On 10 April 2019, planet of expansion and exploration – Jupiter, stationed retrograde at 24° Sagittarius (the sign that he rules). This happened within a few degrees of the galactic central point (a super-massive black hole at the centre of our own galaxy) located at 26° Sagittarius. On the same day, the first ever image of a black hole was released by NASA.

Jupiter’s retrograde is accompanied by a square to curious Mercury (at 24° Pisces and still in its post-retrograde shadow period), while the Moon in conjunction with the Dragons head (the North Node) at 22° Cancer, and the Dragons tail (the South Node – directly opposite) straddled by an overbearing force of power: Saturn and Pluto (at 20° and 23° Capricorn, respectively).

Currently, the sun is at 22° Aries creating a highly charged, dynamic T-Square with the sun at the apex.

The Red Eye of Sauron

I couldn’t stop seeing The Red Eye of Sauron from the epic trilogy Lord of the Rings in NASA’s first image of a black hole in Messier 87. Perhaps it’s a symbol of the impending change ahead as the UK thrashes out a Brexit deal with the EU (whose flag depicts a ring of 13 stars).

But I wonder what this ground-breaking discovery could mean on a symbolic level? Does this energetic cardinal T-Square trigger awe, fear, or a call to action in each of us?

Can we accept that the perfection of light actually creates the darkness and all that lurks within it?

The ring which Frodo carries can only be destroyed in the very place it was created – Mount Doom in Mordor. As ‘we are star stuff’ are we to look at this scientific breakthrough and ask what mystery is within each of us? Is it showing us how we can release ourselves from the pain of moving through the void? Or perhaps it shows us wonder and infinite possibility?

By denying our shadow and refusing to acknowledge aspects of horror and repulsiveness in our own psyche are we at the precipice of our very own Mount Doom?

By discarding our anguish and all that it symbolises into the flaming depths, we run from ourselves. Instead, we should wear our sun in the way Frodo does the ring, integrating the light with the shadow that it casts.

📸 @nasahubble