Weekly Weather February 12, 2007
Our week ahead features a number of lovely Sun and Venus aspects as well as both Mercury and Juno stationing to go retrograde. The stations and retrogrades will set off the “Active Degrees” we’ve been working with over the past couple of years ~ 25 Aquarius/ Fixed, 10 Pisces/ Mutable in the case of Mercury, 12 and 28 Libra/ Cardinal for Juno. Astrologers take special notice of “Active Degrees”, which are degrees that have had a number of astrological events take place on or near them such as lunations, aspects of major planets, and planet stations. When an “Active Degree” is set off, we all go “ah” as the Universe or Heavens present us with an opportunity to remember or work with the story from those degrees yet again.
We have a number of node aspects during the week ahead. Nodes aspects signify turning points and moments of choice. I refer to them in readings as that giant sucking sound when you go “AHHHHHH!”
We also have an awesome new moon at the last degrees of Aquarius triggering the hopes and dreams area of every chart with the inspiring Sabian Image of A BUTTERFLY EMERGING FROM A CHRYSALIS on Saturn’s day and for the East Coast of the USA people, during Venus’s hour. Make sure to read the new moon column on the website for more information on how to take advantage of the new moon energy.
When we combine nodes with active degree aspects and a lunation in the sign of our hopes and dreams, all the puzzle pieces seem to fall into place. It is going to be that kind of week. Now, it might not be a FUN week but it will be an enlightening week. It might be fabulous in parts and difficult in other parts. The entire world is going to be going through it at the same time you are. That means that folks can be a bit extra sensitive and perhaps not so pleasant, especially if they are having a tough time looking at the puzzle that assembles in their life this week. They might not like what they see. It is that kind of week too.
If we take a 20,000 foot view of your life, we see a different pattern than the one you might be noticing up close and involved in the personal parts and events of your life. The magic of backing up and looking at our lives from a broader perspective helps us get a different vision of what is going on. As an astrologer, I am continually amazed at how the past events of our lives are repeated and shown in our charts by our current lives, particularly as we pay attention to the cycles of the planets.
Remember back to when you were flying in a plane. As you fly over the earth, you notice the patterns below you from an entirely different perspective. Housing clusters all connected and swirl around roads in little blobs off of bigger main roads. Lakes, ponds and rivers move along defining boundaries. Backyards link in clusters. Blocks open. Big, long stretches of roads cris-cross and form squares with asphalt boundaries around masses of land. Your chart is like that.
This week, the universe is going to take you flying over your life. You are going to see your life from a different perspective. Look at it like you are flying over it for the first time. Use new eyes. You are going to understand. You are going to understand the rock tumbling you’ve been going through. You are going to understand the purpose of your blind spot(s). You are going to get why you have to adjust, adjust, and adjust. You are going to understand Shame, its purpose and guiding power in your life. You are going to understand your Saturn in a new and different way. You are going to see the purpose and reason for the last couple of years. All the puzzle pieces will be assembling themselves before your eyes.
Be gentle with yourself. Be kind to those you run into who are perhaps a bit overwhelmed by the 20,000 foot view of their own life. If they are stunned, say “Yeah ~ isn’t that COOL!!?? The universe rocks!” They (or you) might be a bit apprehensive about flying. They (or you) might be a bit apprehensive about the view at 20,000 feet. You might not like how the world looks from that perspective. Fear not. Flying is a very good way to notice all the cool stuff that the heavens put into your chart. And you will land, safe and sound, after your flight.
Monday Ceres joins with the Node to make you see how the puzzle pieces fit. There are a number of parallels today with Venus, Sun, Node and Juno that help you see the patterns. Patterns aren’t good or bad. They are patterns. At 20,000 feet, traffic flow, cities, towns and patterns look different than they do when you are stuck on the highway caught in a traffic jam, smelling the exhaust from the car ahead of you. Sagittarius moon encourages that vision of yours to see the forest, not just the trees.
Tuesday, Mercury stations, at one of those significant degrees of 10 of the mutable sign Pisces. Uranus was rolling back and forth over this degree all last year. Expect situations and ghosts from the past to come calling. Chat them up. Expect illumination. If an old lover calls, take their call. It contains important information about fitting the puzzle pieces together. Expect to hear or see or learn about something that makes you go “Ahhhh, so THAT is what was going on…” The clues fall into place. The pattern reveals itself. Capricorn moon says we have our patterns. They don’t change. They are our patterns.
Wednesday can go either way. Juno is stationing at the late degree of Libra setting off the story from 1982/83. To everything there is a season. Venus and Mars form a finger of god with Saturn. Mercury, stationing retrograde and parallel to the North node, well, all I can say is things happen for a reason. When Saturn forms a finger of god under this kind of energy, it acts like a giant sling shot and shoots you 20,000 feet up into the air. I did say you were going flying, didn’t I? I forgot to mention you might not be in a plane. Look around while you are up there. Check out the patterns. Notice what you notice. No judgment. Just notice it. Venus makes an aspect to Juno suggesting there are strange bedfellows or partnerships being revealed.
Thursday, Jupiter squares the Nodes, setting off the degree of upcoming eclipse. Just loading that eclipse up with a bit of extra energy. Nice big old eclipse. If you don’t see a pattern this week, do note what happened. When the eclipse takes place next month, you will see how this part of the story pertains to the story that will be revealed during the eclipse. Aquarius moon says look at the big picture, community, tribe, connections between friends.
Friday, Sun trines Juno. One of the lovely things about paying attention to things that go on around you are days like this. The ah moment. The astrology connecting the dots. The linking of various parts of your story into a coherent whole. No judgment. Just notice patterns. Notice partnerships. Understand what the partnerships and patterns point out to you about the bigger picture. Moon in Aquarius makes aspects to Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune ~ gotta love that balsamic, past life karmic phase of the moon!
Saturday, Illumination. If you didn’t get it when Saturn shot your energy up to 20,000 feet during the finger of god on Wednesday, you will get it now. Sun makes aspects of illumination. Remember, we often do things over and over and over again until we get it right or figure it out or solve the problem. If we do rotten stuff, we eventually get caught and set right, if for no other reason than we get sloppy. We want to get caught. If we try and want to do good stuff, and unconsciously, we still keep encountering or recreating problematic patterns, we eventually figure out why we do stuff over and over. We will get it. We get it today. Today is what goes around comes around kind of day. A realization kind of day. A moment of truth kind of day. An ‘I married my mother’ kind of day. ‘You might be my husband b
ut you sure are like my fath
er too!’ kind of day. A ‘You/I did WHAT?’ type of day. An ‘Oh my god, I AM my MOTHER! I AM my FATHER! I am. I am!’ kind of day. But you are also yourself. I am also myself. We are all evolutionary critters, just a smidge further down the evolutionary line of the cosmos from our parents and forebears. Notice the smidge. It is important. Read the new moon column for more information on how to work with the energy today.
Sunday, so who are YOU? As Venus aspects Chiron and Saturn today and Mars joins with Jupiter and the Sun enters the sign of universal connectedness and oneness of Pisces, you get it. We are all connected. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Yes, that sounds simple. But today you understand WHAT that phrase means. Mazel Tov! Blessings! Congratulations! You’ve figured it out. Or you’ve evolved! Metamorphosis! Or turned from a caterpillar into a butterfly. Or whatever. Tomorrow is another day but the vision you had this week is never, ever going to leave you. Even if you WANT it to go, it isn’t going any place. You’ve changed. Your view of the world is changed. Pisces moon sends loving energy to Sun in Pisces. A time for everything under heaven.
Mundane: Ah the tangled webs we weave when first we ….. I imagine there will be oodles of ah ha moments all over the globe this week. One of those “busy news” weeks. Expect major news in the Scooter Libby trial. Oh, Dick, now WHAT did you do that for??? As the prosecution rested last week, I am quite fascinated to see what the defense presents. Anna Nicole Smith passing away was the Venus/Uranus conjunction square Jupiter aspect in action ~ an unusal (Uranus) woman (Venus), full of Jupiter in Sagittarius excess. As her son passed away near the first opposition of Neptune and Saturn, and she passed away near the second opposition, there will be a part three of the family’s story at the end of June ~ perhaps the cloudy, hidden (Neptune) paternity (Saturn) of her new daughter (Saturn opposite Neptune) will be resolved! By my count, there are at least three men claiming to be the girl’s father. And, as she left us during the middle of the Neptune Saturn oppostion, we can expect her to enter the pantheon of beautiful goddesses who die early.
Copyright © 2007 Anne C. Ortelee
