Mercury turned retrograde on Feb. 26, 2026. Mars squared Uranus on Feb. 27, 2026, and the next day the United States and Israel began a series of strikes against Iran. Violence and accidents are commonly associated with the Mars-Uranus square. Now only a few days after the challenging square, the Full Moon at 12+ degrees of Virgo is accompanied by a total lunar eclipse. There are usually two lunar eclipses a year. This is the last total lunar eclipse until New Year’s Eve 2028. The Sun in Pisces is in exact conjunction with asteroid Pallas. The Moon in Virgo is tightly sextile to centaur 39P/Oterma in Cancer.

There is no clear orbital distinction between centaurs and comets. Centaur 39P/Oterma was discovered in 1943 by the Finnish astronomer Liisi Oterma. At the time it was an active comet, but a close approach to Jupiter in 1963 put it on its current inactive centaur orbit between Jupiter and Saturn. 39P/Oterma’s orbital period around the Sun is nearly 20 years. For the time being I am not able to get centaur 39P/Oterma appear in the chart wheel, but its location is currently at 12+ degrees of Cancer conjunct Jupiter.

There is another comet in Cancer more closely conjunct Jupiter, namely the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. It was discovered on July 1, 2025. It may be the oldest comet yet seen. It came from the direction of the Milky Way’s Galactic Center. Comet 3I/ATLAS cannot be traced back to its original parent star because it has been traveling around the Milky Way for billions of years. It passed closest to our Sun on Oct. 29, 2025. It will pass Jupiter on March 16, 2026, before heading further to the outer regions of our solar system and then escaping back into interstellar space. The opportunity to catch the message that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS came with will soon be lost.

The Sabian symbol for the Full Moon is Virgo 13, A strong hand supplanting political hysteria. “This is a symbol of the real weight of human personality as emphasized here by the direct intervention of outstanding individuals in the affairs of their fellows. They must provide an over-all ordering for each moment of history if it is to count for much in the lives of the others around them, since there is always a counsel of confusion to take over when events are allowed to drift or when the immediate leadership proves deficient. The greatest opportunity for self-discovery lies in the transient crises of everyday living. The keyword is POWER. When positive, the degree is consistent effectiveness in dramatizing personal potentials, and when negative, loss of all opportunity by timid action.” (Marc Edmund Jones)

Instead of order, the political leaders are providing us chaos and destruction. The symbol of the strong hand hardly refers to them. Asteroid Pallas is named after the Greek warrior goddess of wisdom, foresight, and well-planned warfare. Demetra George points out that in the sign of Pisces Pallas embraces the wisdom of compassion, and can be a devotee of nonviolent resistance, for example.

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