United States in 2017: themes from the sky
These are broad themes for United States through 2017, read the way mundane astrology reads a nation: from the chart cast when the Sun enters Mesha each year, from the country's founding chart and from the year's eclipses. They describe tendencies in public life, not fixed events.
No founding chart is used for United States on this page, so it reads from the Mesha Sankranti chart cast for Washington DC and from the eclipses.
Mundane readings here stay with themes and timing windows. They say nothing about any public figure and do not try to name particular events.
The year chart (Mesha Sankranti)
- Cast for
- Lagna
- Simha (Leo)
- Lord of the year chart
- Surya (Sun) in house 9
The solar year began on 13 April 2017, when the Sun entered Mesha. In the chart cast for that moment at Washington DC, Leo was rising.
Sun rules the rising sign and so sets the tone of the year's chart. It stands in the 9th house, which keeps higher learning, beliefs, long-distance travel and trade far afield in focus through the year.
Planets that stand out
Rahu in the 1st house brings new and unusual directions, with some confusion along the way to the country as a whole and the general mood of its people.
Jupiter in the 2nd house brings growth, support and wider opportunity to national wealth, reserves, food supply and the tone of public speech.
Saturn in the 5th house brings slow, patient work, tighter budgets and some delays to education, the young, the arts, entertainment and the share markets.
Ketu in the 7th house brings a quieter, inward turn and the letting go of old patterns to foreign relations, treaties and trading partners.
Mars in the 10th house brings drive, quick decisions and some heat in debate to governance, institutions and the country's standing in the world.
The founding chart
No founding chart is read for this country: there is no agreed time for it, or it is older than the charts here can reach.
Planets changing sign
- Shani (Saturn) enters Dhanu (Sagittarius)
On 26 January 2017 Saturn moves into Sagittarius, the 5th house of the year chart (education, the young, the arts, entertainment and the share markets).
Saturn here tends to ask for patience, restructuring and careful budgets in these matters.
- Shani (Saturn) enters Vrishchika (Scorpio)
On 20 June 2017 Saturn moves into Scorpio, the 4th house of the year chart (land, housing, farming, the season's weather and the mood at home).
Saturn here tends to ask for patience, restructuring and careful budgets in these matters.
- Guru (Jupiter) enters Tula (Libra)
On 11 September 2017 Jupiter moves into Libra, the 3rd house of the year chart (communication, the media, transport links and dealings with neighbours).
Jupiter here tends to support growth and sound planning in these matters.
- Shani (Saturn) enters Dhanu (Sagittarius)
On 26 October 2017 Saturn moves into Sagittarius, the 5th house of the year chart (education, the young, the arts, entertainment and the share markets).
Saturn here tends to ask for patience, restructuring and careful budgets in these matters.
Eclipses
- Solar eclipse
A solar eclipse falls on 26 February 2017 in Aquarius, the 7th house of the year chart (foreign relations, treaties and trading partners).
- Lunar eclipse
A lunar eclipse falls on 7 August 2017 in Capricorn, the 6th house of the year chart (the workforce, public services, public debt and day to day administration).
- Solar eclipse
A solar eclipse falls on 21 August 2017 in Leo, the 1st house of the year chart (the country as a whole and the general mood of its people).
The weeks around an eclipse are read as a time to review and finish rather than to launch new public ventures in the matters it touches.
General guidance from the Moon sign and the classical rules, not a personal reading and not medical, legal or financial advice. Your own choices remain yours. Read how to use these predictions.