Weekly Weather December 10, 2007
Ta-DA! Trumpets, Drum rolls, cheers and applause!!! Jupiter and Pluto join in the sky this week to create a spanking, sparkling brand new 13 year cycle of evolutionary expansion and change in our lives.
Jupiter, the lord of the heavens, in charge of expansion, magnitude, growth, elevation, superiority, capacity to enlarge, impulse to grow, ascend, progress, improve, magnify, great wholes, inflate, success, honor, advancement, plenitude, abundance, prodigality, excess, surfeit, capacity for magnamity, optimism, enthusiasm, exuberance, joy, joviality, liberality, breadth of experience, philosophical and cultural goals, comprehensiveness, largeness of vision, pride, arrogance, aggrandizement, extravagance, fecundity, fortune, and providence.
combines his considerable gifts with the lord of the underworld,
Pluto, in charge of the principles of elemental power, depth, intensity, that energy which compels, empowers, and intensifies whatever it touches to overwhelming extremes. Primordial instincts, libidinal and aggressive, destructive and regenerative, volcanic, cathartic, eliminative, transformative, ever-evolving, biological process of birth, sex and death, death and rebirth, upheaval, breakdown, decay and fertilization, situations of life and death, extremes, power struggles, titanic, potent, massive. Both the underworld, underground ~ elemental, geological, instinctual, political, social, sexual, urban, criminal, mythological and demonic! Dark, mysterious, taboo, lurks below the surface of things, impels, burns, consumes, transfigures, resurrects, descent and transformation, destruction and regeneration.
Together Jupiter and Pluto, skip off into the sunshine to begin a new chapter in your (and every ones) life. How cool is that?
We are each continuing evolutionary cycle embedded in the evolution of our planet. You have already had a few evolutionary cycles start, take place and finish in your life.
June 1956 26:28 Leo
October 1968 23:40 Virgo
November 1981 24:53 Libra
December 1994 28:26 Scorpio
If you think back to those times, you will be able to spot the continuing cycle of evolution that has been taking place in your life. Like all plants and animals, we humans each have beginning, growing, ripening and harvesting cycles. The thirteen years represented by Jupiter and Pluto’s cycle speak to the process of how you and your soul expand. It describes your growth into the world, over repeated seasons and cycles of your life.
In the case of a recent Scorpio client, his life purpose includes working on expanding intimacy, having intense mergers and profound connections in this lifetime ~ he has the Sun in Scorpio! When he was young, his profound Scorpio connections were with animals, Virgo. As he matured, he found a life partner and achieved balance during the Libra cycle. They (he mostly) subsequently raised a Scorpio child during the Scorpio cycle. She’s gone off to college as the Scorpio cycle comes to an end. Now, as the new Sagittarius cycle approaches, he is considering how to expand his life into the next phase of his being and life. Where is he going to find his intense merger needs satisfied, sated, developed and fulfilled over the next 13 years? Those were the questions we explored during his reading.
You too have a similar story unfolding in your chart. Think back on the situation(s) coming to an end or changing in form this year that began back in Dec 1994. Your solar needs, as expressed by your Sun and the Leo ruled house, describe where and how you want to shine in our world and what exactly you are here to do this time around. Your Ascendant acts to GET for your Sun what it wants and needs to do. The evolutionary expansion of Jupiter and Pluto will guide your chart to the next phase of your life.
As with everything, right before we are asked to move forward in a giant cosmic step, there is an equally giant “Oops”, “slippage” or perhaps a lingering, wistful call to revisit and roll around in our bad old bad behaviors. Such is the energy of the week too! Remember Mars, our ability, manner or way of taking action, is still retrograde, still going backwards, still in a sign he hates and still out of bounds! Mars is feeling QUITE needy and vulnerable right now. Mars is not his usual perky, bold and brassy lets go conquer the world self right now.
So do not beat yourself (or Mars) up too much. Perfect doesn’t exist. It is all about process. Meltdowns can be expected! We need to go forward but are feeling rather overwhelmed by the whole process. We human beings do hate change and having to evolve into our next phase of being even if we know it is time to change and evolve! Life is not “easy”. There is always SOMETHING to learn and grow in.
THEREFORE, if you have desire to indulge or manage to run into some of your bad old bad behaviors, look them square in the eye and say hello! Think of how much you have learned and grown since you have been on earth. Think of what you want for your next 13 years. Take a stroll down memory lane with your bad old bad behaviors. Do you want some MORE of your bad old bad behaviors in your life?
No, I didn’t think so. Still, take a moment to shake that bad old bad behavior’s hand, put your arm around its shoulder and thank it for all that it taught you. You two went through quite a lot together during this life time! You have had your ups and downs together. Yep, you might still want to check in and visit every now and then for old time’s sake. But, truth be told, do you, actually want to LIVE with your bad old bad behaviors again? Ah, but you were so much older then, you are younger than that now!
Monday, Venus asks us to look at what we partner with. Furthermore, Venus asks us WHY we collaborate or partner with it. What about it draws us to it? Do we even like it? There is no right or wrong here, just a deeper understanding. Time to come to an understanding. It does something for us! It gives us something we need (or think we need). It gives us something we want (or think we want). It satisfies something in our being to have it around. Would we be okay if we did not have it? What would our life look like if it were gone? Or if we changed our relationship to it? Or allowed it to be a bit different? Or replenished ourselves, in some OTHER way, by doing something different?
Jupiter Pluto is also about our addictions, obsessions and consuming passions.. That is why your bad old bad behaviors are back. They comfort you. In a kind of weird way, they give you something you lack. You do not actually LACK it but you think you do! Maybe instead of looking at what you lack, look at what you have. Today will be one of those days when the hard parts of our insides are hurting. What is truly YOU versus what the rest of the world wants for you? What do YOU truly want, desire, or need? That is the place to begin to move toward. Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
Tuesday, Jupiter joins with Pluto to start our new 13-year cycle. Happy evolution! Many happy returns of your Evolutionary impulses! Venus in Scorpio trines Mars moving retrograde in Cancer suggesting a slow start to your evolution. That is perfectly fine! No need to have fast starts. You’ve started. You’ve got 13 years to figure it out. And, you are quite smart and will get it before then! You can’t get away ~ you have to evolve. We all do. As my first astrology teacher used to “you can run but you can’t hide”. Don’t run. Turn to embrace it. Give it a big old hug and a kiss on the cheek. Feel all the complex emotions rolling around in your being. Cry if you need to. Laugh if you want to. Understand what you’d like to create over the next 13 years. Doesn’t that seem like such a nice broad and profound slate of time to work with? A huge empty canvas of creation loo
ms before you! On the very b
ottom, in the right hand corner of that huge empty canvas, write your name and put a date to it. There, you’ve begun your new cycle! It wasn’t so hard after all. Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
Wednesday the moon is void all day in depressing Capricorn. Saturn rules the Moon. He’s in perfectionist Virgo. Transiting Mercury in Sagittarius is setting off the eclipse degrees from last March, Uranus station in June and September’s eclipse bringing to your mind the stories and experiences from back then. Today might be a day ruled by a few Copious Tears as Venus sextiles Saturn bringing another version of his energy to the front of our consciousness. Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
Think of today as a graduation day of sorts ~ not taking place in May or June when we expect graduations but right now, in the middle of December when we are supposed to be happy and jolly. We expect tears at graduations! Tears are fine! We are moving into a new chapter of our life as our old chapter wraps up. We are proud. Our parents are proud. Our friends are proud. They are crying. We are crying. Whatever else happens, you will never be living in the dormitory with the same set of people inhabiting the same campus in the same way. BUT you will always be informed, formed, and shaped by the experiences you had. Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
Thursday is sad day or perhaps a bit depressed as Mercury has a sextile to Neptune. Mercury can feel a bit overwhelmed by all he has to do right now as he is in Sagittarius and the proverbial s*** hit the fan ~ or it feels like it did and no one can find the off button for the darn thing. No, you can’t get everything done. Yes, the world is keeping on keeping on. No you are not in the mood. But ready or not, here you go. Life is like that. Here you are, evolving and you don’t even have time to take a shower and blow out your hair properly. Your job, always, especially during crazy periods like this, is to focus on the stuff that is for YOUR soul’s growth. The rest of the stuff is dressing, distraction and decorations along your soul’s chosen path in this life. Yes, to the person who is having a trauma in front of you, offer some guidance. Help them understand what THEIR soul is trying to evolve to. But don’t lose sight that you are evolving too ! Be kind. Don’t over schedule yourself today. And, if you forget something, not to worry. Call tomorrow. Or Saturn’s day. Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
Friday, Sun lights up Jupiter today by declination as we settle a bit into our new 13 years. Yes, our old life is still there informing our new life but some how, it feels different. The tension seems to have shifted? Or maybe lifted? Or perhaps you are coming to understand the bigger picture of what the heavens are describing for your path? Conjunctions are endings as well as beginnings ~ we humans tend to pay attention to our losses more than our wins. Reframe it as a win. Sun lights up Vesta today ~ parts of us are SO very comfortable with what is familiar. Think about it as if you are going to the gym to work out with a new trainer. You’ll work muscles you didn’t know you had. And the next few days, you are a bit achy, but achy in a good way. That is what is happening to your soul right now. Your soul is being asked to expand and use new parts that might be a bit rusty or out of shape. Your soul is achy and tender. But if you pay attention, your soul is achy in a good way. Remember to breathe. Once you get used to this new evolution, once those muscles of your soul settle into their new routines, you’ll feel terrific! Keep up the moving forward. Slow and steady. Be brave. Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
Saturn’s day finds the nodes firmly entering into Aquarius and Leo and leaving Pisces and Virgo for the next 19 years. Think back to December of 1987, when the nodes last entered Virgo/Pisces and also to May of 1989 which corresponds to this moment in time as the nodes moved into Leo/Aquarius. There was a change in the direction of your life during that year and a half. A similar, yet more evolved and hopefully more developed change in your life has taken place since June of 2006 and now. Do you see how the pattern of your life is evolving over time?
You are at a similar time frame, crossroads, moment ~ the creative, conscious evolution of you is about to take place in your life now. Get ready! Don‘t be afraid. Formed at the point where the Sun and the Moon cross in their daily journey around earth, the karmic nodes are sensitive points that guide our paths and bring in (or take out) important people, places, things, processes and stories in our lives. The North node traveling backwards through the zodiac, starting with Pisces, began a new 19 year cycle back in June of 2006. At that time, Saturn in Leo was asking us what we loved. Now, since we’ve figured out what we LOVE, the nodes are going to help us create it. Here we go!!! Get ready! Today has Venus square to Chiron suggesting your trip down memory lane might bring up sadness or regret. It helps if you reframe your life as a process of evolution ~ these transition years mark shifts in your life towards your true path. Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
Sunday there is a sense of partnership and understanding of the purpose of relationships as we start to move forward again. The holiday season is here in all its glory! Moon in Pisces asks us to remember our soul’s purpose needs to always be served by the structures, relationships and situations we build in our life. What do you want to partner with for the next 13 years of expansion and evolution in your life? Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
Mundane: Well, we sit once again at a moment of choice in our world! A time of conscious evolution as a nation and member of the world appears before us. George is back at it again with his darned obsession about weapons of mass destruction ~ only now it is Iran he’s after! It will be just our luck ~ he will be the ONE person on the planet who doesn’t evolve during the Jupiter/ Pluto conjunction! Ah, but he was so much younger then, he’s older than that now!
Bush defended his approach during a televised session in the White House briefing room, saying, "our policy remains the same" regardless of the new intelligence.
"Look, Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous, and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," he said. "The NIE says that Iran had a hidden — a covert nuclear weapons program. That’s what it said. What’s to say they couldn’t start another covert nuclear weapons program?"
But, at the same time, VOILA! The USA intelligence community DOES appear to be evolving with the Jupiter / Pluto conjunction. The media seems to be evolving too ~ asking hard questions and finally paying attention. Ah, but they were so much older then, they are younger than that now. According to various sources from the internet:
A starkly different view of Iran’s nuclear program emerged this week from U.S. spy agencies. It was the product of a surge in clandestine intelligence gathering in Iran. It also was the result of radical changes in the way the intelligence community analyzes information.
Drawing lessons from the intelligence debacle over supposed Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence, required agencies to consult more sources and to say to a larger intelligence community audience precisely what they know and how they know it. Also, to acknowledge, to a degree previously unheard of, what they do not know.
The new report upended years of previous
assessments by asserting that the Islamic republic halted the weapons side of its nuclear program in 2003. The report, while expressing concern about Iran’s rapidly growing civilian nuclear energy program, contradicted assertions by top Bush administration officials and previous intelligence assessments that Iran has been bent on acquiring nuclear weapons.
“The new report brings the U.S. intelligence community in line with what the (International Atomic Energy Agency) and several European governments were saying years ago,” said David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector and president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security.
The administration called new attention to the threat posed by Iran earlier this year when President Bush had suggested in October that a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to “World War III” and Vice President Dick Cheney promised “serious consequences” if the government in Tehran did not abandon its nuclear program.
Yet at the same time officials were airing these dire warnings about the Iranian threat, analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency were secretly concluding that Iran’s nuclear weapons work halted years ago and that international pressure on the Islamic regime in Tehran was working.
Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, portrayed the assessment as “directly challenging some of this administration’s alarming rhetoric about the threat posed by Iran.” He said he hoped the administration “appropriately adjusts its rhetoric and policy,” and called for an “a diplomatic surge necessary to effectively address the challenges posed by Iran.”
President Bush made it clear (the new intelligence report) did not change his view and would not have changed his rhetoric, including his October warning about the possibility of World War III if Iran builds nuclear weapons.
President Bush argued that uranium enrichment technology could be used to help develop weapons and noted that Iran has tested ballistic missiles. "Nothing has changed in this NIE that says, ‘Okay, why don’t we just stop worrying about it?’ "He said.” Quite the contrary. I think the NIE makes it clear that Iran needs to be taken seriously. My opinion hasn’t changed." And while arguing for diplomacy, he repeated that "all options are on the table," including military force.
Maybe we will not invade Iran after all!? Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now. It seems a very good time to revisit the entire Bob Dylan lyrics from My Back Pages:
Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin’ high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We’ll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud ‘neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
Girls’ faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
A self-ordained professor’s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I’d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
Yes, my guard stood hard when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee
