When I joined this thread months ago, I had taken only a cursory look at other family members’ charts. Since then, I discovered my husband’s is truly being overwhelmed by this transit. Events have bore this out.
He has Moon 22 Cancer 10H, Uranus 23 Libra 1H, Chiron 23 Aries 7H, and transiting Pluto/Saturn in his 4H having just passed over his Nadir last year. In January, transiting Pluto and Saturn conjunct in very near exact grand cross that includes Moon, Uranus, and Chiron. They have been within a few degrees orb for this past year.
My husband has been in his job for 22 years. His responsibilities have grown around him, so he has advanced to a fairly high but still middle management position in a hospital IT setting. He had two opportunities for promotions in a place and at a level that sees very little turnover. Both interview processes were exhaustive and exhausting and ultimately humiliating. He’s been candid that promotion is about ego and validation. He feels he’s become the scapegoat for the department’s bad reputation developed over the years under the last director who didn’t play the political game well.
His job is not immediately in jeopardy, but it’s been downsized, so we’re concerned. Now he’s looking at leaving but not enthusiastically. He’s a new moon cancer, so you can imagine he’s not one for change. I doubt he will ever leave on his own. I fear he’ll swallow his pride, seethe inside, and make himself seriously ill. Or he’ll hang on desperately and be laid off eventually. But he’s on a path driven by that midlife “last chance” mindset. I’m older and lived through mine already. It’s not something I can help him with, except to sit in the sideline and wait for the ultimate outcome. He supports our family with his income...mine is quite small.
The last six months have been this terribly humbling process for him and just fumbling for me trying to help in some way, and it doesn’t even culminate until January. I can’t imagine how much more difficult it can get, except something truly tragic. My descendant is 24 Capricorn, so it seems to me that my transit indicates the impact will bear the outcome of his. My mind is going places I’d rather it didn’t: financial ruin, deadly illness, a family loss? What a ride...