/1, 11/25
 Lunar Eclipses
– 6/15, 12/10
Solar Eclipse 1/4/11
Solar Eclipse 7/1/11
Solar Eclipse 11/25/11
 Major T-Square

T-Square is 2011's only major

aspect pattern

 4/10-21. T-Square: Mars, Saturn

& Pluto
5/13-7/21. T-Square: Saturn,
Uranus & Pluto
5/13-7/21. T-Square: Saturn, Uranus & Pluto
 Saturn in Libra
Began in Fall of 2009
 Saturn
Contraction The status quo
Effort Big business
Security The powers-that-be
Solitude Government
Seriousness Cold
Duty Dictatorial
Self-reliance Ruthless
Responsibility “The ends justify
Focus the means”
Will Integrity
Structure Commitment
Conservatism Perseverance
The "wise elder"
 Libra – Cardinal Air

Relationships
Balance
Fairness
Beauty
Counselor
Diplomat
Artist
Lover
Host
Peacemaker
 Saturn in Libra
Watch for all of your important
relationships to be tested.
Reinforce, revise or release
Saturn exalted in Libra
– “Status quo”
forces will dig in
their heels
 Saturn in Libra
10/29/09 thru 4/7/10,
& 7/22/10 thru
10/5/12
Pluto in Capricorn 2008 thru
2024
 Pluto
Transformation Operates slowly and relentlessly.
Sex "A tsunami moving at the
Death & rebirth speed of a glacier." (Rick Levine)
Truth-seeking A phoenix burning to ash and
Transpersonal power resurrecting
Oligarchy A snake shedding its skin
Secret societies A caterpillar morphing into a
Wealth butterfly
 Capricorn – Cardinal Earth

Contraction The status quo

Effort Big business
Security The powers-that-be
Solitude Government
Seriousness Cold
Duty Dictatorial
Self-reliance Ruthless
Responsibility “The ends justify
Focus the means”
Will Integrity
Structure Commitment
Conservatism Perseverance
The "wise elder"
 Pluto in Capricorn
Pluto was last in Capricorn 1762 through 1778
American Revolution and Declaration of
Independence
James Watt perfects the steam
engine, accelerating the pace of
the Industrial Revolution.
 Pluto in Capricorn
2008-2024
Pluto in Capricorn periods
always correspond with
revolutionary changes to the
existing world order.
"Big Brother" style
surveillance and invasion of
privacy (how about those
new airport scanners?)
Healthcare, financial &
energy reform fit here
A Few Key Concepts From Daniel Quinn

From the author of the Ishmael novels and

Beyond Civilization:

Realize that the “story” you’re living is not

the only possible story.
After waking up from your story, help in the
ways that you’re called from within.
Don’t wait for a leader, since we’re moving
beyond hierarchy. Your intuition is
your guide.
Your actions will be
synchronistically woven into the great
web of the new story!
 Law of Attraction

Help make good things happen

For yourself and the world!

Vividly imagine the reality you desire as if

it's already real.
Feel powerful, positive
emotions as you visualize.
End with the Karma-Free
Safety Clause: “This, or
something better, now
manifests for the highest
good of all concerned.”
What
revolutionary
transformation
will we
planetary
citizens
visualize into
being in 2011
and beyond?
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of tonight's presentation...

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