https://www.mmacycles.com/free-weekly-forecast/mma-free-weekly-column-for-the-week-beginning-december-23-2024/
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..."It’s chaos time. It’s Jupiter in Gemini square Saturn in Pisces. It’s Mars retrograde. Next week, it will be Venus square Uranus. As expected, this holiday season is not likely to be boring. So, let’s try to be merry and embrace the excitement of … the unexpected and the chaos and entertainment that comes with it.
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It was four years ago, on the winter solstice of December 20-21, 2020, that the “New Aira” began with the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn at 0° Aquarius. For the next nine of ten occurrences, this 20-year synodic cycle will occur in air signs, which hasn’t happened since the last air epoch began some 800+ years ago. That was around the time of the creation of the Magna Carta, which basically proclaimed that rulers were not above the law. Everyone, even kings and queens, must be held accountable to the law, as is everyone else. The Magna Carta was the inspiration behind the creation of the United States Constitution. Jupiter and Saturn specifically refer to rules and laws in mundane astrology.

The element sign of the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction changes approximately every 200 years, and there are four elements. We have left the earth element (central government controls, status based on material wealth) as of December 2020, after approximately 200 years. We are now in the air element for the next 200 years, highlighting values and status based on intellect and creativity.
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the winter solstice of 2020 was historic because it started the “New Aira,” a term coined by MMTA graduate and analyst Kat Powell. And now, four years later, it meets its first quarter cycle challenge, a time when the visions conceived during the conjunction symbolically go through a painful “birthing” process. Laws of the land and policies of large governmental entities are likely to be tested and challenged. Jupiter has a tendency to desire to do “too much” to be too grand and too large. Saturn has a tendency to do too little and to be too worried that it won’t have or do enough. The solution is the middle path, the path of moderation and compromise, although the square can be reluctant to compromise (which is why you have courts to settle these matters). To not be moderate and measured in one’s actions during this square (August 2024-June 2025) is a recipe for difficulties (trying to do too much too fast, or too little and too slowly).
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Jupiter is still in the volatile sign of Gemini into June 2025. The first half of 2025 is likely to be volatile. In many ways, I suspect markets may reflect the personality of the newly returned U.S. President Donald Trump, who is a Gemini with his Sun conjunct Uranus and both in opposition to his Sagittarius Moon. He is the Jupiter part of the Jupiter/Saturn square. This can be a positive thing, or it can turn out to be difficult, but probably a combination of each,
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We then find all the outer planets changing signs between November 19, 2024 (Pluto) and May through to September 2025 (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). This hasn’t happened in 300 years and before that time, it was another 300 years. This also portends a period of great chaos and a changing of directions. Think of the next few months like a huge tide coming in—and then the riptide starts as the waves go back out. :...

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An explosion kills the head of Russia's nuclear defense forces in Moscow

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-38555

KYIV — A top Russian military leader accused of using banned chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow on Tuesday. A source from Ukraine's security service confirmed to NPR that the security service was behind the killing.\
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Lt. Col. Igor Kirillov had been in charge of the Russian military's nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces since 2017. Kirillov and one of his aides were killed after an explosive device planted in a scooter detonated.\
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The killing took place near the entrance of a residential building in southeastern Moscow, where Russian state media said Kirillov lived. Video shared on Russian social media, which NPR could not independently verify, shows blasted windows and burned buildings at the site.

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ICYMI The state of New Jersey passed the Freedom to Read Act in early December, a law which forbids schools and libraries from removing books based on “viewpoint discrimination, requires school and library boards to establish and follow clear policies on how library materials can be challenged and protects educators and librarians from criminal and civil penalties for their work. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/96729-new-jersey-delivers-a-victory-for-the-freedom-to-read-and-for-librarians.html