Weekly Weather April 23, 2007
There are exciting and relatively volatile astrological events during the week ahead. Transiting Mars is triggering the eclipse degrees as he joins the North node of destiny and Uranus, the planet of unexpected, unusual and lightening bolt changes. We have a grand trine in fire with Jupiter in Sagittarius, Saturn in Leo moving direct (finally) and Ceres in Aries. There is a mutable grand cross involving the nodes of destiny in Virgo/Pisces, personal planets Venus and Mars in Gemini and Pisces, Jupiter in Sagittarius and Uranus in Pisces. The grand trine and the mutable cross-link up their respective energies via their shared point of Jupiter in Sagittarius. In other words, excitement, movement and change, change, change are the key words of the week ahead. Hang on tight! Plus it is a combination of FIRE (very fast moving) and MUTABLE ~ inherently unstable and unpredictable.
Additionally, Venus in Gemini is sextile to Saturn in Leo and trine to Neptune in Aquarius so her dual nature will be asking do you want this or that? You want both ~ or some combination of the choices. SO ASK FOR IT! Like an order of salad dressing on the side or extra crispy French fries, make sure to ASK for what you want. You will get it if you ask! Gotta ask! And, if you get it in pieces or parts, then you know what and how to combine the ingredients to get it exactly the way you want it to be.
My favorite feature of the week is Mars in Pisces. Mars sets off the grand mutable cross right after Venus tells the cross all of her hopes and dreams. Mars then proceeds to join up with the North Node of destiny and Uranus to go get what you want and move the entire world forward one giant ocean step! And, Mars is fiddling around with the eclipse energy ~ bringing the promise of their charts into form. Both Mercury, Venus’ ruler and the Sun have moved into Taurus saying you are going to get what you ask for in a solid and tangible form. So ask away. And remember you can ALWAYS modify what you have asked for if you take responsibility (Saturn) for it.
Now, the other side of the energy is the decisions required to be made during our Saturn in Leo journey, have, essentially, been made. Saturn is moving on. He is done with his retrograde and revisioning. Saturn is moving forward. If you have been waiting around for something or someone to change their behavior, AND THEY STILL HAVEN’T DONE anything, they are not going to change. They are who they are. For whatever reason, they are staying right where they are. They like it the way it is. While there MIGHT be some change around the end of June, when they have a cosmic awakening and reach out to you or catch up with you for a second chance, please know that YOU have changed! You have moved on to a different place in your psyche and being! Do not look back. IF they catch up to you, you can certainly talk to them and travel down the road with them ~ IF you still want to. But, remember, THEY have to catch up with YOU. You can pause. You can walk slowly. You can smell the flowers. You can write them a note and tell them you are moving on and wish them well. Don’t Look Back! Don’t look back.
You are clear about what you want (or maybe what you don‘t want). Once you are clear about what you want, you are willing and able to move toward it. It is as if tumblers are clicking into place ~ click, click, click, click. Pretty soon the door to your future is going to open. Some how, while they ARE still important to you, they are NOT AS important as they used to be. Funny how that works when Saturn goes direct.
It might help to think of yourself as a little baby bird popping its head up and looking around with fresh bright eyes in your springtime nest at the wonderful world blooming around you. What would the little bird say to you about your situation? Listen to the little bird ~ it is your hope, your heart, and your vision of your future. You might still be stuck for a bit longer in the current nest but soon (end of June) you are outta that nest! Focus on what you are heading toward. Do your Saturn. Eat those tasty worms and bugs that you find near you. Grow big and strong. Take complete personal responsibility for your stuff and your choices and get your nest in order and cleaned up. Throw out the stuff you don‘t want, get it outta your nest. Make room for new stuff to come in. Or perhaps fly away~ leave the nest for another season. Nature will take care of it ~ it is her job. Enjoy the spring breezes and the smell of flowers in the air.
Monday, Venus talks to Mars and tells him of her plans. Mars might not be happy but a girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do. Mercury is busy today with Neptune, Pallas and Mars. We often do not think back to the beginning of things to see how they evolved over time. Go back to the beginning. Get to the seed of it. The starting point. It started as an idea way back when. It evolved as it bounced off other folks and people. They had an impact on it. It moved and changed due to their influence. So, now, while you have a moment, go back to that core idea. See it again, for what it is and was. That is the seed. Simplify. Back to basics. Now, where do you want it to go?
Tuesday, Sun has an aspect of brilliance to Neptune as Venus realizes she has created what she has in her life from that darn seed planted way back when! Not to worry. Just plant new stuff! If you do not like spinach, do not plant spinach. Plant tomatoes instead. Or basil. Or an oak tree. Only put into YOUR garden the stuff you want in your pile at the end of the growing season! It will ripen very quickly.
Wednesday, Venus has an aspect to Chiron. Remember Duality! You can have a bit of both. It is not an either or kind of world. Ask for a bit of both. Ask for exactly what you want! Mars has a bunch of aspects today, as does Venus. Mars is ready and willing to go and get it for you. He aspects the North Node of destiny today so forward we go! Remember Mars is a bit like a trained golden retriever. You certainly remember the story of folks who trained their dog to go to the corner store and bring back cigarettes and the daily newspaper. Then they moved. The trained dog went back to the OLD neighborhood. The trained dog traveled hundreds of miles over days and days to return with to his owners a bedraggled pack of cigarettes and soggy paper. He had retrieve them the only way he knew how. Make sure YOUR golden retriever knows where the NEW corner store is. You do not have to go back to the old neighborhood any more. Specific directions, please, for Mars! It is a bit of a trained golden retriever. Pay attention to what Mars does or retrieves for you today.
Thursday, Venus has a square to Uranus ~ perhaps you might want to modify the blend in your garden a bit? Tell your golden retriever of a Mars where to go to get the new paper? Mars is ready to roll. It is easier to change BEFORE rather than modify stuff after it is moving. What do you want? Mercury has very powerful aspects to Chiron and Pluto today. Words spoken (or not said) have a large impact ~ be conscious and careful. Mars is joining with Uranus on Sunday so get specific!!!
Friday, a busy day on Planet Earth. Mercury moves out of Aries into Taurus firming up in written form or contracts what you’ve been dreaming about, working on or thinking of. Venus has an aspect of accountability to Saturn so make sure to dot the “i‘s” and cross the “t’s”. You are going to be living with this document and decision for a while. Make it what you want it to be. ASK FOR WHAT YOU WANT!!! Mars is coming to Uranus on Sunday ~ get specific!
Saturday, Venus has a kick off from Jupiter, setting off the mutable t-square. Mercury adjusts his vision with Neptune, clearing the fog and helping us see how we got to where we are in our lives. The collaborating we did created the situation we have. We do not have to collaborate with that any more, if we do not want to. We are free. Free has a c
ost to it. But free we are.
Sing Amazing Grace to hear the song’s energy and understand what freedom from feels like. A slave trader wrote that song ~ after he gave up slave trading. Redemption comes in many forms. What is your Amazing Grace situation?
Sunday, Mars joins with Uranus. Mars and Uranus have a magical quality even if they can show as a tidal wave of emotions or a tsunami on our earth. They are both in Pisces ~ a bottomless, oceanic kind of energy that ebbs and flows and forms big old waves. Mars kicks up Uranus’s energy as he joins with it. They are both involved in the mutable cross ~ indicating a shifting, moving, collapsing kind of energy. That mutable cross ties into the fire trine. Big acceleration. Both Mars and Uranus are about to trigger Saturn by an inconjunct or adjusting energy ~ it is both a Virgo (Uranus to Saturn) and Scorpio (Mars to Saturn) inconjunct embedded together. The imagery is a bucket of water sloshing back and forth ~ spilling over as it makes adjustments to eventually settle down.
The hidden underlying erosion or corrosion of things has been taking place for a while now. They have been slowly dissolving and decaying the solidness of the structure like the Colorado River dissolved the desert’s earth and solidness to create the Grand Canyon ~ slowly and over time. Consequently, when the collapse comes, we might very well be “surprised”. We did not see it coming! However, IF we had been paying attention, we would have noticed all the warning signs. If something collapses, unwinds, or falls apart in your life, it is time for it to go. If all hell breaks loose, it is part and parcel of the coming changes that are creating the next part of your life. Not to worry. Remember, your chart says you wanted to be here now. So here you are. You are RIGHT where you are supposed to be ~ based on your chart and your choices. Might as well make the best of it! A new cycle begins today. Forward we go for the next cycle of Mars creating our changes with Uranus and doing our Saturn with joy and love. Remember, you asked for your chart! You just have to figure out how to work with the darn thing and do your Saturn. Then everything will be perfect. I wish you love and peace.
Mundane: The killing of 32 people at Virginia Tech by Seung-Hui Cho (Jan 18, 1984) dominated the week’s news. A Capricorn, the station of Saturn, stimulated his Sun as well as his other Capricorn ruled planets as the dark moon and sun in fire set off his Natal Sun by square. His natal Saturn, not at all happy in Scorpio, as well as that difficult Mars and Pluto joined in Scorpio was on the angles of the initial shooting chart (April 16, 2007, 7:15 am, Blacksburg, VA). The progressed version of Mars was on Saturn and received a square from transiting Saturn. The transiting nodes and Mars/ Uranus in Pisces were triggering his natal south node configuration of Venus /Uranus in Sagittarius. With all the negative karmic configurations in his chart, it is safe to conclude he has done similar things before in past lives. In the photograph of the initial victim, Venus was riding her horse, another Sagittarian image. The excessive volume of people killed as well as the university setting speaks to Sagittarian influences and the grand trine in accelerating fire. Transiting Pluto in Sagittarius on his natal Neptune and Jupiter in Sagittarius represents the two hour pause he took between shootings to mail photos, videos and writings to the news media to ensure lasting fame and his version of appropriate media coverage (9:01 am, April 16, 2007, Blacksburg, VA). He made sure to release his own words and make his statement ~ that Mercury in Capricorn does take charge! He did not trust any one else or the authorities to speak for him. In addition, the eclipse degrees from March of 2007 and September 2006 were activated by the transiting planets in the sky.
So what to do with your feelings? Saturn asks us to change. Saturn asks us to do our work and evolve. If we do not evolve and change, if we do not do our Saturn, we are given repeated, increasingly difficult, ‘opportunities’ to evolve and understand. Saturn does not give up and “go away”. Like gum on your foot on a hot summer’s day, Saturn sticks around until you figure your Saturn out ~ even if you have to pick it out from between your toes, cursing and hopping around on the foot with out gum.
So, NOW, that Saturn has gone direct, take responsibility for the situations in your life that you need to take responsibility for. Encourage other folks to take responsibility for the situations in their lives that THEY are responsible for. We have a president who refuses to take responsibility for his actions or follow rules. He invents his own rules. That is NOT how Saturn works! Actions have consequences. We reap what we sow. Sow good seeds. You don’t want to come back to re-learn these lessons in yet another lifetime, do you? Besides, Pluto is going into Saturn’s sign in a few months so the two of them will be working together to help you and the rest of us evolve into the best versions of ourselves that we can be. That includes using and loving our dear little Saturns!
Last week, Orpheus was aspecting Saturn and Pluto by declination. We descended into the underworld. This week, Atlantis is aspecting Saturn and Pluto by declination. From the internet, in the writings of Plato in Timaeus to the citizens of Athens said, “Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable.” According to the writings of Critias, “But later there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea."
Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee
