Well, hardly the end of the line!
*** I saw that Uranus in 8th, square Pluto in 4th and had to ask... As I said, I'm not a long-time astrologer..
But why didn't you focus on the nice sextiles and trines, instead of the harder transits?
*** I think hard aspects between outer planets seem to be more powerful than sextiles, no? Then again, I have had what looked like very significant transits many times, and nothing happens. This one is the most formidable I think I have ever seen coming, though.
Each planet merely asks us to learn its positive lessons, and then to deliberately put them to constructive purposes in our lives.
As the tip of a kite formation and corner of a grand square, Pluto is asking you to kill off anything metaphorically dead or dying in your life so that new growth has room to take its place. Why not see its 5th house location as where you can expand your creativity?
**** Well, there's the rub, haha. I already feel as though just about everything in my life is dead, so I had to wonder what more Pluto has to ask. I am spent emotionally, so if this implies more upheaval and things that require energy I just don't have, then I think maybe I'm cooked. What I really feel I need now is respite and peace. This chart does not look peaceful to me. Perhaps you see peace where I cannot?
Saturn asks us for serious ground-truthing and reality-checking on our lives. As you enter middle age, this is a good exercise to undertake. How do you want to experience middle age? Are you where you should to be financially, or are there important new steps to implement now? In the 3rd house and with the moon involved, are you on the best of terms with any siblings and with Mom? If so, you can build on the good relationships. If not, what changes should you implement.
**** Serious reality-checking is all I am doing and seeing right now. And I am beyond middle age. I am definitely not where I should be financially. I am not where I "should" be in any part of my life. I don't expect to speak to my mother again. She is 89 and I expect she will die soon, which will not be a sad thing for me. She was abusive. Not close to my siblings, no. There is nothing I want to change about that whole situation. I moved 3000 miles away from them for a reason.
The main concern is that while what I feel I need is peace, respite and relief from the battering of the last few decades, what I see in this chart is turmoil and forced change, so I wanted to see what anyone might interpret that as looking like. I see the nice trines, yes, and the Jupiter. What seems to be the general consensus, through much reading, is that Pluto and Uranus pack more of a punch than Jupiter, and I have had Saturn on my back since 2003, so I guess it's hard for me to see lightness in all this. I can see that because of the houses effected by the square, it *might* be something good, but the Uranus in the 8th is why I posted this. I guess I'll find out. I know in a very inner way that this year will be decisive for me.
Thanks very much for responding and taking a look, WayBread, I will look more at the trines and sextiles as you suggest.
And so on, around the horoscope.