Weekly Weather August 14, 2006
Forward we go on a giant cosmic energy slide, flowing towards our future, licketey split, zoom! As I wrote in the Full Moon column, the second through the last weeks of August are a culmination, climax and massive release of all the energy we’ve been struggling with since last August and perhaps consciously working with as early as February of 2005 (if you read thecosmicpath.com back then!).
The whoosh energy will continue to build and build and build until it peaks on August 31, 2006. Your job is to stay grounded and do your Saturn. We’ll talk about Saturn in a bit. Our week ahead has a lot of energy flying around with out a great deal of purpose, other than to make you nervous, anxious and twitchy! Saturn and Neptune are moving towards their opposition to each other at the end of the month. The point is to keep your focus on where you are going and what you want to create. Lots of distractions, interruptions and chaos. Focus, focus, focus. Saturn, Saturn, Saturn.
Mercury in Leo has stressful aspects all week suggesting little positive reinforcement for your stated desires. Take a few of your positive affirmation or inspirational quote books from your book shelf and carry them around with you. Read affirmations. Out loud. Read affirmations to others. Much better than annoying cell phone conversations! Leo Buscaglia, Marianne Williamson, Louise Hay, Ask and It Is Given, Positive Thinking, Creative Visualization, Be Here Now or Chicken Soup for the Soul. You get the idea ~ proactive, consciously directed Mercury is a positive use of the stressful Mercury energy.
Additionally, I suggest you chant a mantra to Ganesh, who is the remover of obstacles of all sorts as well as fears. The Ganesh mantra will activate and stimulate busy Mercury to ask the elephant god to roll over the obstacles in your way. Mantras, prayers, rosaries, and chanting affirmations are a way of using Mercury proactively, consciously and directing it outward. Ganesh is a multi-armed elephant god who uses his powerful trunk to decimate an entire forest, carry heavy logs as well as pick up a blade of grass or small piece of coconut. The biggest and smallest tasks are performed by his trunk, the symbol of Ganesh’s intellect and his powers of discrimination.
The image of Ganesh is a composite of four animals ~ man, elephant, serpent and mouse. All of them, individually and collectively, have deep symbolic significance. The image of Ganesh represents man’s eternal striving towards integration with nature.
The mouse is symbolic of our intellect. Mouse slips unobserved into places thought not possible to penetrate. Mouse is not concerned with virtue or vice. Mouse represents our wandering, wayward mind, lured to undesirable and corrupting places. Mouse pays subservience to Ganesh. We see the intellect, or Mouse, tamed through Ganesh’s power of discrimination and wisdom.
The most striking feature of Ganesh is his elephant head, symbolic of auspiciousness, strength and intellectual prowess. The elephant is the largest and strongest of animals of the forest. Yet he is gentle and, amazingly, a vegetarian. He does not kill to eat. Ganesh’s large head is symbolic of wisdom. His large ears sift the bad words from good words. Although Ganesh’s ears hear everything, they retain only the good words. The ears listen to all requests, be they humble or powerful.
The unique combination of Ganesh’s elephant head and the quick moving tiny mouse vehicle represents tremendous wisdom, intellegence, and presence of mind. The Ganesh mantra is in Sanskrit, an ancient tonal language. Sanskrit is the source of many of Latin words on which our language is based. Vedic or Jyotish astrologers suggest mantras to clients as a way to ameliorate or soften difficult times and aspects. I love the Ganesh mantra as it is peaceful yet resonates throughout your being, bringing you gently in alignment with your purpose and softening all your fears and obstacles. Chant it as often as you can, daily, for either 10 or 40 days. You will find it becomes a part of your inner soul‘s song as Ganesh works to remove obstacles in your path. You might consider getting a mala, a string of 108 beads to keep track of your chants. One mala to Ganesh a day keeps those fears at bay!
The Ganesh Mantra is “Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha”. It sounds phonetically like “om gum guh-nuh-puh-tuh-yei nahm-ah-ha”. It translates as “Om and salutation to the remover of obstacles for which Gum is the seed.” If you are in a bind and haven’t quite got the whole mantra memorized yet, just say “Om Gum” repeatedly, as it calls Ganesh and tonally balances your energy.
On to Saturn. Let’s take a moment to review derived houses. As you know, everything in your world is in your chart. So let’s say Saturn is transiting through your FIFTH house right now, that means ALL the various versions and things living in your Fifth house are places for you to do your Saturn! If you expand your vision of “do your Saturn” to include the various areas of your life needing a bit of Saturn, you’ll find plenty of places to do Saturn! Derived houses are how astrologers find things and see what is going on in the parts of your life. You are your first house, your money, valuables and portable skills are your second house, your siblings, mind, neighborhood and cars are your third house, your mother and home is your fourth house etc. You know that part. Now lets look at all the rest of the stuff in life using derived houses.
If you can, turn OFF proportional houses to make the chart evenly divided. It is a bit easier to see. Physically pivot your chart, placing your former 4th house in the position of the first house or ascendant. You are now working with your MOTHER‘S derived chart, from YOUR perspective. Put your fingers in the houses to count. Your mother is your fourth house (her derived first house), her money is your fifth house (her derived second house), her younger sibling, mind, neighborhood and car is your sixth house (her derived third house).
Let’s try it with your partners, one to one best friends, open enemies and clients. Pivot your chart, placing the 7th house as the new first house and put your finger on the chart and count. This is your Partner’s and Clients charts from your perspective (and theirs too). Pivot the chart and place the 9th house as new first house ~ that is your SECOND spouse’s first house (the cosmic “sibling” of your first spouse). Pivot the 10th house into the first house position and you are looking at your bosses’, career and your father’s chart. Your step-father is your 12th house. Your step-mother is your 6th house ~ see where Cinderella’s clean the house Virgo mythology comes from with the evil step-mother’s chart starting in your 6th house?
Derived houses are easy to understand if you pivot the chart around when you first start to work them. Your child is your fifth house (your child’s first house); your child’s sibling is your 7th house (your child’s third house or your second child’s house), your child‘s child is their fifth house (your ninth house ~ Jupiter‘s natural place). Your partner’s house is your 7th house (partner’s first house); his father is your fourth house (partner’s 10th house). Each house can have many, many relationships and meanings by using derived houses.
So Saturn is transiting through your FIFTH house right now, that means ALL the various versions and things found living in and ruled by your Fifth house are places for you to do your Saturn! Your eldest child, your mother’s money, your employees’ minds and psychological health (12th of your 6th), your
father in law’s money,
your partner’s groups, associations, older sibling, and the money from his career (2nd house of his career), the money from your house (2nd house from your 4th house), and your younger sibling’s car (their third house from your third house) are ALL active! All those things are Fifth house tenants. Each of those areas feeling Saturn transiting in Leo. If you do the exercise with derived houses, you will find the areas of your life that need structure, discipline and hard work are where Saturn is acting up and transiting.
Now take that transit of Saturn through the Fifth house and go back to where your NATAL Saturn lives in your chart. So let’s say your NATAL Saturn is in Gemini in the Third house ~ making you a bit reluctant to talk but communication, neighbors and siblings are your karmic journey! So you have to talk ~ to all of those people in the paragraph above about the Saturn areas of their lives as Saturn goes through the fifth by transit. Yuck, I know, but talk you must. If your NATAL Saturn is in Virgo in the Sixth house, you will work and analyze with them as they deal with Saturn going through the Fifth house ~ perhaps you will loan your child money but derive a budget/chores for paying it back, interpret your partner’s dreams (or listen when he can’t sleep), suggest to your mother that she give her car to your sibling who can‘t afford a new one and volunteer to detail it for her, enlist your father in law’s younger sibling to talk with her older brother about his finances. Encourage your partner to work behind the scenes of the group, with no “recognition”. NATAL Saturn tells you what to do to help support the Saturn transit or how to do your Saturn.
I know derived houses seem confusing. That is because you only read it. Get out your chart and fiddle around with derived houses and reread the paragraphs above. Write in the names of the people in your life into their houses. Pivot the charts and read the pivoted chart like you do a natal chart. Write the problems the people in your life are dealing with into the appropriate house. Think of all the areas in your life that are kicking up, that need an extra special dose of Saturn, the spots or situations that flare up to go WHOOSH when unattended or ignored. 9 times out of 10 that house will match the Saturn derived house definitions for ALL the people in your life. They are additional places for you to do your Saturn! And for you to be Saturn to teach others how to do their Saturn too!
Monday, Jupiter has a stressful aspect to the Sun by declination ~ making Leo’s proud energy roar as he approaches his trine to Pluto. Authorities, both good and bad, are going to show up in our lives this week. Bide your time. Keep your counsel.
Tuesday Moon in Taurus makes aspects to our lovely t-square today, escalating the whoosh of energy. Mercury opposes Chiron so hurtful words take place. Mercury also has a strategic aspect to Pallas Athena in Capricorn suggesting a cautionary, approach with words is suggested. Do your Saturn. Chant mantras to Ganesh. Read affirmations. Mercury has a biquintile aspect to Uranus suggesting an idea IS simply, magnificently beyond brilliant. However, it is not time for it to be told right now. Write the idea down, mull it over, pull at it and plan to work on it once the world and the energy clears after Mercury passes Neptune on August 21st or when Jupiter aspects Uranus by trine before August 29th. Right NOW if you say it or ask for it, you are going to get no, No, NO! No one will be able to see the possibilities you see. So work on your idea, keep it quiet, make your plans, and chant to Ganesh to remove any obstacles to get it moving. Or say affirmations. Wait, plan and don‘t listen to naysayers. “Whether you think you can, or think you can‘t, you are correct!” It is too soon to spring your idea on the world.
Wednesday, Mercury argues with Pluto. If you get a no, try again, after the 21st or 29th. Don’t abandon your idea. Saturn to Pallas by hard aspect says explore the legal or strategic issues about how to deploy your idea. It means changing existing structures that people can’t imagine being gone or not in place. But at the end of the month, those very same structures will be changed. Saturn is opposing Neptune to dissolve them. Hang on to it, do your Saturn and move toward your new vision. Positive affirmations. “Your word has the power to create ~ be impeccable with it.”
Thursday, Moon in Gemini makes harsh aspects to Mars and Uranus. Sun trines Pluto as Mars stressfully aspects Saturn as Venus opposes Chiron. There is a desire to take action today that will not be pretty. Remember for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction! What goes around comes around! All those karma seeds planted grow into wounds in your soul. “Release, forgive, forget, and let it go”. Caution, caution, caution around taking any action that is hurtful, vengeful or payback.
Friday, the Moon is void all day, SO NOTHING will come of it! That said, Mercury squares Jupiter in Scorpio suggesting words can be way over the top. Saturn’s in the mood to end relationships so be aware that words said in haste may permanently end or alter things in your world. Sun in Leo, who normally is proud, frisky, brave, loyal, true and happy, can be deeply hurt today by careless words as he aspects the node. If you notice a silence or a distancing, I don’t care HOW TRUE what you said was, you were hurtful and contributed to another person’s pain. Apologize. And remember, waiters and waitresses will spit in your food if you are rude!
Saturday, Mercury aspects Uranus in an ugly aspect from a health and travel perspective. Neptune joins Ceres suggesting you want to stay home in your cave. Not a bad idea. If you go out, drive carefully and defensively. Everyone is over stressed and not paying attention as they mull on their problems and what they wish they had said, instead of paying attention to what they are doing. “Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha.”
Sunday is another cautious travel day as Mars aspects Neptune in an ugly aspect from a Scorpio point of view. The moon is void most of the day, further complicating getting productive things accomplished. However, that is a good thing too. It’s the nasty remarks that sit in your heart and keep poking away at you. Today is a day when you might hear a nasty remark. Take advantage of the void moon. If what you want to say back isn’t kind, keep your mouth closed. If someone says something particularly nasty to you, tell at least 10 people so they can help you see the flaw in the negative words you hear. Discriminate! Conversations and communications escalate very rapidly into craziness. Your mother, family members or children are going to drive you crazy! Mercury on the world axis aspecting Pallas on the world axis suggests the news today is shocking, difficult, very public and probably “bad”. I want you to get it out of your system as soon as you can. Mercury joins with Saturn today. Remember the Word is the first step in the Alchemical transformation. I want you to say positive words to your Saturn today. Do your Saturn. “Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha.” Affirmations please!
Mundane: Not going to be a week for good news. Mercury is in Leo, proud, not negotiating, fixed and magnified by the Sun in Leo’s trine to Pluto in Sagittarius. Might makes right ~ deal with and follow the rules of any authority in front of you even if you don’t agree with them. Later for the arguments with the authority figures. Mercury’s aspects will make it difficult in all sorts of interactions ~ when folks have no options in the face of overwhelming power over or inflexible authority, they get crazy and become destructive. And, travel, ruled by Mercury, will continue to be difficult due to
last week’s terror threat thwarted by London’s police. I think last week’s ban on flying with fluids was a lovely cosmic illustration of Neptune (fluid) in Aquarius (crowds, planes) opposite Saturn in Leo (nope, not getting on the plane). Jupiter in Scorpio fluids (medicine and baby formula) will get through, maybe, to the plane, after a test (square) from Saturn. This week, Mercury has tough aspects to numerous planets. Once he gets past his conjunction to Saturn, and opposition to Neptune next week, we can expect peace negotiations to at least begin. Mary, one of our readers, sent a lovely quote that she heard in her daily meditation: Peace IS Justice, everything else is revenge. I know I am going to make those words my screen saver phrase for the week! Get out your affirmations books and chant mantras to Ganesh! Om Gum Ganapatayei Namaha. Positive, conscious use of your Mercury! Do your Saturn.
Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee
