Vesta, Aries Point
Vesta entered Aries on Saturday, which she does every 3-4 years, and is hanging around the Aries point squaring Pluto. This has coincided with the Olympic flame protests across the world.
I think this is a great placement for Vesta. The Aries point is transpersonal, it’s right on the edge between something (Aries) and the nothingness from whence it came (Pisces). This is the moment of emerging from (or back into) the One, when a thing is not quite either separate or merged, somewhere between manifest and pure potential. Kind of both.
And if anything’s transpersonal, the Life Force (Vesta, the eternal flame) is. I think that may be why Vesta’s associated with selfless service; she can feel like an impersonal fire that is not really yours alone to keep, but is for everyone. Which is ultimately true.