Do you know your time lords?
because, babe? your time lords know you...
Pluto + Mars in Aquarius: The big story for now is still Pluto sitting at 0° of Aquarius, but we get to add in Mars moving into Aquarius next Tuesday morning (ET). That means anything in your natal chart at that 0° of the fixed signs (Aquarius, Leo, Taurus, Scorpio) is experiencing some pressure and irritation. Mars = cuts and burns.
At a more vibe-based level, we can think about Mars and Aquarius. We could see Aquarius as autonomous technology and Mars as weapons. Not an appealing combination and probably never necessary. Aquarius can also be the collective, Mars can be determined anger. Not necessarily an appealing combination, but often necessary. Gaza is still being bombed and and its children murdered by Israel, so we still have obligation to be upset by that and to do whatever we can with it.
Mars in Aquarius is a good invitation to renew that attention, even as the US and Israel benefit from our fatigue.
A little note on time lords.
We’ve been looking at a few different time lord systems in Hellenistic astrology lately in my astrology study group. This is one of the funniest sounding things I learned in astrology: time lords. A Marvel ass sounding concept to be sure.
You don’t learn about these until you’ve gotten pretty far into it, mostly because they’re not very meaningful until you have a decent grasp of mechanics and symbols and they’re not great for a party trick. And they make you sound a little lame.
Astrologers today are nerds. I think a lot of us were kids who took make believe games very seriously. There’s a lot of overlap between like… lord of the rings stans and practicing astrologers. All this comes together in that to be into astrology you need to have an appetite for complicated rules that require you to hold multiple (potentially conflicting) implications at once. You also need to have an appetite for learning things like what a “time lord” is. Humiliating, but also fun.
A time lord is a planet with added responsibility or emphasis in a person’s life during a designated time. Depending on the technique, there might be primary, secondary, and supporting time lords. Depending on the technique, you have to also account for their placement within the natal chart against their movements through the sky today. Depending on the technique, there’s also a lot of disagreement between ancient astrologers and a lot of disagreement between modern astrologers about what works and what doesn’t. The business of prophecy isn’t exact.
If you’ve ever looked at your chart and Googled something like “jupiter sun leo what does it mean” and then been confused when a blog told you that you are the most effusive, spotlight-loving girlie who ever could be imagined, adding the consideration of time lords to what you know about your chart would probably help. Time lord systems show when specific dynamics in a chart are elevated in importance. That Jupiter-Sun conjunction in Leo might not be something you feel all the time, but if you’re in a Leo ZR period AND a Leo profection AND Jupiter is activated by circumambulation then we’re going to expect some activity there.
A pretty easy metaphor is that we might treat your chart like your DNA. Your whole life is there, all the potential biological attributes, likely many of the psychological, and even some of the seemingly circumstantial (how good you are at long jump or chess or the cancer that blossomed at 12 years old), but it’s not all happening all at once. There have to be trigger events. You have to mature and develop. Some potentialities in your DNA never come to pass. The birth chart is like this. Maybe there’s a dynamic that we wouldn’t see really highlighted until your 135th year. For now, it’s unlikely you’ll live to see it. (An interesting thing to consider, many astrologers believe the chart also shows your posthumous legacy. Do we ever really die?)
Another metaphor: the weather. We know generally what weather to expect based on the season and our location on the Earth. That’s less reliable with climate change, but even those changes happen *Kamala voice* within a context. You might think of the local climate or biome as the chart, containing anything that could happen, and time lords as reflecting the changing seasons. Within that changing season you see different peak weather events, sometimes predicted exactly and sometimes not quite. The business of meteorology isn’t exact.
I’m about to have a birthday (will tell you in a few weeks what you can get me, big surprise coming!), so I’m doing lots of reflecting. I’m about to enter a Virgo year, making Mercury a time lord. Curious what that’ll bring. I recently had Aries (Mars) and Pisces (Jupiter) highlighted. And, of course, like many of you, I’m in my Saturn return for a little while longer (this is like a long storm, not the biome, if you were wondering).
Text me if you’d like me to introduce you to your time lords, I’d love to take a look!
Always a lot of credit goes to the people who have been my teachers, both directly and through their freely shared knowledge, and so many books.
