Weekly Weather

Weekly Weather June 30, 2008

In our week ahead, Mercury leaves his shadow and starts to take charge of Saturn in Virgo. Saturn is retracing his steps awakening the next chapter of the stories taking place from last October 10^th to 16^th and February 26^th to March 7^th. Something frozen or stuck is trying to crack, break open, move on and release between now and the middle of August when Saturn passes the degree of his station last December.

Saturn’s retrograde journey through a section of the zodiac takes a bit longer than the length of time it takes to grow and give birth to a human child. We are adults. And yet, as we face any major change in our structure or being, the universe gives us a good 10 months or so to get used to the idea and pack our cosmic suitcase. In this case, because Pluto is about to move into Saturn’s sign of Capricorn for a number of years, the changes, lessons and our upcoming journey is a bit more emotionally fraught with noticeable closings, endings and releases. We are releasing our old lives BIG time between now and early September (the 8^th to be exact).

So think back to what you’ve been doing since 1995. Back then, Pluto went into Sagittarius to start a cycle in the mutable, changing fire sign of vision, knowledge, communication and exploration. Pluto often takes out the old structures and he eventually builds a new one. Or he repairs the foundation. A foundation in your life was laid starting in 1995 in a house in your chart. That cycle wraps up over the summer. Sagittarius rules race, religion, publishing, legal issues, foreigners and foreign places, communication, philosophy, justice, truth, and higher (college on) education. Think of the changes that have taken place in our society since then ~ did you have an email account in 1995? Much less visit a website or know about the internet? A cell phone? Google? Think of the changes to the various areas represented by Sagittarius since 1995. There have been similar and equally profound changes to your life since 1995. Those changes are wrapping up, finishing up, right now before your eyes as Saturn moves forward in Virgo and Pluto gets ready to head into Capricorn in a few months. And this week, the wrap up begins in earnest.

Mars enters Virgo this week. Next week Mars joins with Saturn in Virgo to start a new two year journey about building a structure ~ that means he is in the dark approach to Saturn. After Mars finishes his fire trine to Pluto, he’ll feel the block from his building approach to Saturn. Slog on through. Make a list and slog on through your list. When Mars is in Virgo, it is all about the details, details, details. Once Mars catches up to Saturn on July 10^th, we will settle into our new reality and are able to get busy and be more productive. This week and the early part of next expect blockages, delays, drops, discontinues, breakup and arguments as Mars tries to get Saturn to move and Saturn tells Mars all the reasons why Saturn can’t, won’t, isn’t going to move.

Remember Saturn, in his lower forms, is all about fear, restriction and where we are either too tired, too blocked, too weary, too not-not to do-do or even try. And, Saturn is in a critical kind of place right now. Saturn is in the mood to argue, disagree and pick apart suggestions. So rather than dismissing the suggestions made out of hand, take them on advisement. That means you thank the person for their suggestion, discontinue the conversation and slog along for a bit more. Reexamine those ideas and suggestions after the 10^th of July. After mid-July, check and see if you see more possibilities for it and yourself. In the meantime, focus on what you CAN do something about. Spend your time there.

Vesta enters Taurus, grounding her energy firmly in the here and now. Again, focus on what is before you. The tendency is to want to worry about the future (which you can do nothing about right now) or stress about the past (which you can also do nothing about right now). Focus, instead, on what you can do. And do something. The rest is what I call gerbil brain. Your brain gets running obsessively on a stream of thought that you have trouble putting down or stopping.

Mercury, besides being direct, out of his shadow and bossing around Saturn, will make aspects to every planet in the Finger of God this week. For most of June, there has been a slow moving Finger of God formed in the heavens. Composed of Jupiter in cardinal earth about our hopes, optimism and dreams for the future with Uranus in moveable changing water causing chaos, change and community unity shooting their energy into a hard, live in the moment aspect to the South Node of releasing and letting go in Leo the land of fixed fire, pride, loyalty and creativity. The release point of in the Leo part of your chart is pointing out what needs to leave your life or be released into a new creative form to propel you forward.

Now, that Finger of God in the sky has been getting a lot of aspects lately. As Mercury moves forward this week to set off every planet in it, YET AGAIN, we can expect the cosmic mirror to point out where and how we needed to see things and evolve in a new direction. We have to evolve! You have to evolve! That is part of the deal of life. We are not static beings, frozen in place, locked in our lives, with no choices. We might have made choices via expediency or just because or based on our old patterns or tied to our fears or because it was there. The universe is suggesting, STRONGLY suggesting, you go and revisit those choices. It is time to make amends while the situation is still workable. It is time to change or work with the old situations to wrap them up. Soon, very soon, like quick setting cement, the energy is going to coalesce into concrete. So work with it while it is still fluid and moving.

Venus starts to move through the Finger of God toward the middle of the week so she’ll be bringing a softer energy to it that it has been experiencing when Mars was attacking it and Mercury was stimulating it.

Lately, in quite a few of my readings with new and old clients, I’ve been hearing a lot of “I hear what you are saying, Anne, but I am not going to do it.” “Good advice, but I am older and don’t have the youth/ optimism/ hope / foolishness to expect that things will change.” And, at those times, with those clients, I nod. I find myself agreeing with them. If your expectation is that nothing will come of it, then that is true, nothing will come of it. It WON’T change. It will stay the same or probably get even worse. Things do tend to de-evolve when they are not being paid attention to, tended or taken care of. Think of how unclean your kitchen can get in a week or so if you don’t do the dishes. Think of weeds sprouting in your garden if you go without weeding. The same thing happens in your life~ particularly right now.

If your expectation is that change is, in fact, possible, it WILL change. Change. You have to “Be the change”, as Gandhi says. Just start to be what you want. My suggestion with the clients who say no, nope, not going to do it, is to change anyway and see what happens. As nature abhors a vacuum, SOME thing will happen! For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Or I point out how their chart reacts if they are in a “not great but not going to change it” situation. Kind of like receptors for anything, when their receptors are full of “not great” there is no room for anything else to arrive.

Feng shui people do this all the time with their clients. They go in and spot the energy blockages within the home. Correct the energy block in the house, and the energy in the person’s life shifts. Doctors, therapists, chiropractors, acupuncturists, trainers, coaches, astrologers and just about every one who works with people knows about our natural reluctance to change unless we have a darn good reason. Well, ready or not, the universe is about to change on us. The energy around us is swirling with change. So, we can work with it or complain about it. But ready or not, we are going to be changing. We can flow with it or struggle against it. We are going to be changing.

So dig into your list of things you need to wrap up from 1995 and get busy working on that. Get them cleaned up, cleared up and out the door. If you borrowed money from your ex-girl friend(s) and never paid them back, pay it back. If you owe someone something, return it. If you didn’t finish it, finish it. Or let it go to make space for the next thing. If you’ve been promising to get to it one of these days, today, now, is a great time to tackle it. Focus your vision on your future and get to work on that too, if you want to. Forward. The pulse of the universe is movement and change.

Monday, Moon in Gemini finds us chatty, connected and related. Mars forms his fire trine to Pluto sending all sorts of sparks into the air. It is a great day to push to get things out the door, and sent off into the world ~ particularly projects in their last phases. You should have energy, an abundance of it in fact, to deliver. Vesta joins with Taurus today, grounding her energy. Sun has a stressful aspect to Neptune right before waking so follow up on your dreams upon awakening. Call or write whomever you dreamed about.

Tuesday is a dark moon day ~ the day before the new moon. Fabulous time to release things, release, let go, get out, and send off. Mars is in a closing aspect to Saturn so things that you let go of today can be gone from your life for good and for ever. Mercury is arguing with Jupiter ~ so do be conscious of words. Things can be easily misunderstood. Mars enters Virgo midday~ making for a turbulent, burbly, difficult kind of energy ~ from fire to earth ~ from fixed to mutable. Mercury is pushing hard on the North Node in Aquarius ~ words spoken today change your reality forever. The Finger of God has spoken!

Wednesday we have a lovely New Moon at 11 Cancer late at night (10:19 pm EDT) so again it is a day of endings and releases before the New Moon energy takes place. Read the new moon column on this site for more information. Venus has a bunch of aspects that cause her to question what she wants. Remember she is in security conscious Cancer right now and feeling a bit sentimental. While you may not want it, some one else might. So send it to them. Vesta aspects the North Node by quintile so a gift for or from your home is distinctly possible.

Thursday, Venus is opposite Jupiter and stimulating the Finger of God. This is a transit of over doing and over spending and over-overing and over emotions. Venus is going to over- over for security reasons and Jupiter is in the mood to over-over for expansive excess of being. The Finger of God dances in response. Mercury aspects Chiron in the Finger of God so words can wound. The Finger of God dances in response. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can break my heart. Take the energy out in clearing out your home and hearth ~ focus it. You got where you are because of what you did. You get out of where you are because you change. Change.

Friday is the 4^th of July, so celebrate your own version of a Declaration of Independence. A wise therapist once said to me that I couldn‘t say yes until I could say no and mean it. The Venus aspect to Chiron suggests she needs to say “NO” to what is asked by Chiron. Or she can continue to swallow hard and make yet another kind of adjustment to allow the situation to continue. Again, Venus is aspecting that Finger of God. Do you really want it to continue? Don’t you want it to change? If you want it to change, you need to know that THEY are not going to change. The change takes place on your side of the table. You can say no. You can say stop. You can say yes. Mars in Virgo continues to build and push on Saturn in Virgo. Behavior patterns are old. Watch for the patterns. If you love their pattern, keep doing what you are doing. If you don’t love their pattern, change. If you change, they will change too. Be brave. Change.

Saturn’s day, Mercury squares Uranus in the Finger of God and quintiles Saturn. My friend Tom lost a bazillion pounds on Weight Watchers by changing what he ate. Michelle eliminated her migraines, tingly body parts and dizzy spells by letting go of diet sodas. Jeanette says the slower you go the faster you get there ~ provided you go slow. Change doesn’t have to be huge. It just has to be. Don’t argue with change. Try it. Just a bit. Change that thing that drives you crazy about yourself. Change your response. Respond differently to the thing that drives you crazy about the other guy. Respond differently and see what happens. Consider it an experiment in human behavior. Say No. Say Yes. Just mix it up. Change and see what happens.

Sunday the end of a long holiday weekend finds Mercury in aspect to Neptune in the Finger of God. Venus trines Uranus and sets off the Finger of God. Do you see how the Universe keeps pointing this out, over, and over, and over? Do you get it? Shout out to the heavens that you get it and get it good. Mars aspects the Finger of God too as he builds and builds with his approach to Saturn. Everything is solved if we agree to change our behavior. Yes, it is as easy as that. Change. You can do it. It will feel good. Focus on the things you can do something about and work on them. Apply that lovely brain of yours towards getting your dreams to come true. Take advice you don’t want under advisement. But at least, at the very least, consider the advice. Try it. Maybe you will actually LIKE it.

Mundane: Mars is going to set off the New York Stock Market (February 25, 1817, 10 am, NY, NY) chart and trigger all the various Solar arc, nodal and Progressed planets between 1 and 5 of the mutable signs. Expect major stock market (downward) corrections, activity and roller coaster ride between now and the end of next week.

Copyright © 2008 Anne Ortelee

 

 

 

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Weekly Weather June 23, 2008

Its going to be a relatively quiet week ahead as only Uranus is stationing, at 22:39 Pisces, to go backwards. The rest of the aspects are fairly innocuous, easy and pleasant. That is a good thing! We need a bit of a rest! Its been a few weeks full of action as that Finger of God was waving around in our charts. Perhaps now we will have time to adjust to all the changes in our lives.

The Finger of God pushing us to change starts to slow down as Mars in Leo finishes with the South Node and the apex of it. Mercury is direct and in his shadow, helping us review the changes from other perspectives or sides of the picture. So what WAS that about anyway. I keep hearing people say, “I am not upset about what I said. I needed to say it. I am upset about HOW I said it.” I had a fight with a dear friend I‘ve known almost 40 years and said almost the same thing ~ except I typed it in an email. Where did you roar and change things? Where did a lion energy emerge in your life.

We are all clearing things. Or equalizing things. Or saying things we need to say to have things be different or change. Or we are noticing what we want to change in our world. Or we are owning what we maybe haven’t said before but needed to say, for a while now. Or we are saying what we actually THOUGHT about the situation instead of swallowing our words in silence. Or we are realizing that we HAVE changed. So look at the various situations in your life ~ particularly the situations that were rocking and rolling in your world over the past couple of weeks as that Finger of God rolled through your Leo house.

Next, think back to what was going on in 1995 around these same issues. What cycle started back in 1995 that is coming to an end over the next few months? What do you need to do to clear up, wrap up, clean up or shift and change about that energy. What do you need to do to get it ready to take forward into your future? Do you see how what you wanted in 1995 has come full circle ~ grown, changed and evolved ~ to where you are today? Now that the cycle is almost finished, what do you need to do still? You have until November to get your self together and wrap it up. Start now, with the knowledge of that Finger of God pointing you in the new direction even as you clean up the old chapters.

Uranus, the planet of chaos and change, stops this week and goes backwards for a few months until November 28^th.

That means our forward progress on the creative, change, chaos and spontaneous front is being asked to revisit the things or projects started since March 10^th. Those projects are going to pause for a while. During March, you had an awareness of the need for things to change. You might have even started something up in the houses of Virgo and Pisces. Now, that project or situation will pause so you can clear up the last stuff in the Sagittarius areas from 1995. Between now and the end of November, is when the universe wants you to focus on finishing up the older cycle from 1995. Then you can give your full energy to the new cycle before you. So if you March to end of June projects seem to pause, not to worry, go tend to the older issues that are unresolved.

Finally, there are oodles of Quintiles and Bi-quintiles this week. I LOVE those quintile aspects. They are gifts from the Universe! Quintiles are 5^th harmonic aspects, either 72 degrees or 144 degrees ~ which adds up to 9 in both cases. Quintiles represent karmic goodies ~ or skills that you arrive with ~ where they occur in a natal chart. They are innate skills like playing the piano by ear or picking up a pencil and knowing how to draw. When quintiles occur in the sky, it is almost like the Cosmos rains down on your head or into your arms like pennies (and some time dollars) from heaven. The presents this week are from Mercury, Venus, Mars and Pallas ~ so our thinking, desiring, action and strategy taking areas of our chart will be receiving some wisdom or ideas, money or recognition, getting and understanding how we are where we are.

So forward, into a fairly nice week full of pleasant aspects and gifts even as the Great Awakener ~ Uranus ~ pauses in the sky. Whenever Uranus pauses, I often think of that old David Carridine TV show, Kung Fu ~ the part where the old monk in the temple when he was a boy imparts wisdom to “grasshopper”. We are all “grasshoppers” in the week ahead. So watch what the Universe gives to you. What you catch. Understand that as my friend Scott says, “We all say, ‘Well, when I HAVE that, then I will be able to DO this and then I will BE that! In fact, the formula is BE, DO, HAVE not HAVE, DO, BE! If we stand in our true BE, we find we DO it and HAVE it.’ ”

That phrase of ‘BE, DO, HAVE’ works better for my Virgo process step by step ordered mind that Gandhi’s “BE the change you want to see in the world.” Same message. Different delivery. So what would like to “BE” in your life? Stand in your BE. Watch the world change before your eyes! Maybe you’ll find out you DO already HAVE it?

Monday, Moon is occulted by Neptune as she goes roaming through the last part of the Finger of God. Can’t you feel that baby resonating across the insides of your being? Moon on the North Node of Destiny moves you out into the world, riding forward to your new life. Mercury has a biquintile with Jupiter today so overdoing and abundance do seem to be in the air. Mars too has a Bi-quintile too. This a great day to launch projects and push out new businesses or ideas that are geared toward helping folks, new age or otherwise. As far as I know that configuration doesn’t have a name, so I’ll name it ~ Fan of God? Gentle Breeze of Abundance and Good Stuff? Mercury and Mars are quintile to each other and both are forming Bi-Quintiles to Jupiter in Capricorn. What a lovely aspect to create and transform on, in and under. Pluto adjusts energy around the home and hearth so make or release things you no longer need on that front.

Tuesday has a dreamy Pisces Moon which aspects Venus and Mercury around creation and expansion. If you had a fight with someone over the last few weeks and you’d like to make amends, today is a good day to do it. People are feeling a bit softer and more connected ~ mushy even. Hugs all around.

Wednesday, the energy of the Uranus station is starting to build. Now Uranus is in the sign of Pisces so today, the Moon sets off the emotional tone for the station. Make sure to notice what your dreams were last night ~ particularly any involving your authority, work or how you shine in the world.. It was a potent evening of energy, information and communication to and for you and your purpose. Make particular note of your dreams upon awakening as Mercury and Mars are talking in a quintile aspect. Make sure to act on your dreams, even if you aren’t sure what they mean. If someone was in your dream, pick up the phone and call them. If you were some place, try to go there in person if you can. If you were eating a particular food, eat it. Look up the meaning on the internet. If there is unfinished business with someone, you may find the stress energy builds up towards the end of day for you to finish it up.

Thursday, Uranus stations so expect a bit of havoc with computers, airplanes, satellites and all manner of modern communication or things involving air wave. Collapses are common. We often hear about prominent couples or companies splitting up or companies breaking up or selling off parts. You can split up with something today too, if you want to. Or you can renegotiate how the relationship will be structured going forward. Jupiter is pushing on you to figure out a new structure that works better for you, them and your future than the one you are currently have. Use the abundant energy from the Aries moon to dig in and reorganize!

Friday Venus has a quintile aspect with Home and Hearth suggesting you find something that really works for you and your future. Moon in Aries has productive aspects to get things cleared out, cleaned up and off your desk and out into the world. Also there is a Grand Trine in Fire forming between Mars, Pluto and the Moon in Aries. Move, push, launch, initiate, and send.

Saturn’s day continues the energy flow as Mars continues to approach his trine with Pluto ~ harness that powerful fire energy to push through all sorts of things. Moon in Taurus today is a bit more placid and slow moving but still highly productive. Moon forms a trine now with Saturn and sextiles the Sun in early Cancer. Get organized. Get Beautified. Create. Bloom. Make it gorgeous. Venus suggests you take an unusual approach as she dances with Uranus and links up your home, hearth and being. BE, DO, HAVE. BE, DO, HAVE. How easy it is!

Sunday Moon in Taurus has fabulous aspects all day long to the Finger of God from earlier in our month. When we understand the purpose of what the people, situations and things are in our lives, we flow with effortless understanding. When you pull back the emotional drama you gave them, retracting it back into yourself, looking at it and letting it dissolve, you see why. We are all mirrors for each other. What do you see when you look in the mirror? Be. Just Be. Stand in your BE-ness, your BE-ing today. Be. That is all you have to do. Be the you of your chart.

Mundane: A reader wrote in asking about my views on Obama. To quote, “u seem to reference political drama flippantly yet emotional content wholeheartedly. and it is due to the fact that u seem to be so much in touch with the latter that the brief indulgence in the former leaves me:1: in denial. 2: questioning..?!

are u just throwing these ideas out there in order to challenge the general American dream and it's sheer lack of acceptance of true change, let alone a president of color. tantalizing us with the fact that if we are willing to actually take a stand, vote, and ask for what is duly owed ( such as socialized healthcare, welfare and unionism) instead of war even the heavens have predestined it's encumbrance

essentially, would u be willing to lie in order to give hope? if only for it's place in the gift of it? or on that note willing to be brutal and allow those to accept consequence in name of no greater good but what the stars had predestined...?”

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When I took a test on my political leanings, I test to the far left of Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, and the Dali Lama. I believe that how we treat the weakest, lowest and poorest among us ~ the Pisces ~ describes who we are, our karma and what will become of us. My politics often make my much more conservative relatives shudder. I ended a first date once because he was so rude to the waiter.

That said, No, I am not willing to lie to give hope. I am willing to say what I see astrologically, with the full recognition that I could be interpreting the charts incorrectly OR that the energy described can show up in a different way OR you can completely discard it as one woman‘s biased opinion that you don‘t agree with. That is why I put this stuff down here in the Mundane section so my Republican readers can skip it!

In fact, I do interpret charts incorrectly on occasion. As I make my living interpreting charts, too MANY errors of that type would be bad for business. Long time readers of this column know I had quite an obsession with the H5N1 bird flu, the possible crossover and human contagion / plague when Uranus was rolling through the early degrees of Pisces the area of lung plagues. Fortunately, only birds died as the virus didn’t mutate fast. The governments of the world hopped on SARS very quickly to prevent its spread. MANY millions of bird died in H5N1so there WAS a plague, at least as far as the birds were concerned!

And, the USA stock market hasn’t collapsed even though I thought it would in June - July 2008. (And June - July ain’t over yet!). The dollar, on the other hand, continues to sink ~ which is about our finances. More and more people are finding it difficult to make ends meet. Pluto is approaching the USA house of money. We have NO IDEA how much money is being printed as Bush stopped publishing the money in circulation statistics a while ago.

I wrote a fairly extensive, if some what gloomy, article on the upcoming November 4, 2008 election. It was published in an astrology journal. It is posted on my website in the articles section. It was published last fall, before we knew the candidates for the 2008 election

Net/net: This election is about the Vice Presidents as much as the Presidential candidates. Look at the VP choices carefully. The voting machine are paperless, manufactured and controlled by the same companies that are profiting off the war in Iraq and who donate heavily to the Republicans. We can’t see the code. We can’t recount the votes as there is no physical record. I worked as a computer programmer for many years before turning into an astrologer. I know how easy it is to rig software. I can get a paper receipt for my McDonald’s lunch and my taxi ride but no paper record of my VOTE?

Obama has very difficult and quite physically dangerous transits at the end of July (24 to 29) and early March 2009, as does the USA chart (see the stock market comments above). And the day of the election, November 4, 2008, Saturn and Uranus are exactly opposite to each other, TO THE MINUTE, at 18:47 which happens every 46 years!

The election opposition is the ultimate result of the conjunction between Uranus and Saturn that took place in 1988 at 29 Sagittarius. That degree is where Pluto is right now. We, as a country, are in the process of evolving into our next 248 years over the summer and at this election. Hopefully, our evolution will go okay! But we, students of the heavens, know with PLUTO involved, it always/ often gets quite a bit WORSE before it gets BETTER.

Copyright © 2008 Anne Ortelee All Rights Reserved.

 

 

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Full Moon June 18, 2008

1:30 pm EDT

10:30 am PDT

27:50 Sagittarius Moon and Gemini Sun

The full moon at 27 Sagittarius sets off the Venus/ Pluto conjunction from January 24, 2008 as it takes place at the same degree of the Venus/Pluto conjunction. The full moon also sets off last December’s Jupiter/Pluto conjunction at the last degrees of the Sagittarius. The new moon that seeded the current full moon was on December 20, 2006. I suggest you think back to that New Moon and perhaps even reread the New Moon column on this site. Some thing from those three times are connected, communicating and will be dancing up, lit up and illuminated under the Full Moon. Changes, Changes, and more changes! Clarity at last!

Additionally, the Full Moon takes place right near the summer solstice so the SIZE of her, as she rises in the East tonight will be enormous. It is an optical illusion but because of earth’s position to the Sun and their relation to the Moon, she’s going to be glowing and gorgeous. As with all things astrological, when things appear to happen in the sky, we find that similar impact here on earth. So expect emotions to be high, gorgeous, glowing and flowing right now!

Earlier today, Venus was opposite Pluto bringing up even more emotional and desire volatility. Venus asks us to look at our values, desires and what is important to us. Pluto asks us to look at power, triangles, and the darker stuff of manipulations as they pertain to our ability to get what we want. Finally, Venus is out of bounds right now so SHE’s got a raging sense of what she wants, fueled by Pluto and triggered by the Full Moon. So think on those dates, December 2006, December 2007, January 2008 and look for the pattern that is alive on the full moon and seeking illumination.

Often with Venus and Pluto, we find there are strings attached and subtlety (or perhaps not so subtlety) those strings are being pulled. Issues that are unnamed but moving below the surface and are primed to simmer into a boil, even if on the surface, things look peachy keen and pleasant. Venus/ Pluto aspects are fabulous for passive-aggressive behavior. People will do aggressive things in a passive way and then tell you that you are overreacting to what they did. So you doubt, perhaps, that you saw what you saw or they did what they did.

Believe your “below the surface feelings” not what is being said. If you listen to what is being said, it is crazy making. Those below the surface feelings are the ones to look at and watch. MAKE SURE TO LOOK at the behaviors involved! Look at the behaviors on both sides of the fence. See if the person owns their side of the behavior or if they simply say “You are overreacting!” or something similar. The whole energy here is about you being responsible for your behaviors and asking them to be responsible for their behaviors.

What Pluto does is set up a situation, then he gets you to bite. After you’ve bitten, Pluto then chides you for being such a silly goose and biting. Pluto calls you names. Yes, perhaps you were a silly goose for biting! But make sure that you see that Pluto SET UP THE SITUATION for you to bite.

It is kind of like blaming a fish for biting the bait, getting caught and now becoming dinner. Fish take bait. The bait was there to get the fish to bite! The intention, on the part of the fisherman, was to get the fish to bite. The intention was in place. So take responsibility for biting, if you were the fish and you bit. You did bite. But once you bit, you knew it was a setup! And this time, wonder of wonders, you are a talking fish! Call the fisherman on fishing! Encourage the fisherman to take responsibility for setting the bait out for you to bite. See if they do. If they do, then the fisherman is a good and honest fisherman. Yep, they set the bait to get you to bite. They caught you. Ha-ha. It was a dance for two.

If the fisherman doesn’t take responsibility for setting the trap, putting the bait out and waiting for you to bite, well, they are being passive aggressive and acting out of anger or meanness or doing it to pull your strings. That is fine. They are fishermen. Their job is to catch fish. That is what they like to do. But you wouldn’t be caught on that hook if THEY hadn’t put it in the water. And, you, as the talking fish, shouldn’t have to take this lying down. Stand there, in your very best fin, and give them a gill full. Again, it is a dance for two.

In any given situation, Venus opposite Pluto is about owning your own role in the matter ~seeing the separation and the desire laid out before you. On some occasions, you WANT it so bad that you MUST have it. On this occasion, nope, you aren‘t going to go there with the same lack of consciousness. What, exactly, do YOU get out of the relationship? What is in it for you?

Remember the full moon takes place as Mars in Leo is setting off that Finger of God in the sky. Mars in Leo has been at it all week ~ starting last week with his dive into the South Node and all this week as Mars moves to aspect the other parts of the Finger.

And, if you are the fisherman, and a fish starts shouting at you out of nowhere, just nod and say, “Yep, I did set that bait and the hook/trap you wandered into.” Perhaps you, as the fisherman caught that particular fish unintentionally. Or perhaps you, as the fisherman, were setting the bait /trap for another reason, completely. Or perhaps you as the fisherman were just lazy. Or perhaps you as the fisherman were being passive aggressive. Regardless, you have a pretty mad, talking and shouting fish on your hands, yelling at you, giving you a gill full! So what do you want to do about it? My suggestion would be to apologize for catching the fish and let them go back into the pond. Don’t go lecturing the fish on biting the very bait you put out. You put the bait out there ~ what was THAT about if you didn’t want to be catching fish on it or being passive aggressive in some other way? Oh your hook with bait on it just happened to be lying around?

Mars rolling through the Finger of God and sitting on the South Node is setting off and releasing things that are very old and not so needed in our lives any more.

So whether you are the fish or the fisherman (or fisherwoman), own your part of the story under the full moon. You will be able to see it clearly. If you are a fish, the hook mark will heal and you will be fine. If you are the fisherman, the rest of the fish you catch with your hooks and bait probably won’t be as crazy as that fish that just finished yelling at you.

And, know that this full moon, in the Sign of Sagittarius, is a teaching Full Moon. You are supposed to see how you either take or give the bait. What is reality like in your neck of the woods or your part of the pond? In THEIR neck of the woods, it looks like that~ the experience you are in. In your neck of the woods, it looks like what?

Full moons give us our reality back ~ in a emotional form but those emotions can be instructive! Look at the BEHAVIORS too! The behaviors are also where it is at. What do the behaviors tell you about the situation? Your behaviors and their behaviors? Your world and their world? Do you see how your world views and their world views are SO different? Hasn’t it always been like this? Are you just seeing it now? That means you’ve grown. You’ve changed. You’ve evolved. Forward you go. You are going to be fine.

The Finger of God will be taking us through the evolutionary journey for a few more days. We are waiting for Mars to finish with Uranus (adjusting aspect) and get clear of his opposition to Neptune over the weekend. Then we will be able to see clearly, much more clearly, the situation before us.

Until then, Breath. Deep breaths ~ under water, through your gills or above water on the bank of the stream. Or maybe you want to go swim with other fish or garden instead of fishing instead?

Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Image for the Moon in Sagittarius is:

A SPLENDIDLY BUILT BRIDGE, A HERITAGE OF UNKNOWN AGES, STILL SPANS THE BEAUTIFUL AND WILDLY PRIMITIVE STREAM

Commentary: A ‘Splendidly Built Bridge’ is shown. It is a ‘Heritage of Unknown Ages’. The ‘Bridge’ implies strength, dependability; passages and a shortcut across things that would otherwise divide and keep both people and places apart. This Symbol represents a ‘Bridge’ that was ‘Built’ long ago, but is still of use and benefit to all that use it.

Oracle: You may need to find ‘A Bridge’ between your fresh, energetic aspirations, thoughts and emotions and constructive thought and activity. Traditional ways of approaching things may lead to the best solutions now. It may be that the ‘Bridge’ was developed by the experiences of many generations. It could also reflect the inherent qualities that are carried through from history, perhaps past lives. Whatever, you are able to span different levels of awareness with a ‘Splendidly Built Bridge’. If you feel disconnected, know that you can be confident, having the reassurance that this ‘Bridge’ is still there. The ‘Bridge’ is an ever-present capacity that is a gift to you from the universe. However, there may be a “toll” to be paid for going across the ‘Bridge’. If so, is this journey (this event, conversation or habit) an outworn one? Is there a continual reversing of direction or position-or is there movement and links being forged in one sure direction? If you don’t know how to raise your level of awareness or intuition into the conscious realm, be confident that you really do know intuitively. Thoughts or emotions can be a barrier between our soul centered inspiration and the source of higher awareness. The ‘Wildly Primitive Stream’ is a symbol of those emotions, but no matter how far back or deeply active our emotional landscape is, the ‘Bridge’ takes us safely across.

Keywords: Enduring elements from past traditions providing a link with the modern day. Reverence for things of worth that stand as reminders of yesterday. Linking people, places and things with clarity. Connections with the “old country”, or past lives. Beautiful and inspiring landscapes. Getting in touch with people. Ever repeating journeys. Passages across the water. Permanence.

The Caution: Sticking with old and possibly outworn methods, with no new ideas to resolve the situation. Themes of buying the “Brooklyn Bridge”. Feeling like one has to continually tread the tried-and-true path without deviating.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. Addison

We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have “crossed bridges” in their imagination far ahead of the crowd. Speakers Library

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren’t there. Gene Brown

Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed. Azerbaijani Proverb

My mother, religious Negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on. Toni Cade Bambara

If you destroy a bridge, be sure you can swim. Swahili Proverb

Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Image for the Gemini Sun is: SOCIETY GRANTING BANKRUPTCY TO HIM, A MAN LEAVES THE COURT WITH MIXED FEELINGS

Commentary: ‘Society Granting Bankruptcy To Him, a Man Leaves The Court With Mixed Feelings’. The ‘Man’ has had some moral or social judgment made, or placed, upon him and now he must consider where the next phase of his life is going to take him. For some reason, who he is, or what he’s done, has had to be considered and judged by others, and probably himself. To reach such a difficult position could be bitterly disappointing, but there is the possibility of a new life ahead. All is not lost.

Oracle: This Symbol rarely describes ‘Bankruptcy’ in the literal sense. There may be ‘Feelings’ of failure along with the need to have the slate wiped clean, to be able to ‘Leave the Court’ and to have a chance to start over again. When you actually reach rock bottom there are not many choices as to the way out. There’s a need to grab hold of hope and let go of fear. The group, or society, can sometimes accept the responsibility for problems that people create; and they can give the individual a second chance. This Symbol can also show those that feel abandoned because someone has not lived up to their responsibilities. Alternatively, one may be prepared to give up everything and move on to a new and better life. The most important thing about ‘Bankruptcy’ is that it should be undertaken without leaving feelings of guilt and loss. Forgiving and forgetting are both necessary. New truths will be learnt and life will turn around with a feeling of release from the regrets of the past as life becomes lighter and better. Things will surely pick up again on many levels. One has to let go of things and to be prepared to move into a new attitude or way of life. The mistakes of the past become the lessons that make for a better future.

Keywords: Protection. Being let off the hook and free to get on with a new life. Starting back at square one. Renewal. Sacrifice. The need to remain optimistic about the future. Release of pressure. Facing judgment on one’s worth. Booms and busts. Playing with money. Taking risks in the quest for money. Issues of deserving respect. Leaving the scene. Feeling sad and relieved at the same time.

The Caution: Feeling let off the hook and able to commit the same mistakes. Running full tilt and risking everything. Not learning the lessons of how to operate in a structured society. Shifting responsibility onto others. Going “off duty” regardless of how others feel. Moral bankruptcy. Being kicked out. Using other people’s resources. Dejected and deserted.

The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm. H. W. Arnold

It takes 20 years to build a reputation… and five minutes to ruin it. Anon

The three things most difficult are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure. Chilo

Making a life comes before making a living. Anon

He is rich who owes nothing. French Proverb

It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. George Matthew Adams

A man’s judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. Raymond A. Spruance

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems. Robert Southey

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart. Emmeline Pankhurst

Copyright © 2008 Anne Ortelee All Rights Reserved

Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Symbols appears with her permission. Check her work out at http://www.sabiansymbols.typepad.com OR http://www.sabiansymbols.com .

 

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Weekly Weather June 16 2008

Another rocking and rolling week ahead as Mars in Leo continues to set off the rest of the planets in the Finger of God ~ bringing us consciousness about the next chapter of our life and moving us forward towards it. That big old Finger of God is pointing us in a brand new direction even as it releases a major chapter of our old life right before our very eyes! Think of Mars as setting off the legs of the Finger of God as well as aspecting Neptune and Chiron at as emotional and impulse echoes to move you forward ~ a cosmic course correction of sorts.

Mercury stations to go direct and leaves his retrograde journey. Mercury will pass, for a third and final time, over the points that he’s been dancing on since May 11^th. Remember Mercury is in charge of or talking to every planet in the sky by either rulership or dispositor. The purpose of the events and folks you’ve encountered on the retrograde are to get you lined up for your next phase in life. Pay attention. The heavens are working mighty hard to get you heading down your path with consciousness of your soul‘s purpose.

So as Mercury pauses, stops and turns direct, expect us or the significant parts of our lives to shift direction too. He’s in charge of communications so they will have some important messages for you around the 18^th , 19^th and 20^th . Mercury will be travel over that same Gemini section until July 4 so pay attention until then! You may have more ghosts ~ or you will figure out what the ghosts who visited you were actually for. The Sun enters Cancer to begin a new season ~SUMMER! Yeah! Watermelon, soft shell crab and corn on the cob season! And, the Sun casts a new Ingress chart for the next three months ~ describing what we can expect to discover between now and the end of September, as it enters Cancer on Friday.

Venus, too, enters a new sign, Cancer, and has a bunch of aspects as she begins to separate from the Sun and waltz behind him as he sets in the West each evening. She’s going to be less flirty and a bit more emotional and related when she settles into Cancer for a four weeks after Wednesday.

Plus, right before Venus and the Sun enter Cancer, they have another face off with Pluto in Sagittarius to point out what last remnants you have to clean up from 1995 on to now before Pluto permanently enters Capricorn in November. You have to own your power when Pluto is involved ~ so open up the triangle situations so all participants are “in”, informed, interested and in the loop. Pluto gets his power by dividing and conquering through fear or exclusion. Refuse to be excluded. Open it up for all to see.

And there is a lovely Full Moon at 27 Sagittarius lighting up the heavens for all to see. Make sure to read the Full Moon column on this site Wednesday. And apologies for no Full Moon column last month on the Scorpio Moon. It is on the list to do!

Monday, Mars sets off Chiron so words and actions can be deeply wounding ~ Remember Chiron is at the outlet of the Finger of God, sitting on the North Node, right between Jupiter and Uranus and getting set off by proud, roaring Mars in Leo. So, while the angry words are, perhaps, true, (at least they are true words from YOUR perspective) they can have a deeper impact today than they might at other times. Remember, we are each evolving toward our new version of what we want in our life. Whatever irritates you today is tied to a part of you that is changing and evolving. Don’t judge it harshly. Take action consciously. Think about what you want in your life. What is in your future? Venus is dancing with Neptune so the clarity of your vision is perhaps not the best right now. Focus on the good parts. Focus on the love. Remember to separate the BEHAVIOR from the PERSON behaving badly. And, if YOU are in the mood to behave badly, understand that you, too, are evolving to your next chapter. We partner with what we want in our lives. What do you want? Moon in Sadge makes things accelerate rapidly. Be what you want ~ say to yourself “This is what I want to be” and start to “be” that. That whole journey of 1,000 miles starts with a step thing ~ take a step.

Tuesday, Chiron makes an aspect to Juno offering an opportunity to repair or remake the wounds from yesterday. Mercury is slowing down to his stop as he receives an aspect from the Moon in Sadge offering emotional clarity about what is going on in your world. Own your side of the story. Duality exists so we can see ~ if the entire world was either all light or all dark, we wouldn’t be able to see. The variations in the shading between light and dark are what let us see. Look at the variations. Own you side. You have a role in the story too.

Wednesday can either be VERY good or VERY bad. Or it can be a combo day ~ swinging between the two extremes. Venus is opposite Pluto ~ bringing up her story from January when she started this cycle with the Lord of the Underworld. Watch for the green eyed monster of jealousy rearing its head ~ it can seem to come out of no where. Its been burbling around for a while if you haven‘t or hadn‘t noticed it. Venus is opposite Pluto now so she’s more aware of it than she was in January. The Full Moon takes place on the degree that Venus joined with Pluto in January. Watch for “I did so much for you!” kind of energies as comments, reasons, justifications or sayings. Yes, that is true. And? Strings, especially hidden strings, are being pulled today to get you to do whatever. Open up the manipulations so all the parts are clear and clean. That makes this kind of energy easier to handle. My friend Llorraine, a brilliant psychic, talked about jealousy and how she makes it her mission to help folks pull it out into the open and own it. She told a story about being on a bus with a mom and a baby girl who was attracting the attention of all the bus riders. Llorraine could feel the mother’s soul tiredness, exhaustion combined with her jealousy, rising and building. (That is one of the hard parts of being a psychic in my opinion!) She gently leaned over to whisper “Are you jealous?” in a conspiratorial yet compassionate kind of way. The mother nodded, tears in her eyes. That jealousy dissolved almost as soon as it was owned, acknowledged and seen. We have such shame about those kinds of feelings. Yet we have them. They are part of us. Name your feelings today, even if you are a bit a shamed of them. They ARE your feelings. They only grow and get very ugly if you don’t own them, love them and claim them. Claim your feelings. Venus moving into Cancer will help you own those feelings of yours. Read the full moon column on this site for more information.

Thursday Mars sets off the Uranus leg of the Finger of God as Mercury stations to go direct. Another day of exposure and illumination. Mars in a harsh aspect to Uranus requires us to adjust physically to the changes before us. Moon in Capricorn helps us ground the energy even as we may feel a bit depressed. You may get shocking communications today ~ on some level you’ve known. On another, it is a shock. Hold the energy gently. All part of the transformation that is going on within you right now. Once something is identified, you can begin to work with it. Seems like just yesterday that you were naming your jealousy or shame or whatever. Now, you have an opportunity to work with it. This is YOUR side of the situation. Remember duality exists so we can see it as a mirror that is reflective to our own issues.

Friday the Sun repeats Venus‘ aspects from a few days ago. He opposes Pluto bringing illumination, light and clarity to the situations that have been unfolding over the past week. We are here to figure this life business out. We don‘t have it locked and loaded, 100% perfect ~ that is NOT the point of the journey. We are here to figure it out and show other people once we have figured it out. That is how we evolve as individuals and a species. Sun joins with Cancer to start a new season of growth.

Saturn’s day finds Venus and Saturn working together, very seriously, in an attempt to figure things out. It is a great day to be creative and work on expansive and visionary projects. Mars is opposite Neptune, setting off the Finger of God one more time ~ take action to follow that dream of yours. Another step in the journey of 1,000 miles. If you are exhausted from the week’s activities, take time to sit down and rest. Quiet is helpful. Music is helpful. Water is helpful. The desire to immerse yourself in drugs and alcohol may be high for our addicted friends so try to direct that excess Neptune energy constructively. Tears may be a major part of the energy. There’s been a lot of turbulent energy around the last few weeks so tears can help cleanse and clarify, even if they do make your face all funny looking and your nose puffy. Take time to nurture yourself today.

Sunday we start to move back into a more productive place. Moon in Aquarius offers us a meeting or opportunity to gather with our tribe or our friends for laughter and good food. There are stresses but nothing too major ~ just deal with the comment and let them not settle in. Things are provocative but not problematic. Minor annoyances. Are you going to let them ruin a perfectly good time? NOT! Look at the comments as tied to “their issues” and let them drip off, unnoticed or cared about.

Mundane: I was deeply saddened by journalist Tim Russert’s (May 7, 1950, Anne guess 12:25 pm, Buffalo, NY) early and untimely death on June 13, 2008 in the early afternoon while he was at work after a vacation with his family in Italy. Pluto entered Sagittarius for his final pass in the last degrees in the sign of publishing, public relations, the press and journalism later that day at 11:46 pm as Mars in Leo dove into the South Node setting off the Finger of God in the sky. The Finger in the sky vibrated the Finger found in Tim’s chart. Tim’s Finger has the Taurus Sun as the apex which received the square from the transiting Nodes and Mars. His Pluto in Leo received the conjunction from Mars and the South Node. Transiting Uranus opposed his Natal Mars in Virgo. Transiting Saturn in Virgo formed a second, fast moving, Finger of God in his natal chart to Venus, the ruler of his Taurus Sun and to his Moon in early Aquarius.

In the time since Pluto entered Sagittarius in 1995, we’ve seen the internet and the world wide web explode as new forms of communication and publishing as we watched our concept of how, who and where we get our news change and evolve right before our very eyes. How fitting that Mr. Russert’s death helps us remember what the finer qualities of Journalism and the News Media looks like. He died with his boots on, preparing for his show that educated us each and every week. Using his natal Hammer of Thor, he demonstrated how to hammer away to get to or at the truth. Godspeed, Mr. Russert, you will be deeply missed by me each and every Sunday.

A new BIRTH CERTIFICATE TIME of 7:24 pm for Barack Obama. It is actually posted on both his website and the dailykos.com to refute the Muslim rumors. Thank you Republicans! We have an accurate birth time! More on his chart after I’ve had a chance to look at it.

Iowa‘s floods, the Finger of God is active here with the levy breaking (Jupiter in Earth aspecting Uranus in Water) set off by that Mars in Leo on the South Node shooting into Neptune (more water) on the North Node. According to Marc Penfield and the State Historical Society, Iowa became a state on December 28, 1846, 10:03 am, Iowa City, Iowa. That Finger of God is laying right across it’s Ascendant/Descendant with transiting Mars in Leo on the Descendant and squaring the natal Moon in Taurus in the third house ~ removing entire neighborhoods of homes.

Copyright © 2008 Anne Ortelee

 

 

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Weekly Weather June 9, 2008

This week the Sun gets into the picture, lighting up all sorts of situations so we can see them clearly and consciously. Mercury is still retrograde, in Gemini. Mercury is also in some way in charge of every single planet in the sky! The entire heavens are answering to Mercury’s retrograde energy. So that means Mercury (and all the other planets too) are bringing our ghosts back to haunt us, remind us, visit us, and awaken us. The sky will point out our mistakes, our good parts, our growth opportunities and help us review our life choices made so we move forward to our next chapter with awareness. Our ghosts are visiting the important scenes in our lives be it a racetrack or over coffee with an ex-lover at the diner or via a song or found letter that reminds you of them. When your ghost appears, chat them up! Make SURE to have a conversation with your ghosts, even if you are not sure you want to hear what they have to say or if you want to say what they don’t want to hear.

As one of my friends wrote about one of her ghosts, Actually, this was the first time I'd seen him since I got back into town. … I do know I regret how it all ended (not what I said, oddly enough) telling him he was behaving like a selfish prick and that he should do both his wife and his girlfriend a favor and get out of their lives and maybe he should take some time to grow up along the way. Oh, and that he should call my ex to see how that “greener on the other side of the fence" thing works out. Certainly it wasn't what he wanted to hear.

K came in late last night to talk so I confessed this little episode. That's when I realized that what I was most upset about was how those buttons that I thought long ago disconnected got activated. Ah well. I'm sure I'll hear the explosion eventually.”

And, once you realize what it means that you ran into your ghost, (and when you get a bit of distance from it and calm down), expect that you’ll hear a little explosion of old karma getting blown up, shaken loose, dissolving, acting up or being carried away by Mercury’s continuing retrograde. This week, as the Sun comes to light up a number of the planets in the sky, we will find illumination and perhaps we will have a realization of what that ghost encounter was for. Sunlight is the best disinfectant of ghosts! Or at the very least, it sure lights those ghosts up for us!

The other thing that happens during the week ahead is Venus moves from being an warrior goddess morning star to an evening star that wants to snuggle and relate. Venus will join with the Sun on the 9^th. After that, Venus begins to trail the Sun, setting in the west after he does, and softly dancing in the night sky after the Sun disappears. When Venus comes behind the Sun, she is softer, more related and more about connecting, desiring and understanding. We can expect similar shifts to take place in our lives ~ where we may have been a warrior goddess like my friend was to her ghost, we’ll soften and come to appreciate that desire is all part and parcel of the process.

Venus has a passel of aspects so pursue the love, desire and hope energy inside your heart. Stop to listen and care about what your Venus or other people’s Venus’ are saying. While YOU might not want to be part of their Venus experience any more, encourage them to seek out Venus in their own lives now that she’s not a warrior goddess any more. All of us will soften a bit, adjust a bit, settle a bit and maybe even be more in the mood to flirt, connect, chat and relate.

Next, we have VERY big deal aspects with both Mars and Pluto to deal with. Remember these planets are NOT easy at all when they are busy. In their negative versions, they are war, aggression, annihilation and violence. In their positive versions, they are the power of creation and rebirth after the process of alchemical transformation and death combined with the protective yet hard charging energy of moving toward what you want from life. The fact that they are doing big things on the same day, calls our attention to their story.

First, Pluto reenters Sagittarius for a five month sojourn. He is moving out of Capricorn and rolling backwards through the last degrees of Sagittarius on a clean up, revisit and clear out mission. Between now and mid-November when Pluto reenters Capricorn, your job is to clean up the leftover issues in your life that started back in 1995 to now. Focus on your Sagittarius house to see what those issues are. It is your cosmic chance to make it right and get things in order before Pluto goes into Capricorn for a long, long time. You have five months to get your house so to speak in order and figure this out.

Less than 24 hours latter, Mars dives into the South Node of our destiny and starts to stir up our past life or karmic relationships. Mars is helping Pluto do his work ~ they are approaching a fire trine to each other. Mars is going to set off that Finger of God in the sky when he dives into the South Node. Take advantage of Mars stimulating the South Node to use his sharp knife or piercing energy to sever any remaining threads of negative energy remaining that ties you to the situations you want to release. This Mars can be a destructive energy as well so be cautious as it builds up to a peak on Saturday. Redirect it towards creating what you want from your life not arguing about the same old, same old.

Me, I like to invoke Archangel Michael on Mars aspects~ he is one of the good guys who also happens to be quite handy with a sword and fights for good stuff. I ask him to help me sever the difficult ties in a kind, caring and compassionate way rather than with nastiness. When Mars dives into that South Node, ask Michael for his help and envision Michael swiping his sword in front of you, behind you, and along your sides, severing those etheric, karmic, connecting cords as well as the unseen difficult emotional ties that bind you to the pain and the situation or person. Ask him to leave the good ties in place if it is a relationship you want to continue. If you want the entire thing, situation or person gone, gone, gone from your life, ask him to sever all the ties and release both of you.

So there is much good and some potential bad in the week ahead. Focus your intention on where you want to go with your life. It might take you a while to get there, but if you start moving now, you’ll be surprised how far you get taking even the teeny, tiniest steps.

Last and brand new to me from the astrology conference I attended is the concept of Draconian charts. Draconian charts involve taking the North Node of the Moon and moving it to 0 Aries and then moving all the other planets in a chart by the same amount. The chart looks physically the same but all the signs and house rulers change. The Draconian chart describes your karmic purpose. And, I must say, in the charts I’ve been testing it out on, it certainly seems to work fabulously! So why mention this new bit of knowledge now? Well Pluto is traveling at 0 Capricorn this week ~ square to that Draconian North Node of Destiny in each and every one of our lives. Pluto is also sitting right on the World Axis of the Cardinal signs. We all, each and every one of us, will face a major karmic choice in the week ahead about what we believe to be the most important thing or path for us and our future. Take a deep breath and choose what you want out of love, and not from a place of worry or out of fear.

Also, this means the issue from the very end of January when Pluto first entered Capricorn is up and active, dancing around the room, maybe even shouting at you, and asking you to look at it. So be brave and look! Take action. Own your path. Own your part. Own your contribution. Own your stuff. Your choices and actions only stay unconscious when you choose not to look at them or take responsibility for your own behavior. So choose with wisdom, guided by hope and fueled by love for your best outcome. More importantly, choose bravely for the outcome of your soul‘s path. It is not about what the other guy says or does, it is about YOUR PATH!

Monday, In the middle of the night, Sun joins with Venus and aspects the Node by declination offering us a delightful opportunity to move toward what we would like in our life. Venus moves from being a warrior to a love goddess. The Moon in Virgo makes powerful aspects with both Saturn and Pluto linking our emotions to a readiness to create in the world. All day long, the productivity soars. Create a list upon awakening and power through it. You may find yourself a bit more emotional than you would expect. Part of it is freeing and part of it is because there is next to no water in the heavens so emotions will appear in the most awkward places. All for the good. Chat up all ghosts you encounter!

Tuesday we continue with the Virgo moon as it makes productive aspects all day long until it goes void with a flourish. Partnerships are challenged, pushed or offered the opportunity to go to the next level ~ either up or down ~ with Uranus square to Juno, Vesta trine to Juno as Uranus argues with Vesta. The old traditional way of doing things isn’t cutting it any more. So state what you would like. Venus still tightly joined to Sun, has a bunch of aspects that are about creating what she desires in the world. She and the Sun are both trine to the North node so push for the love, value, connection and being seen energy that you want today. Forget the old wounds. Recognize wounds are part of the journey through life ~ they are helpful but at the same time they should prevent you from living your best life. People will be who they are. Who are you? Why are you letting “them”, whoever “them” are, define what you get out of life? If you adjust YOUR side of the equation or the arrangement, they will have no choice but to make an adjustment on their side of the arrangement. Think of it as going to sit on a subway bench. You can see there is room for you to sit down, provided that guy pulls his leg in and she slides over a little bit closer to the pole. There is space there for you! Or you can choose to stand ~ but you won‘t be able to read your book. Or you can leave the subway car and get into another car ~ but you are already in this one and the doors are going to close. Or you can wait for the next subway which hopefully won’t be that crowded but you are already running a bit late. This is the kind of day where you need to summon your inner Rosa Parks and say out loud, for all the world to hear, “I want a seat!” Seventeen people will get up and offer you their seat. Ask. Ask. Ask. Or at least say what you’d like to have going forward! Don’t be bashful. They can’t read your mind.

Wednesday Moon in Libra balances the energy today as Sun moves to make a pile of aspects. Expect illumination. Expect to see things you hadn’t seen or think things you hadn’t thought of before. If you had a disturbing dream in the night, revisit it during day light and see what it is trying to tell you. The heavens are talking to us ~ or trying to any way ~ by sending us all these ghosts, making us run into old memories and folks from our past and reminding us who we are and where we’ve come from and what we’ve been. Those memories will help us know where we want to go next. Our past is made out of our choices from back then. Our future is tied to our choices we make now. Our lovely ghosts are pointing all this out to us with an amazing clarity right now. Ceres changes signs today and enters Cancer and opposes Pluto at the World Axis. They are both square to our Draconian nodes of karma, choice and destiny. Time to choose what we want.

What we nurture, grows. What we feed, grows. What we pay attention to, grows. What we grow can be good, kind and terrific. Or what we grow can be kind of like that plant in Little Shop of Horrors. It keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger! We each have a part of us inside that shouts at us just like that plant did ~ “Feed me! Feed ME!!!! FEEEEED ME!!!” Do you like the voice that is shouting at you to feed it? If not, don’t feed it! It is as simple as that. Well, probably not really quite that easy, but you DO know that you don’t have to feed it! Remember it is YOUR CHOICE, yes your choice, to continue to feed it. You can continue to feed the darn thing so it will continue to grow bigger and bigger and bigger. It will continue to shout at you, louder and louder and louder. OR you can stop feeding it today, simply go about your business and ignore it. Sooner or later, it will stop shouting at you and go away. Venus opposite Juno says we are done, on some level, with partnering with that bad old behavior, that shouting plant, that nasty situation. If the thing shouting at you today is not a plant, remember you don‘t have to talk to it either. You brought it ~ the person, situation, job, event ~ into your life to serve a purpose. If that purpose is served, you can get it OUT of your life. And let me remind you, right NOW is a fabulous time to finish it up and let it go.

Thursday expect exciting dreams as Venus squares Uranus in the middle of the night. Write them down upon awakening (if you remember them). Mull on them. The Universe is pointing out what you can do without. As Sun opposes Juno, look, clearly, at what you are partnering with. We partner with things for various reasons ~ usually because it gets us something we want but on occasion we do it because we think we have to partner with it! Other times, we partnered with it because we needed it. Do we still need it? Today, the universe is going to point out to you that you don’t have to partner with anything you don’t want to hang out with. You can leave. Yes, you can. And, if you feel like a good old door slamming loud shouting kind of exit, think. Please remember you want to take CARE OF YOURSELF! So before you quit without a new job lined up or dump them without an apartment to move into, take stock. Take advantage of the energy of Pluto about to go into Sagittarius to plan your escape. No use cutting off your resources if you don’t need to. On the other hand, you might need a big old door slamming kind of exit to get your butt out the door for good. Remember Ceres and Pluto are squaring the Nodes of Destiny. While you might not leave this very second, something will click off in you today, if it is time for you to go.

Friday we have a very long, void moon full of relationship energy. Again, the night before was busy and full of dreams. Hopefully, these dreams were more about where you are going next rather than the fear filled kind of dreams. What did you see that helped you understand where you are going? Take some time today to sit quietly with your guides or your hopes. Envision what you’d like your home, hearth and life to look like. Hold it next to your heart. Pluto moves into Sagittarius late today. He’s going to be asking us to make choices and clean up the last lingering issues from 1995 to now. We have until Pluto finishes up with Sagittarius for the next 248 years by early November to get our next act together. So the decisions you made this week have some time to move into form before you. Be aware of the shift from Cardinal, solid Earth back into Mutable, Changeable fire. Folks who don’t study astrology will notice the turbulence as it is difficult. And, the story from last January is back up and dancing in the room again. Acknowledge it. Be kind. It is all part of your path. What ended or shifted in January probably will be permanently changed in the future ~ but for the time being, it will be back in your life.

Saturday, Mars joins with the South Node. This can be quite difficult as it sets off that Finger of God in the sky coming from a place of letting go or loss. Losses can occur. If something leaves your life today, it is for the best. It might not seem that way, but truth be told, it is for the best. You are finished with it. Or Mars joining to the South Node can also bring IN a very karmic, potentially life changing relationship. Watch and see what happens. Sun trines Neptune so wonderful new things can also arrive on this day ~ but they might turn out to be a bit addictive once you get past the initial glow. We have to wait and see what happens once we get to November to see where it is truly going.

Sunday is Father’s Day. We celebrate the men who helped raise us to be human beings. Good or bad, our fathers are described by our Suns and our Saturns ~ two very important points in every chart. I know my Aries Dad with his Leo Moon taught me, his earth and water daughter, many important lessons while I was growing up. Take the time today to think about the lessons you learned, good or bad, from your father and your father figures. Mars sets off the Jupiter point in the Finger of God ~ how did those teachers and their lessons affect the choices you’ve made (or not made) in your life? As Pluto will be in Capricorn for a good long time starting in just a few months, part of our upcoming lessons will be looking at what kind of Capricorn figures we want in our lives. Settle in with your dreams of the future as the Moon aspects that sensitive Finger of God yet again. Forward to the new week!

Mundane: Call me cynical (or perhaps I have too many years carrying an ephemeris under my arm) but declaring the Democrat party’s Candidate for President on Mercury Retrograde makes me doubt it will happen. Obama doesn’t have Mercury retrograde natally or by progression in his chart. Expect reversals.

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New Moon June 3 2008
3:23 pm EDT
12:23 pm PDT
Sun and Moon at 13:34 Gemini

Our lovely spring new moon takes place at 13:34 Gemini, trapped between Venus and Mercury moving retrograde, also in Gemini. Communications, connections, desires, bonds and relationships are all involved when the relating planets of Venus and Mercury connect with the lights joining in the sky. Venus and Mercury stand beside the lights, like a best man and maid of honor at a wedding. They are there to witness the union of the two lights. As witnesses, they also have “history” with the Sun and Moon. They were there when the couple met, started to date, fought, broke up and ultimately reunited. Now, they stand as witnesses to the union of the Sun and the Moon that takes place on this lunation.  And, they will accompany the Sun and Moon as the lights proceed on their journey of seeding, evolving, ripening and harvesting the projects begun under this new beginning.

There are two Fingers of God formed right now in the heavens. The Fingers point toward and continue to push us to evolve and expand our purpose. Acting like giant cosmic pointers, they direct our attention to look at our relationships, particularly the ones in our community or tribe of choice, as we still continue to follow our own unique path in our life. The two Fingers are intermixed ~ sharing Jupiter as a linking point between the two different developmental tasks they out line.

One Finger, points to us and asks us to move towards our destiny, shrouded perhaps in fog, mist or without maybe more than a promise of a dream and the hope in our heart. We move toward it knowing we have to trust our heart, to take a leap and believe that the net will appear, accept on faith a belief in our ability to grow to meet the challenge of what comes next. We are caught between the desire for change or freedom and the desire for things to stay the same, safe and secure.

The second Finger asks us to start to build our structures for the future without a clear idea of what they will actually look like! We are losing something we know and probably loved in and agreeing to move backwards or redo or revisit our past. We’ll be moving in a reverse direction ~ just for a bit ~ but by doing THAT review and revisit function, we’ll actually have a clearer idea of what we want to build in our new structure.

We forget sometimes that humans are communal folks. We have various groups that we associate with and are tied to. Our groups come to us either by birth, by default or by our own choices ~ conscious or not so conscious choices. Right now the Universe is asking each of us to connect with our various groups, or the people in the groups, to see what we see. Once we see it, assess it, understand it and acknowledge what we need to know that we didn‘t know before, we will be free to move onto our next tasks of start to build our structures for the future without a clear idea of what they will actually look like and move towards our destiny, shrouded perhaps in fog, mist or without maybe more than a promise of a dream and the hope in our heart.

Pretty big requests by the universe, don’t you think? Build stuff that you don’t know what you are building and move towards something and you don’t know where you are going? Fortunately, or unfortunately, there is next to no water in the sky. Your emotions about these two rather big requests have no water to immerse themselves in to feel better. Consequentially, emotions are going to be high and skitter, slide, skid all over place. Electric and very wired or high strung. Charged and shocked. Vibrant but overloaded with choices, options and components. Amp and volume on high but no ear plugs around.

But as we can expect, the Universe offers us a way out, a way to evolve and grow. Decide to move toward what you love. Take actions to go that way ~ go towards what you love or toward what you are passionate about. Following your passion will move you toward your future, even if you don‘t know what or where you are going. Following your passion will recharge you. It will take you to a new place in your life.

Fear may happen under this new moon. If fear does appear, greet it like a dear friend and ask it what, exactly, it is afraid of. Nod your head. Say you understand that based on the previous parts of your history, fear is a normal response to the circumstances before you. Then, firmly and quickly, wrap your fingers around the “tall man” finger, the middle finger, the Saturn finger, on your hand. Hold it.  Hold that Saturn, fearful finger until the fear starts to ebb. Repeat the process with your other hand until the fear drops. Wiggle your thumbs to get your will going. Put your hands on your knees ~ fear loves to live in our knees ruled by Capricorn to keep us from moving forward. Hold your hands on your knees until you calm down and the fear abates.

We can live in fear or live in another emotion of our choosing. Choose to the other emotion ~ don’t sit in the fear. Notice it. Let it rise. Address it. Watch it ebb. Remember, the point of the new moon is to offer you new beginnings. Go back to the choices you’ve made ~ consciously or not so consciously. They were the proper choices at the time ~ based on the information you had at that moment. Maybe now, with hindsight, you might choose something different ~ but you chose what you chose. Be proud of your choice. Be content in your choice. Resolve to choose to follow what you love and are drawn to ~ regardless of what any one in your various groups say about it. Go towards what you love.

Take the time on this important New Moon to decide what you love and to move toward it. Sit with yourself and create a vision, a list or a drawing of what you want to create for your life. Remember Venus and Mercury are whispering into the Sun and the Moon’s ears ~ suggesting what is possible, desired and dreamed of. Move towards those dreams today, if only in your heart. But do take a small step or three toward them.

Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Image for the Sun and the Moon is

TWO PEOPLE, AT WIDELY DIFFERENT POINTS, ARE IN CONVERSATION WITH EACH OTHER BY MEANS OF TELEPATHY

Commentary : The ‘Two People’ are far apart – they are at ‘Widely Different Points’. This can show that they are far apart in distance from each other, but it can also be that they live in very separate worlds or have very different viewpoints on life, still, they are ‘In Conversation With Each Other By Means of Telepathy’. Whichever, this Symbol embodies the idea that we are never really separate from those with whom we truly belong, as long as we keep them in our minds and our hearts. It is not always necessary to be physically face-to-face with others to communicate in some manner.

Oracle: This Symbol shows how lines of communication can be established if you can’t be near a friend or loved one. It seems that you have bonds with another, perhaps with many people, that are unaffected by distance or frequency of communications or visits. When you are unable to be together, it is possible for you to remain connected through sending messages from your mind and heart. You could also be feeling as though you are receiving messages from or about them, but are afraid to pay attention to them. If you have been receiving clairvoyant flashes or premonitions, don’t block them, as it is highly likely that they are trying to tell you something worth listening to. Society frowns on most things concerning psychic things; but don’t allow yourself to submit to other people’s disapproval and opinions. The important thing is to trust your intuition, both in the sending and receiving of messages. In your situation, you may feel isolated or unable to physically bridge the gap between yourself and someone special. Try to set aside a time of the day or night when you can meditate on each other. Let your heart tell you that you are always in their company and there is no need to feel alone.

Keywords: Conquering space and time limitations. Psychic and mental communication. Sharing and thinking the same ideas. Knowing what is felt or thought by others. Feeling connected regardless of physical contact. Being on the same frequency. Medium ship. Telepathic communication. Conversation. Direct lines of communication.

The Caution: Blocking out sensitive awareness for the sake of social needs or expectations. Mind and thought control. Attempts to manipulate by subtle means. Loosing contact. Not getting the message. Separations in time and space. Not seeing eye-to-eye. Barging into other people’s space.

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time. Hobbes

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Proverb

Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood. Elizabeth Ashley

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Romanian Proverb

Separation secures manifest friendship. Indian Proverb

Distance lends enchantment to the view. T. Campbell

I waited and waited, and, when no message came, I knew it must be from you. Ashleigh Brilliant

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. Antoine De Saint-Exupery

To the query, “What is a friend?” his reply was “A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” Aristotle

Great minds think alike. Traditional Proverb

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Weekly Weather June 1, 2008

Our week ahead moves us deeper into Mercury’s retrograde and the continuing exploration of our ghosts from our past ~ lovers, spouses, friends, enemies, acquaintances, co-workers, roommates, neighbors, bosses and all sorts of “others” who we’ve met during our life’s journey. We may be asked to revisit old neighborhoods or to examine our thoughts, beliefs and stories. Remember this is a MIGHTY powerful Mercury retrograde as each and every planet in the heavens above are actively responding or listening or reacting to Mercury’s commands to reverse! Mercury is getting all of them working on his agenda to reconnect, redo or revise communications and thoughts.

Second, Venus is getting ready to move from being a war waging goddess of a morning star to a connected, related, and loving evening star as she approaches her conjunction with the Sun and Mercury next week. Venus has NOT been feeling the love as of late. Venus is WAY too close to the Sun so her desire nature is confused by Sun’s WAY too hot to handle burning rays. The song, Ring of Fire, comes to mind.

Love is a burning thing
and it makes a fiery ring
bound by wild desire
I fell in to a ring of fire...

I fell in to a burning ring of fire
I went down, down, down
and the flames went higher.

And it burns, burns, burns
the ring of fire
the ring of fire.

The taste of love is sweet
when hearts like ours meet
I fell for you like a child
oh, but the fire went wild..

In fact, Venus may feel she’s on fire but with a burning rage or extremely passionate energy that doesn’t have adequate words to express the feeling coursing through her being.

For the balance of the week, makes sure to remind Venus that she DOES HAVE choices. She doesn’t think she has choices but that is because she is on fire from the Sun. Venus is not going to be seeing she has options right now. Venus does have options! The other part of the problem is Venus is in Gemini, ruled by Mercury’s mixed, confusing, confounding and not at all clear messages because Mercury is retrograde. It is kind of like where the cell phone keeps getting cut off at the crucial bits or parts of the story. Next week, once Venus is past her union with the Sun and Mercury, things will be a bit clearer.

Right now, your best option is to be quiet and wait. Listen. No jumping to conclusions. No waging wars on people who are not meeting your desires or refusing to do what you want. No burn, burn, burn! Your Venus, like all the world‘s desire nature, is on fire. Venus is going to continue to cook (and possibly be irritated by it) all week. Make sure not to fan the flames or get your knickers in a twist. You don‘t, ‘regardless of what you THINK you know because, because, because!’, ACTUALLY KNOW what is going to happen. There is simply too much confusion right now with the entire heavens getting and giving mixed messages due to Mercury‘s retrograde. Sit tight. Show up. Do your work. Be calm. Say what you want. Remember to breath. No hissy fits. No stomping out of the room. No if-you-don’t-do-this,-I-will-do-that-ultimatums. They will call your bluff and let you go. Now, on the other hand if you actually DO WANT to go, be fired or break up, this is a great time to passively aggressively get the other guy to end the relationship for you. On this configuration, you can get them to do the dirty work so you can walk away smiling.

Third, Chiron joins with the North Node of Destiny. We are all going to be looking for our tribe ~ seeking it, trying to find it, missing it, perhaps aware we aren’t with it, and knowing we need to move towards or find our tribe. There is a great line from the Broadway musical “Rent” about looking for someone whose baggage goes with yours. Again, with Venus so on fire and confused by her aspects as Chiron comes the North Node, you might mistake YOUR baggage for THEIR baggage. Or they may mistake THEIR baggage for YOUR baggage.

We all have baggage ~ our quiet list of hurts, pains, wounds and life issues and problems that we carry along with us, packed securely in our suitcase, trailing behind us ~ one of those suitcases on wheels. This is a week when the universe wants you to CHECK YOUR LUGGAGE TAGS VERY  CAREFULLY! Remember bags look alike! Some one may try to talk you into believing that their luggage is actually your luggage. Say, “Nope, that is not my baggage!” Say it loudly and clearly. Or perhaps, they may run off, stealing your suitcase! Or they open your luggage up and throw all your clothes and things all over the airport floor. That will be completely embarrassing you because you simply don‘t do things like that in public ~ you are not into revealing your secrets to a room full of strangers. Roar at them ~ quietly, of course, that you don’t like that, you don‘t want that, you are not into that. And, last but probably the most probable and possible set of circumstances, they will accuse YOU of stealing their luggage. Some how YOU are the one who caused the whole problem in the first place by running off with their suitcase of stuff.

So how to handle the confusing luggage situation? First up, see Venus. This is the confusing part ~ your luggage DOES look like their luggage. That is why you are in a relationship with them. Your baggage goes with their baggage!  Remember Venus may be picking a fight with you to get you to break up with them. Or Venus may be really mad at you for something (remember she is in the last throes of her time as a warrior goddess and a morning star) all cranky, bitchy and lashing out ~ just because. The problem is the luggage business is pushing ALL of YOUR buttons. It is making you have to hang out with your own dirty laundry in that luggage of yours that you are fighting over.
Now, I can’t tell you how it is going to work out ~ too many planets going backwards and acting odd, crazy and out of sorts. But I can suggest you sit down, open up all the suitcases and QUIETLY sort the stuff in the various suitcases into separate piles ~ your pile and their pile and our pile. Then put your pile in your suitcase. They can do what they want to do with their pile. If there is something you really like in the “our pile”, put it in your luggage. No use leaving it at the airport. Or you can set about picking up and organizing the clothes that are some how scattered around the airport floor. Make sure to say, “Yep, our laundry is sure dirty now that is has been lying all over the airport floor! Well, there is not much we can do about that dirty laundry right now as there are no washers and driers here at the airport. How about if we buy a couple of t-shirts over at that souvenir shop so we have something clean to wear and pack the rest of this stuff up?” You want to pack it up until July 7 or so when Mercury clears his shadow.

The reason you are fighting about whose baggage belongs to whom is the universe is trying to get you clear about what you ARE responsible for and what you ARE NOT responsible for. Chiron on the North Node combined with Venus in her warrior mode will do that! We attract folks who mirror our issues to make us conscious. The universe right now is pushing VERY, VERY hard on you! The universe is using the mirror of the other guys as well as the baggage fight AND that burning, fire gal Venus AND  confusing Mercury to make you conscious. Pay attention will you? And get ready to sort your socks from their socks. And maybe put your stained panties in a tied up plastic bag so if the contents of your luggage happens to get thrown about the airport lobby, the odds are better than good that those dirty panties of yours stay INSIDE the plastic bag.

Fourth, there is a magical new moon in Gemini on Tuesday that is in an opening sextile with Mars in Leo. Mars in Leo is all about getting you what you want. So make sure to tell Mars and Mercury what you are looking for so they can go and get it for you. That means setting some time aside on Tuesday late afternoon or in the evening to create a New Moon wish list, hold a private vision quest, create a moon ritual, glue together a story board or have a conversation with Mercury and Mars about what you want.  Sometimes it is easier to know what you don’t want so if that is the case, make a don’t want list. Then write the positive version of the Don’t Wants into Do Wants on that New Moon wish list.

Monday find us working with a very long void moon in Taurus so Venus is rocking and rolling today! Not only is she on fire, no one is listening to her either! There is next to NO water in the heavens ~ only far out Uranus in Pisces ~ so we can expect emotional outbursts as folks seek to process emotions without the calming, soothing and cooling energy of water. Mercury is leaving an aspect of brilliance to Saturn so remember to break the tasks into parts and write all the details down. It will make it go easier. Mars and Mercury have harsh aspects with each other and out of bound Ceres. This is one of those times when you will need to think for yourself. Probably what you were taught by your mother on the topic facing you today is not going to be adequate to handle it. So put on your thinking and action cap. What is the win-win? What is the choice that moves towards love? Choose that if you can.  Moon is square to Neptune make emotions flow freely even if there is no water around to help them move. Chiron joins the North Node so luggage can be thrown around the airport floor. Sort your socks. Aren’t you glad you packed your panties in a plastic bag?

Tuesday,  The New Moon in Gemini takes place today so read the column on the New Moon on the site.  Mercury has very depressive and depressing aspects with Saturn so when it feels like it is going no where fast, it ain’t. Some things, most of the good things actually, take time. So mope about the situation for about 10 minutes. Then pick yourself up. Wash your face. Freshen up. Go make or plan your Gemini New Moon ritual. Fresh life begins on a New Moon.

Wednesday has another very long void moon during the day with exceptionally active dreaming from the night before. It is good the moon is void as you are going to want to snooze at your desk today! The end of the day is more productive so shift tasks to that time if you can. You can take a bit of advantage of Sun separating from Mars in Leo to get started on your list from yesterday. Push!

Thursday, Venus and Jupiter are having fun by declination. That said, Venus is still on Fire so watch out that the accelerating energy of Jupiter doesn’t cause Venus to flare up too much. Sun has an aspect of brilliance to Jupiter which also encourages excess. This is a fine day for people to slip off the sobriety ~ too much excess going around. What would one hurt? So make sure NOT to pick up. Just don’t pick up that old toy of yours. Focus instead on what you want to create for your life. Review your ritual from the New Moon. Focus. Focus. Life is made of choices. Don’t choose incorrectly today! Moon in Cancer makes for two planets in the heavens in water so expect emotions to flow today. No self medicating! Focus. This too shall pass.

Friday is this week’s third all day long void moon after yet another night of very active dreaming. It was not as active as Wednesday but still it would be nice to get a decent night’s sleep! Mars has very cranky aspects Pluto ~ expect bombs, attacks, war, aggression, irritation and perhaps for your luggage to be strewn about the airport floor. Pick your dirty laundry up. Venus has a sextile aspect to Mars so passions are running particularly high. Focus on what you want your life to be like. Focus.

Saturn’s day. We might have a Triple Crown winner at the Belmont Stakes! The problem is Big Brown has a hoof injury AND Mercury’s gone retrograde since he won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness. Big Brown will try to become the first Triple Crown champion since Affirmed in 1978. As that is a Saturn Return we are looking at ~ part of me votes yes, the other part votes no as hoofs are ruled by Saturn and Mercury is into reversing things! At any rate, don’t you be afraid to run for your own Belmont Stakes’ prize. Make sure to move forward after our volatile week on planet earth. Moon is occulted by Mars as the Sun and Mercury join in the sky. New beginnings begin. And Mercury joins with Venus bringing news of fire, passion and good things. Sun and Venus are both working with the North Node of Destiny so I am going to vote yes for Big Brown. Vote yes for yourself. Or at least give it all you’ve got as you head out onto the race track.

Sunday we have our fourth day long void moon. These day long void moons seem to be getting to be a pattern! When the moon is void, it is our signal from the Universe to pay attention to all the messages coming at us, rest, relax, settle down, kick back and sit for a spell.  Mercury has a sextile aspect to Mars ~ review your list from the New Moon and meditate on it. Set up a plan to work on your dreams. The time is now. Life is waiting for you!
 

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