Weekly Weather December 13, 2010
The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming!
We enter eclipse season this week, approaching a powerful Full Moon eclipse on the world axis and at the last degree of Gemini-Sagittarius. The eclipse takes us back to the New Moon in June 2009 when Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett and as Jon Stewart jokingly said, “Virtually every one you know is dying!” Well, not everyone died, but it WAS a pivotal exit time for people who we’d “grown up” with ~ many of our childhood heroes, legends and influences seemed to exit stage left. Suddenly, we were the adults in the room. How did THAT happen?
We have a similar exit time approaching. This one is different as we’ll be releasing old mind sets, ideas, visions and belief systems. Mars and Ceres are still out of bounds causing us to have unusual and over the top reactions around and about nurturing and anger. There is a rebellious child in us some place, stomping, yelling and having a pity party. We are not being nurtured the way we want! We are not getting what we want! Stomp. Stomp. Stomp!
Or we are projecting our issues on to the other person! Or they are projecting their issues on to us! Venus is still in her shadow. Shadow issues for Venus are tough to wrap your arms around. She focuses on the “nicer” parts of life and often avoids or reduces the not so nice parts. You are NOT supposed to get angry. You ARE supposed to kindly and nicely take care of me, the situation, my mother, the kids without protest. You aren’t supposed to express your needs. Look to your natal Saturn by sign and house to see the issue or place of projection. Look to where you or they suddenly flare and get angry to see the underlying source and starting point of the projection.
It always comes down to Saturn. A few weeks ago, a reader wrote, asking “What about Saturn? Aren’t we supposed to do our Saturn?” Yes, always and of course. But right now, your Saturn has completely HAD it with having to put up with whatever he’s been putting up with. You are NOT in the mood. He is not in the mood.
So what to do when the anger flares ~ either yours or theirs ( and both sides can and will flare). Think about your Saturn and where it is by sign and house placement. What is your Saturn insecure and wanting more of? What are your Saturn issues? How does the situation before you set those issues off?
If you focus on that, you’ll feel much, much better. Once you “get” why you are so irritated ~ down to the source and wellspring ~ it feels better.
The thing to remember is Saturn also represents a very, very, old, old wish. Your deep wish for something from your authority figures. Your deep wish to NOT have to do this dance any more. Your deep wish to be seen, validated, not conned, nurtured, creative, purposeful, loved, supported, respected, wise, achieve in the world, appreciate love and your tribe or connect with your deeper soul’s yearning.
We all want Saturn to love us and adore us. Unfortunately, Saturn is SOOOO conditional in his affections that the area where we have our Saturn feels so alienated, picked on and judged. We are not good where we have our Saturn (on a bad day). This and last week were filled with not so good moments that didn’t make you feel great. They did make you realize more about your Saturn though! And about how deep the wish is for a different KIND of energy. Know that the part you are supposed to be paying attention to is the part that is making you mad, mad, MAD! So mad you want to stomp, stomp, Stomp! All part of getting clear.
Mars, Mercury and Pluto are all joining in Capricorn on the North Node of Destiny. The Capricorn planets answer to Saturn in Libra. Libra reports to Venus as she moves through Scorpio in her shadow phase of the recent retrograde. Venus in her shadow energy has a difficult time not getting what she wants. Deeply desired, when thwarted, she gets evil. Pitches a fit. Throws a tantrum. Isn’t nice. That is where the stomp, stomp, stomp came from.
So watch what makes you angry. Look at the angry and see how it ties back to your Saturn, by sign and house. Then, KNOWING it is a very deep wish, you can turn that energy towards another purpose. No you can’t do anything about the situation before you. But you CAN do something to meet your own needs and move your life in a new direction. You can work on creating your dream and answering the needs and desires of your Venus and Saturn.
Climb every mountain,
Search high and low,
Follow every byway,
Every path you know.
Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
‘Till you find your dream.
A dream that will need
All the love you can give,
Every day of your life
For as long as you live.
Climb every mountain,
Ford every stream,
Follow every rainbow,
Till you find your dream.
Rodgers and Hammerstein
In addition to boiling over with Saturnian based anger, we are in the midst of a Mercury Retrograde that is PHYSICAL so things actually break or get broken or fall apart physically or have accidents. Cars, computers, hard drives, cell phones, I-pads, stereos, as well as helpful appliances like refrigerators, washers and driers (Virgo rules domestic activities so Mercury has a role here in wreaking havoc with our appliances!) The good news is we get to start over or again in new way?! Well, maybe, but it will be frustrating getting there….
Mercury is combust the Sun so we THINK we are right when we offer that advice that offends our friend. Or when they offer advice that offends us. No room for dispute or negotiation. It is an I am right, you are wrong kind of energy. Not fun. High emotions too as Venus stresses out with Uranus and Jupiter by sesquiquadrate. You might need a good cry.
Essentially, the week is a swirl of energy and quite full of conflicting emotions ~ one minute irritated as all get out, the next a pile of mushy emotions, then volatile and irritated followed by prayers for all involved when you realize how affected you are.
Eclipses build the energy. It finishes the story from last June ~ you wrap that eclipse energy up. You go back to June 2009 to see when the story actually started on the New Moon on the Summer‘s Solstice. Now we have the full moon of the energy from June 2009 and we start to see things in a whole new way. Eclipses are like giant cosmic juicy pimples or boils. You know the kind ~ swollen, red, irritated, with a big white part in the middle ~ a gentle squeeze and out pops a gusher of pus and a bit of blood. But it FEEL better.
So be gentle with yourself. Be gentle with your friends. Be gentle with your family. Be kind to those you meet. The world is rather on edge and feeling highly emotional. So gentle and kind go a long, long way.
Monday December 13, Moon in Pisces adds emotional drama and sweep to the story. Sun is hearing words of discord and challenge that feel very assaulting. “Throw them on the trash heap!” “Get out of my house and outta my life!” “I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog too!” Channel your inner Wicked Witch of the West into a version of Glinda the Good Witch from the North. You have the ruby red slippers ~ you just don’t KNOW why that Witch wants to kill you! You get the idea. Watch for flares of anger as Mars, Mercury and Pluto all meet up today. Even the Sun wants to drop into the Ocean and disappear into Sedna’s lair. Adjust. Good closing aspects for getting VERY clear on things!
Tuesday December 14, Moon in Aries is challenging and pushing you forward. Dreamy closing aspects of a sextile to Neptune make this a good day to start new projects and move forward. You will have to adjust for age or perhaps feel your age today. Take the Mars energy, super fueled by Pluto and use it to start a new two year cycle of acting in your strength and power. Health can be challenged today so start to develop a new health regime (or think about it anyway). Mercury wants to review the health procedures as he sextiles Hygeia ~ illness is communicated by. Expect some irritation around your home or body. It isn’t going to feel like home right now. Moon squares the early planets in Capricorn causing anger or emotions to flare ~ you can be teary or cranky or swing between both. All part of the story!
Wednesday December 15, Moon in Aries in full swing with a day full of aspects that are challenging, informative and awakening. Watch your dreams upon awakening as there is a brilliance to them. Pay attention to what you were upset about earlier in the week or last week to see how it matches your Saturn by house and sign. And if you don’t know where your Saturn is by house and sign, think about the touchstone sensitive part of your being, the scared part that makes you quake a bit in your boots. That is where your Saturn is. How did what you were upset by relate to that part of your being? We GET OUR PATTERN in OUR SATURN today. What a lovely rhyme that is~ the pattern in your Saturn. We are changing, challenging, working with and adjusting that pattern. Full steam ahead! And yes, you CAN do it! Mars opposes Kronos suggesting you are SO TIRED of having to do this over, and over and over and over again. So stop. Just stop. Sit down. Rest. Or direct your energy towards something you can actually DO something about. And you might find with a bit of NON-Attention, that the thing resolves itself. Not right away mind you but eventually. Let your attention and desires go towards what you DO desire and want. It will eventually get better.
Thursday December 16, Moon leaves Aries and is void from 6:41 am to 1:49 pm Eastern time. Moon has many supportive aspects after she enters Taurus at 1:49 pm. You can over do today as the Sun squares Jupiter pushing you or the world to excess. Expect to expand your vision. It also is emotion and fast changing energy as Sun is in flickering fire while arguing with Jupiter in changing water. Give yourself permission to dream today. Tell it to at least one person as Mercury joins with the Nodes of Destiny pushing you to verbalize what you want. Moon is cooperative with the hard energy from earlier in the week ~ now that you KNOW what the irritation is, you are ready to move in a new direction. Lots of sesquiquadrate energy today so expect to feel stress that you need to take action to resolve so you can move forward.
Friday December 17, Moon in Taurus is in the mood to take action. Expect active and action packed dreams. Mercury has an aspect of brilliance to Admetos so you get it even if you realize it is time for it to end. You’ll be fine. It is all working out the way it is supposed to. Back when I was a baby astrologer, I often fretted about upcoming aspects, seeing harshness and knowing that there wasn’t much to be done about them. Eventually, I realized the harsh aspects help us put into perspective the path we are taking, the why for our lives. Not the how. But the why. When we have the why, we can work out the rest of the stuff.
Saturn’s day December 18, Moon in Taurus goes void around 4:36 pm and enters Gemini at 10:37 pm Eastern time. Sun sextiles Neptune as you awaken so watch for spiritual or inspiration dreams that encourage you to reach for YOUR dreams. Perhaps they offer a solution. Perhaps they are guidance that you are okay and going to be fine. Expect shocking news mid-day as Sun squares Uranus while Moon sextiles Jupiter, squares Neptune and Chiron and sextiles Uranus. The heavens are talking to us. We are learning so much about our future and our past while the planets wrap up their journeys in the collective signs of Aquarius and Pisces. Mercury enters Sagittarius retrograde so clarity is thrown into sharp relief. Finding our place in the Sun, our role in the world, deciding on our future path and destinations. We may stop partnering with people that we thought were part of our path. We may find new people to partner and create with. All to the good. You may realize you no longer want to dance the same dance in quite the same way. Look at the pattern changes involved in your life.
Sunday December 19, Moon in Gemini offers a choice as Mercury joins with the Sun, offering us a clear realization of what we want in the world. Neptune challenges partnerships and asks us to make adjustments as things are changing. You will have a brilliant idea that you definitely should take action to make come true. The energy of the upcoming eclipse is building with Moon in Mercury’s sign of Gemini. Expect cosmic ghosts to come in or perhaps current life ghosts. All the swirling is to clear stuff and move on to a new place. Talk to the ghosts to gain clarity. Ask them what they want. Why are they there? Sun wants to see things clearly as he is in the last degree of Sagittarius. It will stimulate you to think back to early 2008 as well as back to earlier times in your life. Karma shifts and changes today and over the next few days. Imagine your karma as a kind of shell that your body grew into ~ a mould that you conformed to upon arriving on earth. Now that you’ve been here awhile, and lived in the karma, it is a bit like an old shoe, worn at the heels, not so shiny or bright. It needs and wants to shift. Time for the Cosmic Cobbler to come take a whack or two at it with his silver hammer. All to the good. Let it re-mould. Your foot has changed shape. The shoe no longer fits.
Copyright © 2010 A. C. Ortelee
