Here’s the chart for 7:35 AM, 4/21/25, Rome Italy.
I tend to see this chart that times the death of Pope Francis as symbolic of the death of all sorts of people, and the toppling and evisceration of all sorts of institutional forms and processes that have held the entire world in bondage for a long time.
First of all, note that eruptive Uranus, at 25° Taurus, was within two degrees of the 23° Taurus ascendant (which moves one degree every four minutes). Though he had long been ill, I sense his death when it came, was out of the blue, unexpected.
Also, note that loving Venus is about to conjunct strict Saturn in Pisces. No fun, folks! More on this in Laura Bruno’s post below.
Okay, those important indications out of the way, I want to concentrate on the major aspect pattern in this chart, a steady, stubbornly powerful fixed cross that includes both the lights (Sun and Moon), warlike Mars, plus disobedient Lilith, all close aspect to primal, death/rebirth Pluto.
I begin with Pluto.
Given that Pluto has now entered Aquarius for the first time in 248 years (going back and forth, starting in late March 2023, and exiting traditional, hierarchical Capricorn for Aquarius for the final time November 19, 2024), and will remain there until 2043, we have now entered an entirely new epoch in human history. Profound Pluto in Aquarius as the new anchor for the zeitgeist, encouraging individual expression, innovation, and horizontal cooperative action; the toppling of all sorts of Capricorn hierarchies.
Now notice what this new Plutonian anchor, now at 3° Aquarius, was connected to early morning today in Rome: an exact conjunction with the swiftly transiting 3° Aquarian Moon!
Notice also, that the transiting Sun, moving one degree per day, now sits at 1° of earthy Taurus, where it exactly squares warlike Mars at 1° of kingly Leo, and both are in near-exact T-cross with deeply transformational, primal Pluto/Moon.
Oh, and one more, notice that this near-exact Pluto/Moon/Sun/Mars T-cross points directly across the chart to Lilith, at 2° Scorpio! Lilith, the “bad” girl, wild, disobedient female energy.
It may well be that the chart for the pope’s death symbolizes, indeed ignites — a heads-will-roll period in human history, when powerful figures that sit atop hierarchies will be deposed, drop like flies, one after another after another.
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Oh, and BTW: note that both Neptune at 0° Mercury at 4° of Aries are also closely aspecting the main pattern above, by harmonious sextile and trine. In other words: the actual direction (time-line) of the powerful energies ignited today by the grand cross in fixed signs will depend on our collective dreaming (Neptune) and articulation (Mercury) of a brand new, fearless (Aries) future in a world of abundance as we learn how to cooperate as equals (Aquarius) and let go of competition, conflict, in a world of scarcity.
