Weekly Weather August 20, 2007
The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming!
We enter the build up period to the powerful mutable eclipses this week. While the full moon, or lunar eclipse, does not take place until next Tuesday and the solar or new moon eclipse happens on 9-11, we’ll start to feel their considerable energy build. Eclipses bring hidden things to the surface or to light for us to notice and take appropriate steps to deal with them. Eclipses, through history, have a bad reputation, admittedly deserved for the most part. Most humans want to ignore the stuff we do not want to look at (except for our Scorpio friends). Eclipses make the invisible or hidden stuff very visible, often in a highly emotional and tumultuous way. We have to look at the stuff we do not want to see when eclipses happen. We then decide we do not much like eclipses because they make us look!
Remember, as the eclipse energy builds over the next four weeks, that the situation has been building and bubbling behind the scenes for quite a while. It is becoming known now. The sun and the moon are eclipsed by each other in combination with earth, the energy of the eclipsed lights combines with the nodes to add an extra Oompfh to the energy we feel. You probably don’t or won’t have to “deal with it right now, right this second!” even though it might FEEL like you need to. Remember the MOON is involved. The moon in Pisces of sacrifice and Virgo of service while the Sun is in sensitive to criticism, have to fix it Virgo. Eclipses give a heightened sense of “I have to take care of this NOW!” to our beings and minds. As the situation has been going on for a while, can you HONESTLY actually take care of it NOW? It is often much bigger or larger situation than that. However, you do need to notice it, adjust to it and get clear on it as the eclipses light it up. Then take appropriate steps to work with the disclosing and disconcerting energy. Eclipses have a wonderful clarifying quality to them if we appreciate them for their purpose ~ to burst that carbuncle or festering boil or looming juicy red and white pimple that is growing some where in our life. Bring it to a head and excrete the pus from within it! Maybe we should call eclipses cosmic facials?
According to Bernadette Brady, in The Eagle and the Lark, , this eclipse cycle is Saros, 9 New Cycle and started on July 19, 1917 and ends August 17, 3161. The cycle “appears to be concerned with bringing to the surface long-term worries about loved ones, health or issues to do with paperwork or communication. This could manifest as a worrying piece of news about a loved one or responsibilities with paperwork coming home to roost. Any news will have a sense of destiny or fatedness about it.” Eclipses do tend to brighten our lives! As this eclipse has a mutable cross with Uranus, Mars, and Jupiter / Pluto’s midpoint involved with the changeable eclipse energy, the news will have a Uranian, or unexpected and rather chaotic quality to it.
In addition, remember, we will be pulling the story from the eclipses of March 2007, at 13 and 28 Pisces/Virgo mutable forward to the mid-June 2007 Uranus station at 18, the degree of the eclipse on September 11, forward and up into the upcoming eclipses. I often think of eclipses as having a Uranian quality ~ unexpected, shocking, unpredictable, or stunning. This time, the eclipses are even MORE Uranian as Uranus figures strongly into the cosmic picture formed in the sky by the lights, the eclipses and the karmic nodes! So Uranus, Sun, Moon and the eclipses are getting together and having fun with us humans and our desire for our world to be very clear and predictable! Going to be fun! Hang onto your hat!
Our week ahead features the Sun entering Virgo, which brings us back to fall’s starting back to our lives energy ~ school starts, work settles in as folks return from vacation and our lives of structure after the playful energy of Leo and vacationtime resume. Right before that, Sun joins with Saturn, bringing forward to our minds a kind of cosmic review of the lessons you have learned since Saturn entered Leo in July 2005. Sun joining with Saturn officially illuminates the lessons from Saturn through Leo. So take some time and write a summary of all the things you have learned about what you love since July 2005. You have a week or so of summer before the world calls you back to your regular life so take a few moments while lying on the beach to review things.
Mercury has a pile of aspects in the week ahead too so expect more illumination as our winged messenger travels through Virgo noticing things and gathering data. He is the lead personal planet these days ~ He is ahead of the Sun, Venus and Mars so he is tuned into stuff they have not run across yet. Listen and notice his messages to you as he‘s not always sure what he is seeing but he IS seeing something. Listen to him. Gather the data. Asses the clues.
Venus is still retrograde and has an opposition to Neptune making her a perhaps bit sad or dreamy or not too clear-eyed. If an old love returns (and they often do at times like this) during the Venus retrograde, MAKE NO FIRM decisions until Venus passes her last aspect to Saturn in Mid-October. Delay making firm decisions. Review the decisions. Revisit the decisions. Revise the decisions. Redo the budgets. Revise the budgets. Renegotiate the terms. But no new decisions. At least until Venus goes direct, Sept 8, Venus is working or perhaps even lost in a fog of feeling and moving in a reverse direction from her normal, desire based life. Venus still has yet another aspect to Neptune (September 21) once she goes direct as well as a pass to Pluto by trine and Saturn by conjunction. We all are in the mood to remember the “good old days” (which were or were not good ~ right now, we remember them as good). Time is moving on. Sentiment is high. Emotions fraught with memory and largess. Feelings confused and larger than life and full of fire, creativity and love. You know how you get when that happens! Cautiously proceed please.
Mars in Gemini is active with Jupiter, Chiron and Pallas. Mars is ruled by Mercury traveling through Virgo. While Mars is lagging behind the rest of the personal planets, he is going to be stuck with clean up duty as he moves through the zodiac. When something catches Mars’ attention ~ or he balks at the terms (Gemini) of the deal or feels the dual nature of the choices before him, pay attention to his counsel. No pushing Mars into something he is not willing or able to do down the road. Mercury in Virgo is going to write a tough contract that Mars will have to live up to the terms of. Venus retrograde in Leo says do the right thing from the personal integrity point of view but proceed with caution.
Monday, Sun and Mercury are talking to each other by declination. Listen to what you hear today. VERY IMPORTANT COMMUNICATIONS!!! Pay attention!
Tuesday, Sun joins with Saturn. The cosmic review about the last two years is taking place in your world and the illumination of what the purpose of Saturn in Leo was for from the perspective of your SUN, your soul’s purpose and the Leo ruled house in your chart settles into your being on a different level. I call this energy integrative as it kind of enters your soul and becomes part of you. Part of your understanding. Part of your being. Part and parcel of you now. It contributes to your understanding of why you were and are here on earth at this time. Some times it helps to back up and explain the story to yourself as if you were telling someone else who doesn‘t know anything about your life. The clarity of hearing how you express it to someone who knows nothing about you and your life is a good way to see and hear your story with fresh eyes. Yes, it IS complicated BUT IF you were going to sum it up in a quick 5-minute version, what would you say you learned or figured out? Alternatively,
pitch it like a Hollywood m
ovie ~ figure out the happy ending for your story as you go through it. What did you and your soul walk away knowing after Saturn‘s journey through Leo? That is the happy ending. And it is NOT “Night of the Living Dead” or “Psycho” either! You wanted to learn about this when you were a soul on a cloud. You’ve learned. Isn’t that cool how it works?
Wednesday, we process. Venus is aspecting Pallas and thinking with Mars. I expect illumination under these aspects. Do you see how the situation was kind of a home for you? We also will be feeling the build up of energy for the balance of the week and the upcoming full moon eclipse next week.
Thursday, is a super busy day! Mars and Mercury are active and making numerous connections as Venus gets a good look at and starts to revise her home and hearth. Sun enters Virgo, now ruled by Mercury in one of his favorite signs, to stretch, move and accomplish things. You might hear bad news, maybe a deal falls apart or something ends today. You find out it is not happening. That is okay as Mercury dips into the south node. Was not supposed to happen. But ~ what did it make you WANT? That is what you are supposed to go towards. Does it matter if they won’t do it? Can you still do it yourself? How does it tie back to your Saturn in Leo story?
Friday, another busy communication day as Mercury has numerous aspects. Not necessarily happy aspects but aspects of movement, gathering information and moving forward. Might be time to throw some stuff out or clear out a few assumptions you have had about how things are going. Leaving, departing and ending aspects.
Saturn’s day, more tough Mercury aspects as the eclipse energy builds. What you’ve found out over the past few days might be what your eclipse is going to be about. That means you get to deal with it for the next sox months or so too. Or the information may be about an adjustment to move you to make needed adjustments in the way you think about things going forward. Venus is opposite Neptune so watch for delusions in what you are thinking. You know how Neptune can cloud your thinking. You are not as powerful as you might like to believe. Your position is not as secure as you might like it to be. You are also not as weak as you might like to believe. You position isn’t as bad as you think it is. Sit in your own integrity. Hug your Saturn. Remember what you love. And make sure to double, maybe even triple, check all information coming your way for errors, problems or inherent “trust me” hidden energies.
Sunday, Mars trines Chiron. This has a quality of a trigger being pulled when it combines with the other aspects and the mutable eclipse arriving next week. By declination, the Sun pushes against Chiron as Uranus pushes against Pallas Athena. To my mind, it translates as shocking aspects or information that wounds things or perhaps you, even as the events or situations are completely logical and clear to the other person. Not pleasant perhaps, but it is time. It has been going on long enough. Saturn is going into Virgo seeking accountability. Leo is making his last passionate pass and appeal for integrity. Saturn has had it. Watch out for angry Saturn people ~ authorities, elders or folks who control your life or choices. They’ve had enough of your dilly-dallying around. To quote the movie “Network”, they are mad as hell and not going to take it any more. Believe them. They are mad as hell and not going to take it any more. Now we just have to see what they are going to do.
Mundane: The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming! The retrograde Venus Saturn conjunction last week combined with the last new moon in Leo with Saturn in the ebbing degrees of Leo resulted in Karl Rove’s resignation while other significant Leo trees left our forest and changed structures ~ Brooke Astor, Merv Griffin and my wonderful 16 year old Libran Sun, Aquarian Moon cat, Homer, all passed into new forms. We can expect quite a few more structural changes as Saturn leaves Leo for the next 28 years and the mutable eclipses arrive to stir up the cosmic pot. Get ready for a roller coaster!
Onto the increasingly turbulent Stock Market! Going to get bigger and bolder and more out of control. The New York Stock Exchange Chart, its progressions and solar arcs will be profoundly affected by upcoming eclipses. I use the Market chart for February 25, 1817, 10 am LMT, New York, NY.
Of particular interest to me is Solar Arc (SA) Uranus within a degree of natal Moon at 20 Gemini in the second house of money and value. Secondary Progressed (SP) moon at 13 Gemini and SP Mars at 8 Gemini are approaching that natal moon. SP Mars is right on Vesta in Gemini (home and hearth in dual, two sided, tricky con artist Gemini ~ARM ~ adjustable rate mortgages ~ “Just pay a low rate for 2 years and refinance when your payment balloons because OF COURSE your house and your paycheck are both going to go up, Up, UP in value.”) The housing mortgage crisis, particularly the sub-prime (dual) for folks with ARMs (dual) will be the blamed or cited as the trigger.
The SP Gemini moon moves a degree a month so we have at least 7 more months until the full depth of the profound changes undergoing our fiscal markets and economy come to fruition, right around the time transiting Uranus in Pisces gets back to 18 mutable at the beginning of March 2008 and kicks off that 20 Gemini Moon again.
There are numerous other indicators of trouble or roller coaster rides which in the financial markets mean trouble as it is an emotional kind of place ~ we humans aren‘t into change and particularly losses around our money or security! There tends to be a herd mentality ~ as in rampaging elephants ~ heading for the exits. We have transiting Jupiter in the 8th house opposite the Gemini planets, accelerating the speed and energy, as the karmic nodes coming to SA Saturn at 2 Virgo and transiting Saturn in Leo separates from his opposition to Natal Saturn at 27 Aquarius. Saturn will enter Virgo in September to wake us up and set off the SA Saturn to add sobriety and somberness to our lives.
The eclipses are at 4 and 18 of the Virgo/ Pisces mutable signs ~ aspecting important parts of the predictive and natal stock market charts. Eclipses act as accelerant, gasoline if you will. Eclipses pour their volatile energy over the planets in chart configurations like a bonfire of driftwood on the beach. We watch for the match ~ in this case Mars in Gemini approaches the pile. We have transiting Uranus in Pisces involved in the eclipse configurations suggesting a tsunami of emotions flowing out from the financial bonfire.
Get your money as liquid as you can. Rebalance your portfolio and take your stock winners off the table into cash. Get out of and do not purchase mortgage backed bonds until they separate the wheat from the chaff! Refinance if it is not too late as interest rates are going to go up rather significantly, making that ARM of yours a rather nasty deal.
When babies are born with their Sun in Virgo, they are born into a house where the finances are exceptionally tight. In my case, my mom stopped working as the main family breadwinner, a nurse, while my dad was in medical school. She became a stay at home mom while my dad was interning at St. Mary’s for virtually no money. We were poor! Mom and I ate at her parents while my dad ate at the hospital. Saturn will be in Virgo until the end of October 2009, or for the next 2 plus years. Fiscally conservative times ahead! Pluto will be in Capricorn, starting in January and does not leave Capricorn for good until 2024 ~ restructuring the Capricorn structures (mom earth, governments and corporations) in our lives.
Now, you have figured out what you love while Saturn went through Leo! You do not need a whole lot of money to do what you love. Just a dollop of dedication, commitment, habit, service, apprenticeship and practice ~ all very Virgo words. No money. It
is not about money. It is about love. As Saturn moves into Virgo, it becomes about Service! Make sure to do what you love a little bit, each and every day. Serve what you love each and every day. It won’t matter if you have $2 in your pocket if you are happy and doing what you love. Don’t you just love astrology?
Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee
