While we celebrate a new year on December 31 every year, what’s “new” for us doesn’t arrive all at once on New Year’s Eve. Here’s a taste of what is to come in 2023:
Pluto broke through the surface of Capricorn in January 2008 and then unpacked for the long haul in late November 2008. Remember 2008? Worldwide financial market collapse and a reassuring rush of the Saturnian handlers of governance and markets to “tarp” everything over? Pluto hasn’t left Capricorn since, and 14+ years later, the power and darkness of the underworld covering over all things structural and conservative have brought us to a worldwide plutocracy, where power matters more than relationships. Pluto is now staring across at Aquarius, the wild and wooly frontier, where he’ll get his passport stamped as he crosses the border in March of 2023, before returning to Capricorn a few months later. (In 2024, Pluto will move into Aquarius to stay until 2044).
Uranus has been in Taurus since 2018, seeking to confront and change a world that is warming globally, where women’s bodies are still under the thumb of the patriarchy (see Pluto in Capricorn), and where children everywhere need to be nourished and educated. While Uranus will remain in Taurus through 2023 to make a revolution around dirt, all last year saw its bitter struggle with Saturn.
Saturn has been camped in Aquarius (Uranus’ home territory) for a few years now.Saturn’s traditional power base of Capricorn and Aquarius has supported his forces for structure, conservative politics, and the status quo. But Old Man Saturn is about to find himself in Pisces, beginning in March of 2023, where his ability to command the familiar is decidedly fluid and resistant to containment.
Jupiter, meanwhile,will spend the start of 2023 in hot, incendiary Aries—where it spent much of 2022. This force for growth, creativity, and expansion will heat up everyone’s engine in the early days of the year before Jupiter cools off and comes down into Taurus to become more opulent, more productive, and more directable in May.
These are the year-long warp threads around which the faster-moving filaments of Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon will weave themselves in 2023. We’ll discuss this and all of the above in our two-hour salon on the astrology for the year ahead.
