Happy New Year 2022!

My personal hopes for 2022 are mixed up with my hopes for this country.

1)  an end to this pandemic.

The day before our daughter was to come home for Christmas, she tested positive for Covidand couldn’t come home. The first night was bad, she said, with fever and chills, but the next day was better and within 6 days, she was fine and tested negative. She had received 2 Moderna vaccines. She’s also young and generally healthy.

2) that we move through life with more awareness of how our actions impact others

At Walgreen’s, the cashier told me a story that exemplifies this point. At 8 that morning, an unmasked men came into the story, asking if they had PCR tests or home test kits. She told him that PCRs were by appointment only, for drive-thru and yes, they had at home test kits. The man then said, “I know I have Covid. I need a test.”

The cashier, who is always masked, drew back in horror and ordered him out of the store. What kind of clueless idiot who thinks he has Covid comes into a store maskless?

3) That we are as kind to strangers as we are to people in our personal environment.

Most of us have seen or heard about “Karen” incidents and the meltdown in public places over masks or some other thing. There are men who melt down, too, but those videos and instances seem to be more rare. The men and women who lose it like this are probably most frightening when they melt down on commercial flights.

4) That a voting rights bill is voted upon and signed into law. This would end gerrymandering and prevent the states from overturning an election they didn’t like. Otherwise, our democracy is history and we’ll be living a weird version of life in a kind of Gillead from The Handmaid’s Tale.

5)  That more people recognize synchronicity as the guiding force it is.

Our friend Paula learned that her recently engaged daughter, Isabella, and Jacob, her fiance, set a wedding date of February 11, 2023.

That was Paula’s mother’s birthday and Isabella didn’t know that. She’d never met her grandmother, because she died three years before Isabella was born. I felt the synchronicity might have been spirit contact.

One thing this pandemic has brought about for me is more synchronicities and a variety of them. They usually happen when I don’t expect them, and have come about through precogniton, telepathy, in dreams, and when I’m with other people.

6) That we all flourish in the ways that urge us to evolve.

7) I’d like to know if there’s a significance to the date of 2/22/22. I cast charts for that date at 2:22 am and pm. Here’s the AM chart.

And the PM chart:

I need to study these. But at a glance, when I look at the respective rising signs – 21 degrees Sagittarius (the arrow, left hand side of the chart) and the 14 degree Cancer rising in the PM chart, it seems that as a collective we have 2 major things to learn. Sagittarius is a nomad, a truth seeker, always looking for the bigger picture. Cancer is nurturing, feminine, intuitive.

The  only planet in both charts at 22 degrees is Neptune in Pisces. In the am chart, Neptune falls  in the 3rd house of communication. In the pm chart, it falls in the 9th house of  spirituality, worldview, publishing, art.  Neptune rules imagination, the oceans, creative ability that comes from deep within. But it also rules deception and confusion.  It’s as if these 2 different house positions for Neptune on this particular day is challenging us to let  our imaginations soar, to go with our guts, our impulses, but to check our facts so that we avoid deception and confusion.

I don’t know if these charts have any validity at all. I don’t even know if numbers like this prompt other astrologers to make observations. But for me, that number 22 has a special significance. In the I Ching, the 22nd hexagram is called Grace. The line that speaks to me reads:

Through contemplation of the forms existing in human society, it becomes possible to shape the world.