Rod has studied astrology for over 20 years, both through self study and through LSA and Faculty of Astrology. His favourite aspects are mundane and a humanistic approach to astrology. He has written a number of books on astrology in Chinese and has taught it in Mandarin for around 10 years. He is co-founder of the Academy of Astrology with Jupiter Lai, which aims to promote Western Astrology to Chinese speakers.
American Airlines AA 5342 crashes into Potomac River after collision with helicopter, AA5342 departed from Wichita KS, from 5:22PM supposed to arrive Washington around 9PM.
Most people will cast the chart for around 9pm in Washington, I use 8:53 pm as news suggest that police received call at that time. Venus and Saturn was very close to Desc.
However I prefer use the take off chart, it has Mercury Pluto very close to Desc. If we use Astro Mapping skill the Air plane flew on it’s Saturn line.
Mercury and Pluto conjunction align with Fixed star Altair (2° Aquarius ) in the constellation Aquila ( The Eagle ) . Both Aircraft’s in this accident has symbol of this star “ AA 5342 was operate by American Eagle “ and the helicopter was “ Black Hawk “
We know that Capricorn ingress chart for DC has Uranus on Desc suggest shocking and changing and we know that many things have changes since Trump’s inauguration, but the plane crashing also related to this shooting energy, and we are having Uranus stationary and changing direction at this moment.
We have New Moon earlier today, If we check new moon chart from Wichita KS we will find the Mars was on Des too.
Chinese AI company Deepseek released its R1 mode, a move that caught the attention of the global technology industry. This Chinese AI claimed to have produced products that could compete with the expensive costs of Silicon Valley at an extremely low cost and by breaking the US chip restrictions. After actual testing by many experts, it is indeed powerful and has a high degree of development potential, including an open source strategy and ultra-low cost (the cost of R1 model is 20 to 50 times lower than OpenAI’s o1 model).
This new causing panic among Silicon Valley companies, it triggered a sharp fall in IT industry stocks, including Nvidia, with the Nasdaq falling 3.1% on Monday.
Deepseek was founded on 17 July 2023 in Hangzhou, China. Here we use the noon-chart. It was founded when Pluto was in opposition to the Sun, how interesting that fits into the image of Deep (Pluto) Seek (the Sun).
In this chart Sun sextile Uranus, Sun trine Neptune, Uranus trine Pluto, the Sun trigger Uranus Neptune Pluto small trine, suggested this company’s huge potential in AI and cutting edge techniques.
It has both Sun Moon in Cancer (event we don’t have exact time but Moon should be in Cancer) Mercury Venus in Leo and Mars in Virgo. Venus conjunct Mars, Mars trine Jupiter give powerful ability to grow.
However it’s Sun square Chiron Mars sesquiquadrate Chiron, Saturn Mars position, Sun Pluto opposition suggest the fundamental problem of tech companies in China, freedom of speech and control by the Chinese Communist Party, these will be it’s Achelis hell, Venus quincunx Neptune and Venus quincunx Pluto perfectly sum up the doubt that many people have what is the truth behind the amazing results.
Mercury square Jupiter, Mercury sesquiquadrate suggest exaggerated marketing that even make me doubt how much truth this company is telling us.
For example, it claims that it costs less than $6 million to build an AI model, the cost is 20 to 50 times cheaper than OpenAI’s o1 model. Also it claims that using Nvidia’s less advanced H800 chips. However, experts said this may not be true, as the Chinese companies are not allowed to say they have better chips. Experts also questioned whether DeepSeek may have illegally smuggled 50,000 H100 chips from Nvidia (this high-end chip is banned from sale to China). We may need to be cautious about the company’s publicity and reports.
The day Deepseek published this amazing result Mars was retrograde on it’s Sun, it’s they triplicity ruler of it’s Sun and Moon Mars tine company ‘s Neptune this give beautiful image to the company and make it ‘goes viral’ never less transit Neptune Saturn and Venus trine Sun and Moon give solid support to this company for this moment.
The company shacking the western tech farms but we know it is Uranus stationary moment and we are not surplice about shocking news, turning table and turbulence in the financial market.
However, we should be aware that when retrograde Mars turns direct and passes here again in April and Saturn approaches the company’s Neptune, the bubble and illusion may be reviled.
I will represent more in-depth analyse in February’s Worldscope Mundane Astrology Asia special.
On Sunday 19 Jan Tiltok users are not be able to visit Tiktok for the USA and use the editing software Capcut ( Tiktok related ), most of us might say this is no big deal, however for many users in the USA this is the end of the world. As a content creator, I have to point out a few things as to why they react this way.
Apart from the fact that for many people these videos on Tiktok have already become part of their life, I know exactly some people watch Tiktok when they wake up until they go to work and turn it on again when they get home until they go to bed, some of us will say just use Instagram instated, yes that is true.
However, although there is research pointing out that there is 80% overlap between Tiktok users and Instagram users, but there are a lot of Tiktok creators rely on selling their goods directly on Tiktok, and we can’t do that on Instagram.
Also capcut app is a very convenient app, honestly it took me a long time to accept this “Chinese” app … most of my friends should know why anyway. It is very easy to use, but if the capcut creators can no longer use it in the U.S, this cause a huge problem for contain creators in the U.S .
Apparently they are rushing into another Chinese social media app called RedNote and this really made me laugh, I was considering to use it many years ago but my manager stop me, she said that I can barely cope with their censorship.
Here is some astrological analysis of how RedNote is benefiting from the Tiktok ban and how long this trend will last?
Tiktok
TikTok was found on 20 Sep 2016 it has Virgo Sun, Libra Venus and maybe Taurus Moon.
When the US House of Representatives passed the bill banning Tiktok on 21 April 2024, Saturn was near its South Node, Mars was near Chiron, and transiting Chiron was on natal Uranus opposite Venus, although it’s a midday chart for Tiktok we can see that this angle could be sensitive.
Transiting Chiron was on Tiktok’s Uranus opposite his natal Venus at 25 Libra last year, Venus-Uranus opposition is definitely Tiktok’s signature.
Supreme Court decision to uphold the same ban we can see the Sun and Mars both square Tiktok’s Venus. Moon opposite Saturn can tell us how Tiktok users will be upset.
We can see that Venus in Pisces will cross 23 Pisces after Trump’s inauguration, suggesting that Trump may try to save Tiktok, but soon Saturn will move close to TikTok’s Chiron and square Mars, and in September the solar eclipse at 29 Virgo will be right on Tiktok’s Sun, so I don’t think Tiktok will have an easy time this year.
RedNote
There is a resource I found said that RedNote was found in 28 June 2013 from an interview however that is the only recourse I found, so this chart maybe not correct.
RedNote Jun (Noon Chart) V.s TikTok Ban Bill
T Pluto square Saturn always bring Challenge to their weakness, include Surveillance, censorship, speech control, and no criticism of the CCP
T.Saturn on Chiron = Pain (Chiron) cause by authority (Saturn)
T. Node on Uranus = People’s rebelling
T. Pluto opposite Venus = Crisis (Pluto ) bring popularity and Value ( Venus )
T. Neptune square Jupiter = Try Very hard (square) to get popular and fancy
RedNote Jun (Noon Chart) V.s Supreme Court Uphold Bill
T.Saturn on Chiron = Pain (Chiron) cause by authority (Saturn)
T.Venus on Chiron = Increase Value (Venus) from Pain and Adjustment ( Chiron)
T. Mercury on Pluto = Talking or thinking (Mercury)about Control, Truth, Taboo and Crisis ( Pluto )
T. Mars on Mercury = Fight ( Mars ) Exciting ( Mars ) language ( Mercury )
T Sun& T Pluto opposite Venus = Authoritarian (Sun) Crisis (Pluto ) bring popularity and Value ( Venus ) , Reveal ( Sun ) the covered truth ( Pluto ) bring Value and Popularity( Venus )
T.Moon opposite Chiron feel the Pain (Chiron ) of People (Moon)
RedNote Aug (Noon Chart) V.s TikTok Ban Bill
RedNote Aug (Noon Chart) V.s Supreme Court Uphold Bill
Because same year so we have Outer planets in similar position in the Natal chart, however this chart looks like describe current situation much more than June chart
T Pluto square Saturn always bring Challenge to their weakness, include Surveillance, censorship, speech control, and no criticism of the CCP
T.Saturnon Chiron = Pain (Chiron) cause by authority (Saturn)
T.Venus on Chiron = Increase Value (Venus) from Pain and Adjustment ( Chiron)
T. Mercury on Pluto = Talking or thinking (Mercury)about Control, Truth, Taboo and Crisis ( Pluto )
T.Moon opposite Chiron = feel the Pain of People
T Mercury conj Pluto opp Mars
But Transit Mercury is trigger Mars Pluto opposition in this chart , never forget these 2 planets is signature of Chinese Communist China both conjunct in China’s chart and RedNote is a communist own app. T. Mercury could be young American experience greatness of Chinese Communist and everything else that Mars Pluto can do … lol
T Venus con Chiron opp Venus, T Jupiter squares Venus and Chiron
In one way it suggest the Value and popularity of RedNode can increases by the Pain to people, in another way it is trying to make people feel comfortable with their pain and lost
T Chiron square Mercury : it indicate the challenge will related to communication of self expression and “ Chinese communist Value “
T Jupiter sextile the Sun, T Venus and Saturn is about to trine Mercury, T Mercury trine Venus, T Venus trine Mars all these indicators suggest current hight activity and popularity of RedNote, however most of them are short transit
Interestingly when I put TikTok Ban Bill chart on RedNote it does not have same influence that explain why RedNote only active for this moment and this trend looks like not going to last for long.
If we put Trump inauguration chart with RedNote we will see
T Uranus square Jupiter, the company may try to expend but not worth it
T Saturn opposite Venus not popular
T Saturn trine Mercury , T Uranus sextile Mercury , it does give RedNote a change to adopt but would they act quickly ?
T Pluto square Saturn always bring Challenge to their weakness, include Surveillance, censorship, speech control, and no criticism of the CCP
From these charts analyse and my understanding of current situation, I can not see RedNote really replace TikTok, if it maintains it’s original concept to loyal to Chinese Communist concept, and this trend more likely only
The current trend looks like an act of angry protest against the TT ban. As creators begin to understand the nature of the Chinese Communist Party’s censorship, they will return to using other social media. Of course, there is always the possibility that Trump will change the ban and TT will be sold to other investors.
On 5 April 2024, Comet Atlas (C/2024 G3) was discovered at 2 Capricorn. It will reach naked-eye magnitude on 22 December at 16 Sagittarius.
The comet is visible in the southern hemisphere before and after perihelion. In the northern hemisphere it can only be seen in the daytime sky around perihelion.
On 8 Jan 2025 3:10 GMT it will pass ecliptic at 5 Capricorn.
Comet Atlas is also classified as a sungrazing comet on 13 January 2025, at a distance of 0.09 AU (13 million km) from the Sun, making it super bright ( -3.5 magnitude, brighter than Mercury) even has been seen in the day time, on this day it moved between 21-27 Capricorn, yes it conjuncts the Sun and it will align with Pluto on 14 January at 1 Aquarius. We don’t know when this will not be visible with the naked eye, so far we estimate around 3 Feb at 26 Aquarius, but this wait to be confirmed and comets always surprise us.
Discovery: 2 Capricorn
First seen Magnitude 6 : 16 Sagittarius
Perihelion: 21-27 Capricorn
Crosses Ecliptic: 5 Capricorn
Comet Aligns with Pluto: 1 Aquarius
Check your horoscope, do you have any natal planets around these sensitive signs? You can use this energy to make something creative.
McDonald’s ditches diversity targets, companies including Walmart and Harley-Davidson have backed away from ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’ efforts amid a changing legal and political landscape. Does Pluto in Aquarius have anything to do with this? Yes, it does.
The first McDonald’s opened on 15 May 1940, it has Pluto at 0 Leo, triggered by the recent Mars-Pluto opposition, Mars just passed it’s Pluto.
Nevertheless, McDonald’s has had a lot of negative publicity recently, including sexual harassment.
Uranus at 22 Taurus, Sun at 24 Taurus. Tr Pluto is opposite McDonald’s Pluto and its Uranus returned last year. Around the time when the U.S supervene court ruling on Affirmative Action.
Transit Mars square Jupiter, the planet of inclusion, transit Saturn also semi-square it. Don’t forget Jupiter Saturn square suggest the develop of society of next 15 years. As this discussion making during the Mars Pluto opposition we can expect it will have further develop in April when 2 plants form the opposition again.
According to the news, McDonald’s is not just a company that is abandoning its diversity policy, it is the dark side of Pluto in Aquarius. As part of the minority community, I have been concerned about this situation for some time. Minority communities need to stay strong and stand together to face this challenge. #astrology#mundaneastrology#plutoinaquarius#marsplutoopposition
original post on Facebook Mundane Astrology Group on 8 Jan 2025
On 25 December Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 was crashing near Aktau International Airport, Kazakhstan, 38 died in the accident. It was a scheduled international passenger flight from Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, Azerbaijan, to Kadyrov Grozny International Airport near Grozny, Russia, the took off time is at 07:55 AZT from Baku
In the take off chart, Chiron was on I.C, although the Sun on Asc but the Sun is the 8 house ruler.
Local Space Map from take off chart we have Uranus line go to Grozny, Russia, the original destination, Chiron line goest to where plane crash Aktau International Airport, Kazakhstan from Baku.
In the Baku’s Capricorn ingress chart, Mars and Pluto line was go to destination Chechnya, Russia.
New Moon chart from Baku has Neptune on ascendent, flight was diverted because of fog, and the Asc was aligns with Fixed Star Scheat, which related to disaster of transportation
On 29 December 2024 Jeju Air Flight 2216, was crashed in Muan County, South Korea South side of South Korea. 179 people was killed in crash. It is the deadliest mass casualty incident in South Korea and deadliest airplane crash in 2020’s.
JJA2216 was flight from Suvarnabhumi Airport near Bangkok, Thailand, to Muan International Airport in Muan County, South Korea, it took off at 2:11 AM from Bangkok Thailand.
Mars – Pluto opposition was near MC – IC when it takes off. ACG map for take off chart Uranus goest to
Muan where plane was crashed.
In the Seoul’s Capricorn ingress chart, Moon and Saturn go to Muan where JJA2216 was charhsed.
The Local Space map from October 2024 Solar Eclipse chart, Uranus move from Seoul to Muan.
We ask what’s wrong with South Korea recently with Martial law imposed and lifted and impeachment of President ? The recent Great Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS aligns with Sun at 17 Libra on 09 Oct 2024 on it’s Mars the Chart ruler. On 11 Oct 2024 aligns with Mercury at 25 Libra on it’s So/Mo midpoint. Cross Celestial Equator at 09 Scorpio on it’s S Node and Asc. The comet was last to be seen on 2 Nov at 1 Capricorn right on its Moon.
As inflation is rising in the UK in November , the interest rate may not go down as expected. Although in the US inflation is also going up, but the Fed still cut the interest rate, which means there is a risk of inflation going up.
At the beginning of this year, while many people are expecting interest rate may go down continuously, but financial astrologers know that nope… this is not going to happen. As Neptune (the bubble) goes to conjunct the North Node by the end of 2024 and early 2025 and Neptune goes to Aries. Inflation and interest rates are more likely to stay high. Oh yes Saturn N.N and Saturn Neptune conjunction will reset the market and cool it down a bit but once they are separated the bubble will go crazy.
Luigi Mangione kill insurence CEO tragedy has sparked interest on social media, with everyone offering their side of the story, but many unable to sympathise as the victim is the CEO of an insurance company that has denied many claims.
If we place this event chart on the Sibly chart , it may give us a clue: tragedy under the American dream, and is this a Robin Hood moment of injustice in US society?
Let us start with the outer planets, they have sent a very important message for us to think about. Pluto in Aquarius & Jupiter Saturn square (they conjunct at 0 Aquarius) of the injustice of the society dominated by the elite and the super rich who are detached from the suffering of the people (we know the last time there was the French Revolution).
Also at this moment Mercury retrograde in Sagittarius makes us question morality and values of human life, will I kill people in this case? does greedy CEO deserve to die? Mars retrograde in Leo also asks how we deal with anger and injustice.
If we compare this chart with Sibly’s chart, the M.C. was conjunct American Neptune, and transiting Neptune was also opposite American Neptune at this time. The American dream that attract many people from out side of country ( Neptune in the 9th ) but did not realise terrible healthcare system tangle with pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies cause many innocent life, sibly chart has Neptune in Virgo trine Pluto in Capricorn in the 2 house. Pluto as 12 house ruler which represent hospital healthcare system, prison and those people has been ignore by society ( include prisoner slave and sick people too )
It is also the Chiron return for Sibly chart.
Transiting Moon Venus is conjunct Pluto, once again seeing the dark side of the American economic structure. The super rich control the whole country and the rich get richer. Venus as 6th house ruler created to sickness and people who been dominated by others.
The opposition between Mercury and Jupiter on this day and right on the US AS-DS acts with the transiting Sun. This makes us think about many philosophical issues, the value of life and moral and legal issues. He killed someone many people dislike, so can I choose to accept murder and violence?
Mars retrograde is on Sibly’s North Node. Shooting, rage, killing. Can we kill someone to put an end to injustice? And in the 8th house related to crime. Maybe this Mars station on N.N make society more aware the injustice and awakening of to be brave to challenge it.
No need to debate with other people about what Luigi Mangione did us right or wrong, my mind is already in pieces from asking so many questions, but I know I am not crazy. I feel really sad for this young man, with his intelligence and privilege he can bring down injustice in many different ways.
Syrian rable overthrow the ex President Assad on 8 Dec, Assad fled on 7 Dec.
If we look at Syria’s chart, Aries ingress and Libra ingress chart we will find that astrology does give us some hint.
In Syria’s natal chart it has Neptune conjunct the Sun, and we know as training Neptune is very close to 0° Aries (world axis, cardinal point) we will have Neptune conjunct the Sun in the Aries ingress chart for the next 3 years. We cannot ignore 2 points here: 1. It suggests that world leaders could be crazy, fanatical, idealistic or sacrificial or victimising. And second most important is Syria has Sun conjunct Neptune in its chart, astrology transit rules 101, when natal chart has certain set aspect, it will be activated when same set of planets form aspect in transit, in this case Syria is always sensitive when the Sun aspect Neptune.
Of course we should not judge a country will be in crisis when a set of transits happen, we need more evidence.
For example, Mars is stationary retrograde at the moment and it is right on Syria’s Pluto. We can notice the Sun Mercury opposition Jupiter around the AS-DS axis but note this is a midday chart so this may not be a valid argument point for some astrologers but we also notice Syria also has Natal Jupiter at 20° Gemini which it was triggered by transit Mercury Jupiter opposition and Sun Jupiter opposition. More important is the outer planets transit, this chart has T.Neptune opposite N.Neotune ( Neptune half cycle ) and it will soon have Uranus return T Uranus is on it’s Saturn and T.Pluto opposite N.Pluto.
Angular planets in the natal chart usually give us a crucial clue, if we look at the Aries ingress chart, Saturn is on Asc. Libra ingress chart has Pluto on Asc.
And the April 2024 eclipse chart in Damascus has Jupiter-Uranus conjunction. The October eclipse has Jupiter on Dsc.
On Tuesday night President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law,
He claimed that the opposition parties are pro-North Korea forces, and the agenda of the National Assembly, which is controlled by South Korea’s opposition parties, has plunged the country into crisis. In order to maintain freedom and constitutional order, he has no choice but to take such measures. This is the first time since 1980 that South Korea has declared martial law.
Martial law prohibits the activities of Congress, local councils and political parties, as well as political activities such as rallies and demonstrations. All media and publishing houses are under military control. All medical personnel, including junior doctors, have been ordered to return to work within 48 hours. Violators of martial law can be arrested without a warrant.
Is this really aimed at North Korea, or is it a way for the president to increase his power? Because the Korean constitution says that ‘if more than half of the members of the National Assembly approve the motion to lift martial law, the president shall lift martial law’. At the moment, South Korea’s Congress is controlled by more than half of the opposition parties, which means that Congress can propose lifting martial law.
Leaders of both South Korea’s ruling and opposition parties have pointed out that martial law is wrong or unconstitutional and must be ended.
At 22:39 The Asc 23 Leo was on S Korea’s Sun Saturn Mercury conjunction at 25 Leo, Mars is chat ruler of S.Korea is slow down and will turn retrograde on 6 Dec, it is square S.Koreas Asc and Node, rise the tension of country. But this suggest the martial law may will be overrun by people (National Assembly ) .
The transit Jupiter is retrograde and form a square with transit Saturn, and opposite Jupiter in S. Korea’s chart jupiter rules 2 and 5 th house, apparently alliance countries will take the action. Finally Neptune will turn direct on 7th Dec and form square with Uranus the co rule of I.C.
As Neptune is getting close to 0 Aries, in the next few years we will have Aries ingress chart’s Sun conjunct Neptune, which can suggest the weak leaders, crazy leaders martyr or be sacrificed. Will Yoon Suk Yeol be one of them ?
Will this Martial law last, I am not sure, but more like a temporary event. Will this increase the tension between South and North Korea … Clearly, it will.
