Astro-Weather October 1 2021

10:21 PM Time Zone is EDT
Chattanooga, TN

Applying Sun Conjunct Mars

This transit stimulates aggression and drive. It’s a time to get things done. Displays of courageous leadership and bold actions, such as exciting sports events or military raids, often occur under this transit. It is a “hot” aspect favorable for initiating first time events or for breaking new ground.

Applying Moon Square Uranus

This transit brings temporary upsets in the flow of events. Moods may be unstable and changeable now. Expect the unusual and the unexpected. Social conditions may be awkward and inconvenient.

Applying Mercury Trine Jupiter

School, travel and transportation, and legal matters have priority now. It’s a time for exploration and learning, a time for openings, improvements, and generous actions.

Applying Venus Sextile Pluto

Social situations open up and accords are reached. It’s a time for sharing and participation with groups for mutual benefits.

Applying Mars Trine Jupiter

This is a good time for outdoor activities, taking the initiative, risky ventures, speculations, enterprise, and quick judgments. Confident thinking leads to positive results.

Applying Jupiter Square Uranus

Revolutionary or controversial ideas are in the news. Legal issues and decisions may provoke social and political unrest. An explosion of new ideas, inventions, and innovations (in sports, transportation, law, and religion) may coincide with a wave of social and economic instability.

Saturn void in Aquarius

Formalities are the rule; traditions are maintained. Groups of old friends, family, and comrades assemble to remember the past. Conservatism rules; experiments fail. At this time leaders are under pressure and laws are put into effect. It’s a time for staying with tradition and not experimenting with new forms of social behaviors. The past triumphs.

Applying Uranus Square Saturn

This transit may coincide with a time of socio-political stress and even financial recession. Changes of rule and authority in many fields leave people feeling unstable and insecure. It’s a time of frustration, rigid resistance, and attacks on authorities. Transport and technological matters become problematic.

Neptune void in Pisces

Trends are unclear. Not everything is known, there is much to suspect. The fabric of reality seems to be ripped asunder. Faith in leadership is low. Social and economic conditions are unstable and subject to devaluations. The future looks uncertain and no one is taking any chances. Beliefs about reality are challenged. Some feel overwhelmed, even flooded, literally and figuratively.

Pluto void in Capricorn

There is movement toward displaying outright power. Tolerance and patience are pushed aside in favor of drastic actions. Old wounds are reopened and confrontations forced. Power plays occur. Secret forces make their presence known. Some seek to act on their urges, others attempt to stop them. Deep secrets are revealed. A collective cleansing is in order.

considerable (adj.)

mid-15c., "capable of being considered, conceivable," from Medieval Latin considerabilis "worthy to be considered," from Latin considerare "to look at closely, observe," probably literally "to observe the stars," from assimilated form of com "with, together" (see con-) + sidus (genitive sideris) "heavenly body, star, constellation" (see sidereal).

Meaning "pretty large" is from 1650s (implied in considerably), from now-archaic earlier sense of "Worthy of regard or attention" (1610s).

CONSIDERABLE. This word is still frequently used in the manner pointed out by Dr. Witherspoon in the following remark: "He is considerable of a surveyor; considerable of it may be found in the country. This manner of speaking prevails in the northern parts." [Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," 1816]

sidereal (adj.)

also siderial, 1630s, "star-like;" 1640s, "of or pertaining to the stars," earlier sideral (1590s), from French sidereal (16c.), from Latin sidereus "starry, astral, of the constellations," from sidus (genitive sideris) "star, group of stars, constellation," which is of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE root *sweid- "to shine" (source also of Lithuanian svidus "shining, bright").

Sidereal time is measured by the apparent diurnal motion of the fixed stars. The sidereal day begins and ends with the passage of the vernal equinox over the meridian and is about four minutes shorter than the solar day, measured by the passage of the sun over the meridian.