New Moon Solar Eclipse
September 11, 2007
18:25 Virgo Sun/ Virgo Moon
8:44 am EDT
5:44 am PDT
The imagery I get for the new moon eclipse in Virgo is one of those water powered toy rockets we had back before all the “unsafe toys” were removed from childhoods. You clipped the rocket onto the launcher and filled the chamber thingie on the launcher with water. You pumped the handle, over and over, to build up the water pressure in the chamber. You pumped the handle until it couldn‘t be pumped any more. You aimed your rocket and pressed on the red release button. WHOOSH! The water powered rocket took off to fly through the backyard before crashing to the ground. More often than not, I got nervous right before I pressed the red button, winced and ruined my shot ~ shooting my rocket sideways or crooked instead of straight up. Rockets would shoot in all sorts of directions, including into the ground! My brother liked to shoot his rockets along the surface of the ground rather than up into the sky, mimicking a submarine’s torpedo. Other neighborhood kids would pump and shoot off their rockets with various degrees of launching success and skill. Our fathers (It was an adult supervision toy!) always seemed to be able to send the rockets sailing high across the sky after pumping the pressure for a long, long, long time.
We have a mutable cross on our new moon eclipse. The energy can go any where on a mutable cross! The eclipse will act like those volatile, water powered rockets of my childhood. It might launch perfectly! Or your aim can be off. Your pumper may not be pumped enough so your rocket doesn’t launch very well at all. Your rocket might shoot into the ground. Your rocket shoots high into the heavens to crash to the ground successfully. Your rocket gets trapped in a neighbor’s tree or lands on a garage roof or crashes on the driveway and cracks. Some one near you might shoot a better or different way than you choose to shoot ~perhaps a torpedo missile scooting across the ground like my brother or maybe aimed towards the hated younger sister like my neighbor David used to. His sister hated those rockets! The fathers ALWAYS shot the rockets so much better than we kids did. And then, after it landed, we’d fill it up with water, pump up the pressure and shoot it off again! So that is our process for the eclipse ~ Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo.
A mutable cross demands we adjust and change as we practice our growing skills and attempt to manage the energy shooting off in all directions. Often, there are too many variables active to predict where or when or how your rocket will launch under the eclipse and the mutable cross. We DO know your rocket WILL launch! There is just too much energy flying around for nothing to happen in your life. You have to pay attention and adapt. Keep your goals in mind. Adapt. Change. Watch your rocket. Aim for what you want. See where it goes when you press the launch button. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo.
Please know that you will have the opportunity for do-over launches if you don’t like where your rocket goes. You’ll actually have a few launches. Between now and mid-October, we are going to be shooting our rockets out into the heavens over and over and over again! Between now and early March 2008, we are going to perfect our skills and be able to predict, with a reasonable amount of accuracy and skill, where our rocket will land based on the number of pumps, amount of water in the tank, speed of pressure placed on the red release button and direction the rocket faces. Between now and early March, your job is to practice, practice, practice. The only way to get better is to practice. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo.
Please also know your rocket might break or crack or have some kind of problem(s). That is part of the mutable energy cross too ~ it is not predictable. You have to adapt and change as circumstances demand. You can always get a new rocket at the store tomorrow or share some one else’s rocket until you get another one. Your rocket may land high in a tree, necessitating finding a ladder in the garage and a climb to retrieve it. If your rocket lands on a garage roof quickly climb out your bedroom window before your mom catches you, retrieve it and launch your rocket again. Again, Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo if necessary. Launch again.
The mutable cross is VERY volatile. It is a VERY volatile new moon in Virgo. And we have the unpredictable energy of an eclipse added to the mix. The mutable cross has Uranus in Pisces square to the Jupiter/ Pluto midpoint in Sagittarius and square to Mars in Gemini. Those four planets bring dangerous, frisky, explosive, competitive, expansive and yet kind of fun energies when used appropriately or channeled. Yes, as my mother would remind us, you can put out an eye with one of those rockets! But you can also have a great time! Remember, it is a water pressurized flying rocket which you are, some what, in charge of or control of. You get to pump it. You get to choose the launch time. You get to press the red button and send it off into the heavens. Your skill will develop with time and as you practice. And, most important, you get to aim where your rocket goes. Water pressured rockets require adult supervision and a level of skill and competency to shoot correctly it off into the heavens. Unfortunately, or fortunately perhaps, YOU are the adult in the room. No dads are around to supervise. Are you ready to launch your rocket? Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo.
Now, the hard part about the eclipse is there are no guarantees. Of course, there never are in life. But we do love those guarantees. The point of Saturn in Virgo is to practice, practice, and practice. It is a process sign. A working sign. A mutable sign. Some signs work. Others lie around eating bon bons. Virgo works. Virgo launches. Assess where and how it went based on what you did (we also call this criticize but I much prefer assess). Redo or fix if we don‘t like it.
Venus is opposite to Neptune on the eclipse. One of the nice things about Neptune opposite of Venus is we know our dreams come true. We have dreams. We pursue dreams. I want you pursuing your dream, with passion. Argue for your dream and it comes true. Venus opposite Neptune. Pursue your dream. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo.
Neptune is inconjunct to the new Moon as well as in aspect to the other points in the mutable cross. That means Neptune is involved in the energy pattern, dousing the process with a wet blanket or making the dreams require adjustment. Well, with those rockets, we got wet! We dipped them in the bucket of water to fill up their chambers. We sometimes didn’t press the red button hard or fast enough so the water pressure exploded and drenched us like a crazy hose. My brother did that a lot too. It was a very messy toy. Your dream is a messy dream. It isn’t completely formed at this moment. You are moving toward it. It will require adjustments as you launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo. You might get soaked. It was a dangerous toy! The mothers in the neighborhood HATED those water rockets. In addition to being able to put an eye out, make us climb on the roof or up a tree, we often came home soaked and either exhilarated or wounded by our efforts. All part of the process. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo.
Place the eclipse chart over your natal chart. In the Virgo house, that is where you are to launch your rocket. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo. Just keep doing it over and over and over again. That is where the new moon falls and the beginning of the process of what you are to accomplish while Saturn is in Virgo. Payoff comes as Saturn moves thr
ough that house.
In th
e Gemini house, Mars is where the other guy is ~ your competition or your brother or the neighbors. It is where your rocket can go wrong because an outside force intervenes. It is where your skill level may produce mixed results or distractions take place. There is where my brother is shooting it along the ground like the torpedo. There is David shooting at his sister. There are the fathers launching their rockets perfectly or where you have a memory of them launching their rockets that which makes you criticize your own efforts. The Gemini house is the distraction place. You can get off track in the Mars in Gemini house with too many options or choices or comparisons. Remember ~ focus on YOUR rocket! Ignore the other guy! It isn’t about comparing yourself to others. It is about YOUR life! Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo.
The Pisces house holds Uranus. This is the wait and see house. We aren’t going to know how it turns out for a while. Go back to March and June of 2007 to see what you are waiting and seeing about. We have to wait until Uranus gets back to 18, which is in the beginning of March 2008 to see what happens in this part of your life. In the mean time, you can get soaked, have unpredictable things happens, or just laugh and laugh as the rocket lands on the roof or in the tree or knocks over the lawn chairs. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo.
The Sagittarius house holds Jupiter and Pluto. We are using the midpoint of those planets in this house. This is where the rocket is going to go! The story from 1994 about expanding your choices and exploring your value is coming to an end. A new story, a quest story, a follow your path story, a fire, passion and vision story will begin in this house in December, when Jupiter and Pluto join forces again for the next 13 years. Between now and December 2007, I want you practicing, practicing and practicing. Your skill will be assessed by outside forces in December. I want you ready to demonstrate how good you are at launching your rocket. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo and perfect your technique as many times as you can between now and December. Based on how good your rocket goes, you might even get on David Letterman, or be asked to do special effects for the school play or something! What ever and where ever the universe is going to take you unfolds starting in December. Launch your rocket. You will get an opportunity around your rocket in December. In the meantime, you need to build skill via practice. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo. Practice!
The Leo house holds Venus. This is why you’ve come to love launching your rocket. Venus is in the house that Saturn was in for the past few years. All your hard work resulted in the outcome before you. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo. You’ve learned how much you love what you have worked to create.
The Aquarius house holds Neptune. Yep, that old life of yours dissolved right before you. Your old life dissolved to get you to this place. The fathers aren’t out here showing you how to launch the rockets. Your mom is talking on the phone and doesn‘t know you are launching the rocket. You are your own authority now. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo. Don’t like it? Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo. Get soaked? Well if you go in to tell your mother or try to change your soaked clothes, she’ll make you stop playing with the rocket. Adult supervision is required with this toy because it might be dangerous remember? Well your mother remembers! And you aren’t quite an adult in this area yet but you are pretty darn good! Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo. Please aim better because if you hit David with your rocket, he’ll rat you out to your mother even if he did just hit his sister with his rocket. Cry Baby! Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo. Practice. Practice. Practice.
Mercury in Libra falls into your Libra house and suggests this is where you go for advice if your rocket fails to launch properly. Might be something wrong with your technique or a hidden crack in your fuselage. Look to your Libra house for a partner or person who can support you in developing your skill in launching your rocket successfully. Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. If you go to the Libra house, there is someone there (or multiple some ones) who can offer assistance.
The Sabian image for the Virgo Moon and Sun is A SWIMMING RACE. Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the image is
Commentary: A ‘Swimming Race’ is an image of people competing against each other in order to win some award, medal, recognition or goal. Each has to win their own ‘Race’ and go as hard as they possible can for the objective. Rules and regulations have to be followed, otherwise they face the possibility of being “disqualified” from participating.
Oracle: You may find yourself in competition with others or working your way through conflicting emotions and hoping to win, or come out on top. It is through hard work, practice and the control of your self and emotions that success can be achieved. The lessons learnt through your training must be called on now. Have faith in yourself and your abilities that you can win. You may be working hard at achieving the win for rewards in the larger picture (for club, school, country) or winning the race with purely personal gains in mind. If it’s an intellectual or emotional ‘Race’ that you’re competing in, it may at times be easier to let the other “win”. Although winning can be really wonderful, a feeling of constant competition and the desire to come out on top can wear you, and others, down and take the joy and spontaneity out of life. Plus, there are no real winners when people compete emotionally. Is the situation facing you worth the effort you must put in? If it is, take a deep breath and go for it with all your might. If someone is just trying to outdo you, you might decide to pull out and let him or her go for it. People can’t win against you if you’re not competing against them and a refusal to compete may take the wind out of their sails. The best way to win is to run your own race, to compete against yourself, to always do your best. Looking sideways at others to see how they’re doing can slow you down and weaken your performance. Look ahead and go for your own objectives, doing the best you can is the best you can do, after all!
Keywords: Looking sideways to see how others are coping with the strain of competition. Competing with one’s emotions. Capitalism. The striving for first place or greatness. Swimming, sports, competition. Wanting to be first at everything. Learning how fit one is. Concentrating on the goal. Medals and awards. Training and practice. Showing your abilities in front of others. The
Caution: Allowing the competitive spirit to dominate emotional sensitivity. Always going for “the win”. Trying to outdo each other. Being on the go all the time. Bad sportsmanship. Not knowing how to lose.
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. Sid Caesar
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Harry Emerson Fosdick
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself-the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us-that’s where it’s at. Jesse Owens
When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao-Tzu
The difference between a hero and an also-ran is the guy who hangs on for one last gasp. Paul Dietzel
Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater th
an that of competition. Henry Clay
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. Henry J. Kaiser
Remember, Launch. Assess where and how it went based on what you did. Redo. Keep improving your skills!
Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee
