This will be the last of my newsletters for while as I am taking off for a long-needed vacation but do want to let people know that the final part of my gift to our community, Part 3 of 3 of the Jupiter Uranus conjunctions will become available on Monday April 29, when I’ve departed for my trip. Something just hit me like a ton of bricks in these last few days while talking with a friend about another effect of the Jupiter Uranus conjunction that took place last Saturday April 20 in late degrees of Taurus, which is ruled by Venus, which rules women. This is, in fact, a revolutionary cycle for feminine voices so with that said, here are my thoughts.

In 1941, when the Jupiter Uranus conjunction occurred at 25° Taurus, remarkably close to the degree at which it returned on April 20, 2024, the United States entered World War II. At that time, the war in Europe had started in 1939 as Hitler began invading Poland, but the US didn’t enter the war until the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly most of our young men (and some women) signed up to go to war even though the draft was still in play. Because of this chaotic turn of events, factories, manufacturing plants and family businesses found themselves without employees, because those industries were primarily made up of men. At the time, more women were staying home, but that was soon to change with the break out of the war. This was the moment that we saw a new icon, still with us today, called Rosie the Riveter.

To help with the war effort, thousands of women went into these factories, picking up drills, hammers and learning new trades. Instead of baking bread and cooking dinners, they built airplanes, artillery, bullets, cans, and other items needed by the military to sustain its war effort. It wasn’t the ‘plan,’ but it was the reality.

My mother was one of those gals. This was a stark change for a young Greek girl whose parents were both recent immigrants, and whose family didn’t even allow her to date. So, to be in factories making bullets, was a huge change but it was for a greater effort at that time.

She worked in a factory in New York creating metals that were used for various purposes for the war effort like cans for army rations along with metals used for making bullets for American defense. I still have a photo, with her girlfriends standing with a fellow in an Uncle Sam costume, smiling and showing what they created. They were so proud.

An excellent film covering what happened to these ‘Rosies’ was released in 1984 starring Goldie Hawn. Its title is Swing Shift. Though a semi comedy drama, it illustrates the struggles of women going into the factories with no training and the added angst of how they were relegated back to their homes when the men returned from war. It illustrated how they were never the same. They experienced independence, freedom, and respect as worthy contributors to the economy and then their lives changed back to a prior time.

Many of the ‘Rosies’ of World War II remember that moment of autonomy and self-actualization doing something that, at that time in history, was meaningful. These same ‘Rosies’,  some of which are great grandmothers now and whose daughters born after World War II are grandmothers – see the declining arc of female rights in this country. The ability to decide with your own family and medical professional when is the best time to have a family, while not knowing you will be cared for if something goes terribly wrong, which often happens during pregnancy and even when you are not pregnant. This is important as half of the USA population is female a little under 51%.

When you take half a population’s rights away, your society remains in conflict, the economy suffers because a substantial portion of the population during their lifetime is unable to contribute because of government’s intervention into personal health, perhaps even killing them, in some cases. Sometimes you are forced to have children  you cannot afford. Birth control is essential and sometimes birth control still gets you pregnant – then what do you do if you aren’t ready?

The Jupiter/Uranus is at 21° to 22° Taurus in the Capricorn section of Taurus, ruled by Saturn, ruling the older generation suggests that those grandmothers and great grandmothers who remember those ‘Rosies’ of the 1940s, who did what they had to do to keep the country going, are stepping up, speaking out, for both the rights of not only women but for the men, who are often the supporters of those children.

Personally, I find it abhorrent that my daughter and my daughter’s friends are not allowed the same rights I had growing up. My generation fought so hard for equal pay, for equanimity. I remember in my early twenties when I tried to get a credit card and couldn’t unless a husband signed and remember how frequently I was asked if I was married, and, if so, when I planned to start a family? This was just before Roe versus Wade became law. We, the Rosie granddaughters, fought for those rights. Why is it our daughters, who are far more educated and moving into positions of power in companies are not allowed to do that? Ironically, many of them are in major tech industries but still have no clue on how to cook:-)

Their voices, this time around, are being heard – if it is not today, it will be tomorrow. The Jupiter Uranus in Taurus is about the female revolution which not only helps women but also men. The interesting fact is that when women are allowed to make their own reproductive decisions for their families and their doctors, the economy improves. In this unique environment, women may not be going to the factories, but…women are finding their voices from gaining recognition increasingly for women’s sports and fighting for equal pay and equal time on the networks, to creating more technologies under the umbrella of Fem-Tech, to, I think, fighting for their lives and reproductive health. This Jupiter Uranus is, in my opinion, the birth moment of another feminine revolution. Every revolution begins with extremes, it is a known fact. It was triggered, I think, by the Alabama restriction on IVF (in vitro fertilization), which at the other end of the spectrum, restricts women and their families from trying to have children, this was the trigger. Then the Arizona law that reverted to the 1860s was the second blow. Now as I write this before my departure, Idaho is at the Supreme Court fighting for the right to keep women safe in reproductive emergencies.

The last cycle that began in 2010 was in Aries, ruled by Mars, which was one of the most violent cycles in our history. Aries is ruled by Mars, the god of war. That cycle is gone now.

A new one began on Saturday, April 20, 2024, and is ruled by Venus, the goddess of love, peace, harmony. Venus rules the voice, the throat chakra. The resounding voice of adults at the voting booths over the course of the next few years offers opportunities for change and putting things in balance, because Venus also rules Libra, the sign of the Scales of Justice – perhaps there is hope. My best to all of you.

Go to starcycles.com/jupiter-uranus-aip/ for Part 3 of 3 of the Jupiter Uranus conjunction and how it affects you, as an individual. It is a spring fundraiser for The Alexandria iBase Project Which is an astrological database that helps you find astrological subjects, their locations, and for which I have been a chairperson since 2009. Your contributions are tax deductible as we became a 501C3 Non-Profit Educational foundation in 2015.

Thank you,
Georgia Stathis,
Chair of the Alexandria iBase Project
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