Sun, Moon, Astrology and Aboriginal Angles
What’s your angle on an eclipse?
The modern, white angle on these dramatic events is a long way from Aboriginal Australian views. As I’ll show in this feature, the owners of the land were right to shun them. What else does this amazing continuing culture in Australia tell us about astrology?
This is a summary of two events at The Astrological Association of Great Britain annual conference and with the Kentucky Astrological Society – both in September 2024.
In this feature, I will look at the Aboriginal Australian view of the Sun and Moon and how this affects your horoscope in 2024 and 2025.
Boomerang Time
Indigenous Australians viewed retrograde planets as spirit ancestors, going backwards on a long road in the sky. This includes Mercury Retrograde which recently tallied with the biggest IT failure in history – the CrowdStrike Outage of July 2024.
That’s a modern event for the world’s oldest living culture (65,000 years old and counting) but the idea of ‘backwards’ still rings true. In fact, I used Mercury Retrograde to predict the chaos, date-stamped, two years before it happened here.
The Wardaman people articulate the ‘retrograde’ phenomenon clearly as spirit people reversing. Boomerangs are not retrograde symbols to Aboriginal Australians. But they do depart and reverse, just as Mercury does. As such they are good reminders of what retrogrades do.
If you want the Mercury Retrograde dates for 2025, they are here.
Destiny is negotiable, as Geoffrey Cornelius said. When you see Mercury about to boomerang, remember that information, communication, transportation and negotiation will go backwards, stop or come to nothing. The sign Mercury is in, tells you what. Should you have anything in your birth chart at the same sign and degree where Mercury boomerangs, pursue that quite another time.
The Aries Equinox of 2025
Aboriginal Australians did not practice astrology. But they did relate the sky to their culture. Wurdi Youang, an ancient stone circle near Melbourne, is 11,000 years old. It shows the December Solstice (for us, in Capricorn), the June Solstice (for us, in Cancer), the March Equinox (for us, in Aries) and the September Equinox (for us, in Libra).
The Aries Equinox, around March 21st, 2025, is central to your life as that year we also find the North Node gone from Aries; Chiron in Aries; Saturn and Neptune both in Aries.
Which area of your life is affected by the new cycle? If you have Aries factors in your natal chart, this is about your identity, name, face, head (as seen on Zoom or Facebook), reputation, name, profile, packaging, presentation and self-promotion.
Your solar, or Sun Sign chart, will also show a major shift. You can read more about the new Aries climate here. Even though Aboriginal Australians never used Aries as a constellation (they preferred patterns like an emu) it is still true that this March Equinox would have been measured, and still can be measured, at Wurdi Youang, which is around three times as old as Stonehenge.
The End of Pluto in Capricorn
The end of Pluto in Capricorn and the start of the new Capricorn climate in your chart (Capricorn cycles free of Pluto for the first time in 248 years) is measured by the December Solstice too. If you are at Stonehenge in December 2024 you will see it show up, just as it shows up in the Aboriginal stone circle near Melbourne.
Again, if you were ever allowed into the secret, locked location of Wurdi Youang, you would see this solstice in 2024, just as Aboriginal Australians did, 11,000 years ago.
This is an incredible moment when power and control issues are well and truly over, for the first time in around 16 years. An historic transformation of one area of your life is here. You can see 2025 will be completely different.
If you have Capricorn factors in your natal chart, this is about your career, unpaid work or academic career. This crucial Capricorn December solstice also shows up in your solar chart. You can read more about what Pluto in Capricorn was going to do (and did) here from this old astrology feature I posted way back for the 2017 Capricorn Solstice.
Eclipses and Aboriginal Australia
Aboriginal Australians have historically shunned eclipses. In fact, Truganini in Tasmania (the last full-blood Tasmanian indigenous person) linked an eclipse to death.
I was shocked when the Australian government announced its referendum on indigenous rights, The Voice to Parliament, on an eclipse. Didn’t they know?
In fact, it was the death of hope for this particular change in Aboriginal Australian rights. It landed on October 14th, 2023, and astrology called the likely failure of The Voice referendum way back on August 31st, 2023, here.
Eclipses are always a cover-up and blind spot. First Nations people disliked them thousands of years ago, for different reasons. The first public hanging in Australia took place days after an eclipse. A white criminal was put to the gibbet on Hangman’s Hill, now in The Rocks in Sydney.
What was the cover-up? Very likely that the noose would be used to publicly hang Aboriginal people as a deterrent to anyone fighting the resistance. In fact, it would not be until 1972 in South Australia that the law on public indigenous capital punishment was changed.
Eclipses and You in 2024
A Full Moon or New Moon eclipse is equally misleading. It’s like taking a fork in the road with no headlights (a Full Moon) or starting on a new road with no street lights (a New Moon). I have written extensively about eclipses and the marriage of Princess Diana to Charles.
They went on their honeymoon on the day of an eclipse. Camilla was the cover-up. This Australian stamp, dating from that eclipsed marriage, even shows what looks like a Full Moon cover-up going across Charles’ face.
In your own life, I am going to end with a chart showing an important eclipse. Why important?
Because in Pisces, it will accompany Saturn and Neptune in Pisces in your chart. If you have Pisces factors in your birth chart, you will be in the dark about religion, therapy, Tarot, mediumship, hypnosis, dreams and other Pisces and Twelfth House matters.
The Full Moon in Pisces
On the world scale, there will be a diversion or distraction on this Full Moon Pisces Eclipse. It will make us look the wrong way. We will blind about one or more world religions on this date. It may be Gaza. It may be the Dalai Lama and Tibet. It may be the Kremlin attack on Ukraine.
For more on this Pisces partial eclipse and Full Moon, go here.
Respecting Aboriginal Australian History
Understanding prehistoric culture, tied to the Sun and Moon, is a guessing game – there are literally no words. However, there is a strong oral tradition and we do have the observations of some white observers from the 18th and 19th centuries to tell us basic truths about Aboriginal culture which show up in our astrology too.
The Moon in Tasmania, where I spend half the year, was a woman. It’s the same in a modern chart. She is your female side; your maternal instinct. Tasmanian women carved a moon tattoo near their hips, to counteract pain.
This must have been the pain of menstruation or perhaps pregnancy – we just don’t know. But we do know the Moon correlates to a woman’s monthly period. In fact Moon words, like womb, woman, mother and ‘moonth’ are still with us today. The beat goes on. And even though they were isolated from the astrology of the Romans, the owners of the land in Australia had remarkably similar ideas that you can still see in your horoscope today.
Using June 20th, 2025
They didn’t know Cancer the crab constellation (above), but indigenous people did know that the June Solstice mattered enough to align Wurdi Youang to it.
This particular solstice in 2025 will be fantastic if you have Cancer factors in your chart. Cancer rules property, real-estate, culture, heritage, history, extended family and ‘my people and my place’. It falls just ahead of Jupiter in Cancer with all his huge opportunities, growth and solutions. Do use it, on June 20th, 2025.
By 2026, so many wishes will have come true.
I will make some time with my Aboriginal nephew Jooloo on the day. I am one of his aunties!
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26 Responses
Good Morning Jessica!
I do hope you made it to your flight with time to spare?
Thanks so very much for this, it was fantastic as usual but particularly special, as my Great Niece and Nephew are Indigenous Australians – I don’t know anywhere near enough as I should about the magnificent Culture of the Traditional Owners of this land…but I am trying and I will continue to do so!
I have MC, Chiron and Vesta in Pisces and Hygeia in Cancer and boy have I been feeling the Capricorn situation which I know will be lifting soon forever.
When you say “use June 20 2025” could you give me hint how at all?
Sandie x
Thank you. Yes, I did catch my flight. My apologies for having to cut the session short in Kentucky. Sandie, using June 2025 is about taking the opportunity to renovate and repair your home or garden; it is also about purchasing a new apartment or house; perhaps making a commitment to someone who wants to pool property with you and so on. You will know it when you see it, and it will be June 2025 with particular focus on the solstice.
Oooh so sorry Jessica, I hit enter and forgot to mention that I’m now terrified as I have a flight booked Oct 2nd – only one I could get, departing 5:15am to London so am staying positive by telling myself I may just get to see the Eclipse and to make it worse I return Nov 14th…yes, I am actually rolling my eyes at myself!
Sandie 🙂
Eclipses should not terrify you Sandie but don’t take the road ahead on them, or the fork in the road either. Indigenous Australians shunned them for a reason. I have seen people go off track for years on eclipses, so just be aware of this in your chart. I am sure you are travelling Covid safe, which helps, so tests and N95 masks, UVC light and so on.
Thank you for this fascinating article! I am really interested in Indigenous knowledge and wisdom. Other Indigenous peoples take shelter during the exact time of an eclipse and would never attempt to look at one, as did millions of people last April 8 for the solar eclipse.
I am so looking forward to Pluto leaving Capricorn! I have a Capricorn stellium and Pluto has really affected me. when can we expect to feel relief from Pluto leaving? I also expect this transit will give relief to the awful crazy political scene in America.
Thank you. December 30th is the first New Moon in Capricorn you have had in around 16 years, without Pluto. Thus, 2025 really will feel like a genuinely new year. Pluto permanently transforms one area of our lives at a time and unfortunately some things cannot be walked back. The damage done to democracy around the world by a small elite at the top can’t be undone – at the same time it will never happen again in our lifetimes. No matter if it was Trump and Pence denying the vote, or some politicians in Britain denying the referendum (or in Australia, the Prime Minister secretly giving himself extra powers) we have seen it all – and that includes the Kremlin interfering in US democracy too. In your own life you will have seen the same issue, with a tiny number of people (usually men) ignoring you, or undermining you – or trying to. Pluto rules mines and mining, being long associated with what is under the surface of the earth. The word undermined, is redolent of Pluto. Well, there are three stages here where you will see the end of this. One is mid November. The second is early December. The third is that crucial New Moon. It will be interesting for you to see what happens to particular people who tried to take over. Ahem.
Hi Jessica, such a beautiful piece, thank you. I am eager to watch the wrongs done – on Aboriginal peoples of Australia and their lands – being righted. I wondered if you can see how the light I bring will support the changes to come? or is this not a story to which I can make a difference? I am looking forward to 20 June 2025! warmest wishes.
Thank you. Australia was born under Pluto in Aquarius in her 1788 incarnation and Pluto is back there from November for another 20 years. A Pluto return in the sign of ‘the many tribes’ suggests power comes back to the traditional owners of the land. A referendum on the monarchy seems very likely and with it, perhaps a second question about indigenous rights. Hopefully this time the government of the day will not choose an eclipse for the vote.
Hi Jessica. This was a fantastic read.
I have my north node in Cancer, and after years of being a slave to my south node Capricorn, I feel I am finally understanding my life’s purpose as a cancer north node (albeit im single with no children!).
Do you see anything in my chart of interest with Pluto leaving Capricorn and also for June 2025?
Thank you. Your lunar nodes in Cancer and Capricorn suggest you have in fact been a mother, before (and perhaps many times over) and always faced big life choices about your ambitions as opposed to maternal instinct. In this life you have no children. Pluto moving off a regular four-week opposition to the transiting Moon, every year since 2008, is a welcome change. Years of regular pressure you have felt over your local area at the time (property developers, for example, or government decisions about your home town and homeland) stop. So too does a regular pattern of not being able to feel at home, sometimes because of neighbours, sometimes because of a landlady or landlord, tenants, flatmates, partners you have lived with and so on. The best is yet to come and from June 2025 you are in a great position to resolve anything from the last few years but also move forward into a strong sense of security and belonging at last.
Hello Jessica,
as the time passes I am beginning to get closer to making an important decision about groups that I have classes with at my uni. I am thinking about changing a group to be with my best friend and I need to make the decision till the end of September. Should I do it based of my chart?
Best regards
You’re a Sun Aquarius person with a huge Aquarius stellium in the Eleventh House of friends and groups, so allies in a combined brotherhood and sisterhood are central to you. A best friend can matter as much as family. Your degree is the most important thing, though. There’s nothing in either your solar or natal chart to suggest this is an issue.
Dear Jessica,
thank You for Your respond. I would also ask about romantic aspect of my life in September and October since I have another decision to make regarding getting into relationship or not with a Sun Virgo. Are there any clues in my chart of the direction in which the whole situation could go and resolve?
Kind regards
Virgo people are going through Saturn and Neptune in Pisces in their Seventh House of marriage and sexual partnership. The first question is, what is the situation with their ex partner? If the scales are not balanced with this person, then this will affect you too. I also mention this because the North Node goes into Pisces in January 2025 and so Virgo people are up for karma going back 18-19 years, also with a previous partner. So if there is anything lingering you need to know about it; hopefully this has been cleared up and closure has taken place, but you need to know. The other issue for any Virgo until December, is a pregnancy that did/did not take place in the past, or the existence of a son or daughter, stepchild now. Again you need to know where this person stands in relation to that.
Good morning Jessica! Haven’t had time to read this yet but I am super excited to get right into this tonight. Just had to say, and wishing all your readers and you, of course, a most wonderful day!
Loved, loved, loved the Melbourne Astrology Walk video on YouTube.
Jessica you pick the most amazing music, absolutely perfect (no surprises there, the music on your podcast still moves me). I always listen to the entire introduction and the outro, even if I skip a few signs throughout the podcast.
Thank you so much. I will pass that on to Peter Clarke who produced the video and to Shayne Brian who produces The Astrology Show.
Thank you for a very detailed explanation. It puts many things into context.
I am looking forward to new beginnings coming in 2025 when I can leave behind a lot of issues that surround me currently.
Thanks again for your insight and inspirational posts.
Hi Jessica,
I did my last round of interview yesterday for a role in another company ( a tech giant) and i wanted to get a reading from you if I will get the job at all. I am currently not enjoying working in my current role/company and I have been looking for other opportunities.
I did three rounds of interviews and I felt they went very well. Is there any hope/possibility of me getting the job soon?
Regards, Gems.
Gems, you have done well to get through three rounds of interviews with a tech giant. You are strongly Gemini, have a stellium in your Third House of I.T. and the internet, the media and all communication. Jupiter with all his luck, growth, hope and expansion is passing through your Third House until June 2025. He is in your First House of title and business card, in your solar chart, as a Gemini. So you are right to look for other opportunities and will hugely expand your knowledge base, your network online, your grasp of the cutting edge of I.T. and also be given a chance to add to your C.V. and your profile. If not this time, then another time, by June 2025. Relax into that knowledge.
Hello Jessica,
How interesting article!
I have a stellium in Cancer and I would like to know how Jupiter in transit, next year affect my family, like find a house where I feel like HOME. I was moving home each 3 years since my husband died, bc my daughter and I don’t feel home!!
You are a Sun Cancer woman with Cancer factors at 2 through 25 degrees of that sign, so you will happily experience transiting Jupiter in conjunction with those, starting in June 2025 and ending in June 2026. You will be offered a home, that feels like a home. Not just the roof over your head, but the geographical location too. Sometimes people go home on this transit; they move (or acquire a holiday home) back to the place they grew up in. One of the corresponding changes is the exit of the South Node from Libra, also from your Fourth House, in January 2025. So next year ends a stuck circuit or time warp/loop. You will also see trines to the Moon in Libra in your Fourth House, passing through, every 28 days, from Pluto in Aquarius and Jupiter in Gemini. So it works in both charts. Expect opportunities.
Jessica, thank you for everything you do. Your work, whether on Substack, here or on astrology podcast is always very useful for me when I am trying to get through any change. I just read Monday horoscope for Libra and I couldn’t believe it as I just got into more difficulties with my property abroad and I had to fly over there (I am still here), where I am dealing not only with terrible tenant leaving my place, but also with more work to be done on property I wasn’t expecting and at very short time and suddenly changing estate agent as my old one has breach the contract and at the same time I am loosing a friend as my estate agent was also my closest friend. Plus I have to sort out issues with management company as nobody in building will do it and just like it’s not enough, everything needs to be done in a week plus I need to give tenancy notice on my other place tomorrow as I am planning to travel from December. To me, this is just a perfect description of what you tomorrow’s horoscope for libra and Uranus in Taurus is really doing its work as idea of selling my property abroad even earlier (now) is now on cards from nowhere. Please, can I ask if my chart is set for a good sale of my property now and immediate property reinvestment in country I live at once I am back from traveling (I am planning to go away in December for few months). I know Jupiter will be in cancer from June 2025 and this can be a good time for me to buy, but I wonder if selling now is better for me or whenever I should wait and sell it in 12 months time. Please can I check when Jupiter will be at cancer 27 degrees (Uranus degree in my birth chart) as I wonder whenever waiting with property sell may be more rewarding then? Thank you for everything Jessica. I love all your work
Thank you. I am sorry about your bad tenant. You also have a bad real-estate agent (former friend) and costs for the property. You want to sell. Okay stepping back from your whole chart, you have the North Node at 29 Cancer in your Fourth House of property, tenants and real-estate agents. Your karma from the last incarnation is about your home town, homeland, family, household, house and/or apartment. It rotates5, 6, 7 in different ways over the course of your lifetime. Right now you are at the extreme challenge of transiting Pluto at 29 Capricorn, in opposition to the natal North Node. At least I can tell you when this ends; November 19th. Pluto moves off 29 Capricorn and onto 0 Aquarius. No more power and control issues. You knew your friend in the prior incarnation, which I am sure you probably sense. There is a final step (a negotiation) when Ceres goes to 29 Capricorn on December 5, 6, 7 and then this dual transit is over. You will have to agree to differ on points; the tenant, the repairs and the former agent, the management company and so on. Ceres and Pluto are both about dividing the turf and carving up the territory in a new way, preferably something that works long-term. You will consider this ancient history in 2025 and of course when Jupiter goes into Cancer from 9 through 29 degrees, starting in July 2025 and finishing in June 2026, you will have marvellous opportunities not possible in 12 years to expand, improve and certainly compensate for this challenge now. Just do what you have to do now; later on you will realise you have ended up in an extremely good position, not only in terms of property, but also in terms of a part of the map that feels like home.
Dear Jessica,
I have once again lost my job and am pretty bereft and struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I seem to have had continuous bullying bosses over the years and am scared for my future how I can carve out some way to earn a living and just live my live in peace. This has taken such a toll and wonder if the impact is why I have never met a life partner? Any insight you would be able to provide would be very much appreciated.
Elle xxx
Thank you Elle. To start at the end, not everybody is due a life partner. People who are strongly Libran tend to want them and find them, because they will compromise where others do not. They will bend over backwards to make a partnership work because being in a pair matters more to them than anything else. You are not strongly Libran and so a partner for the rest of your life, until the day you pass, is not impossible but also not necessarily what will happen – at all. You are a Sun Cancer woman who will find dating, mating and relating comes far more easily and naturally from the year 2025, forwards, for years into the future. It just won’t be that big a deal for you. It’s rather like property. Sometimes you rent; sometimes you own. You move out and into different spaces, to suit changes in your life. You also commit when everything lines up. You will be doing this with lovers for years into the future. The bullies at work stop in November. They behaved like that, because they were also being bullied. You did not see all of that, but at home and work, they were being dominated and stood over. Thus it went right down the chain to yourself. November ends this cycle, with Pluto going out of Capricorn and out of your Tenth House of career – for another 248 years. Meanwhile you have lost another job and you need to earn. You are strongly Virgo, with a stellium in Virgo in the Sixth House of routine, duty and service. You are rather like Jeeves in that you can be the most dependable, meticulous and precious ‘hire’ for the Woosters of this world, but only when you are in control and mastering your domain. That’s more important than salary. The conditions have to give you the reins even when it looks as if you are running the bath and making the cocktails. You will be shown this in November, December, January, February when you realise that the money is there, with hybrid work (a combination of part-time and casual) or with a full-time role. This is when you will add up your life budget differently, understanding that you can make the numbers work, if you are content with the role/s. Further ahead, for many years into the future, you will end up with a lifestyle and workload which is like a holiday from reality. You don’t know why yet, but it’s out there for you.