Tomorrow the partial eclipse highlights Greenland and a swath of Europe and Russia. Parts of eastern Ukraine lie within the shadow. Saros 149 began in eastern Russia in 1664 and describes a period a little over 18 years apart. During that period, Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich was expanding Russian territory into Poland and annexation of the left-bank of modern day Ukraine. Today, the Russian army is holding a great deal of that territory in its ongoing war against Ukraine.
The Pereiaslav Agreement of 1654 brought parts of Ukraine under the protection of the Tsar and in exchange the Cossacks pledged allegiance to the Tsar. At the same time, Poland was assailed by Russia and Sweden and weakened in a period of time called The Deluge. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had military success but was unable to withstand the damages to its economy and was forced to accept a truce. Russia was now on its way to becoming the major power in Eastern Europe. Russia had begun its expansion of its empire.
In America, the Duke of York, whose brother was recently restored to the throne thus ending Cormwell’s Commonwealth, was acquiring seaports and the hinterland surrounding them in New York and New England. The Dutch gave way to English control of their former colony. Monarchy was in ascendancy and the commonwealth in retreat. The Russians were acquiring land in Eastern Europe and the English in America were acquiring ports in the northern reaches of the western hemisphere.
The Saros 149 series began in the Leo zodiac sign. Known as the prince, Leo is the sign of nobles who can speak to God or a king. This north node of Saros 149 points to a Leo future while that future produces wounds, Chiron, and disruption, Uranus, of the common man. Leonine monarchy was expanding at the expense of the Aquarian commonwealth.
The Arctic Ocean is melting. Donald Trump is concentrating his efforts on expanding US influence in the Arctic region. Greenland is a linchpin in the Arctic sea. The eclipse of March 29, 2025 highlights this Arctic race to set up the future of this region and freedom of navigation. Russia, due to its Siberian land mass, will control much of one side while Canada, Norway and Greenland make up most of the other shore except for the USA hold on one outlet around Alaska.
While Russia is a land power. America is a naval power. As I have written before, eclipses are not endings but beginnings. The Sun and Moon have come together to plant a new seed. Neptune, who rules Pisces, is beginning the transit of Aries on March 30 just one day after the eclipse. The north node is in Pisces with the retrograde Pisces Venus, Pisces Saturn and Aries Neptune. The systems are dissolving, the old relationships are dissolving, and Neptune is charting a new beginning in a new sea, the Arctic.
Neptune last transitted into Aries just as the Confederates began the American Civil War with the first shot at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. That shot created a new America. One that was more unified, muscular, industrial, and with a new financial system to finance government. This new America reached its zenith upon winning the Second World War building a post-War system that is only now dissolving away as Neptune shipwrecks the old system and charts his new path. The Pisces Neptune is ruling the Pisces Saturn. Dissolving shipwreck ruling the dissolving government systems. On March 30, the Aries Neptune will firmly have his eyes on the horizon embarking on his new Arctic cruise.
Mundane Astrology of the Sagittarian Ascendant Greenland
Greenland began its home rule with some particularly harsh astrological energy. Its Taurus Sun is conjunct Chiron. Wearing their wounds, the Greenlandic people are described by the 6° Cancer Moon, probably the most malefic degree of the zodiac. The bereavement of mothers at the loss of their children. Or children at the loss of their mothers. Greenland, like the United States of America, is a Sagittarius Ascendant. The ideal of freedom, Sagittarius Neptune, animates the country. The ruling planet is the 30° Cancer (0° Leo) Jupiter on the symbol “a daughter of the American Revolution”. The Greenlanders want their freedom. When they say Greenland is not for sale, they mean it. Still the retrograde Libra Pluto in the ninth suggests that they may be open to a partnership with shared resources so long as it exists in a state of freedom.
Currently, America’s 5° Cancer Jupiter on the symbol “a automobile wrecked by a train” is dominating the conversation and irritating Greenland’s painful Moon. America’s Cancer Venus lies a little further away from that Moon but on the symbol “a man bundled in fur leads a shaggy deer”. A more careful approach and each nation can have a symbiotic relationship. The Greenlanders have been told how to live and what they will do, instead the more important message is that freedom is something that America is committed to protect and ask for their help. Freedom of navigation, even when it is not important to America’s financial or trade interests, is something America values. Bombing the Houthis is not about America’s trade, but about the world’s freedom. In this new Neptunian ocean we are entering, America’s interest in Greenland is also about the world’s freedom.