Weekly Weather

Weekly Weather October 30, 2006

Over the week ahead, the energy starts to settle down a bit from the turbulence of last week. The Cosmic Gardener stopped by last week in the form of that Saturn Jupiter square. You and the Gardner inspected your work over the last year in identifying and plucking the suckers from your life. The whole purpose of plucking suckers was to increase and enhance your bloom. The Gardener (or you) might have made a few more adjustments and plucked a couple of big suckers. And then, we all took a bit of time to recover as sucker plucking can be exhausting.

This week we can find ourselves continuing to pluck a few suckers from our life and our unique Rose Bush. However, going forward we’ll be plucking with a bit more confidence, assurance and knowledge as we think, “Wow, I DO know what I am doing! Well, kinda of sorta of. That looks like a sucker too! Pluck!” Mercury in Scorpio is going backwards over our fixed t-square. And then Mercury is going to forwards over our fixed t-square. This week, Mercury joins with Jupiter and squares Saturn. Next week, Mercury squares Neptune. Mercury dancing backwards through our t-square of change and evolution is going to make for an interesting couple of weeks.

Mercury in Scorpio retrograde will bring back all sorts of ghosts for us talk with like he did last June. I want you to chat up every single ghost you run into. They are YOUR ghosts and they are NOT scary. Chat them up. Talk and ask LOTS of questions ~ especially what you always wanted to know! Now, if a ghost contacts YOU, MAKE SURE TO LISTEN to what the ghost has to say. Then, you can ask your ghost a lot of questions. The ghost wants to talk to you and tell you stuff. I don’t want you hanging up on your ghosts or walking away from them thinking you know EXACTLY what they are going to say. You don‘t know. Trust me on this one. Listen to your Ghost. See how much you can learn from chatting up your Ghosts.

Now, as this is a unique kind of Rose Garden, please know that the Suckers you’ve plucked from your rose bush can talk too. Your Suckers will be reappearing to trying to get back on your Rose Bush during the Mercury retrograde. Treat them like Ghosts. I want you to think of your Suckers as ghosts and chat them up. Or listen to the sad Sucker’s story. Chat them up.

Now, with the Suckers, you have the opportunity to make a few choices. They OR You can change. They OR You decided not to change. They and You accept each other the way you each are, agree to disagree and drop the problem area into the nearest sewer drain. You CAN let the Sucker back into your life. You CAN tell the Sucker they’ve been plucked and need to go find a new Rose Bush or patch of dirt of their own.

DON’T MAKE THE CHOICE or DECISION about what to do with the Sucker WHILE MERCURY IS RETROGRADE! Tell the Sucker what you need the Sucker to do to come back into your life and to get back on your Rose Bush. Tell the Sucker that he or she is on probation and not, at all, guaranteed a permanent spot on your Rose Bush until the END OF FEBRUARY 2007. Or maybe don’t tell the Sucker that but know deep in your heart that by the end of February YOU will know if you want that Sucker back in your life and back sharing your vital energy.

Remember Suckers can grow and bloom into legitimate branches! Suckers can have lovely blooms upon them IF they want to. Right now, that Sucker can be renamed a provisional Twig, IF YOU WANT TO. You have to say what YOU want the Sucker/Twig TO DO if they are going to stay in your garden and climb back on your Rose Bush. If the Sucker/Twig can do it, great. The Sucker/Twig HAS to do it, consistently, until the end of February of 2007. The Sucker/Twig has to enhance your life. The Sucker/Twig has to maximize your bloom to stay in your garden. The Sucker/Twig has to stop drugging and drinking or whatever is causing the problem and seek help to change permanently. For example, the Sucker/Twig needs to attend 90 meetings of AA in 90 days. The Sucker/Twig needs to get into therapy WITH or WITHOUT you. The Sucker/Twig has to STOP doing whatever. The Sucker/Twig has to START doing whatever. Again, it is a unique kind of Rose Garden. You CAN let the Sucker/Twig climb back onto your Rose Bush IF you want to. You can also put the Sucker/Twig right next to you and watch what they are doing. Postpone making yourdecision until the end of February 2007. Or at the very least, postpone making your decision until Mercury is out of retrograde and past his Scorpio shadow degree of 9, December 5, 2006. Remember Retrogrades are for RESEARCH and REVISION and RECONSIDERING.

The other exciting cosmic event that happens later in the week is the Full Moon at 12:58 Taurus on Sunday. All last fall we worked with Mars in Taurus traveling back and forth over this degree, trapped in a bullfight or argument with Medusa, by Saturn and Jupiter in early Leo and Scorpio. So, with the full moon taking place in this area of the chart, you will have an event, in the Taurus area of your chart, that lets you know how much you’ve grown over the past year. Full moon’s are culmination energies, as the Universe takes advantage of the bright reflected light to let our souls see clearly at night how much we’ve accomplished. As the moon ripens to fullness, it echoes our own ripening to fullness.

Think about it for a minute. Combine the current Mercury retrograde in Scorpio stationing and moving back and forth opposite last fall’s Mars in Taurus stationing and moving back and forth and with this week’s Full Moon in Taurus. The fixed areas of your chart are about to demonstrate and show you how very much you’ve changed since last year. If we think of our lives as a series of growing cycles, we’ve come through and completed a fairly stressful patch of a major growth cycle. Look at how different your belief systems are now! Think about how much you’ve evolved and learned! That hard won and struggled for knowledge will NEVER leave you! It integrates into your soul and being over the next couple of weeks as Jupiter finishes his journey in Scorpio. Wise old Mercury pops back into ask you what you learned that you didn’t know back then. All serving the purpose of your soul’s evolution….

Monday, Mercury has a bit of a spat with Pluto as he joins Jupiter. Harsh words or perhaps understanding word appear in your life today. Mars makes a fast moving square to Chiron and triggers your soul wound. Now that you’ve finishes all the lessons from last year, it is time to go find your new tribe. Jupiters lovely, warm trine to the North Node brings a sense of optomism to the whole process. Might not be the situation you exactly want in your life right now (see that Mars square Chiron) but you are on the road towards it. Chat up any ghosts or Sucker/Twigs you meet.

Tuesday, Mercury trines the node for past two in his retrograde journey. Chat up ghosts and Sucker/Twigs. If you take the time today to focus on the changes in YOU in the midst of the hustlely, bustlely busy day (the moon has quite a few aspects) it will be helpful! If you take the time to drag old Venus out and ask her opinion about all the changes she’s noticed in you, you might be pleasantly surprised at her answers. The Moon in Pisces reminds us this is the night the veil between the two worlds of living and dead is the thinnest. It is a great night to meditate with deceased relatives or friends in mind and talk to your past and now literal ghosts.

Wednesday has a pile of activity, not all of it pleasant but the point of it is to help you get what you need to get to move onto the next phase of your life. The Cosmic Gardener might pluck one or two of your last Suckers today. Or at least point the Suckers out for you to pluck. Or the Sucker/Twig will make an appeal to you to take them back or whatever. State your desires, needs and grounds. Look that Cosmic Gardener or Sucker/Twig CLEARLY in the eye. The Sun’s aspect to Saturn says it will be MUCH EASIER than you think it is. They will look smaller, you will feel taller, it’s a growing up kind of energy! Venus has a BE-UUU-T -FULL aspect to Uranus suggesting the moment of change and transformation is upon us. You are going to need a day or so to recover from whatever happens today. Schedule light on Thursday if you can as Friday is going to be part two of today.

Thursday, Venus aspect to Saturn and Sun’s to Pluto suggest a moment of conciousness. It is very scary when you grow past the point your family or friends have grown to. You feel a bit alone in the world. You are. It is okay. Part of the reason we have such resistance to knowledge and change is it means we FEEL we have to lose or leave things behind. Those things travel with you. No, you can’t go home again. And, yes, it IS sad. But, you know what? It is also over. Recover from Wednesday and move toward your new life. Your luggage is lighter. You’ll meet new friends. You’ll find what you want. Especially now that you are crystal clear about it (thank you Saturn). It will be okay. Hold the hand of your guardian angel if you feel too lonely.

Friday, Sun makes a repeat of the BE-UUU-T-FULL aspect to Uranus indicating your ego and soul gets it today! Mercury has an aspect of brilliance to Chiron. If you sit still enough and hush up long enough to listen to your inner voice (the higher part of your being that is the wise voice~ not the naggy worry voice that was so busy yesterday and last week!) you might hear a comforting word or three. We arrive in this world to serve a purpose. Sometimes we get off track because we get scared of what happened in our lives or our past. Rather than looking at it and thinking “hey, that was scary but oh well!” we think WE did it, caused it or are the problem. Today, the Universe is going to, hopefully very gently, point out to you that the only way to acquire mastery in your life is to practice and perhaps fail. Perhaps you won’t do as well as you wanted to. However, you learned. Next time you’ll do better because ALL the stuff you learned is in your soul and able to guide you. Act As If you were a little person learning to walk or ride a bike, now is the time to pick yourself back up off the ground and try again.

All around you, you can see people walking or riding bikes. You have to figure out how to do it yourself. The problem or perhaps gift (or actually combination of both) is to understand that the stuff you’ve been learning over the last year, you haven’t had any models to follow. No one is walking around showing you how to do your Saturn. In fact, your family and friends probably discouraged you from doing your Saturn when you were little. You’ve been on your own figuring this one out. Figuring out how to do that darn Saturn of yours has taken a whole darn year as well as the balance of your life. Now, don‘t sit down in a frustrated mess and cry. You‘ve learned a whole bunch of cool stuff. Take that Saturn of yours and go teach someone else what you‘ve learned about how to work with Saturn! You know there is someone in your world that is struggling with a similar issue. You‘ve been teaching them how to do their Saturn all year while you’ve been struggling to figure out how to do your next level of Saturn. Take a look at how what you‘ve been struggling with for so long is what you’ve been teaching them how to do. When they call you in tears this week or with a great deal of pride to report what they have accomplished, your job is to know YOU have done YOUR Saturn by supporting them. And call your Saturn teacher and thank them.

Saturday, go read Friday again. Make that phone call. Be a ghost in some one’s life. (I assume IF you read this column you are NOT a Sucker or Twig! ~ but if you are a Sucker or Twig, make the phone call too.)

Sunday, we rest. And we have our full moon in Taurus. Go read my full moon report on this site. If you didn’t figure it out over the past few days, you will today. Mercury’s aspect to Juno reminds us that we partner with the folks we need to partner with to learn our lessons. If we don’t do our charts, folks, events and situations will show up in our lives and do our charts for us. However, they might NOT do OUR CHARTS the way we would like them to do our charts! That means we need to take responsibility for our lives and do our OWN Charts ~ not blame it on the other guy! Whether we do our own charts or farm them out to the other guy, we WILL reap the harvest and consequences of our actions and our charts! Continue to do your Saturn. Just because he’s finished with Jupiter, no lollygagging or rest for you! Saturn’s still dancing with Neptune until next June. Do Your Saturn.

Mundane: I thought it was way, way cool that the Saturn/Jupiter square only brought more nasty stuff to light and that we didn’t invade in Iran (yet)! Perhaps the GOP Neo-con Suckers are finally being Plucked? Yeah! Rush Limbaugh picked on Michael J. Fox and his disease and he got plucked in return. Dick Cheney said he liked dunking terrorists into water ~ otherwise known as Waterboarding ~ and while he didn’t get plucked, Tony Snow was questioned extensively about waterboarding as a form of torture at a White House Press Conference. Of course, the fact that the Japanese in World War Two were found guilty of war crimes for water boarding our POWs wasn’t mentioned.

Mercury’s retrograde over our fixed t-square brings days to watch and pay attention to this week, specifically Monday during his square to Jupiter and Wednesday during his square to Saturn for triggering events for an Iran invasion. Mercury in Scorpio setting off the t-square shoots an enormous amount of energy into the Taurus portion of a chart. Taurus is land and valuable land at that. Mercury in Scorpio is also a fear based Mercury when operating at his lower lever of energy. Expect fear words to be dancing around the world. Not real fear words but fear words none the less. Act with love. Do your Saturn.

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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Weekly Weather October 23, 2006

Our week ahead is going to be huge!

Any of ONE the week’s SIXTEEN aspects would make it a “transformative” week. We have SIXTEEN MAJOR aspects, including the perfection of our Jupiter Saturn square and the station of Neptune, the third leg of the fixed T-square. Three planets changing signs out of peace loving Libra into transformative, passionate and possibly destructive BUT preferably evolutionary Scorpio ~ Sun, Mars, and Venus. Two planets station. Mercury stations to go Retrograde in Scorpio right on top of our t-square and on Jupiter. Neptune stations to go Direct, summoning up all sorts of dreams, illusions and imagery. Sun joins with Mars on the last degree of Libra asking us to partner with the month’s new moon and move forward. Venus joins with Mars at 1 Scorpio asking us to define our passions and dreams to have them take form. Sun joins with Venus at 4 Scorpio as they both square Chiron at 4 Aquarius asking us to go forth, create or find our tribe and where we fit in the world. There are bunches of squares, causing action, movement or change ~ Mercury square to Saturn ~ state your passion and objections NOW or be prepared to forever hold your peace! Pluto square to the nodes ~ the world is starting to spin toward her next phase, the last phase is ending ~ wave goodbye to the past ~ send it off with blessings and love as you turn to face the new beginnings.

Of course, the biggest aspect is Jupiter square to Saturn for pass three ~ revisiting the story begun May of 2000 and with test part 1 on December 17, 2005 and test part 2 on June 22, 2006. The final exam is this week! Keep doing your Saturn and you are going to ACE it! Sun and Venus square Chiron ~ our passions uniquely define us and help us make our future life choices. Make a choice from your deepest passionate belief about what you can have and what you love at the depths of your soul. There are several parallels as Venus, Mars and Chiron meet by declination in the sky ~ sometimes what is best for us is hard for those who love us ~ but we have to do what is best for us. It is how we actually show our love for the others by loving ourselves. Love means letting the other person pursue what is best for them even if it is hard for you. The other person gets to make their own choices and live their own life. Just as you get to make your own choices and live your own life. Back to the concept of free will and God ~ you have free will to love OR not love God. That is what free will is ….. You get to decide what you want to love. Coercion is NOT letting you exercise your free will. “Free will issues” are going to be all over the place all week.

The week ahead is what we’ve been emotionally working toward resolving since last year in August 2005. In fact, on a soul or spirit level we’ve been working toward it since Fall 1982. On an intellectual level, we’ve been working toward it since May 2000. On an emotional level, we’ve been working toward it since Saturn entered Leo last summer. All that is left is the physical form ~ time for manifestation! Expect manifestation to occur this week!

We create and experience things on four levels ~ spirit, intellectual, emotional and physical, or by the elements of fire, air, water and earth. Spirit has a desire or passion to experience something and moves towards it. Intellectually we get it and can verbalize the goal. We can talk about it but the NEXT step is the most difficult. Spirit and intellect run into trouble manifesting in form (earth) when EMOTIONALLY (water) they react with or experience fear. Fear makes us remove our emotional energy from the creative act. When we emotionally experience fear, we shrink back, rather than rushing toward, accepting the fear and facing that fear with love. Fear and love are opposite sides of the same energy. We recede with fear. Let’s reframe our fear. Let’s start to think of our “fear” as a marker for “almost being there” in terms of our individual manifestation process. Our fear is our Saturn. Let our fear turn into our love. That is actually what it wants to become. Saturn is the planet of manifestation ~ our fear has to transform to make things manifest.

Saturn as the planet of manifestation is also called in astrology as the planet of fear and limitations. We have to emotionally experience the yearning desire AS WELL AS FACE ANY FEARS (and figure out how to work with or pass them by) to get Saturn to create what we’d like to have in our world. I find it interesting that the things we fear the most are exactly what we manage to create. But of course! Think about it! We’ve contributed SO much emotional energy to our fear BECAUSE we are afraid of our fears! Stuff gets created by our emotions, fear or love, combining with our passion and our intellect! The stuff we are afraid of gets created because we are afraid of it! So bizarre isn’t it?

When we look at what we fear with LOVE, acceptance, gratitude OR if we agree to work with what we fear, rather than shrink from it, we create what we deeply want. Gotta face those fears ~ it is the key to getting what you say you want! This week you will have an opportunity to face your fears. You‘ve been doing your Saturn over the past few months. Doing your Saturn, in any form, is facing your fears.

During a week like this, I resort to describing the energy. There is so much going on in the heavens (and thus in our world). There is not much else to do to make sense of it. Expect lots of turbulence, eruptions and oodles of change. After all we have SIXTEEN BIG ASPECTS rolling around on our earth! If you’ve been doing your Saturn, you’ll be ready. And, just keep doing your Saturn if you get nervous or anxious or feel the “whoosh” of the t-square taking you off to parts or places unknown that you are afraid of. Whatever happens, do your Saturn. It will calm you right down. Face your fear. Just look at it. That is doing your Saturn. So easy, yet so hard.

Sunday’s new moon at 28:40 Libra echoes across time and space. It asked us to start anew with a revised or different vision of the issues from our past. It is time to revisit our known knowns and our accepted wisdoms. We are a moment in time when we can see what and how our known knowns and accepted wisdoms created our life. One of the major stumbling blocks when we start to become conscious is learning and understanding how our beings are settled in, formed, created and passed into solid structures by the roots of our family and early experiences. When you are taught to “believe” in a thing, especially when you are young, it is difficult to separate out what is actually YOUR belief from THE OTHER’s belief.

Back on November 7, 1982, Saturn and Pluto, two of our life structure planets joined in the sky at 27:36 Libra, right next to the degree of Sunday’s New Moon. The conjunction starts a new cycle of consciousness about our life. When two planets join, we continue to track the steps of their cycle dance with each other. We watch whenever planets stop or station on the sensitive degree of 28 Saturn/ Pluto Libra as those moments “wake up” the energy from 1982. All growth cycles have phases. Over the past year, we’ve been “pruning” our 1982-1983 structures, beliefs, limitations and fears. There were a series of sesquiquadrates, described as a combination of squares requesting action and semisquares causing stress between the structures that have grown in our lives.

In the rose world, sesquiquadrates would be called “plucking the suckers”. At the bottom or along the main stem every rose bush, these little cute twigs or baby branches grow, seeking life. They are called “suckers”. Essentially, suckers take advantage of the growing season, rose bush and lovely weather to shoot forth. However, suckers sap the growing essence from the blooms. Suckers divert energy. Blooms are the ultimate purpose of every plant. Suckers use up the bloom’s energy. Rosarians, the fancy name for the gardeners who take care of roses, aggressively snap off and pluck the suckers. They eliminate suckers to enhance, increase and lengthen the balance, fragrance and energy sent to the bloom.

Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with suckers! Suckers are perfectly wonderful little twigs and branches. When I volunteered in a rose garden, I apologized to every bush I plucked! However, the Rosarian In Charge was VERY CLEAR about the need to Eliminate ALL The Suckers! He plucked off “suckers” which were even legitimate branches! Snip, snip, snip. Pluck, pluck, pluck.

The universe, with, or without, your cooperation, has been plucking and snapping suckers off you over the last year or so as you‘ve experienced the pruning energy of the sesquiquadrate of Saturn to Pluto. The universe wants you to bloom. It is time. The suckers in your life are perfectly fine, legitimate branches or twigs ~ they are part and parcel of your rose bush after all! In fact, you might want to keep a few of the suckers on your rose bush! Those suckers make a legitimate case for staying ~ heck they are branches already! To have you bloom, to your highest purpose and potential, you have to pluck your suckers. You have identified your suckers. You know what suckers look like. Pluck any suckers that don’t contribute to your higher path, love, growth or expansion. They are draining your energy and time.

After I learned about plucking suckers, I started checking out rose bushes that grow untended by Crazed Sucker Plucking Rosarians. Rose bushes have lots and lots of suckers! The universe and nature likes abundance. Nature likes redundancy. Sucker covered rose bushes still BLOOM. Their blooms ARE smaller, less fragrant and not as abundant. But they bloom. It takes more work, time and energy to support both the blooms and the suckers. The rose bush life force is diverted into all sorts of suckers where it doesn’t need to go.

Over the next few weeks, the Cosmic Gardener will be coming over to your part of the rose garden to inspect the bushes you’ve been plucking the suckers on for the last year or so. The Cosmic Gardner might decide to pluck a sucker that you (and perhaps even the sucker) consider to be a legitimate branch or twig. Trust the Cosmic Rosarian if a branch or twig gets plucked off and called a sucker. Even if you don‘t agree, trust the plucking the sucker process! The cosmic pluck is to help you grow. That plucked branch or twig can go to grow some place else. You don’t have to keep supporting it with your life force.

And, if the Cosmic Gardener doesn’t pluck a bunch of suckers in your part of the garden over the next week or so that means you’ve been doing your Saturn! Keep on doing your Saturn. Doing your Saturn is another word for plucking your suckers. You’ve learned to identify the suckers from the true branches and purpose of your particular rose bush. You’ve found your path. You are ready to bloom!

Monday we have two planets, Sun and Mars, changing signs and entering the passion, enthusiasm, sacredness and transformative energy of Scorpio. We also have Mercury in Scorpio square to Saturn in Leo ~ expect information or news of endings, possibly difficult news but it marks the end of something major in your life. Sun and Mars join at the last degree of Libra starting a new year cycle with you evaluating and integrating the lessons from 1982 into your life in a brand new way.

Tuesday, Venus joins with Scorpio and a number of blessed gifts of destiny aspects form in the heavens as the Sun, Mars and Venus aspect the North Node of your future path. I don’t care WHAT happens today, I want you sitting down and looking at it as a gift from the Universe because it is! The Cosmic Gardener is coming over to evaluate how well you’ve plucked your suckers! The Cosmic Gardener may or may not pluck a couple more suckers, off your Rose bush. You might not be sure you want to let those suckers go. Trust the Cosmic Gardener on this one. The Cosmic Gardener knows what is needed to make you bloom to your highest potential.

Wednesday, Venus joins with Mars as Jupiter squares Saturn. The Cosmic Gardener is going to pluck off a couple of twigs if your Rose Bush needs those suckers plucked! Plucking is all so you can grow to be what you are meant to be. Saturn and Jupiter make their final square today. Back to the events of 1982, May 2000, December 2005 and June 2006. You get to find out what those events in your life were for, now, today, this week! Get ready! The universe is going to show you some mighty cool parts of your life plan! Pluto squares the Nodes and moves us Forward into our Future.

Thursday is Sucker Plucking Recovery Day. Talk to the Cosmic Gardener about what and why those suckers had to be plucked. Ask questions. Listen to your dreams. Watch for messages from the Universe or the various people in your world. Hear the voice in your soul that pipes up with a clear voice about why. Mercury’s trine in Scorpio to the Node says that clear voice will help you understand why. The sperm and the egg both have to die or perhaps a better word is “transform” to become the egg that will grow into the baby. Tomato and lettuce are cut up and combined to make a salad. They are still the essence or components of tomato and lettuce! BUT they can never, never, ever, return to their original form of a juicy, round red globe growing in the August field or a leafy, fluffy, crispy head of Romaine sparkling with dew. Transformation is what you come to understand today. Transformation is part of our journey here on earth.

Friday, Sun joins Venus. That salad is simply delicious ~ come on, put on a bit of vinegar and oil and toss it high with your tongs. Thank those lettuce pieces and tomato chunks for their energetic and physical contributions to your delicious life salad. Thank the players, people and situations in your life story over the past year for their contribution to your life salad. If they hadn’t contributed their ingredients, you wouldn’t have the lovely, delicious salad you have today. Venus’ and Sun’s square to Chiron points out the changes that are necessary to move you along in your life. Be kind to all you meet today. Everyone’s feeling a bit raw from the tossed salad going on in their lives. Or having their suckers plucked.

Saturn’s day, Mercury stations right on top of Jupiter and our lovely fixed T-square. Mercury in Scorpio is quite the wise fellow. He looks at what you are trying to accomplish and makes suggestions, with very few words, of what you might try to get what you want. Listen to him. Make the adjustments. Venus’ aspect to Saturn suggests you look back at how you WOULD HAVE reacted not so very long ago, versus how you are reacting NOW. Do you see your growth? Do you see your changes? The wisdom that has come with the process? Pretty amazing eh?

Sunday, Neptune stations. Neptune is going direct. So maybe it didn’t turn out quite the way you wanted. There is always tomorrow. You’ve been working your Saturn muscles and getting so clear on stuff. Mars joins with Chiron suggesting a wounding but a profound understanding at the same time. The final form isn’t going to be completely clear until Saturn and Neptune finish their dance at the end of next June. However, you’ve got a glimpse of what it CAN be (as well as a picture of the yucky stuff) Focus on the good parts, the glass half full parts please!

I want to leave you with a thought to hold on to if this week is hard for you (or even if it was easy to pass along to others who had their suckers plucked and need an encouraging word or three of support). Saturn is in Fire. Neptune is in Air. Jupiter is in Water. They all are shooting their considerable energies into Taurus, the empty leg. Taurus is earth. Taurus as in earth manifestation after the emotions, intellect and passion combine. Now, keep on doing your Saturn as you will be sending all sorts of energy from the t-square into creating what you want in that Taurus leg. No feeling the fear. Well, okay, feel the fear, but face it any way. The fear will transform into love right before your very eyes if you watch and do your Saturn. Taurus is EARTH ~ Taurus is manifestation. Taurus is SPRING TIME! We made it! You made it! The bloom that is you is ready to blossom.

Mundane: Expect the Bush boys to invade Iran. Trigger event on Wednesday. Invasion by the weekend. Cheney and his energy buddies divided up a map of the Middle East oil fields of Iraq and Iran well before 9-11-2001 took place. That Mercury in Scorpio stationing on top of Jupiter in Scorpio is “be afraid, be very afraid” as well as acting on Jupiter in Scorpio plans. As the midpoint of Mercury and Neptune’s station is setting off a pile of stuff, as well as triggering our lovely fixed t-square ~ the energy shoots out into the Taurus leg. Taurus is land! Taurus is value! Taurus is wealth! Valuable earth will be ours! The fixed t-square shoots out into critical points in the charts of both the USA (Sibley July 4, 1776, 5:10 pm Philadelphia, PA) and Iran (proclaimed an Islamic Republic on BBC radio on April 1, 1979, 3:00 pm Tehran, Iran or when the Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile in Paris on Feb 1, 1979, 9:33 am, Tehran, Iran.). I hope I am wrong.

Oh, by the way, Bush signed into law the ability to disappear American Citizens last week ~ including those who negatively affect corporate profits! Make sure to tell your relatives and friends to come looking for you, if you decide to go out on the street to protest our invasion of Iran! And, yes, by writing the above, I am doing my Saturn! Pluck, pluck, pluck those suckers….

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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New Moon October 22 20006 1:14 am EDT

October 21, 2006 10:14 PDT

28:40 Libra Sun Moon

The new moon at 28:40 Libra echoes across time and space. It asks us to start anew with a revised or different vision of the issues from our past. It is time to revisit our known knowns and our accepted wisdoms. We are a moment in time when we can see what and how our known knowns and accepted wisdoms created our life. One of the major stumbling blocks when we start to become conscious is learning and understanding how our beings are settled in, formed, created and passed into solid structures by the roots of our family and early experiences. When you are taught to “believe” in a thing, especially when you are young and completely surrounded by large people, like parents, teachers, and adults, it is difficult to separate out what is YOUR belief from THEIR beliefs. Time to evaluate the accepted wisdom of how it has always been done to see if you want to keep doing it that same way. Ready?

Back on November 7, 1982, Saturn and Pluto, two of our life structure planets joined in the sky to start a new cycle of consciousness about our life. They joined at 27:36 Libra, right next to the degree of our New Moon. The 27-28 Libra degree stays “sensitive”, for lack of a more adequate word, for the balance of the 38 year cycle of Saturn and Pluto. The conjunction of Saturn and Pluto is the “seed” where a new plant eventually sprouts to take form. Back in 1982, we learned lessons, perhaps not ones we were completely happy with as we started a new evolutionary growth process. The situation and the lessons from 1982 structured the next phase of our lives. When two planets join, we continue to track the steps of their cycle dance with each other. We watch our lives whenever planets stop or station on the sensitive degree of 28 Saturn/Pluto conjunction in Libra as those moments “wake up” that energy from 1982. Various planet actions taking place at 27-28 Libra can be experienced as growing, fertilizing, plucking the ripening fruit, pulling off the dead leaves, fierce pruning, testing, sway gently in the sunshine, knocked over in a fierce storm. All growth cycles have phases.

Over the past year, essentially, we’ve all been “pruning” our 1982-1983 structures, limitations and fears. There were a series of sesquiquadrates, described as a combination of squares requesting action and semisquares causing stress between the structures that have grown in our lives over the past 24 years thanks to Saturn and Pluto. The sesquiquadrates ask us to take advantage of and work with a stressful opportunity to get what we desire. If we worked with our Saturn and Pluto sesquiquadrates, now they will start to enhance our path and our ultimate closing trine bloom over the next year.

In the rose world, sesquiquadrates would be called “plucking the suckers”. At the bottom or along the main stem every rose bush, these little cute twigs or baby branches grow, seeking life. They are called “suckers”. Essentially, suckers take advantage of the growing season, rose bush and lovely weather to shoot forth. However, suckers sap the growing essence from the blooms. Suckers divert energy. Blooms are the ultimate purpose of every plant. Suckers want to use up the bloom’s energy. Rosarians, the fancy name for people who take care of roses, aggressively snap off the suckers to enhance, increase and lengthen the balance, fragrance and energy sent to the bloom.

Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with suckers! Suckers are perfectly wonderful little twigs and branches trying to grow and thrive in the world. When I volunteered in a rose garden, my Pisces Moon felt SO bad breaking the suckers off the rose bushes. I was apologizing to every bush I plucked! However, the Rosarian in charge was VERY CLEAR about the need to eliminate ALL the suckers! He even plucked off stuff as “suckers” which I thought were quite legitimate branches!

The universe, with, or without, your cooperation, has been plucking and snapping the suckers off you over the last year or so as you‘ve experienced the sesquiquadrate of Saturn to Pluto. The universe wants you to bloom. It is time. The suckers in your life are perfectly fine, legitimate branches or twigs ~ they are part and parcel of you after all. They have a perfect right to exist. In fact, you might want to keep some of the suckers on your rose bush. They might be making a very legitimate case for becoming an important branch in your life. However, to have you bloom, to your highest purpose and potential, you’ll have the opportunity to pluck your suckers over the next couple of weeks. You have clearly identified your suckers by now. You know what suckers look like. Pluck the suckers that don’t contribute to your higher path, love, growth or expansion. They are draining your energy and time.

After I learned about plucking suckers, I started checking out rose bushes that grow in the wild, untended by sucker plucking Rosarians. Those rose bushes have lots and lots of suckers! The universe and nature likes abundance and redundancy. Those sucker covered rose bushes still BLOOM. Their blooms are smaller, less fragrant and not as abundant. But they do bloom. It takes more work, time and energy to support both the blooms and all those suckers. The rose bush life force is diverted into all sorts of places that it doesn’t need to go.

Over the next few weeks, the Cosmic Rosarian will be marching over to your part of the rose garden to inspect the bushes you’ve been plucking the suckers on for the last year or so. The Rosarian might decide to pluck a sucker that you (and perhaps even the sucker) consider to be a legitimate branch or twig. Trust the Cosmic Rosarian if a branch or twig gets plucked off and called a sucker. Even if you don‘t agree, trust the process! The cosmic pluck is to help you grow. That plucked branch or twig can go and grow some place else. You don’t have to keep supporting it with your life force.

And, if the Cosmic Rosarian doesn’t pluck stuff in your part of the garden over the next few weeks that means you’ve been doing your Saturn. Keep on doing your Saturn. You’ve learned to identify the suckers from the true purpose of your particular rose bush and found your path.

Now for the astrology part: All the Saturn Pluto energy of 27/28 Libra is receiving a fresh start in our vision of what we want in our most critical and important relationships as they form the structures of our lives. Venus and Mars in Libra surround the lunation and fall upon the Sun/Moon midpoint. Venus and Mars also trigger the Saturn/Pluto conjunction from 1982. Mercury is joined to Jupiter in Scorpio, slowing to station next week, square to Saturn in Leo. Important information and secrets will be arriving in your life to help you to grow. Or the cosmic Rosarian if you prefer. If ghosts or folks from your past reappear, make a special effort to meet and talk with them. They will hold important information for you. If old messages from your past or deep, disturbing or profound dreams that speak to you in your sleep, make special note of them and the messages given to you.

The T-square of Jupiter/ Mercury, Saturn, Neptune shoots all sorts of delicious, delectable energy into the Taurus section of your chart. The t-square is generating, causing, fertilizing and promoting growth, abundance and life. Expect a growth spurt! Expect abundance from the heavens! Expect, expect, especially if you’ve been working your Saturn and directing that Saturn energy from the t-square consciously instead of willy nilly. If you’ve been plucking your suckers, or doing your Saturn, the energy from the effort over the past year will result in a huge growth spurt towards your life path. Don’t worry about anything, just pluck the non-essentials, clear suckers. The Cosmic Rosarian will be around in a week or so to inspect your work.

Onto Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Image for our lunation. As usual, the lunation’s message from the heavens reflects where we are.

MANKIND’S VAST ENDURING EFFORT FOR KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERABLE FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION

Commentary: ‘Mankind’s Vast Enduring Effort For Knowledge Transferable From Generation to Generation’ shows the handing down of learning or ‘Knowledge from mothers and fathers to daughters and sons. By instruction, by observation and by acceptance, we pass information to the next ‘Generation’, as this allows for the process to continue and develop from ‘Generation to Generation’.

Oracle: This Symbol is about conscious awareness and how we use this capacity to know and to ‘Transfer’ information from our mind to another mind through communication. This communication can be in the spoken word, the written word or through dance, body language or through our deeds. We pass on the biological nature of ‘Knowledge’ through our genes, our conscious ‘Knowledge’ by teaching, our social ‘Knowledge’ by example and training. Genetic memory is another way that things can be passed down from ‘Generation to Generation’. It can be said that the ‘Knowledge’ of the universe is within us, but bringing this out into our consciousness is something that occurs over time and through effort. The most likely “students” are those that are constantly around us, can relate to our activities and are inspired by our history and love-this often being our family. However, students, as well as teachers, can pop up anywhere, especially when there’s a need for the information to be ‘Transferred’. With this Symbol, there can be an outreaching to others through awareness along with a desire to teach, as well as to learn. There is more to wisdom than just knowing. In the end, it’s what is done with this ‘Knowledge’ that creates wisdom. It is through knowledge and understanding that we can bridge the gap between ourselves and others.

Keywords: Interpreting and conveying beliefs and ideas. The desire to pass on something to others. Handing down possessions or knowledge. Knowledge being changed, modified or updated. Teaching by example. The wisdom of the ancestors. Research into history. Striving for answers. Books and the spoken word. Encyclopedias and reference books. The gift of knowledge.

The Caution: A belief that one knows it all. Information, knowledge or riches inherited by only the select few. Reliance on tradition. Fundamentalism. Doing what’s always been done, regardless of why.

So pluck your suckers, reflect on what you’ve learned over the past year and take a sip of water. The cosmic gardener will be over to visit you next week.

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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Weekly Weather October 16, 2006

It is a “working at it” kind of week ~ integrating the Uranian click clear break through from last few weeks via the transformative energy of explosions, separations, endings and getting clear on what you deeply want. Time to continue executing, working on and building up your Saturn muscles. Our t-square in the sky continues to tighten, moving toward the exact Jupiter square to Saturn next week as well as both Neptune and Mercury’s stations. This week we can expect the energy to continue to build for NEXT week’s culmination. Consequently, the more you can do your Saturn, the better you will be able to manage the energy flying around your ears.

A few of you have written asking for instructions on how to do your Saturn. Easy. You might not like my answer. What is the thing you are most afraid of in your life right now? What is making you feel neurotic? What problem or situation keeps kicking up and dancing in the corner? What do you want to run away from and yet so deeply long to have resolved? What are you prone to avoid or worry about or obsess over? Where do you wish you could wave a magic wand and make it disappear or be all better or be through this part? That is where your Saturn is. You have Saturn work to do right there! That‘s Saturn. Don’t be afraid of Saturn. Go talk to Saturn. Enlist help from your friends, your family, your accountant, your lawyer, your astrologer, your dog or your therapist do your Saturn. Saturn doesn’t care if you bring along reinforcements! He finds it quite amusing actually. You and Saturn are going to be having a sit-down to figure it out over the next week or so. If you think those people will help you feel better or give you moral support, great! Bring ‘em along. It still will be you and old Saturn who sit down at the table and talk. Act as IF! Act as IF you know what you are doing. Act as IF it is going to work out perfectly. Run right up and greet old Saturn. Shake his hand. Be brave. Offer Saturn a cup of herbal tea and cookies. He likes lemon in his tea, not milk. Most likely, you can help virtually everyone in the world in this area of your life but you have enormous trouble helping yourself. That is where your Saturn is! Gotta apply the wise words you often give to the entire world to your own situation!

Another way to do your Saturn is to admit or acknowledge your Saturn. Off to our dictionary we go: Admit: to permit to enter, to serve as a means of entrance. To permit to join or exercise certain rights, functions or privileges. To have room for, to be able to accommodate. To afford opportunity for. Allowed, permitted. Acknowledge, confess, to grant as true or valid, as for the sake of argument, to accept or allow as true or valid, to afford possibility, permit, allow.

Or maybe you’d prefer the definition of Acknowledge: to confess, avow or admit the existence, reality or truth of, to recognize as being valid or having force or power, to express recognition of, to express thanks or gratitude for, to report the receipt of. To accept or certify as legally binding. These verbs mean to make a disclosure, sometimes with reluctance or under pressure, to accept responsibility for something one makes known or to give recognition to some one. Admit: usually implies marked reluctance in acknowledging one’s acts or accepting a different point of view as a result of pressure. Own: stresses the personal acceptance of and responsibility for one’s deeds. Avow: assert openly and boldly and implies the likelihood of opposition. Confess: emphasizes disclosure of wrong doing. Concede: is to yield to a claim or demand often with some reluctance.

So, do your Saturn. Admit your Saturn. Acknowledge your Saturn. Own your Saturn. Avow your Saturn. Confess your Saturn. Concede your Saturn. Don’t give your Saturn to any one else! No passing the buck. Take and embrace complete responsibility for your Saturn. All you have to do is admit Saturn into your life. Think of all the energy you spend denying Saturn access! Open your front door and let Saturn in! Take his coat. Offer Saturn the best chair in your living room. He is not so bad once you get to know him. He’s a great help and support, ONCE you decide to work WITH him. In fact, you might find that you and Saturn have quite a bit in common. Saturn can show you nifty tricks, skills or techniques (provided you do your Saturn work) to solve the problem at hand. Saturn’s been around the block. He’s seen it all. He’s Saturn. Just don’t hug him. Saturn’s not into hugs. And get fresh lemon for his tea, he prefers organic.

Monday, Sun and Saturn chat as Mars kicks the North Node where it counts. North Node doubles over, clutching his genitals, and falls to the ground. Today is a dirty play day! As in head butts, choke holds, punches below the belt, bad calls, and referees ignoring the increasingly violent play on the court or field. The authorities will call for the other guy. Your side is out of time outs. DO YOUR SATURN!!!!

Tuesday, Sun sextiles Pluto ~ absolute power corrupts absolutely. Do your Saturn. Mars is looking to stir the pot and get Uranus into the fight. He will probably join in and escalate the fight, violence and bad calls. It has the quality of a bar fight in the Wild West with the chairs flying and the bullets zinging by your ear. One of the reasons I have been emphasizing that you build up your Saturn muscle over the past few months was for the next two weeks! I want you doing your Saturn as much as you can, regardless of the Whoosh of stuff going on around your head. Let the rest of the world do Jupiter and Neptune and Pluto, YOU do your Saturn!

Wednesday, Venus works with Saturn and tries to get what she wants. Might be a yes from Saturn today but it will be a no from Pluto tomorrow. Keep doing your Saturn. Push past your 1982/83 story. Go for your dreams.

Thursday has a lovely long void moon. That is a good thing! Cranky, cranky energy. Venus is not particularly pleased with Pluto’s answer. She wants what she wants. Pluto is listening to the Sun, Mars and Uranus and not giving Venus what she wants. Do your Saturn. Now, if it seems that your whole world is going to collapse today, it is an illusion! It is the whoosh of Neptune and Jupiter and Pluto changing form into very scary things in front of you. They are merely reflecting your very worst fears and nightmares. Ignore them. Or keep doing your Saturn. Or go to bed and pull the covers over your head. When you get up out of your bed, do your Saturn.

Friday we rest. Take advantage of the quiet in the heavens and the Libra moon to talk to Saturn about what is going on. He’ll give you advice. Take it. Looks to be sound advice as Jupiter makes an aspect of brilliance to Chiron.

Saturday, as Juno enters Libra and the new moon takes place at 28 Libra, echoes of Fall of 1982 and Spring of 1983 are up in your consciousness. First, look at that situation with new eyes now that you’ve gone through the past year of hell. Second, see how much wiser you are now? Do you see how you’ve grown? Do you see how the situation over the last year taught you that Saturn has a good side too? Do you understand it is not all about you? That is Saturn ~ we learn by doing. While the new moon MAY trigger the bad old memories of that Saturn of yours, I want you to consciously, cohesively, gently and kindly reframe your Saturn. Do you see how Saturn is a force and a power to be reckoned with in your chart? Your Saturn notices things. Your Saturn is pretty darn cool. Admit it, you kind of like Saturn. Maybe you are even a bit proud of Saturn? Saturn holds things accountable. Saturn owns. Saturn admits. Saturn confesses. Saturn avows. Saturn concedes. Saturn acknowledges. So do it already. Invite Saturn into your life!

Sunday, hopefully you’ll take advantage of Mercury joining to Jupiter and Venus’s aspect to Pallas to sit down and negotiate a new relationship with Saturn. He‘s not a bad guy. If you DON’T talk to Saturn, next week you are going to have to. The Sun and Mars are all over that 1982/1983 degree. The time of for being accountable to Saturn is now.

Mundane: Over the next two weeks, we have a number of MAJOR events culminating and setting off the USA chart. Back in 1982/83, was the Iran/Contra tale run by the same boys who are in power now. They learned their lessons back then and didn’t leave much in the way of paper trails this time around. Cash on the barrel head. No wire tapping warrants. Merge and protect their data suppliers. Establish unbridled Presidential Powers and call it the Unitary Executive Branch. Take maximum advantage of another “Pearl Harbor” kind of event, call it 9-11, and pass amazing legislation virtually overnight (why was that bill written and ready to go?) called the Patriot Act. Ignore checks and balances as designed in the constitution. Put signing statements on every law passed by Congress to say you aren’t going to do them. Control the voting machines so 80% of the population votes on your equipment without a paper trail or audit mechanism.

In May 2000, Dick Cheney said he was the best guy to be George Bush’s Vice-President. Over the past 6 years, we’ve gone down a long, rather dark path toward creating a totalitarian fascist country. Look up the definition of those words in the dictionary if you don’t believe me! We’ve watched the steady erosion of our civil rights, destruction of the middle class, the consolidation of the free press media into 5 companies, exported our manufacturing base, eliminated jobs, removed our right to declare bankruptcy, enhanced eminent domain to take away property rights, broken our union working force, invaded a sovereign nation, removed habeas corpus from the constitution for our citizens as well as for all of those “unlawful enemy combatants”, permitted torture in our name and spent our two treasures of citizen’s blood and money to control and occupy the fifth largest oil field in the world.

The boys in charge have dispatched the Ike Strike Force, as in Eisenhower Carrier group of the Navy, to sail for Iran’s coast. The Ike Strike Force arrives off the coast of Iran around October 21-22, 2006. While I hate to make predictions like this (my Saturn is in Scorpio in the 8^th house and conjunct Venus, the ruler of my 3^rd house also in the 8^th house), I have a feeling we are going to be invading Iran over the next couple of weeks. Or there will be a “triggering” incident so we CAN invade Iran over the next two weeks. There, I did my Saturn! Saturn and Jupiter do have a mind of their own, so hopefully, I am wrong!

I know astrology works but sometimes….jeeze. Last week I wrote: Wednesday Mars joins with Uranus by declination. Mars and Uranus together mean explosions and not necessarily fun nor pleasant explosions. Expect explosions. Every place. … As the Mars/Uranus midpoint is near the world axis the explosions will be quite public ~ the whole world will know about it. Do your Saturn.

I was at my computer, writing my column (doing my Saturn!), when Cory Lidle’s (March 22, 1972) plane flew into a building outside my apartment window. I looked up at the sound of the crash and watched his plane fall from the sky and burst into a fireball down my block. The craziness of a New York emergency with a zillion fire trucks, police, ambulances, and folks running towards and away from the crash. I live near three hospitals so doctors came running! Mr. Lidle had Saturn in Gemini trine Pluto in Libra, on the world axis, with his Aries Sun tightly opposite his Pluto. His Aries Mercury, ruler of Saturn in Gemini, is retrograde at birth.

“Doing his Saturn” for Mr. Lidle means following the basic rules or instructions, the script, as fast, directly and as firmly as he can (Mercury in Aries). But his Mercury, ruler of his Saturn, is retrograde so he can have trouble with rules and communications ~ things can happen too fast with a Mercury in Aries much less a retrograde one. His Mercury can say or think of things before his Saturn catches up and says, “Nope, that might not be a great idea!” His natal Sun/ Saturn/ Pluto/ Jupiter/ Neptune configuration was activated by the current Sun/ Saturn/ Pluto/ Jupiter/ Neptune configuration in the sky.

Bridges are ruled by the third house (Mercury‘s house), Saturn, Pluto and Neptune. Parachutes are ruled by Neptune ~ his plane had a parachute to “save” it in the case of engine trouble or pilot error. A river was involved, Neptune or perhaps Jupiter in Scorpio as it is a pretty polluted river! The lovely t-square trine to Pluto in the heavens is tightening up ~ Saturn in Leo opposite Neptune in Aquarius and squared by Jupiter in Scorpio.

So, let’s say Mr. Liddle and his California flight instructor, age 26, are excited about their cross country flight at the end of baseball season. They take off, circle the Statue of Liberty and fly up the East River. He’s out of New York City as he’s probably going to be traded by the Yankees. He’s got a parachute on the back of his plane to make him feel confident (Neptune in Aquarius). He has 75 hours of flying time under his belt ~ enough to make his Aries Sun feel it knows what it is doing. The FAA rules (Saturn in Leo) say, “No flying UNDER the 59^th Street Bridge”. What can one quick fly under the bridge hurt? It is a silly, controlling rule (Jupiter in Scorpio) to prevent accidents. Besides who is going to know or catch us? His plane disappeared from radar just south of the 59^th Street Bridge. Did his tail or rudder clip something under the bridge or on the tram cables to Roosevelt Island when he broke the rule and flew under the bridge?

OR maybe he was having engine trouble. Of course, IF he had engine trouble and was following pilot rules (Saturn in Leo), he COULD have ditched in the East River (Jupiter in Scorpio) with his parachute (Neptune in Aquarius). That would be doing his Saturn in Gemini too. So let’s say he had engine trouble and needed a place to ditch his plane. The section of the river north of the 59^th Street Bridge is solidly lined by tall hospital buildings (Jupiter in Scorpio) on the left and the tall middle income planned community (Neptune in Aquarius) Roosevelt Island apartments on the right. My block is the first low section where you can turn in and not hit a tall building. Who wants to ditch and destroy (Jupiter in Scorpio) a brand new $180,000 plane by deploying a parachute (Neptune in Aquarius) to have the darn thing sink like a stone into the East River (Jupiter in Scorpio)? Turn left at the first opening, deploy the parachute (Neptune in Aquarius) and land the puppy on the ground.

OR perhaps he WAS following the rules but that retrograde Mercury in Aries of his got in the way! The FAA rules say you have to turn back before 96^th Street, UNLESS you are under air traffic control, to avoid La Guardia airport and its air traffic. He and the California based flight instructor, who hadn’t flown in New York City with her tall buildings, knew they had to turn around AFTER the 59^th Street Bridge and BEFORE 96^th Street. Perhaps they didn’t realize the river widens a bit further up so you don’t have to make a u-turn over land? Did they know about the blustery, tricky river wind created by the tall buildings lining the low river? Did they misjudge the steering ratio of their new plane?

Regardless, they were inland, flying over apartment buildings and between apartment buildings and eventually into an apartment building (Neptune in Aquarius) instead of flying over the relatively safe river (Jupiter in Scorpio). Every senior pilot (Jupiter in Scorpio) interviewed said they recommended skipping the East River flight as it was so tricky (Saturn in Gemini) to maneuver or fly in ~ due to all the possible not foreseeable air hazards (Neptune in Aquarius). Every senior pilot said flying up the East River is VERY inviting to beginner, inexperienced pilots (Saturn in Gemini).

After they started to turn, the clip to the tail or rudder from flying under the 59^th Street bridge/tram OR the engine trouble OR following the rules but perhaps too soon OR not enough information OR the sight of very tall buildings one block in OR river wind bursts OR inexperience OR whatever ~ Quick, make a U-turn back towards clear, open air and fly over the river! Suddenly, they were into the WHOOSH of the powerful T-Square. Too late ~ too late, there is no time (Saturn) left to do Saturn.

Do your Saturn.

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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Weekly Weather October 9, 2006

It is going to be a Uranus kind of week! I completely love Uranus weeks. He‘s my most favorite, favorite planet as he’s unpredictable BUT so exCEPTionally CLEAR about what he wants or doesn‘t want to do. Uranus is nicknamed “The Great Awakener”. Expect those Ah-HA! Moments in yourself, friends and family and, hopefully, all around the world. Breakdowns, break throughs, break ups, clearings, crashes, ah ha’s, seeing it clearly, eruptions, explosions, expansions, chaos and creativity. The “cosmic click” and settling in of deep understanding and figuring at a soul level. All week long, click, clear, click, clear, click, clear, clear, clear. The next few weeks ahead are what we‘ve been working toward all year! It is finally here! Jupiter and Saturn are going to meet for their last and final pass, providing the concluding chapters of story from 1982/83 and the kick off, new beginning and adjustment of what started in the May 2000. Yeah! Do your Saturn when in ANY kind of doubt ~ your GOOD Saturn ~ to calm down the whoosh of fast moving energy. It might feel a bit too fast for your taste. Nevertheless, I bet you will be singing once Uranus starts clearing all sorts of stuff out of the way. You are going to “get it” on a soul level this week!

When we learn new things, particularly things that have a deep emotional content, especially important things like those that we have been working on over the past year, we can “say” them out loud and explain them intellectually before we “get” them emotionally. We have heard it a million times. We know the routine. We can parrot the words about our situation. We know what our wise friends and relatives say about the problems we are working on ~ “It isn‘t about you.” “It reflects your issue, but it is actually their issue.” “Do you see what is going on here?” “Do you see how it is not about you?” “Do you see how you invited it in?” “Do you see how this ties back to that xyz issue from your childhood?” Those wise friends and relatives of ours see it clearly. We often do not. We have a big old blind spot sitting right there!

We nod our heads yes. They listen to us talk and go through it, yet again, our sad tale of woe or our problem with xyz. We might even say our friend’s words back to them, as we‘ve learned what they say to us by heart. However, deep, far down in our sad, little heart, we simply do not believe them or their silly, stupid words. We don’t believe it. We think it is about us. We somehow caused it, are bad, or are the source of the problem. And, admittedly, some times we are those things ~ BUT NOT THIS WEEK! Equally often, we are super, super sensitive to a particular area of our chart. We think we are at fault. We did it or, more likely, didn‘t do it. After all, it is Saturn! Moreover, 9 times out of 10, that area happens to be right where our Saturn is found. Or, one out of 10 times, it is where a poor planet involved with our Saturn is found. And when that planet is being picked, it wakes up our Saturn. So, right away, old Mr. Saturn weighs in on the “issue” ~ yeech. And, thus, Saturn STILL has a say in the matter! We feel awful. That is our “bad” Saturn when we feel awful. Or perhaps our fearful Saturn. Not our good Saturn.

So, where is the area of your life you are very exhausted and don’t think you can take it any more? That is going to change this week and next. Keep doing your Saturn. Trust me. Trust the heavens. Trust your chart. Keep doing your Saturn. You want to do your Saturn. You do not want any one else doing your Saturn for you, especially when you aren‘t looking. You are going to have a very large cosmic click where your Saturn is. Or perhaps the events of the past few weeks will produce a cosmic click in your being and your Saturn as you mull them over. You are going to understand everything much, much better. The shift is about to take place!!

Psychologists call it Transference. I call it giving your chart to the other person to do. When we have a part of ourselves that we simply cannot stand, we manage to find or create situations where the parts of us that we simply cannot stand start to act up “all by themselves”. The parts we can’t stand dance away over in the corner of the room, calling attention to themselves as they shout and yell at us for attention. Events conspire, difficult people appear, and situations devolve. “All of a sudden” you find yourself in the “situation that always seems to happen to me”.

Psychologists call it Repression. I call it NOT owning your chart. Your chart is your chart. You are in charge of ALL the parts of your chart. You can DO your chart or someone else will DO your chart for you. When you are little, people do your chart FOR you ~ your parents, your siblings, and your experiences. Essentially, people do your chart FOR you until around your Saturn return at age 28. Between ages 28 to 58, you figure out how to do your own chart. Or you repress your chart. Now, please know, repression is NEVER a good idea. We repress who and what we are either because 1) we can‘t stand it, 2) hate it about ourselves, 3) were shamed into hating our desires or 4) merely don‘t know how to deploy it in a healthy and productive manner because we were never taught HOW to work with it properly. What ever is Repressed still, STILL HAS TO COME OUT SOME place! It is energy. Energy needs to express itself. Not repress ~ express!

If I explain repressed energy as water, we completely get the concept! WATER! Spill water and watch. Water flows towards the lowest point of the surface. Water spreads out. Water eventually pools at the lowest point. If we try to hold back the Saturn stuff we hate about ourselves, the stuff leaks out, just like water, and flows towards the lowest forms of how it can appear. It pools there. Where do you put towels when fluid spills? Usually at the leading edge of the water ~ to stop it and prevent it from pooling or flowing all over the place. Now apply that concept to Saturn. SATURN. Spill Saturn and watch.You are going to see how Saturn flows, just like water, to the lowest level, when it spills, is repressed, ignored, hated or unattended over the next weeks ahead. Your job is to Do Your Saturn so it does not spill all over the place, willy-nilly and muck stuff up. Encourage the rest of the folks in your world to do their Saturn too!

Monday is Columbus Day so many folks are off. That is a good thing! Mercury is in a heck of a bad mood ~ he is in Scorpio so his tongue is sharp, biting, piercing and stinging. Jupiter and Pluto are accelerating him (kind of like throwing gasoline on a bonfire) way out of control. Mercury is arguing with the Nodes of destiny and Juno, or who and what we choose to collaborate with. Venus needs to make an adjustment with Uranus about how she is going to get what she wants. If she does not adjust, it is over ~ or there’s going to be a big fight. Mercury is NOT in the mood for ANY nonsense.

If someone loses it with you today, know they are frustrated about their OWN stuff which you are representing to them ~ their issue. If YOU lose it with someone today, it is YOUR stuff Saturn wants you to change ~ you are giving away something in your chart and not owning it. You are letting your Saturn spill willy-nilly all over the place. Must get a grip on Saturn over the next few weeks before Saturn finishes his square to Jupiter. And IF you think you aren‘t getting Saturn, you will never get Saturn, you will die alone with your cats on a couch, please just take a look back at the past year. Can you see how MUCH BETTER YOU ARE at “it” or at Saturn than you USED to BE? That is called growth, my dear friend. Saturnian Growth. Not perfection. Saturnian Growth. Be VERY proud of your progress! Give yourself a gold star or maybe three gold stars and a piece of chocolate. You‘ve earned it. You picked your Saturn and now you are learning to work with your Saturn! And, nope, you cannot “fix Saturn forever” but you can continue to get better at working with Saturn. You are learning to work with your Saturn, quite productively I might add. That is a VERY good thing ~ VERY Good Saturn! Watch, out of the corner of your eye ~ Old Saturn is quite proud of you even if he is a bit of curmudgeon and has trouble with finding the words. He looks pleased in a Saturn kind of way. Gotta watch for his clues.

Tuesday, assuming you survived yesterday’s Mercurial outburst in that wonderful Scorpio, your click-clears start now. If you were bowled over by Mercury’s outburst, well that is another area to work on as you go forward with your Saturn. Take it under advisement and add it to your Saturn pile. You are going to get the click-clears all week. And at the same time, you have to focus on doing your Saturn, not hanging out with Jupiter or Neptune. Let them go play by themselves. Take responsibility. We get to watch Saturn in his good and bad versions of taking responsibility, providing security, structure, support, accountability and clear authority over the next few weeks. Venus in Libra in her aspect to Pluto figures out something of importance. Sun in Libra trines Neptune in Aquarius, so the fog will start to clear abit ~ or at least you notice a bit of light breaking through.

We create the situations we need to help us grow and help us fulfill our chart’s potential. Today, the Sun and Mercury’s aspect to Uranus offer an understanding of why the situations exist in your life. You collaborated with it to create the opportunity for awakening. You do not have to do it that way any more if you do not want to. Uranus is oft compared to Prometheus as a “fire bringer” and awakener. Think of how humankind’s life changed when it discovered how to harness, for good and bad, fire. Fire cooks our meat, drives our cars, flies our planes as it creates global warming and acid rain. Partners bring both parts of changes, good and bad, into our lives. All part of the kaleidoscope we call life.

Wednesday Mars joins with Uranus by declination. Mars and Uranus together mean explosions and not necessarily fun nor pleasant explosions. Expect explosions. Every place. All the folks who do not read astrology columns like this one are going to be mighty, mighty cranky and explosive. You might be mighty cranky too. If you are cranky and explosive know what is wanting to explode is that thing you have been so attached to for so long. Time to let it go. As the Mars/Uranus midpoint is near the world axis the explosions will be quite public ~ the whole world will know about it. Do your Saturn.

Thursday, Chiron stations to go direct. He is in the sign of Aquarius and will be dredging up stuff from that difficult Mercury retrograde station earlier in the summer when he stopped to go retrograde. Your new tribe will start to arrive after he goes direct. You’ve been looking for a while. Time for your new tribe to arrive. Mars has a helpful working aspect to Saturn so do your Saturn. Not much else you can do today. Do your Saturn. There is profound woundedness and sadness around the world. A sadness of how one tribe wounds the “other” tribe when actually we are all the same tribe under our skins. If we care to look. Do your Saturn. Send out love to those who need it. Hug your loved ones.

Friday Chiron trines Vesta. Remember stuff manifests on four levels ~ spirit, mind, emotion and physical. You might not be able to do much about one of the four levels causing trouble in the world but you CAN take some action on the other levels. Do it. It will help you. It will help the world. Sun joins with Uranus by parallel. Today, worldviews will be reinforced for the next clump of time or changed for your future viewing pleasure. People always remember that Prometheus was chained to a rock and had his liver eaten out by an eagle every day for giving us human beings fire in defiance of the gods. Folks tend to forget he DID get free and went on to live happily every after PLUS humankind got fire for his troubles and beliefs in the need to change. If it feels like an eagle is eating your liver out today or that you are chained to a rock being tortured, you are EXACTLY where you are supposed to be! You will get free of that rock, grow a new liver in a bit, and live happily ever after. True blue promise. Just let the click-clears happen around you. Support those you love in their click-clears too.

Saturday, Venus understands how to free Prometheus. Love baby. Its all about the Love. Not fear. The love. Believe the actions. Actions speak louder than words. Look for the good side of Saturn, observe the fear side of Saturn. Saturn is every where! Sun’s aspect to Jupiter suggests a bit of heel clicking and zip pity do da energy if you‘ve been doing your Saturn. If you find yourself in a same old, same old place, NOW is the time to change your vision of how your life can be. Do your Saturn. Focus on that. No worries about how. Just show up. Do your Saturn. No arguing with Saturn. NO Whining at him. He’s not in the mood to talk to you right now. Do your work. Show up. Take responsibility. Provide security. Create structure. Build support. Practice accountability. Exercise your clear authority. You can do it. Saturn. Saturn. Saturn.

Sunday can be a collapse on the couch in a stream of tears day OR a vision of how your life can change. Work towards the change version. I have no problem with couch time. We do need to feel sorry for ourselves from time to time. Heck, this living business is darn tough. However, Mars in Libra says partner with something to transform it as Mars works with Pluto‘s powerful energy. And, if you can, Mercury’s square to Neptune suggests you keep your mouth shut and simply observe what is happening. There is a “what goes around comes around” kind of energy with Saturn’s aspect to Pallas. We reap what we sow. Do your Saturn.

Mundane: In our world, we had two excellent, if quite difficult, examples of Saturn ~ in his good and bad versions ~ last week. Both involved what happens when difficult parts of our experiences, souls and beings are repressed, hidden and left to their own devices to seek out and pool in the lower forms of Saturn energy. We have to watch and help Saturn by our actions in his good and bad versions of taking responsibility, providing security, structure, support, accountability and clear authority.

A man who wanted to stop his fantasies about sexually abusing female children shot a number of Amish schoolgirls. He dismissed the boys and teachers and kept the girls in the schoolhouse. The older, 11 to 13 year old, Amish girls volunteered themselves to be shot first to stop or prevent the shooting of the younger girls. After the massacre, the Amish community reached out to the family of the man who executed their children, offered their condolences and prayers. The Amish designated that funding go to the widow of the shooter and her children as well as towards their expensive medical bills. They quietly buried their dead girls. They mourned. The note left behind by the killer said he had been 12 when his initial sex abuses happened (Jupiter in Scorpio folks!) to him.

In the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, we have young male pages, who sought protection and help from various members of Congress FOR YEARS. They were seeking protection from a man who had fantasies about sexually abusing male children. When the pages, repeatedly, did not get help, they went to various newspapers and news outlets. Most of the media turned the story down. Eventually, they found someone willing to listen to and help them. The Congressman involved resigned. He said alcohol made him do it. Next, he said a priest abused him as a child. Both probably are quite true statements as we know a Saturn repressed is a Saturn that seeks its lowest form. Repeating the negative behavior or experiences that happened to us as well as self-medicating with alcohol or drugs are common. We think it resolves or abates our memories and our hated desires.

The Speaker of the House as well as other House members were told about the man’s inappropriate behavior, emails and comments. They did nothing to stop it. The ‘Leaders’ told the pages to put up with the unwanted sexual behavior IF they wanted future political careers. Once the news broke, the ‘Leaders’ blamed the children for publicizing it, the opposition party (who actually don‘t seem to be involved according to the news media that broke the story), the ex-President who has been out of office for 6 years, the homosexuals, and the sex obsessed Liberal Media who are seeking to destroy them. The ‘Leaders’ did not take responsibility for their behavior. At any point over the past 12 years (Jupiter in Scorpio folks!), after the GOP took power in 1994, or at any of the many times they were told about the situation, they could have stepped up and acted to stop it. They did not do their Saturns. So now, we will all get to watch Saturn in Leo perform his square to Jupiter in Scorpio and see what happens. My money is on Saturn! I adore Jupiter but Saturn always wins in these situations.

On a minor note, because it is completely driving me crazy, tell all your friends that Pedophilia is NOT a homosexual act! Homo means you like YOUR kind of body for sex. Hetereo means you like the OTHER kind of body for sex. Pedi means you like Children‘s bodies for sex ~ you know pediatrics, pediatrician, pedi ~ children! If you were abused sexually as a child by an adult or older sibling, it had an impact on your being and your soul. Sexual abuse is about POWER over! It is violence. It happened to you! You can choose to work it out! Do NOT repress it! Do not hide from it! Chances are quite good that the abuser of YOU was abused too. Stop the cycle. Get help for your Saturn.

We get to watch Saturn in his good and bad versions of taking responsibility, providing security, structure, support, accountability and clear authority over the next few weeks. See why I‘ve been harping on doing your Saturn for the last few months? That Neptune in Aquarius and Jupiter in Scorpio in a t-square with Saturn have a very big WHOOSH quality once it gets going. Do your Saturn.

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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Full Moon October 6, 2006

13:43 Libra Sun and Aries Moon

11:13 pm EDT

8:13 pm PDT

We have a biggie of a full moon on Friday, October 6, 2006 falling in the cardinal signs of Aries and Libra. Watch for and expect a breakthrough in the area you have been struggling with over the last months or year. It is about to get a whole lot easier. However, YOU have to move toward it ~ with no guarantees, just holding a clear idea of what you want in your heart and mind. MOVE TOWARD IT!

The Sun in Libra sits on the Venus and Mars midpoint. You THOUGHT something was going to help you get what you wanted over the past few weeks. That someone or something fell away, dropped out or left you, (probably last Thursday or Friday), as Venus triggered the eclipse degree of Virgo. IT IS OKAY. The point of the INVITATION was that you WANTED to accept it! You know you wanted it. You had your outfit planned and everything! Who cares if it that particular plan fell through? The point of the INVITATION was to get you to move toward what YOU want to do, be, and live like. Proceed with your plans IN SPITE OF WHAT HAPPENED! Pretend your deal came through. Pretend that invitation exists. Proceed. Proceed. Do it. Work with your plan. Life offers no guarantees. Think of the invitation disappearing into the ethers as a cute, funny, absurd pop quiz from Saturn! That old curmudgeon of Saturn wants to see if you figured out FEAR should not hold you back from doing your work, following and creating your dreams or having the life you want.

Do YOUR SATURN! Just chat Saturn right up. Tell him you know this is a pop quiz. Tell Saturn that YOU HAVE DONE YOUR HOMEWORK. Do your Saturn. Answer his questions. You are going to get an A. Maybe even an A+ if you try to answer the bonus question. Honest. Just try your best! Saturn will be very impressed that you are proceeding forward and not lying in your bed wailing and moaning about your cursed fate. “Oh woe is me!” Balderdash! This is a silly little pop quiz from Saturn to stop those kids who were fooling around in the back of classroom and not paying attention. The pop quiz is NOT because you did any thing wrong! It is because the teacher, Saturn, wants to get your (and their) attention. You have been doing your work. You have been doing your Saturn. You‘ve been paying attention. Keep on doing your Saturn.

Now, on this glorious pop quiz of a full moon, Juno the preserver of tradition and the “way things always are” is sinking into the South Node of obsession, worry, perfection and drama. Yes, it will FEEL like that is the way it always will be, forever and ever! However, that feeling is ONLY a feeling. IT IS NOT REALITY. Reframe it. Look at the feeling. Let your emotions calm down a bit. Take a deep breath. Gather your wits about you. ASK Juno what does she want to accomplish? If she could have anything, what would Juno want? You have to clarify stuff, silly. You know how to do this. You have been doing this all your life. You have been getting so good at it. All you have to do is calm down and do your Saturn.

You have to ask a couple of questions. You have to understand all your options so you can make an informed and cogent decision. Take a deep breath. Make a list of your questions. Write your questions down. Mercury in Scorpio rules the South Node right now. Mercury in Scorpio’s posture is to ask you WHAT exactly you are trying to accomplish right now. Mercury in Scorpio is not judging you! He is trying to figure out and understand what you are trying to do so he can help you. So tell him. You obviously are trying to do something! You look like you are about to collapse in frustration. It is not that big a deal. You are almost there. Just tell Mercury in Scorpio what you are trying to do. What is the INTENTION of the PLAN!?

As Dr. Phil says, “Is that working for you?” If your answer is “NO, IT IS NOT!” then immediately, ADD TO THE SENTENCE! Say what WOULD work for you! The person you are asking CAN do it (or not) but at least you asked for what you wanted. And, after you SAY what you want, start to work toward it. So this person says no. Not a biggie. Move along. Do your Saturn! Mercury in Scorpio gets the “bigger” concept of what you are trying to do. Mercury in Scorpio will help you. All the planets will help you as long as you operate from the love side of your Saturn, not your fear side of Saturn. You have to ask the planets for help instead of struggling along like a crazy person. I know, this is your weak area. You are afraid. It is perfectly ok. Just ask for help. If you ask, help arrives.

There is always what I call “the trick” in any and every chart. It is something about how the chart is set up and the “gotcha” to make sure you do the chart as is intended. I have absolutely NO idea why they do it this way but darned if every chart doesn’t have a cute “gotcha” sitting there, plotting, waiting and planning to hit you right in the face with a whipped cream pie! The option exists to work the energy of every chart in a higher or lower form ~ the good or bad version of Saturn so to speak ~ getting hit with the pie or eating it or perhaps a bit of both. The fear part or the love part ~ your choice. Both types of energies are at work in any and every chart. You can usually spot them in the regular chart. You can ALWAYS see them in laid out crystal clearly in the ninth harmonic chart. The ninth harmonic speaks to the karmic (Saturnian) purpose of the situation and what the evolutionary or purposeful intent is for any moment in time.

In looking at the 9^th harmonic chart for the full moon lunation, Juno and the Moon joined in Leo say to partner, marry, merge, with what you truly love, adore and feel called creatively to do. The caution comes from watching out or saying that it has to be EXACTLY the way you WANT it to be or it doesn’t count or you have to kill it or maim it or wound it or cancel it ~ Pluto and Chiron tightly conjunct in Scorpio. Those four planets form a t-square with the Sun in Aquarius suggesting detachment in your approach as opposed to getting all emotional and your knickers in a twist about controlling exactly how it turns out. The ruler of the 9^th harmonic Sun is Uranus conjunct Saturn in Libra ~ with their ruler Venus in Sagittarius ~ focus on partnering with the big picture, the forest not the trees, instead of the technical details of how and why. Take a creative and unusual approach in partnership towards the higher path, wisdom, expansion and creativity. A number of inconjuncts exist to say, “Make adjustments, move forward, make adjustments, move forward, make adjustments, move forward”. I know YOU have an overarching vision of HOW IT SHOULD BE. However, let that overarching vision go and fall away. Make adjustments and move forward. Repeat. Focus on the important part of the idea(s) (to YOU) and move steadily toward that. Make adjustments and move forward.

So what is the “Important Part Of The Idea”? You know what it is! You were looking for a guarantee or assurance or firm something that it would come out exactly, perfectly and completely the way YOU wanted! Poof ~ like a bad magic spell, your “guarantee” fell away. The idea is still good!! Move toward the Important Part Of The Idea! Recent examples at sitting my consulting table ~ for your reading pleasure I highlighted the Important Part Of The Idea in italics. A restaurant deal fell apart that included a move to Chicago to create community and visit his brother. He can still go to Chicago to Create Community and visit brother (Saturn in Gemini in the 11^th). A movie got derailed due to lack of financing BUT the casting associate found ANOTHER position after she relocated across country to be near her family (Saturn in Cancer) and create a secure home. A business owner looking to sell her business was contacted by a group who wants to buy her business (she wants out and her freedom SO BAD ~ Saturn in Sagittarius) however the money is not all up front but tied to the back end of the deal ~ freedom but with a bit more work. A New Jersey woman booked a trip to San Diego to meet up with an old lover. After she did, he got weird ~ she’s still going (Saturn/Neptune in Libra in the 9^th house) as she loves San Diego and needs a Vacation By The Sea in a far away place. Do you see how they are each focusing on the Important Part Of The Idea? Even though something they thought was ESSENTIAL to the story disappeared? That is what you have to do too!m Focus on the important part of the idea to YOU.

The whole point of the full moon is to go towards what you love with absolutely NO guarantee it will work out AT ALL! Just go toward what you love. Do your work. Do your Saturn. Chug, chug, chug like the little red engine that can! And you watch! Almost as magically, Poof ~ the universe will deliver! Just chug your little butt toward your Very Important Part Of The Idea. Wait and see what happens. Just keep doing your Saturn. The very important part of the idea is your Saturn.

Lynda Hill’s Interpretation of the Sabian Images echoes the energy of the full moon. For 14 Aries, the image is A SERPENT COILING NEAR A MAN AND A WOMAN.

Commentary: ‘A Serpent Coiling Near a Man and a Woman’ symbolizes the story of the “temptation” of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The ‘Serpent’ offered Adam and Eve the gift of self-knowledge. However, this “knowledge” also revealed to them that they were naked and that this was sinful. The ‘Serpent’ was said to have brought them both knowledge and guilt. The “snake” can be symbolic of anything that induces fear or negativity into a situation. On the other hand, what the “snake” symbolizes can bring a healing, a profound sense of, or need for, self-knowledge. This Symbol can show the celebration of the physical body and the enjoyment of another through all of the senses.

Oracle: Something or someone may be coming between two people. ‘A Serpent’ is shown ‘Coiling Near a Man and a Woman’; this can be a third person or some kind of threat. It can bring jealousy, resentment, distrust or separation. What comes between people may be an idea or a belief system, such as the fear of God; it may be some insight or knowledge that has come to light; it may be another person or a lover. Temptation, fear and passion can all too easily get in the way of any relationship, old or new. It can sometimes be difficult to tell exactly what’s coming between people; it could be an emotion, psychological condition or memory. The ‘Serpent’ in this situation is not necessarily in a threatening pose, yet it can still induce a sense of fear or tension because of assumptions and prejudice. Snakes by their very nature don’t have to do anything to be intimidating - they arouse fear, uneasiness and other, more extreme, reactions by their mere presence. Maybe one needs to let go of inhibitions in order to find new depths and ways of relating. If the fear of the “snake” were to disappear, would you then be able to return to your own “Garden of Eden”? Alone, or as a couple?

Keywords: Enticement. Allurement. Revealing archetypal knowledge that may not be ‘socially acceptable’. Temptations. The Adam and Eve story. Jealousy. Sexual instincts. Life and death issues. Relating based on control. Kundalini energy. Realizing polarity. Individuation. Eating the Apple. The “knowledge of good and evil”. Having one’s eyes opened. Marking one’s territory.

The Caution: Feeling guilty. Being afraid to express one’s feelings. Basic instincts and sexual energy. The fear of knowledge, secret or otherwise. Using sexuality as a control device. Disgust or distrust of the body. Sexually transmitted diseases. Hiding nudity or sexuality. Being thrown out of paradise.

And the Sun’s image of 14 Libra evokes IN THE HEAT OF THE NOON, A MAN TAKES A SIESTA.

Commentary: ‘In the Heat of the Noon, a Man Takes a Siesta’ points to the need to take some time off, even when one is in the middle of accomplishing some task or doing work. The ‘Man’ knows that if he takes an hour or two off during the middle of the day, taking ‘A Siesta’, when he gets back to work he will have a clearer mind and more strength to get through what needs to be done.

Oracle: In the situation facing you, relaxing and recuperating will serve to give you greater reserves of strength to complete the tasks at hand. Sometimes we just have to stop and refresh our batteries – this is probably just such a time. Also, it’s good to guard against working one’s self into a lather and getting exhausted as this can have long term effects and mistakes are easily made through tiredness, stress or boredom with the job or chore. A nap, a change of atmosphere or taking some time out can lead to new solutions about work and how to get things done. By the same token, you may need to ignore judgments from others who think that they know what you should be doing, how often and when. On the other hand, this Symbol can point to somebody taking time off when they should actually be getting things completed. A ‘Siesta’ should not translate into neglecting your duties-if something needs completing, a ‘Siesta’ may not be appropriate or possible. Take that break and think about the situation, as long as it is appropriate. When you get back on the job your renewed energy will help you get through everything. You may find the solution you’ve been searching so hard for just pops into your mind.

Keywords: Meditation. The need to take time out. Sleep apnea and other sleep disorders. Midday rushes. Recuperating or laziness. Hammocks. Long lunch hours. Rejuvenation. Knowing when to call a halt. Taking breaks. Looking after one’s health. Tiredness and yawning. Hot and demanding days leading to inertia or exhaustion. Dreams and fantasies.

The Caution: Wasting time. Being disinterested in things. Losing energy or interest when one should be at the peak of activity or achievement. Refusing to take a break. Going past the bounds of what should be done. Working so hard that one is forced to stop through exhaustion or ill-health. Always being on the go while others sit back and enjoy. Losing grip on reality. Unwinding after toil or trouble. Withdrawal.

Interesting Sabian images on the lunation to inspire our hearts to reflect on what we deeply want and desire to move towards. So, what is in your heart? What would you go toward if you knew you would not fail? Start to move toward it ~ now with a steady and firm step. If you do, the path will open before you. Magically. You merely have to move toward it. Be brave. No fear. Teeny tiny baby steps….one Saturn tippie toe tiny bit at a time.

Mundane: Expect a powerful “terrorist” activity, explosion or similar justification to implement the recently passed enemy combatant, torture and rendition bill on our full moon, October 6, 2006. The full moon in Libra and Aries sets off the USA Sibley Chart with its lunation falling on and triggering a number of EXCEPTIONALLY critical points in the USA chart. The USA chart is lit up like a Christmas Tree!

Additionally, the TRANSITING Mars/Uranus (sudden explosions) and Jupiter/Pluto (really big, deadly and powerful) midpoints fall on the world axis suggesting a visible and large activity that draws the world’s attention. It looks to have a distinctly feminine aspect to it ~ perhaps young women will be involved ~ as Pallas Athena is also on the world axis. The lunation sets off the USA Sun/Saturn square at 13 of the Cardinal axis. Moreover, we are having our first Mars return (on that VERY DAY) on our progressed Mars since Mars stationed by progression in July 2006 to go retrograde for the next 80 years. Pay attention!!!

At any rate, when it happens, whatever IT is, do recognize the event as something designed to make you fearful. When you are fearful, you do not act toward your highest good. Be brave and go towards your, our country’s and the world’s highest good ~ even if the guarantee appears to be absent. No guarantees in this life. Live in Love.

On other fronts, in true “nope, can’t completely keep a secret fashion when we know something is going down”, a number of “puts” are scheduled for the October 6, 2006 full moon according to the website freemarketnews.com. Prior to 9-11-2001, a number of “puts” were placed on the airlines used in those “attacks” to profit off the markets reaction. Gotta love the darker side of human nature! Thank you, thank you, greed and avarice! I do so love Saturn at times like this. One, two or more of the gang of thieves, oops, folks, involved in the upcoming event cannot keep their greedy paws off an opportunity to profit due to fear, fear, and more fear. Well, we saw you coming this time fellows….

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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Weekly Weather October 2, 2006

I want to apologize for last week’s column! I was SO excited that the orchestra was FINALLY tuning up AND that we were past the majority of the difficult aspects that I overlooked the impact of Venus in her last degrees of Virgo setting off that new moon eclipse! I am SO SORRY! I kind of slip slided right over her as the cosmic orchestra fell silent on Thursday and Friday.

Well, silent was the wrong word for Venus in Virgo on the Eclipse degree! I forgot how difficult she can be when she‘s in Virgo. Actually, I didn’t forget her; I just kind of ignored her as I was so excited that she was finally getting out of Virgo as Saturn and Pluto were moving into their fire trine! I did forget what a bitch she can be! While the orchestra and rest of the audience WAS quiet in anticipation of the conductor‘s signal and you were sitting there fanning yourself with your Playbill, you and that carping, virago of a Venus Virgo in the sky had a couple of days for YOUR brain and HER critical energy to carry on in heated whispers. It included quite a bit of outsized drama, albeit in whispers or indirect communications with arched eyebrows and perhaps a few tears, about a situation that is SO difficult in your life! I forgot to warn you to tell Venus to shut up, hush down, be quiet and stop nagging at you! Venus, stop already with the obsessing, worrying and criticizing!! Don’t you know that every thing is about to change!?

Now, before we go any further, I want you to go back and review what happened to you last Thursday and Friday. What did you beat yourself up about? What did you cry about? What were you upset about? THAT is the situation I want you to look at and simply accept. YES, IT IS THAT way right now. HOWEVER, it DOES NOT HAVE TO STAY that WAY, for a single second longer. You have to adjust your attitude toward it. You have to revise YOUR vision of yourself. You have to move toward what you want to create in your life! Yes, it IS that way right NOW. It does NOT have to stay that way. Your earlier vision of how or what or who you were or had to be created the situation you feel trapped in or don‘t like so much any more. Face it; you’ve graduated from the difficult fixed cross transits we endured all last year. You survived your bull fight. You learned a bunch of stuff about yourself and your world. You watched a tree or three fall in the forest of your life. You know that if you do your Saturn, do your work, you’ll have a different outcome. You have to do your Saturn. You have to change your approach, be a bit nicer to yourself, and understand how you helped create the situation. That said, the situation in your life NOW is the by- product and end result of decisions you made BACK when you were in a different place in your life. NOW, that Venus is in her favorite sign of Libra of balance and relationship and partnering, I want you to make NEW decisions and move toward balance, relating, and partnering with what you want in your life. You attracted that other situation because it matched your energy. Now go attract NEW stuff that matches your NEW energy.

Its time for the hummingbirds to migrate south following the sun. My family has a “thing” for hummingbirds. Brilliant pots of flowers decorate our various porches. All summer, we watch the darting; hovering tiny birds that seem to float free of time, worry and trouble as they move among the soft gentleness of flowers. However, hummingbirds are tough little critters too! So tiny yet SO assertive of their territory and their right to a particular patch of their garden. Hummingbirds inspire us to savor the singular joy of the moments in our lives and drink in life’s sweetness. They live in the moment, doing their work and enjoying the world. We spot them kissing the rich, brilliant flowers scattered along a garden path or swaying gently in a hanging pot. We exalt in their nimbleness and focus as they dash off to the next and the next and the next flower of a garden. We marvel as they focus on their job and stop magically in the air at the edge of the bloom’s opening. We chuckle as they defend their part of the garden. So tiny, yet so very fierce!

So how can you be more like a hummingbird in your own life? Relish each flower by flower by flower? Garden by garden? Not attached? Watchful? Enjoying abundance? How are you going to assert your right to your patch of dreams and blooms? Our week ahead features a full moon in Aries and Libra as Juno in Virgo joins with the South Node of Obsessions and squares our friend Pluto. Plus a bunch of other aspects that will be asking for our attention. Fortunately, the day BEFORE the FULL moon, Mercury in Scorpio, ruler of that Virgo Juno, squares Chiron in Aquarius ~ it will be CLEAR what we need to do, even if we aren‘t sure we want to.

Now Juno’s job is to preserve the order and structure of things. That is what Juno’s all about ~ tradition, order, and the “proper” manner of how things are supposed to be. Juno was Zeus’s wife. Zeus was a philandering husband ~ jump it, hump it, dump it ~ he definitely had Venus or Mars in Aries! See a skirt and get it. Did Juno say or do anything to Zeus? Nope. Juno went after all of the WOMEN Zeus pursued! Do you see the problem? Zeus was off the hook. Juno went after, and punished, or took revenge on, the women ~ not old jolly Zeus. We all have Juno in our charts. We’ve made a bargain with keeping the tradition, order and proper manner of how things are supposed to be to preserve something we think must be guarded or protected at all costs. We want to be “perfect” some how, some place. We then become over assertive hummingbirds defending our territory ~ guarding our unique blooms against all comers.

I was in the jungle greenhouse at the Central Park Zoo as the bird keeper pointed out a teeny, tiny, male hummingbird hovering at the tippy top of the arched citadel. He was guarding the garden of flowers and, apparently, quite a fierce fellow. He had a bird’s eye view of all competitors, dove after them and quickly darted back up to his lofty perch. I looked around at the abundance of flowers and life in the greenhouse. All the other hummingbirds were quite happy. For the most part they were ignoring him. They had a grand time dashing from flower to flower. He wasn’t enjoying the flowers at all! It took so much energy for him to guard his flowers! He was preserving a kind of bizarre order that he felt had to be kept “or else”. Think of how much energy you’ve spent guarding that area of your life? How many hours? How much of your blooms have faded as you‘ve worried away days protecting the blooms? The Gloxinias aren’t going to last forever!

Who have you been tilting and arguing with like an angry Juno rather than living your life? Why are you focusing your energy on Zeus’ conquests instead of where it needs to be directed ~ at the source? No, Zeus is NOT the source! You are the source. You decided to guard your blooms rather than enjoying them. You are staying with your version of a philandering Zeus to keep or preserve a traditional order that needs to collapse. You don’t have to do it any more. Change! Don’t guard those blooms. Have a sit down with Zeus (or not). Stop obsessing over who he is sleeping with or what he is doing. Gotta let it go now. Just get out there and enjoy that garden. Live your life. Migrate following your own sun to your new garden. Big, wide world out there. Lots of flowers.

Monday, Mercury enters Scorpio. No more dillydallying with your thinking energy. Mercury is on a mission to resolve triangles and get all parts of the puzzle together to solve the problem. Ceres stations going direct at 12 Aquarius. Last June 21, as Sun entered Cancer, Ceres stationed at 26:57 Aquarius. You remember ~ that hideous Mercury retrograde at the beginning of the summer? Well Ceres has been figuring out what she wants to create since she’s began moving retrograde back then. She‘s moving forward again. Time to migrate toward what you want to create. I want you announcing what you want to create to every single person you meet!

Tuesday, Zeus is home with lipstick on his collar. Again! You have a choice. Venus’ aspects to Chiron and Jupiter suggest you are able to make the choice today. Uranus pushes off from Pallas by declination. I know, for such a smart person you do seem to get yourself into these repetitive pickles. And, you help other people with this stuff ALL the time. Are you ready to break your pattern? Please? And go find your own garden?

Wednesday will either be very good or very bad. If you’ve been working your Saturn and moving along, the Universe will take advantage of today’s aspects and give you a “bon mot” or good word of encouragement. If you’ve been whining and carrying on, the Universe, in the form of one of your people in your world, will smack you gently on your forehead and say “Idiot, THIS is what you still haven’t gotten.” The way these things work, most likely, it will be a mix of both (we are, after all, works in progress and NOT perfect). Take any criticism and modify your approach (if need be). Or accept any accolades and keep on keeping on ~with your eyes focused on your goals like the hummingbird does on the flower he‘s working with. Most likely you were being a bit over the top. The whole thing is about balance and realizing the energy has to match on either side. If you are dramatic, they are dramatic! If you are calm, cool, collected and focused on your stuff, they pretty much leave you alone. The world is going to be in the mood for hummingbird drama queens and divas all over the place to be pitching fits, fighting and guarding their flowers! Don’t fight over a silly flower. Just go find another bloom to suck on. No, I don’t want to hear how they are mean and you deserve that flower. Suck it up. Go suck on another flower.

Thursday, depending on what happened yesterday, there’s an adjustment. Remember that silly little hummingbird up there guarding the roof, not drinking from the flowers of abundance all around him. Instead he was completely focused on what the OTHER hummingbirds were doing. I know, you think all the other hummingbirds are talking to each other about what happened. Yep they probably are. For about 15 minutes. Then the other hummingbirds are moving on with their lives and their flowers. They aren’t going to care a bit more. So, why do you still feel bad? Honestly, do you care? When you are 95, will this matter? Sure it stings a bit now. But in the big picture scheme of things, it is a learning experience, like all the other learning experiences you will have. Put it in perspective. Will you just go do your Saturn, focus on finding a delicious flower or two, hover with other birds you like and let go of the situation please? You can guard your flowers with all your might. Or you can realize that by guarding them, you are creating the very same drama you said you don’t want any more. Sun’s aspect to Pluto suggests you figure out how the distractions you are focusing on keep you from doing your favorite things ~ you know those things you keep saying you want. Why? Because if you did what you wanted to do, you’d have to face the possibility of failure, loss and not getting what you want. Pretty scary isn’t it? You are forgetting there are lots of other flowers in the garden! It’s a big, wide world, just packed full of flowers and opportunities. Don’t focus on guarding one silly flower or that stupid Zeus‘s belt buckle. If you do, you will over water it and kill it or pick on some poor woman who didn‘t do much of anything to you (even if she did do stuff with your Zeus). They can’t do it to you, unless you let them. Look at the garden of abundance before you. Move along

Friday has our full moon, a harvest moon, and a bunch of aspects indicating choice. Now, Juno is in Virgo ruled by Mercury in Scorpio. Juno is squaring Pluto and sinking into the South Node. Decision time. Do you want to keep spending your time killing off the women who Zeus chases? Or keep defending your garden from other hummingbirds? Is it worth all the energy you are spending holding it together? Is it worth your time? Is it worth your soul? Is it worth your life? Hopefully, you said no, no, no, no, no, and no. What we focus on we create. If you don’t like what you have in your life right now, focus on creating something else, not defending the silly stuff that you don‘t much like any more any way. Do you see how defending it prevents you from living your own life? Please say yes to that question. If you don’t say yes, call one of your more opinionated friends (who HATES to see you spending your life like this) and ask them to yell at you to give it up and go do what you want for heaven‘s sake!

Saturday, Mercury joins with Neptune by declination as Pluto and Juno perfect their square making the beginning and the end of something. Full moons make things pop so expect a deflating kind of energy today. Put the balloon fragments in the garbage. The party is over. On you go.

Sunday, Mercury joins with Pluto by declination. That means that Neptune and Pluto are right close to each other and joining by declination. I want you doing your Saturn and working toward your dream with the best, happiest, smiling, perkiest, busiest face you can summon up. It isn’t about winning. That implies losing. And that gets you caught in the drama of win/lose. Who cares!? Plenty to go around. Lots of flowers in the garden. Get busy. You can always buzz right over if you need to tend to a situation. Be like a hummingbird ~ get busy filling up your belly! Your migration is around the corner!

Seventy percent of our Bill of Rights are gone!

Still left, for now:

Just so it is perfectly clear, if I “disappear”, I didn’t want to go.

Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee

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