Weekly Weather

Weekly Weather February 27, 2006 to March 5, 2006

We have quite a week ahead of us! For all of you who have been patiently (or not patiently) waiting for your traffic jam to be over, watch, listen and pay attention to the events over the next seven days. Forward we go! At last! Remember it is STILL a time of extreme mutability. Do not take bubbles popping personally. It is the nature of bubbles. Make more and more bubbles using your wand and the magic bubble water. Change is in the air.

In order of occurrence, not your awareness nor the impact nor strength as the aspects form above and help change your life, we have a New Moon right in front of Uranus on Monday. The moon joins Uranus two hours later ~ a fraction of a second in cosmic time. Tuesday has oodles of aspects ~ movement, movement, and more movement, including Mercury squaring Pluto! Wednesday, the Sun joins with Uranus. Thursday features Mercury’s station and the begin of his retrograde, right on top of Pluto. Friday we rest ~ well not really, as the moon in Taurus is going to bring up all sorts of stuff, probably pretty icky STUCK stuff from the past so we can emotionally process it, release ourselves and move on. Frankly, I am SO sick of emotionally processing stuff I could just spit! Aren‘t you? Saturday, Jupiter stations to go retrograde until July AND Mercury squares Pluto. Yep, that is TWICE IN the SAME WEEK, sandwiching Mercury’s STATION. Mercury fighting and arguing with Pluto brings consciousness. It might be ugly but it IS consciousness. Sunday, Venus leaves conservative Capricorn (yeah!) goes into free spirited Aquarius, turning very mutable herself as Pisces Uranus rules her energy instead of cranky, retrograde Saturn in Leo!

Next to last but certainly not least, our exceptionally volatile Mars goes out of bounds at the end of the week, saying all bets are off and he is free to do what he wants if he wants when he wants and you can‘t stop him or hold him back, until May 17th or so. Finally, we are in the winds of a very large emotional lunar eclipse, evoking memories of Spring 1988 in our late Virgo/Pisces and early Aries/Libra houses. The description for the eclipse in “The Eagle and the Lark” by Bernadette Brady is “Inventiveness and flashes of genius are the hallmark of this eclipse series. The individual will have intuitive leaps, insights, good ideas, visions or vivid dreams. The newfound inspiration will pull the person away from his or her social life or relationship thereby causing strain in the private life. This is a time when the person needs to be free, if only for a few weeks.” The eclipse occurs later in the month almost on the point where Mercury squares Pluto on Tuesday, Saturday and stations on Thursday.

Wow oh wow oh wow. So where to begin? I have absolutely no clue! That is NOT a good sign as I am supposed to write a column about the week‘s cosmic events. One of the most interesting parts about being an astrologer is understanding and appreciating all the stuff you DON‘T know. I am continually amazed at the magnificence of the heavens when aspects form to describe and mirror events in taking place in my clients’ lives. Any ONE of the week’s aspects is a big deal! Having ALL of them occur in SUCH a compact time period makes it virtually impossible to predict what is going to happen EXCEPT to say that it will be a VERY IMPORTANT WEEK.

Having all the aspects take place as Pluto and the eclipses are on the Galactic Center of the Universe means our dear little green and blue earth world is going to change. It means our lives are going to change. On some level, we have been hoping and working and wishing for the changes that are about to arrive. Haven’t you felt like you have been evolving into a new and yet unknown form as the fixed cross pushed and pulled at you all fall?

Monday, our new moon at nine Pisces sits right before Uranus, marking a brand new beginning. All planets and points between 4 and 10 in your chart will feel the energy of the powerful new sun, moon and Uranian beginning. Sun aspects Pluto, Uranus and Athena today suggesting energy around transformation, chaos, change and brilliant ideas. Go sit on Mother Earth ~ visit a favorite rock, hug a tree, or take a walk in nature. Have a chat with her (or a supportive mother figure in your life) about what you want to change, create and start in your life. It is a good way to work with the Jupiter quintile Ceres energy by collaborating with creation energy and asking it for help.

Tuesday, Mercury squares Pluto and sextiles Venus saying to take ONE-step toward your future by doing ONE thing. Make a list of “what to do” on bright red paper and put it in a prominent place. If you look at the whole PILE of changes, you will be completely overwhelmed. However, systematically, item by item, Today, Wednesday and every day forward, just do ONE thing. Set a timer for 15 minutes. Do it. Cross a task off the list. Conscious evolution. Today, there is a very strong possibility of a fight being picked deliberately and ON purpose. I would encourage you not to fight back. See what happens when you change your response to the provoker. Let them sit in their angry, cranky, crabby energy.

Wednesday, our Sun appears to join forces with Uranus. Uranus operates as a transpersonal planet and delivers Promethean fire and lightening bolts into our lives. An idea, possibly exceptionally far fetched or way over the top of what you believe is possible for you, will appear in your mind today. Please act on it! Just do an itty-bitty act on it. Remember the bubbles? Make a bubble of it. Even if you have absolutely NO idea where it will take you. Especially if it speaks gently to or about the issue you have been struggling with since August. I know you are going to find a bunch of reasons why you JUST CAN’T. Take those last two letters off and JUST CAN. The last two letters are the fear speaking to you. Now listen to the healthy part of you, the part that has been struggling SO hard all fall, the part that wants to evolve ~ that‘s the part that had the idea. It finally talked to you! Ask the healthy part of you questions. Try it what it says. Act as if all is possible. You learned to walk. Now, THAT was HARD! You can do this. Only your mind says you can’t. Besides, don’t you do it already for all your friends and family?

Thursday, Mercury stations, gloriously squaring Pluto. Be cautious around written and verbal communications. Understand profound research, connections and solutions can appear during the retrograde as Mercury moves back in the mutable, changing sign of Pisces. Be careful what you wish for and do make a wish or three! The life you have now was created by your belief systems of what you deserved. If you want a change in your future, now is the time to look at your old belief systems. Do you see how your life matches your beliefs ~ especially the ones locked down in Fall 1982 to Spring 1983?

Friday Mars trines Chiron asking us to reframe, rephrase, or present options to ourselves as we look at our wounding and most primal tribal fears. So what or who is YOUR tribe? What would the tribe you would call your own look like? Visioning the tribe you want is your first step toward creating it. Add to your red list from Tuesday. I know, yesterday, you did not do anything on your red list. It was a hard day. So do TWO things today. Set your alarm for two 15-minute chunks. The moon is in Taurus. All sorts of swampy stuck icky emotions will swirl today and tomorrow as the moon tries to clear it.

Saturday Jupiter stations and Mercury passes Pluto retrograde. If you feel like collapsing in a puddle of tears and sobbing, please give yourself permission to do so. Cold washcloth on your face reduces the red puffy swelling and makes you somewhat presentable. Oh, the hell with presentable. Just go out looking ugly. No one is going to notice. They are crying. The story is NOT over. Tears are a relief and release. Now you know.

Sunday, Venus leaves Capricorn and enters Aquarius. Suddenly our desire gal who has been holding it all together for the sake of the relationship, family, religion, tradition, history, conservative path, has a brand new outlook! Venus is leaving conservative, follow the rules Saturn in Leo and dancing off into creative, freewheeling, community oriented Aquarius. Dig out a phone number of an old friend from your past, give them a call for a chat, and catch up. Mars goes out of bounds by declination, aspects out of bounds Vesta as Mercury quintiles Mars suggesting you reread a pivotal book or look at the stuff in your house to begin anew. Reactivate a long deferred dream.

Mars will be out of bounds until May 17th or so. Mars out of bounds means he has passed the parameters of the Sun’s ecliptic in the northern part of the earth. As Mars is in Gemini and has oodles of aspects all month, look to your Aries and Scorpio houses and the placement of your natal Mars to see where your life can expand out of all proportion to where it has been! Push your own boundaries, and consciously please. The entire world will be over the top, quite literally, as Mars is over the top of the Sun‘s path. Ego and Consciousness will be suppressed by Power Over or Might Makes Right. Do remember Power Over or Might Makes Right works as long as you agree to play by the rules or they fall asleep. Watch out for lies, misconceptions and deceptions. Truth takes a minute. Truth is startling and clear in it‘s simplicity and power.

In an email exchange last week, a dear Capricorn friend noted on perspective: “We say the glass is half empty or the glass is half full. Hey, maybe the glass is just too big?” It got me to thinking (she is, after all, a Capricorn) maybe the glass is too small? Why don’t we ever look at the GLASS instead of bemoaning the quantity or quality of its contents? Is your glass cracked? Or chipped? Support the changes coming in your life and our world by using different shaped and sized glasses all week! (Not much else you can do except duck!) Perhaps a teacup or a sherry glass? Maybe the cute little melted butter holders saved for future romantic lobster dinners that you never use. A measuring cup to see EXACTLY HOW much or a child’s sippy cup to hide the contents? Forward we go!

Mundane: My H5N1 bird flu obsession is active.

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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Weekly weather February 20, 2006 to February 26, 2006

We have entered a period of extreme mutability where changes, back and forth, various choices or ideas will appear, form, glisten, pop, float, disappear or dance before you. The changes entice you to chase their beauty. The image to hold in your mind is bubbles flowing out from a wand on a breezy, spring day. Bubbles that you attempt to catch and hold in your hands and heart. Keep blowing and catching your bubbles! Yes, many will pop in your hands, in the air, on the grass, or for no apparent reason at all. Yet, EVEN as the bubbles pop, enjoy their rainbow colors as they dance before your eyes.

Think of yourself and your forming dreams as bubbles in the wind. The difference is your bubbles CAN solidify and become beautiful images of your vision for your life. But NOT JUST yet. RIGHT NOW, those fragile dreams of yours are very much like bubbles. You do not get MAD, or ANGRY, or FRUSTRATED when bubbles burst (unless you are a very small child and do not know how bubbles work their magic). Wave your wand and make MORE bubbles. Do NOT JUDGE the bubbles for being delicate, fragile, and gossamer like hopes catching rides on invisible currents of air. Appreciate the bubbles’ beauty, abundance and the very act of joy in their short, sparkly life. Create bubbles by dipping into the colorful magic liquid and waving your wand repeatedly. All different sizes of bubbles flow out from your wand. Most will pop immediately; others will float or come to rest on a blade of grass, and a precious few will last for a long time.

Sun, Mercury, Uranus, and Mars have moved into mutable signs, quietly, softly and suddenly the world became flexible, stretchable and changing when you weren‘t paying attention. At the same time, planets in traveling through mutable signs control the signs we find Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn traveling through, Scorpio, Aquarius and Leo respectively. As a reader wrote, “I am feeling that push and pull to 'go' but I feel as though there is no where to go! Like a rubber band that has been stretched as far as it will go by the hand of god and is about to be let loose but seems to be aimed into the air, the dark night sky...no target in site...maybe the ground is the target once I fly through the air and land after my flight!!”

We still are in the traffic jam but it has eased up quite a bit. Over the next month, Mars is going to try his darnedest to catch up with Sun and Mercury as they zoom along in Pisces. Mars is not going to catch Sun! Soon, as in next week, Mercury will hear Mars shouting for him to slow up, stop, and wait for me! Mercury will turn back to chat and travel for a time with Mars as he retrogrades most of March. At THAT time, the bubbles of your future MIGHT, just might, start to form into more solid images of your new and upcoming path ~ during the month of March. But, then, again, they are merely BUBBLES. You know how fickle, unpredictable and floaty bubbles can be!

Please know that nothing REALLY is going to happen until Saturn goes direct in early April. The rest of February has bubbles of activity forming, floating, burbling and popping. March has oodles of activity coming, most of it bubbles, including a couple of eclipses, and four planets stopping and shifting directions in the sky. Remember most, if not all, of what will go on, is bubbles! Bubbles that form, float and pop before you catch them. Enjoy the bubbles for what they are! Say yes to lots and lots of bubbles! It is a magic time of creation. Do not judge bubbles (or yourself) for being bubbles if they behave like a bubble and disappear in the wind. Know the true nature of bubbles! At the same time, some, maybe a lot, or maybe none (bubbles are teases in the cosmos!) will coalesce into solid form once we get into April. The point is to create bubbles in March. Many bubbles. Every day. Create as many bubbles you can! Bubbles of opportunities. Bubbles of change. Bubbles of your “Future“. Bubbles are a form of creation. Chase bubbles. And please, please, do not be angry or upset if your bubbles pop. Just giggle and make more bubbles. Dip your wand in the liquid and move it slowly to create an extra large super juicy bubble just quivering with potential.

Monday, Saturn opposes Chiron, opening up the old wound of the tribe. Where exactly do you fit? What would happen if you put down THAT definition of who you are, where you came from, or what your story was? What if you decided to make your past beliefs be a bubble today? POP the bubbles of your beliefs on deliberate purpose with a clap of your hands? Yes, it is THAT easy. You do not have to be married to your beliefs any more as Neptune’s trine to Juno promises. Pop them. Pop those beliefs. Ride the all day void moon to imagine what your life would be like if the beliefs left you like bubbles in the wind.

Tuesday, the FEAR comes back! Mercury’s difficult aspect to Saturn and Chiron says, “Uh oh, you are going to get it now! You are in VERY BIG trouble!” See how that Fear thing works? Just go and think about popping your belief bubbles and wowee, Fear comes roaring right back in. Take it to the WORST-case scenario ~ you know how to do it. Write it down on a piece of paper. Unloved, Alone, Homeless, Freezing on the street, your cat in a bag next to you. Oh, dirty, smelly and hungry too. Got that worst-case scenario down on paper? Next, shout to the heavens, “I don’t want these thoughts any more! I banish these thoughts from my heart!” Rip the paper up, burn the fragments into ash flakes and flush the whole mess down the toilet or kitchen sink. Or wave the ashes into the wind. Let the fragments fly off like the bubbles they are.

Wednesday, Venus dances with the North Node as Vesta opposes Hygea. Add beauty to your life today. Do something to make your home or yourself feel loved and adored and glorious. Create bubbles of your future dreams by making phone calls, sending your resume off, asking, sketching, daydreaming or doodling your hopes decorated with flowers and hearts.

Thursday, Vesta stations and goes direct. Focus on creating bubbles. You do not have to DO IT ALL today, tomorrow or even next week! Just create oodles of bubbles of dreams. Send them out into the cosmos. Mercury is pushing off from the node and working with Venus in Capricorn. Mercury and Venus are listening closely to what you say today. And, if any of that silly set of fears from Tuesday shows up again, just write them down, rip the paper up, burn it, flush away the ashes as you banish them from your heart.

Friday, has four stressful aspects. Expect fears again. Big time. Would you please stop going forward into the future with that worrywart imagination of yours? Stop giving those fearful images any more of your time! Live in the moment! Take a positive step or two toward what you want. Do your fear banishing routine again. Create bubbles of your dreams. Many bubbles. Sun is aspecting Pallas Athena so a woman will give you good, practical advice if you pay attention. Put a rubber band around your wrist and snap it every time your mind starts down your fear path! Snap your Mercury into line. Make more bubbles.

Saturday, watch for a terrific idea. On the other hand, it may show up as an argument or disagreement that shocks you into seeing a different point of view from your traditional approach to things. Kind of like a lightening bolt as Uranus is squabbling and spitting at Juno. Again, what would happen if you divorced yourself from those limiting beliefs of yours? Just clapped your hands? Made them pop like bubbles?

Sunday, glorious Sunday, something falls into place by looking at it from an opposite point of view as Sun and Uranus contraparallel dance with asteroids Juno and Pallas. Now, the dance is a complicated tango so watch out for pivoting legs and fast kicks. Tangos are fun. Tangos are NOT easy. Precision and practice are required! Actually, you are better off making bubbles! Create bubbles to the sound of Tango music.

A few of you have written asking what if you were young in 1982 and 1983? If you think back on the situation in your life that has been taking place since last August, it has a corollary to the time when you were younger. It might have been a father/mother story, or a power over story, or a profound or problematic karmic relationship or a deep soul wound that you either witnessed or experienced in the early years of your life. It is clearing now. Hopefully, it popped just like a bubble on a beautiful spring day this week!

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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It is going to be one of those good news ~ bad news weeks. The good news is the traffic jam we’ve been enduring for the past seven months starts to break apart! The bad news is that Mars is the planet who breaks free first! Mars is primal, angry, irritated beyond words, stuck FOR SEVEN LONG MONTHS in his fall in pokey, stick in the mud Taurus, pissed off and very, very, cranky. Mars has been picked on, blocked, swamped, fogged, oppressed, depressed, repressed and tortured ALL FALL by his captors Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Pluto. He’s been taking their bullshit, putting up with it, unable to leave, stuck and gagged into silence. Mars is mad as hell and not going to take it any more! You can’t negotiate with Mars when he’s in this state! No intellectual exercises or trying to reason with him. You need to get out of his way OR get run over OR have amazing sex with him OR duck when the bullets start flying OR wait until he falls asleep OR take him out with a trained sniper. All the Mars energy will feel like a guy who’s been trapped, tied up, strapped down and struggling beyond crazy to break free FOR SEVEN UNBEARABLE MONTHS! Mars finally breaks free! This WEEK!

Mars whips off the ropes that bind him, pulls off the blindfold and takes the gag out of his mouth. His heart is pounding. He struggles to his feet with a whoosh, throwing the thick ropes on the floor and contemplates what to do with his new found freedom. AND he fantasizes about what he can finally do TO his former captors, who may or may not know he is free at last! MARS IS FREE!! And he is outta there just as soon as he …. What? Just as soon as he what?

Therein lays the caution! The watch out for. The be careful around. When Mars is in THIS state, it is like negotiating with a serial killer psychopath suicide bomber terrorist who has a machine gun trained on your head. He’s not listening. He’s not rational. Words don’t count. He is seeing RED! He’s not kind or human or caring. It is time for our last charge of bull to matador! It is our moment to slay Medusa! By getting Bull Mars all riled up, so instinctual, SO primal, survival oriented, irritated, bloody and adrenaline rushed, we need to be very careful when Mars starts to move. His anger will feel like a life force. Anger IS a life force! Mars is our life force, our will. Anger, will, motivation, desire and fear are amazing and productive energies if channeled appropriately. However, Mars in THIS energized state, free at last, can be very destructive just because he wants to be. He wants to get even. He wants revenge.

The more difficult forms of Mars appear when the shadow side of our brave warrior planet is activated. Our shadow side drives the unconscious motivations behind our behaviors. We believe a certain thing. We look for evidence, proof so to speak, to validate our belief system. When we look, well of course, we’ll find proof! It is how we create repeating versions of our reality. It is why the sins of the father pass from generation to generation until someone gets conscious, stops reacting, decides to change and behave in a new or different way.

When Mars feels thwarted, he reacts and fights! When Mars has a clear set of orders, he acts swiftly and bravely! Mars is quite skilled. Over the past seven long months and his retrograde, Mars was thwarted, unable to get what he wanted as the fixed cross held him in place and picked on him. Now, free, Mars can move ~ for good or for evil ~ Mars can move. Hopefully, while your bull has been sitting there getting stabbed by that damned matador and his friends; you and your Mars came up with a plan! Something different than your usual behavior! A clear set of NEW orders to act on, especially now that the coast is clear and Mars can move!

So, first, right now, before we go any further, give your Mars a clear set of operating instructions about that person or situation that has been driving you crazy all fall. Know what your Plan A, Plan B and Option C are. That situation is changing this week!

Power over or domination belief systems produce ugly reactive behavior. If you find yourself in any sort of power struggle, know it can turn ugly VERY QUICKLY, probably with harmful results. It is the last charge of the bull at the matador, the charge when matador gets to kill the bull. Bull has to have a Plan! Watch out for out of control Mars behavior. Understand there are multiple choices available to you, not just black or white, if you find YOURSELF feeling out of control and wanting to charge at something or someone! Choose shades of gray or colors, not just either/or, this/that, black/white. No mindless charging at RED! Mindless charging is EXACTLY what the matador NEEDS you to do so he can KILL YOUR BULL! Matador needs you to charge so he can stab you! He can’t get close enough to kill you IF YOU DON’T CHARGE! No charging! Are we clear? No charging! Be a smart bull!

Next, what is your Mars is going to do now that he is free of his planetary captors and bondage? Since fall, you‘ve been getting clearer and clearer as you’ve been sitting stuck and trapped. You know more about what you want or don‘t want in your life. Now, as your Mars breaks free, give him permission to start working toward what you want. DO NOT USE THE POWER OVER VERSION OF MARS! Use the positive version of Mars. No stalking, power grabs, violence, charging, fights, dramas, explosions, manipulations, shouting or dominations. No power over versions of Mars!

Now for the MOST important part: The situation in your life that has been SO FRUSTRATING was created by you and that shadow of YOUR Mars. Your Mars has a black and white world view! The current situation ties back to Fall 1982 and Spring 1983. What you have is what you believe you can have, are worth or deserve. You told your Mars what you believed you wanted. Mars got it for you! Reread that paragraph until it sinks in, until the shades of meaning and color appear for you.

Mars, cute little fellow that he is, seeking always to serve YOU, went and got it for you! Mars got you EXACTLY what you asked for! Or rather what your SHADOW asked for while you weren’t paying attention. Didn’t Mars get it for you? Isn’t what you are SO frustrated about tied to your belief system, especially to events from 1982/83? Your Mars did JUST exactly what your shadow asked him to do. Mars did listen to your shadow. Mars jumped through hoops to get your SHADOW what IT wanted! You were looking for evidence and proof of your belief system. Your shadow told Mars. Mars found it for you! Your current situation was created by your belief system, by your Mars. It matches perfectly what you think you deserve, are worth or believe you can have. It is what you told Mars to go get for you. He did.

Consciousness comes when you see shadings of meaning, color and understand it. Once you see your shadow, you can never go back. Yes, you might be able to hide a bit longer. However, consciousness is in there, cooking away in your unconscious, changing it from black and white to color like a tie dyed t-shirt.

So what would happen if you changed your mind? Changed your belief system? Colored your beliefs in different shades instead of being so stark, so black and white? After Mars moves into Gemini on Friday, start saying out loud “And it could be xxx”. Give yourself an alternate point of view. Give Mars something to think about. Give him TWO tasks instead of just one, after all, he‘s in Gemini! Argue with passion for a different position than your previous one. Go on, do it. Try it. See what happens. Say to your Mars what you want. Yes, that thing you are SO afraid of. The opposite of your wounded belief system from 1982/83. Isn’t it time? Aren’t you ready to change? Just tell Mars. Whisper it into his ear right before he leaves for his journey in Gemini on Friday. Trust me, he’s got so much pent up energy inside of him, just raring to go after seven months of frustration that he’ll be back with what you want in no time. Then, of course, you’ll have to figure out what to DO with it! But that is another week‘s column.

Monday, Mars is free! Yesterday’s full moon energized him as it took place at the degree of his retrograde station on October first. The situation from Spring of 2000 is ready to roll! Go for it! Mercury’s aspect to Pluto inspires a terrific idea or three. Mercury is the always the alchemical beginning of every change ~ you have an idea!

Tuesday, Mercury and Uranus join on Valentine’s Day at 9:53 Pisces as Venus works with Jupiter and the Sun works with Pluto. Have a chat with your Mars. Tell him what you want. Plan your strategy. Write down inspiring or creative ideas. Brainstorm. Watch out for other Mars charging around today.

Wednesday has a quality of ouch to it. The aspects suggest hurtful words or ideas. If what ever is said echoes an OLD mantra or phrase you heard when you were younger, know that THIS is the MARS SHADOW I was talking about. You’ve been hearing the same old, same old belief for HOW many years? Yes, it MAY be the belief of the person before you. BUT it is ALSO a reliable fish hook to grab your heart, stop you and make you respond in a predictable manner. Now is the moment to have your Mars refuse to charge. Now is the moment to recognize your shadow energy.

Thursday, Mars will have a critical decision to make before he leaves Taurus tomorrow afternoon. The moon in Libra on the South Node is going to make one last Siren call from your old belief system. Plug your ears! One more scary vision of the bad old ideas or behaviors. Don’t Look. Mercury needs to turn and focus on his brilliant ideas from Valentine’s Day. Do you want to direct your Mars in a final charge at the Matador? Or would you prefer to get out of the Bullfight Arena to go do what you want? Please, let the NEXT bull kill the matador. There will be another one. You are history and outta here!

Friday, once you decide what to do with your Mars, today and probably the rest of your life goes according to your decision! Yep, it is THAT important a decision! You either get it or you don‘t. Now, today, tomorrow, or Sunday. So, maybe you don’t believe in all that shadow business about your Mars! Okay. Fish don’t “believe” in water either. Just start acting AS IF you do. Act AS IF you deserve what you are so afraid of! Act AS IF it is going to turn out for the best. And, if not THIS particular situation, then the next one. Act as if. Tomorrow, the Sun leaves Aquarius. Mercury has fabulous aspects over the weekend. Tell Mars what to go get for you. Tell him to get you what you are scared of. We’ll deal with your anxiety in the future. Just ask Mars to get it for you. You want it. You deserve it. If you tell Mars before he leaves his square to Sun in Pisces on Sunday morning, Mars will be back with it by mid-April. He is SO ready to go get it. Change is upon us.

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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Full moon Sunday February 12, 2006

11:44 pm EST, Washington, D.C.

8:44 pm PST

24:20 Leo/Aquarius.

Cast for Washington, D.C., our Leo Full Moon opposite Aquarius Sun finds Moon the highest planet, angular while Sun, ruler of the Midheaven, is cowering down at the bottom of the chart. Most of our fixed cross traffic jam of Neptune, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn sits firmly in the cardinal houses, straddling the Ascendant/Descendant, MC/IC axes. All that planetary energy will stimulate volatility, movement, and oodles of action. Or at least the desire for oodles of action! And, best of all Mars is finally breaking free from his difficult inconjunct aspect to Pluto, after ENDLESS MONTHS of being trapped, blocked, foggy, oppressed and depressed in that fixed cross, his endless, difficult, held back retrograde AND feeling he was so very stuck in Taurus’ pokey energy. Action is a distinct possibility! However, CAUTION is urged!!

Mars is liable to go a bit over the top, just because he wants to and he can! Mars is in a mean, nasty mood, spoiling for a fight or some other way to release all that pent up, irritated, aggressive and crazed energy rolling around inside of him. Mars is liable to say or do something that can permanently damage important and valued relationships when he’s this state. I suggest diverting Mars. Try lots of sex, a strenuous workout or a similar fevered activity! Take a kick boxing class. Knock down a wall for a renovation. Hit your pillow or a drum with your hands. Break a plate or three to create tiles for a future mosaic art project. Chop wood. Dig a ditch. Shoot your gun at a firing range. Please try to release Mars constructively, rather than directing your volatility, hostility or anger at some poor, hapless person who happens to find themselves in your path.

Moreover, if it feels like someone is hunting for you on this full moon; it probably isn’t for any thing you did! You merely happened to be in the path of their flying bullets, frustration or snotty words. You were a convenient target for their misdirected aggressive drive and hostilities. Of course, that doesn’t matter when they are coming after you! I suggest you hang up, stop the conversation, walk or run away, or leave. Protect yourself from any out of control Mars energy in your vicinity!

The problem with Mars is we THINK we can control Mars and approach him in an intellectual manner. Nope. Not at all! Mars is primal, instinctual and way, way out of control. He’s approaching Algol, the fixed star of beheadings. He has oodles of frustrated, pent up energy just aching to blast away at something, Mars wants to either kill you, have mindless, out of control sex with you or get you to do what he wants so you’d just better do it RIGHT NOW! If you frustrate Mars, in ANY manner, he’s going to let you have it! Right now, conversations with Mars are as productive as negotiating in a reasonable manner with a terrorist psychopath serial killer. For this, you need a sniper with excellent aim!! Or to wait until he falls asleep. Or not answer the phone. If caught in a room with him, you just have to do what Mars wants and survive until Monday. And, if you WANT to be a psychopath serial killer over the weekend, please know you will be sloppy, get caught and sent to jail for the rest of your life! Or killed by lethal injection. You are going to leave a trail with oodles of clues. The police are going to get you!!

The ascendant for the Washington Full Moon chart is in the Via Combusta, the road or pathway of fire. The Sun and Moon are in aspect to the Part of Death, suggesting permanent endings if we are not cautious. The Ascendant is opposite the Part of Fortune suggesting your fortune can shift suddenly and without warning. There are quite a few mutual receptions, especially using Ptolemy’s essential dignities table. Mutual Receptions allow the planets to swap places energetically ~ so they can trade places. Think of the mutual receptions as giving the full moon a bunch of wild cards to use! Careful use of wild cards can help you to win the game! Or, your opponents can use those exact same wild cards to completely beat you into submission. It all depends on the deal.

Quite a few planets are sitting on Fixed stars in the full moon chart, adding to the energy, complexity and permanent changes promised by our moon. Pluto is on Aculeus, suggests blindness, failure to see or being caught, impaled by a fish hook. Neptune is on Sualocin, the dolphin star, implying playfulness is the route to freedom and avoiding being trapped. Vertex and Juno are chatting with Bellatrix promising success through facing one‘s shadow as personal weaknesses are exposed for the world, or perhaps just you, to see. Bellatrix demands personal growth as the only way to true success. Moon is parralel to Aldebaran suggesting emotional and personal integrity and purity are profoundly critical at this time. Aldebaran promises a rapid fall from grace and having to run through a tunnel of fire to prove your innocence and survive if you are found wanting or lacking in honor. Venus and Jupiter are parallel to Zuben Elgenubi indicating malevolence, violence, disease, lying and poison. The fixed stars speak to the choices we will face when Mars breaks free or acts up in revolution. Yep, it is going to be a very interesting full moon.

Last, but certainly NOT least, the Sun and Moon are triggering the Mars in Taurus station retrograde last fall. Therefore, under this full moon, you will FINALLY find out what the story of fall 2005 was for. The issues of Fall 1982 to Spring 83 and May 2000 will be up and dancing in front of your nose asking how you want to resolve, plan or work with them in the very near future. Last October first, as Mars stationed at 24 Taurus, you figured out something very important. Now, or perhaps over the next two weeks, you will find out WHAT that knowledge was for. Why did it come into your life? What are you supposed to do with it? The time for action is now.

As usual, Lynda Hill’s interpretations of the Sabian Symbols for the Moon and Sun add layers to our understanding. The symbol for the Moon at 25 Aquarius is: A BUTTERFLY WITH THE RIGHT WING MORE PERFECTLY FORMED

Commentary: ‘A Butterfly With the Right Wing More Perfectly Formed’ shows a situation of imbalance, lopsidedness and sometimes physical distortions. The ‘Butterfly’ may have difficulty flying and therefore its very life is compromised because of this “handicap”. However, perhaps this ‘Right Wing More Perfectly Formed’ is only a problem in how things look and not how they perform. It could be that the ‘Butterfly’ has learnt how to cope with this imbalance and can still live its life unhindered by the defect.

Oracle: In your situation, you may find that you are applying your rational logical mind out of balance to your intuition and creative wisdom. It is often harder to understand your intuitive messages, but reliance on logic can limit your possibilities. On the other hand, it could be that life is swamped with a lack of rational thought and responses, relying more heavily on the emotional, creative and spiritual. This would have to be accessed by the individual that has this situation or problem in their life. This Symbol can show problems or issues to do with language or the ability to verbally express feelings. It can also show someone or a situation where the emotional aspects get the upper hand before the rational mind really understands or “gets it”. With this Symbol around, it may be necessary to learn to trust your intuitive feelings, but to be careful not to overreact emotionally and take the extra effort to bring your thoughts and rational awareness up to speed. It can show that emotional, mental or physical handicaps that prevent one from doing what one truly wants, or imbalances or mutations on the spiritual level. The main issue here is about balance. Balance can still be achieved, but only if there is a genuine acceptance of the problems inherent.

Keywords: Rising above life’s distortions. A need to bring some type of balance to situations. Injuries or problems with hands or arms. One side being more ‘Perfect’ than the other. The ‘Right’ being better than the left. Mutations. Handicaps. Challenges.

The Caution: Imbalances and physical distortions. Asymmetry. An imbalance of functions leading to involuntary flapping around. Distortions of reactions or of the truth. Lopsidedness.

The bird that would soar above the plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. Kate Chopin

You cannot fly with wings made of butter. Netherlands Antillean Proverb

A bird never flew on one wing. Proverb

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? Charles A. Lindbergh

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it. Ralph W. Sockman

I’d give my right arm to be ambidextrous. Yogi Berra SABIAN

The Sun at 25 Leo summons the symbol of: A LARGE CAMEL CROSSING A VAST AND FORBIDDING DESERT

Commentary: ‘A Large Camel Crossing a Vast and Forbidding Desert’ is an image of endurance, strength and determination. The ‘Camel’ has the ability to overcome challenges and obstacles to complete a ‘Vast and Forbidding’ journey. The ‘Large Camel’ doesn’t realize how amazing and noteworthy this feat of endurance is; he’s merely getting on with what he must do. It’s part of his nature. Human beings, on the other hand, find going so far on so little reserves in such forbidding conditions very challenging. Further, the ‘Camel’ may also have a rider or a heavy load to carry. It can feel like something almost impossible or too much to ask of somebody.

Oracle: Your situation may already feel like an arduous journey, but there is still probably further to go. Be confident that you have the reserves to survive and the endurance to succeed. It may be that the source of this energy or confidence is stored in someone else. It can be a great sacrifice or burden, and it is often a family member or very close friend that will fulfill this duty. Expecting someone to be there to provide sustenance and revitalization can be a lot to ask of them. The important thing to remember is that this is a long and difficult journey, but whoever is doing it is purpose built for it and capable of achieving it. Issues to do with self-sufficiency may arise. Mental and emotional self-control are very necessary. Another perspective could show someone who’s totally comfortable doing the “hard yards”. It may look daunting and impossible to others, but to them it is familiar and perhaps even comforting. As the ‘Camel’ is prepared for long stretches in the ‘Desert’, so too are you for the task before you. Make sure you have what you need with you.

Keywords: Completing a journey. Protecting oneself from spiritual “sunstroke”. Tests of karma. Taking on daunting tasks. Taking one step at a time. Feeling totally at home. Provisions that nurture and satisfy. Camels, caravans, oasis, mirages, water, provisions, deserts. Stamina and fortitude. Crossing to the other side. Endurance. Thirst. Survival against the odds. Transport. Bad backs. Back packs.

The Caution: Not preparing properly and running out of reserves. Feeling weighed down and in danger of not making it through. Not seeing the big picture. Lack of sustenance. Big plans with no back up. Taking on huge tasks when one shouldn’t. Being daunted by huge projects. Mirages that confuse objectives.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. Antoine de Saint Exupery

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. T.S. Eliot

The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness. Havelock Ellis

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. Henry David Thoreau

If you’re going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions. Elayne Boosler

Trust in God – but tie your camel tight. Persian Proverb

Much has been written about the beauty, the stillness, the terror of the desert but little about its flies. Belle Livingstone

So on our glorious full moon, take the wisdom of the cosmos under advisement, stretch your uneven, imperfectly formed wings and start your own journey across the vast and forbidding desert. You are going to have SUCH an interesting trip! Just watch out for Mars, keep your sense of humor, bait the hook and fish carefully as you wrap yourself in a cloak of personal integrity while paying strict attention to honor, valor, purity and your own shadow issues. I know, I know. It‘s a lot to keep track of! But, hey, haven‘t you been moaning about the traffic jam for a while now? It is starting to break! Forward you go!

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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Weekly Weather February 6, 2006 to February 12, 2006

I have been having numerous conversations about the nature of perceived reality during readings lately. Our lovely planets in that fixed cross traffic jam since fall have activated and retrieved for us very stable, unchanging and locked in repetitive potions of our being and soul. At the same time, the universe is applying TREMENDOUS cosmic pressure to those locked in, fixed beliefs via Uranus in Pisces and Pluto in Sagittarius. The cosmic forces want us to examine, resolve, dissolve, divorce, break free and transform the nature and sources of our fixed belief systems, as shown by our fixed planets or houses. When our current “version” of reality is at odds with where our soul or heart wants to go, we‘ve been challenged to let our reality change, evolve or shift into a new form or shape.

Of course, the minute we dance towards an intellectual concept of “well gee, it might be fun for me to try a new version of my own reality” we run smack dab into a large, solid wall composed of our fear of our own light, our oceanic lack of clarity, our passion to create or control and our need to change HOW we behave to get what we want or be free. And then, right behind THAT version of the fixed cross, the emotional version appears ~ the fear comes, the fog swirls, the worse case scenario jumps out of the closet and our bad old behaviors come a calling.

Reality is composed and created by FOUR levels ~ soul/spirit, intellectual, emotional and physical. To change reality, one of the four levels has to go first to show the other three how to change. On the other hand, two can start and get the other two to join in. Alternatively, three can drag the fourth kicking and screaming into change. The problem with fixed energies is NONE of them WANT to change, OR jump in OR go first OR talk the others energies into changing. Fixed energies like to sit there and argue about how THEY want it or why THAT is not right and defend, often to the death, their particular embedded position or way of doing things. YOU are wrong and THEY are right. Or perhaps it is vice versa. YOU are right and THEY are wrong.

Often the only way to get fixed energies to change is to have them hold hands, take a deep breath and jump in together. None of this you go first and I will follow you business. The planet left standing on the cliff will go “Suckers!” and not jump, completely defeating the change in reality! If you get all your planets to jump in together, reality shifts. Somewhere in your chart, the fixed cross has been putting up a TREMENDOUS struggle to preserve what it has or change. The fixed cross appeared as the traffic jam, blockage, resistance to change or a drama between what you have and what you want. I want you to gather all the fixed energies together, hold hands, take a deep breath and get ready to jump in, around Thursday.

Starting this week, whenever it feels like an ME/YOU, US/THEM, simply say, “Well, I guess we will have to agree to disagree“. Stop arguing with what ever or whoever it is over the particular point(s). Put it down. Walk away. Do something else. All that righteous indignation, bossy, know it all and dug-in-and-determined-to quality of Mercury as he has passed through Capricorn and Aquarius can be released now. On Wednesday, Mercury moseys into Pisces for a very long mutable journey, including a retrograde. Mercury is playing in Pisces until mid-April! Hold water in your cupped hand to watch it dribble through your fingers even as you try to keep it captive. Be like that with the power over, controlled, fixed cross elements in your life. Just imagine what you have been struggling with is water in your cupped fingers and watch it drip out, just because water wants to and it can. The reality of everything is changing to become fluid instead of fixed, stuck and oppressive. Or open your fingers to help the water flow faster. Or watch how your hand dries in the air as the water evaporates into air. Or, perhaps a better analogy is to hold an ice cube in your hand, a more fixed form of water, and watch it melt, slowly, so slowly, over time, into water and to eventually evaporate into air. While you sit there watching an ice cube melt, understand the reality before you is like that ice cube. Reality is shifting from a fixed into a fluid form. Now, you can sit there and shout at the ice cube to melt, damn you, melt! Or you can stick that ice cube in a cup, go do something else for a while and come back later to find it nicely melted into water. Let go of your struggle with the fixed cross, the ice cube, the traffic jam, and the bullfight in your life. Put it down. Stop attempting to shape it into YOUR version of reality. See what happens when you let time and the universe do what it will.

When I was in my 20s, I was skiing with a friend in Utah. We found a Monopoly board in the lounge and decided to play a game after dinner. Lisa built a couple of hotels in the expensive part of town. I landed on them and paid her very high rents. When I landed there again, she gloated, “Now, you are out of money. You will have to mortgage your Railroads to pay the rent to Me!” I looked at her, looked at the board, decided we could continue to play the game as I slowly sold all my property off to pay her more and more rent and watch her gloat as she collected it OR I could just concede that she’d won this game, call it quits and we’d go get a drink at the bar. So, I said, “Okay, you win. I quit. Let’s go get a drink and meet guys.” She said, “No, you have to mortgage your railroads! Then you have to mortgage all your other property! I get to build more and more hotels as I buy your property. And THEN I WILL WIN, after you are completely destroyed!” We argued about it for a few minutes. I wanted to stop playing, was willing to proclaim her the winner, and move along to other fun stuff, following MY version of reality. She wanted HER version of reality, complete with her fantasy of becoming a wealthy land baroness of the Monopoly board after she drove me into bankruptcy and ruin. Well, it takes two to play in any dance of reality or drama. I got up and went to the bar. She did not talk to me for a few days. It was not great for our vacation plan of skiing together. However, I had a fabulous time skiing in deep powder and on the black diamond slopes Lisa was afraid to ski on. Eventually, she talked to me again, saying “I can‘t believe you did that. I was furious with you!” This week, if you decide to NOT play the game any more, do know they may be VERY mad at you! They may even decide to end your “relationship” and wish you a nice life as they leave. Or ask you to go. Just let it flow like water through the cupped fingers of your hand. Maybe even open your fingers to help the water along. Go do what you want to do. Reality changes! Watch for it!

Monday, Sun finally joins Neptune and squares Jupiter, clearing and drying up the scary, foggy fear. Now that things are clearer than they were over the past two weeks, what do YOU want? Make your decision and move toward your wishes completely INDEPENDENT of the other guy or the situation in front of you. No fixed versions of reality, control or manipulation of the other. No turning the other into what you want them to be or do. They have their journey. You have your journey. Yeah, I know, it would be nice. They have to change. They have to get there. You cannot change or fix them or the situation. You can just show up, if you want to, be supportive and smile. Or you can let them melt by themselves. No ultimatums, even if you are sorely tempted.

Tuesday, Mars comes to understand how HIS struggle contributes to Saturn’s fixed nature as they quintile each other. The gift of understanding arrives in a kind of cosmic “Ah Hah“ moment. Yes, it may seem SO very simple that you smack your head that you have struggled over it for so long. Keep blowing away the fog or wiping the steam off the bathroom mirror to get a clear view. Over the next few days, reality will shift! Honest, it is THAT simple.

Wednesday, Mercury and Pallas change signs and sextile each other. Immersing Mercury’s wisdom into the depths of Pisces’s ocean as he merges to work with Pallas in strategic, grounded Capricorn suggests your plan or idea is good, solid and sound. It is something you need to follow through on. It IS YOUR solution to this week’s final pass of your bull charging at the matador and Perseus attempting to slay Medusa.

Oh, did I forget to mention that? Sometime mid-week, either today or tomorrow, we have the third and final pass of Mars to Pluto by inconjunct. That is our dear bull’s final charge at the matador and Perseus creeping up to slay Medusa. Do not worry. You are completely ready for it! You are going to be just fine.

Thursday Mercury and Venus make aspects with each other, Chiron and Neptune by parallel as the Bull/Medusa charges at Matador/Perseus. Remember BULL and MEDUSA are the same! MATADOR and PERSEUS are the same! The only difference is the side of the struggle you are standing on, who you are rooting for, and your perception of reality! Root for yourself and your desire!! Root for all FOUR of them! The struggle in front of you, which feels like it is going to be to your very DEATH, is actually your soul evolving and changing form right in front of your heart.

Assuming you survived Wednesday and Thursday to read this, your transformation took place. Friday, as Saturn talks to Pallas Athena, listen as she explains the nature of reality to him. WE create the situations we need to evolve and grow. They are our earth school. When we change our belief about the NEED for the struggle with the situation, it magically disappears or changes form. When we agree to cooperate with the energy and go with the flow, it transforms. You have to let it go, like water through your fingers or an ice cube in a cup. Just let it go. Put it down. Let it go. Jump in with all planets holding hands together. Do not worry.

Saturday, Mercury makes stressful aspects to the North Node and Chiron. So, yes, you CAN wail about it over the weekend if you simply must, need to, have to or want to. Aren’t you getting sick and tired of hearing yourself go on and on about it? Perhaps a more productive use of your time would be to look at WHY it has to be THAT particular situation in THAT particular way out of ALL the possibilities in the world? Think of all the other things you could obsess over? Do you see how obsessing over something that is not going the way YOU want prevents the rest of your life from moving forward? That one planet is standing there on the edge of the pool, simply refusing to jump in! Just look at it stamping its feet and having a hissy fit!?

Sunday, hopefully, you use the Venus aspect to Neptune to splash that hissy fit planet into silence. Or perhaps get it wet enough that it decides to jump in already. Or got the other planets to get out and push it in. Or got out of the pool, grabbed its hand and jumped in together. And, by jumping, pushing, falling or letting go in, Venus promises your reality changes as she dances with Pluto. Mercury in a watery aspect to Saturn shouts out in a combination of pain and pleasure as the cool water hits your hot flesh. Suddenly, your reality changes….

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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