Our week ahead features quite a bit of “settling in” energy. Take advantage of the lull between Christmas and New Years to make a plan and start to take action on the realizations you had last week at the New Moon in the last degrees of Sagittarius and the Ingress into Capricorn. We are entering a reconstruction phase while Saturn is retrograde. We have the opportunity to revise our existence between now and mid-April when he stations to go direct. Once he stations to go direct, it is going to be very difficult to make changes in the areas we are not so thrilled about in our lives.
Saturn retrogrades back over the points from fall 2006. You’ve got work to do to get your dreams to where you’d like them to be. It doesn’t have to be “perfect” ~ that fine tuning and practice stuff happens after Saturn gets into Virgo next fall. However, you do need to be enthusiastic, fiery, alive, hopeful, love filled, passionate, playful and creative. You know ~ like a five year old in a school play at dress rehearsal! As the kids run around on the stage, missing their cues and forgetting a line or two, all the parents in the audience who snuck into watch the dress rehearsal are going “Awhh ~ that’s my kid up there!” They are feeling the love. They are feeling proud. They are adoring their lovely creation on two legs. While the parents NOTICE the numerous mistakes, they are not spending $100 a ticket for a Broadway seat and expecting a stellar performance. They are not the director. They are the lover of the creation. They are the play writer. No criticism right now. Just practice, practice, practice to get ready to take your show on the road once Saturn goes direct. Revise the parts that “don’t work so good”, fiddle with the entrances and staging. It is dress rehearsal until Saturn goes direct.
The point of the next few months is to allow yourself to play, create, rewrite the parts of your life story that you are not overly fond of.
Have you been asking yourself to continue to suffer? Why? You are a smart person. You don’t have to do this any more, if you don’t want to. While you might not be able to change the situation and “fix it” the way you want it to be immediately, there ARE OTHER OPTIONS. Explore the options. When you find yourself criticizing yourself or a situation (or feeling oppressed, depressed or repressed by it) get off your butt and change! Change! Change yourself. Change your situation. Change your attitude. Change your approach. Change your beliefs. Change. Change. Change. Now is the time for change!
If you decide to change, it will get much easier in the months ahead. If you decide to not change, Saturn is going to get quite a bit nastier and meaner as we all know Saturn can do. When I was first learning astrology, I learned it from a very Saturn teacher: Aquarius Sun, Moon and Mercury in Capricorn. He focused on Saturn. All the astrological folks I ran into worried about and watched Saturn like a hawk. I read Liz Greene’s Saturn book, highlighted the sections that described “my issues” and marched the book into therapy. My therapist read the highlighted book. She laughed (nicely). She said, “So go do the white parts~ the answer is in the white parts. Go back and read the white parts.”
What Saturn does is act like a giant highlighter in our lives. He highlights the stuff that is important. However, once our eye is trained for Saturn messages, we tend to skip the other parts and only look for highlights. Important stuff can lie in the other parts ~ the rest of the sentence tells you cool stuff about the highlighted part. Perhaps the person who owned the book before you wasn’t good at highlighting or he emphasized parts of the book that aren’t important to you. Think about when you’ve picked up a used book that has marks in it. You read a section of it. You noticed if you agreed that the highlights were on the important parts. You might have read the notes in the margins by the previous owner.
When you were little, your parents, teachers or older siblings were representatives of your Saturn. They bossed you around and told you what to do. They restricted you from certain stuff. They modeled what the world was like and how it worked. You learned their rules. You learned their anxieties. You’ve been following the rules. The purpose of the last year has been to have you look at the rules and see if the rules still fit you. Odds are they don’t. Shake yourself free of the rules. Not all the rules. Just the rules that don’t work for you. It will be much easier than you think while Saturn is retrograde.
On the other hand, if you (or your friend) has been breaking the rules or abusing them or fooling around or not doing what you were supposed to be doing, watch out for Saturn. Don’t think it is going to last forever. No being cocky about not getting punished. You have not been caught yet. Saturn is about to get nasty. Saturn’s going to get mean. Saturn wants you to shape up. Rehabilitation. Sober up. Exposure. Diet. Dead lines. Structure. Exercise. Humiliation. Shame. Punishment. Resignation. All those nasty Saturn words! You will be watching Saturn come down on other people’s heads too. Saturn’s making a list to talk to you about. He’s stopping by in mid-April, if not sooner.
For most of us, Saturn will offer us a mix. There will be places where we can grow and shine like those five year olds getting their act together in the play. There will be places where we need to buck up and adhere to the rules or ELSE. In both cases, it means doing your Saturn. The fun skill building Saturn and the not so fun rule following, reap what you sow, grim Saturn. So take the holiday week to get your list in order. If you show Saturn a plan, he tends to be a bit more patient than if you are just whining and complaining but not acting to change the situation you don’t like.
Monday, Mercury joins with Pluto in the last degrees of Sagittarius. Mercury starts a new resolution cycle with the planet of change. Moon in Pisces offers an expansive element to the day. Moon makes a square to Mars suggesting an after the holidays resolution is in order. I know I made mine! Mercury’s still out of bounds but moving back in so commitments made on this day will be far reaching in their scope. Oh, and Merry Christmas!
Tuesday, Moon makes an emotional square to Pluto after Mercury’s visit with him yesterday. Happy Kwanzaa. Moon’s dawdling in the last degrees of Pisces to make this a slow moving dream filled day.
Wednesday, Moon in Aries forms the first quarter square of the new moon from last March’s solar eclipse when you found out something you’d rather not know about. Expect last March to be up and dancing around in your living room. Gotta deal with it. Gotta deal with it NOW! Mercury enters Capricorn ~ no more free speech. Actions speak louder than words. Keep your word.
Thursday, a very busy day with moon in Aries making oodles of aspects to the fire and air planets. You can plan big, dream big and set up new situations today. Go tackle that overwhelming Saturn issue you’ve been delaying, avoiding or postponing. It is time.
Friday, Moon in Saturn makes productive first step aspects to Capricorn Mercury and Sun while waking up a bit with her sextile to Uranus. Mail those resolutions of
f to your self to be opened
in Mid-April. Let’s set up a tracking system for yourself.
Saturday, Taurus moon has hard aspects to Neptune and Saturn suggesting he’s not overly pleased or perhaps feeling a rebound from what he did or didn’t do over the past few days. As my mother used to say, “Better I hear about it from you than from the neighbors”. Apply that statement to yourself.
Sunday, Moon in Gemini promises a fun and chatty New Year’s Eve. Neptune and Jupiter are both aspect. Mars in a sextile to Neptune suggests over doing or sadness. It has been a harsh year here on planet Earth. Here is to a new year with a bit more love than last year’s had.
Mundane: I brought all my column stuff to Florida to have it rained on in a sudden storm, made soggy and unreadable. The astrological symbols blurred. I learned that colored ink runs when wet! More mundane next week. Have a Merry Christmas and get ready for a glorious New Year!
Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee
