Weekly Weather August 27, 2007
The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming!
Well actually, the first of two eclipses, the emotional one, arrives on Tuesday! It is going to be a doozy of an eclipse! But you already are feeling that eclipse energy aren’t you? Over the past week or so, everyone is rather cranky, crabby, and irritated. Stuff is ending all around you. Folks have been short-tempered and critical, maybe even nasty since last week. Yes, it IS that Mars in sibling rivalry, sharp tongued but funny Gemini ruled by Virgo Mercury ~ that incredibly bitchy remark that IS true BUT kind of hurts BUT IS indisputable (evidence exists to show it is true! Moreover, they CAN point the evidence out to you!) HOWEVER, you know, it is HOW and WHAT it is. You kind of like it like that. You like it the way it is! Don’t you? Or, IF you do NOT like it, why do you keep doing it?
Your job, during the eclipses, is to look the news or communication in the face and say, “Yep, that’s true. And you know what?” Then make sure to say back to them, “Xyz” ~or whatever it is you need to say back. Or at least THINK CLEARLY whatever it is you need or want to say back. DO BE CAUTIOUS about what you say as folks are ALL OVER the place emotionally. Moon in Pisces wants to suffer. Let her suffer. Moon in Pisces is supposed to suffer. Moon in Pisces LIKES to suffer when it is feeling sorry for itself or bad about the situation it finds itself in. I have a Moon in Pisces opposite a Sun in Virgo, so I live with this energy every day. Let the Pisces Moon go off and feel sorry for itself until it gets sick and tired of feeling sorry for itself. Expect lots of tears on this lunar eclipse as emotional situations are exploding (Uranus) or ending (south node) or expanding (Jupiter) or fighting (Mars) or transforming / ending (Pluto) or seeing things (the eclipse) all around us. Lots of changing and volatile emotions. Eventually, that Virgo sun will settle down and get back to work. But first the Pisces Moon needs her space! If you do not give her space, she is going to really kick up a bunch of 40-foot waves to swamp you. Let Pisces Moon emote or hide or feel sorry for herself and the endings going on around her.
I find it interesting that Saturn will shift out of Leo into Virgo between the two eclipses taking place ~ over the next two weeks. We are going to have a quantum shift in our structural, societal and constructive energies from “look at me, me, me!” to “service, routine and sacrifice” as Saturn shifts his zodiac position from fiery Leo vacation and play energy to harvest, back to school and off to work again Virgo energy.
Always when planets change signs, the sign after the one we have spent time in and experienced, seeks to correct the “cosmic excesses” of the sign we are leaving. Virgo cleans up the mess after the party and playtime of Leo. Time to put away your toys and get ready for dinner. Saturn changes signs on Sunday September 2nd. That means the week ahead will have an abundance of last gasp Leo moments before Saturn leaves Leo until September of 2034! Expect out of control LEOS as Saturn grabs a last round of party hearty before leaving Leo!
We have been working on changing our fixed stuff as Saturn has gone through Leo. Our fixed stuff likes to be fixed. It is familiar. It is stable. It is fixed! You know how it goes. My friend Barbara works as the “grown-up” leader in a group house for mentally ill residents who are reasonably stable. She has a new “un-housebroken” resident. He fails to use the toilet properly, spreading his body wastes all over the bathroom for others to clean up. He threw up on the stove and left it for the other house members to clean. Barbara refused to clean it up. In conversation, Barbara as the group leader, had with the residents about the situation, a resident said because they are “mentally ill”, they can retreat into that description to use it as an excuse for their behaviors.
Barbara commented, “It wasn’t mentally ill behavior. It was mean behavior! It was bad behavior!” And, then Barbara added, “I do it too. We all do it. We all retreat into “bad behavior” that is justified by our backgrounds, experiences or beliefs we have about ourselves. We use that to justify what we are doing.” Barbara, who is black, added, “I could certainly retreat into Well, we black folks were and are still discriminated against! I could RETREAT into that situation as an excuse for my behavior. I could use the fact of discrimination as justification or rationalization for any bad behavior I want to justify. But it doesn‘t mean it is not bad behavior. Bad behavior is bad behavior. Mean behavior is mean behavior!”
Our Leo area of life (and we all have a house or two with Leo in charge) can cause us to have a tendency to have bad behavior. We joke about it, call it “being a diva” or “its all about ME!” or any of the other negative characteristics our Leo part wants to attribute to our Leo feeling of being special and entitled. ENTITLEMENT is the key word here! We some how feel we are entitled to our “bad behavior”. I know the places where I do it! I justify my “bad behavior” by saying I am focusing on the “more important” (or perhaps more interesting and fun) stuff for ME. And when I get into that area I can and have and do neglect the other guy‘s needs, wants, requirements or desires. I’m the king or queen in that Leo ruled area! Let them eat cake! Or in my case, keep putting off burning the cd recordings and mailing them out!
Well, the eclipses and Saturn in the last degree of Leo will light up that “bad behavior” section of your chart, my chart and every one else’s chart like a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Kind of a last hurrah of Saturn asking you to take responsibility for that Leo area of your life where you feel entitled to behave badly. Take a GIANT step forward to assume responsibility for where you feel entitled to bad behavior. Make sure to look at your entitlement issues. Maybe it is time to change that area or behavior of yours? Saturn in Leo wants you to get clear on it ~ that entitlement issue of yours. Get clear on your entitlement area in addition to learning to love your Saturn. Examine the last little parts of Leo that want you to pay attention to your entitlement and desire nature as the eclipse calls on you! That is why everyone wants to and is having temper tantrums right now ~ our entitlement parts are getting kicked in butt by Saturn in Leo. It IS Saturn after all. Saturn is not going to get into your Leo house again until September of 2034. Saturn does not want you to forget what you have learned from him since July 2005! Take notes! Pay attention! Watch entitlement as a juicy, jumping push of energy under these eclipses! Entitlement is the area that Saturn is going push on like an ocean wave crashing to shore.
Monday, Mercury chats with Venus by parallel. Remember Venus is still going retrograde. Venus is in Leo. She is feeling mighty entitled. Or thwarted by her sense of entitlement being unmet. Venus is going to be a diva! Watch out for the entitlement stuff surfacing in your life.. Acknowledge it. Own it. Decide if you still want it making those entitled kinds of choices in your life or world. You can partner with change if you would like to. On the other hand, maybe you still want to be a bit entitled? Nothing wrong with that entitlement, mind you. Know that it irritates other people. In fact, they will probably be telling you about it! But hey, it IS your life! Let them eat cake!
Tuesday, Eclipse day! Read the full moon column on this site for more information on how to deal with the energy of the eclipse. Mercury aspects Uranus in a double dose of energy. SHOCKING news! EXPLOSIVE information! FATED communications! Forward we go! The eclipses ha
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s Mars too! NO punching allowed! The sibling rivalry issues inherent in your being will be up and running strong ~ dancing around the room. And, if you don‘t have siblings, the compare yourself to others or the next door neighbors or some side by side issue will be up and running strong~ dancing around the room. It is a day when we are going to be in the mood to be entitled OR to feel sorry for ourselves. Alternatively, my favorite version ~ we will swing wildly back and forth between the two ~ entitled, martyr, entitled, martyr, entitled, martyr. Note the energy. Try to understand it on a conscious as well as an unconscious level. It is all part of the Saturn in Leo energy combining with the full moon critical eclipse energy as the whole cosmic mess of moving, throbbing, vibrating, crisscrossing pile of planets get Saturn ready to move into Virgo. Time to wrap up the last of the Saturn in Leo lessons.
Wednesday, today you can expect the other side of the polar opposite to surface. Astrology is all about duality. Gotta see both sides of the story or you never learn about the energy and how it works. Mercury has an aspect of brilliance to Chiron. Often when I sit across the astrology table from a client during a reading, I will be able to point out how the “problem” is actually part of their chart that is being acted up on by “others” to help them take it back and become conscious of it. The difficult transits help us own our charts.
If you give your sensitive parts to some one else AND they kick those sensitive parts or punch them or throw your delicate parts on the ground, you would say to yourself “Wow, they are mighty mean! Mighty bad! To me! And OUCH!” They would say to YOU, with a smile of course, “Well THAT is my mental illness or race or my usual bad or mean or habitual or father issues or mother complex or fear or whatever behavior THAT I feel COMPLETELY entitled to do!” So be like my friend Barbara ~ you do not have to clean up after it, them, or their bad behavior. They are responsible for their behavior. Do you understand how they need to be doing the bad stuff and how it gets you to be annoyed or bothered or whatever it gets you to be? And of course, vice versa. Agree to disagree. Moreover, make them clean up their own mess. You are entitled too!
Thursday, today, the Sun comes along to dip into that south node of letting go. If it goes, let it go. No hunting it down and killing it because it left you to paraphrase an old, worn t-shirt of mine. When the Sun falls into the South node, you are letting go of something big. You have figured it out. You have resolved “the issue” with whatever it is. If you “get it” today, just drop “it” and the associated consciousness into that old south node. Bye, bye! Let it go! Flush a few times. Flushing and swirling, off it goes into the cosmic toilet of old, bad behaviors or situations you are finished with. Think of it as a dead gold fish ~ down the cosmic toilet! Mercury has an aspect of physical, Virgo-type, habit adjusting energy to Neptune. Now, while conscious of the flushing energy of the Sun dipping into the south node, you might still be prone to a slip or two of sadness. Start practicing and focusing on what you‘d like to create. This is a TERRIFIC day to resolve to sin no more, quit drugs, demon fire water, overeating or cigarettes, release the stuff you don’t want (forever ~ or at least for this lifetime), give up or change your bad old behaviors of entitlement, pride and not letting yourself do what you love. Keep practicing your new behaviors until Neptune (mid-October) goes direct and it will be your new habit! Yeah Saturn in Virgo!
Friday, Jupiter has an aspect to Pallas that should help you see how your strategies, thoughts and approaches have created where you are now in your life. Take responsibility for it. Do you see how it happened? Mercury has an aspect pointing out how you nurtured those strategies, thoughts and approaches to get what you have. Nothing wrong with that. You nurtured it. It grew. Time for the harvest of Saturn in Virgo. Don’t like it? You can plant a new crop now. Like it? Time to pluck and start to work with the next phase of your life.
Saturn’s day, Sun in Virgo joins with retrograde Venus in Leo by declination. You have to love your life. You have to have passion for your being, body and soul. If you do not love your life, being, body or soul, why the heck are you doing what you are doing? Saturn in the last, last, last degrees of Leo until September 2034 looks across the sky and shouts out to you “Did you get it? Do you understand how you have to love your work, purpose, karma and journey on this planet? Love me! Love your good old Saturn!”
Sunday, Saturn enters Virgo. Bye, bye Saturn in Leo until September 2034. Hello Saturn in Virgo until October 2009! Hope you figured out what doing your Saturn is and have come to LOVE DOING IT. LOVE YOUR SATURN. Do your Saturn. Sun opposite to Pallas says your new patterns and strategies and the next part of your life have officially arrived. You aren’t in Kansas any more!?! You aren’t in OZ any more either!?! You are now in Saturn in VIRGO land. Did you ever think about what Dorothy did once she got back to Kansas and had this wonderful Saturn in Leo journey through Oz to build the rest of her life memories on? Partner with your vision! Time to start building it. Create your best life. Understand how your entire life, and all of the experiences, both good and bad, have worked VERY hard to get you to where you are today. Forward we go! One more eclipse and we are firmly launched into Saturn in Virgo by the new moon eclipse at 18 Virgo. Between now and September 11th, you are going to find out what your Saturn in Virgo lesson(s) are going to be about. Pay attention ~ the universe will be telling you what your next two years of life are going to be about!
Mundane: The eclipses are particularly profound on Vice President Cheney’s chart. (January 30, 1941, 7:30 pm Lincoln, NE). Cheney’s Virgo natal ascendant degree matches the degrees of the eclipse ascendant cast for Washington D.C. as well with the Sun in Virgo in his first house and the Moon in Pisces in his seventh house. The LUNAR eclipse (August 28th) will be particularly strong for Mr. Cheney. In addition, it echoes the Uranus station last June when he announced he was not part of the executive branch and as such would not respond to Congress. Both of the eclipses are a SOUTH node eclipse series, meaning the south node is involved in a dance with the Sun. The Sun dips into that dissolving, obsessive and karmic nodal energy. Astrologers with a few years of watching charts know that transits to the south node tend to end things, finish things up or have things moved along to their next phase of being. Eclipses are very, very powerful lunar and solar transits to the nodes.
If we look at Cheney’s relocated chart in Washington, D.C., the SOLAR eclipse, (Sept 11th) is on his relocated ascendant of 18 Virgo. Again, we find a second, powerful transiting eclipse on his relocated natal ascendant. Finally, in BOTH eclipses there are powerful mutable crosses involving Mars, Jupiter, Pluto and Uranus, three of the four malefics. But, when we find Jupiter involved with the “bad” guys in the solar system, we can expect Jupiter to behave badly too ~ or at least act as a cosmic accelerant, pouring volatile mutable fire energy into the mix of Mars, Pluto, the lights and Uranus. All the planets by being involved a mutable cross, are square to each other and pick up extra energy from the eclipse. This will bring even MORE extra energy to bear on the people, events and things.
I am among the folks who think Mr. Cheney is, in fact, the actual President of the United States. The bloodless coup, when the Supreme Court appointed Bush our President despite the uncounted election results, put a friendly, good old boy airhead in fro
nt of the corporate media cameras while behind the scenes Mr. Cheney was, and has been, in charge. The United States is about to lose their leadership, or have our leadership position in the world fall and be challenged. Therefore, whoever leaves office under the eclipses is our actual leader. (And yes, that would include Karl Rove!) I think we might be seeing Mr. Cheney leaving office in the next few weeks. I loved the recently surfacing you tube clip from 1994 with Cheney talking about why they didn’t go in and take out Saddam Hussein. A younger Cheney, but still our Vice, he describes exactly what is going on now in Iraq because we invaded! So he knew better. Mucho bad karma happens when you know better and do it any way! That law of magnification takes over…. http://youtube.com/watch?v=wdSMxwV33sI
Additionally, the stock market and financial markets will continue to be very volatile, with a “crashing” kind of energy. People ask me “how bad”, “how long” and “how low”. My answer to “how bad” is “comparable to 1929”. The 1929 crash and subsequent depression took 14 or so years to resolve but the first 2 to 3 years were the worst part is the answer to “how long.” If you are close to retirement, try to cash out what you can, especially stuff in mutual funds and stocks. Leave the bonds be, unless they are the ever-dwindling mortgage bonds. If you have a ways to go until you retire, plan on letting the market rebuild (it always does) after it drops and self corrects. During the time period between the two eclipses, Mars will set off the mutable cross and Saturn will enter Virgo. We can expect these to be the major triggers to the financial and market changes we will be experiencing. We will not know “how low” until Uranus gets back to 18 degrees ~ March 2008. However, I anticipate a sharp drop and shifting of the energy in the financial worlds around us. You are going to be fine! You know what you love now that Saturn has gone through Leo so you are going to be doing that while Saturn is in Virgo. No worries. You won’t need a lot of money to do what you love while Saturn travels through Virgo. You will be doing the work and the service to what you love.
We need to watch what is going on with China. (October 1, 1949, 3:15 pm, Peking, China). Her progressed Saturn is at 18 Virgo in the 7th house of partners opposite progressed moon and solar arc Jupiter in Pisces. All of them are receiving the energy of September eclipse. The August lunar eclipse is setting off China’s progressed Sun, Vertex, Uranus, Juno as transiting Saturn comes to square her Midheaven and IC. It is conceivable, with the rulers involved, that China could or will do something to further destabilize our financial markets. Unfortunately, I am not as familiar with China’s history to know how she has responded to similar previous transits and eclipses. Thus far, what we have been seeing since March when the eclipses and Uranus first started dancing over China’s sensitive points was the pet food poisoning, and more recently, the lead paint poison on children’s toys. The time to watch China is from now through next March. The houses of what is of value to us in the USA are involved (pets and children are of value to us) in the most recent events. Well, money is of value to us too! Poison to our money? We will have to see how it plays out. Wish I knew more about China’s history.
We do know that we are going to see the “power” in the world shift from us, the United States, to China. Pluto is in a balsamic approach to our natal Pluto in the second house. Most empires last about 250 years. We are 231 years old. Time for a change of who‘s the power in the world. Again, you are going to be fine! Get back to your history books: Egypt, Rome, Spain, Incas, Aztecs, Genghis Khan, Dutch, Ottoman, and England upon whom the sun never set. Now it is our turn to pass the baton of power to the next country.
Finally, the housing market crisis continues to unspool before us. Housing is going to trigger the rest of the financial falls ~ particularly in hedge funds and mortgage companies. If you are having financial issues meeting your mortgage payments, call 1-888-995-Hope for information on your options. It is a government agency that is dedicated to helping homeowners keep their houses in the face of the looming housing and foreclosure crisis. You do have choices and options, including renegotiating, so learn what your rights are sooner rather than later. You have rights! And, contact your congressional representatives about the matter. The weasel Republicans saw this debacle coming after they deregulated the banking industry, sold ARMs to the sub-prime markets and wrote that draconian bankruptcy law at the behest of the credit card companies. What is done can be undone! Think of Bush as our generation’s HOOVER and the next president up as our ROOSEVELT. Mutable Saturn in Virgo is a fabulous time to revise, revisit and change those operating systems and assumptions in your life. Don‘t be afraid. Change is good. Mutable signs LOVE to change. Just use the last dregs of Saturn in Leo to put a stake in the ground of your kingdom.
Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee
