Weekly Weather February 26, 2007
Have we got an earth shaking, mind expanding, shocking, brilliant and revelatory week ahead of us or what? Two major and one minor astrological events combine to offer us wisdom and understanding about our journey on Planet Earth. I can’t wait even as I am anxious about what will take place. But aren’t you finding yourself anxious too? There is a kind of high charged energy skittle, skedaddle and jumping around the world like butter does when dropped into a hot frying pan!
First up, is a ‘minor’ astrological event as Mercury reenters the sign of his exaltation and brilliance in Aquarius. Retrograde Mercury means Mercury is paying extra attention so he doesn’t hit something as he backs up in the sky into Aquarius. He takes us back over our thought patterns and decisions. He asks us to revise, revisit, redo, research and reevaluate. The world sure looks different when you are backing up and double checking the decisions you’ve made in your life! If you knew then what you know NOW….
Mercury backing into the FIXED land of the FIXED sign of Aquarius asks us to review our FIXED decisions about the FIXED parts of our life and chart. Think of the retrograde as kind a giant cosmic TiVO for a very important section of your life ~ what DID they/ you say? And, perhaps, more important, what DID they/ you mean? Quick, TiVO it! Watch what their/ your lips say as you listen closely…. Do you still agree with their or your earlier conclusion? Don’t be so darned fixed about stuff! As if we could be less fixed …. Well, the universe IS asking us to change our FIXED places right now. What fixed place or belief system would you like to change?
Mercury in Aquarius is detached, distance, cold and crystal clear as he soars 20,000 feet above it all, seeing, understanding and getting a clear picture of everything as he surveys about the world and dramas below with not an inch of extra emotion. Think Google Maps! You are Google Mapping your life. Mercury in Aquarius has amazing retrieval abilities ~ a bolt of lightening coming down to strike what it wants during a summer rain storm. Of course, Mercury’s retrograde means Mercury’s putting together all the various patterns and pieces of the puzzle. He’s figuring out all sorts of stuff as he gets ready to station on March 7 at 25 of Aquarius. Plus, when Mercury stops, he’ll wake up last December’s Saturn station retrograde and July’s fire trine of Saturn and Pluto. He’ll see what stopped the forward motion of your life.
Next, we have part two of the trees falling in the forests story from the last week in August and first week in September 2006 as Saturn opposes Neptune at 20 Leo/Aquarius. Old worn out, over taxed structures will begin to collapse all over the place. Big collapses that change the structure of your life, forever. New visions and new structures are being formed but aren’t quite in place yet. DON‘T WORRY. Some of our firmest and oldest structures will collapse and fall over before us like giant trees tipping over in the forest. Expect crashes. The collapses are necessary for the new to be born. The King must die! The King is dead! Long live the King!
Of course, we WILL worry. We will worry about our tree like a loose tooth! Remember when you were little and losing a tooth? How the tooth jiggles and wiggles as you move your tongue over it? How the tooth is SOOOO loose but NOT ready to come out? How it feels like it is going to tip over and yet it doesn’t? How you pull and push at it and show it to your parents, siblings and friends. They say to you “Ahhh! Yes, it sure DOES LOOK LOOSE! Oh, there, see ~ right underneath the loose tooth is the new tooth!! See it? The new tooth is getting ready to come in”? Well your loose tooth MAY come out this week. Or your loose tooth may wait and wiggle away in your life until the end of June when we have part three of the Saturn /Neptune opposition. Or your loose tooth may wiggle and jiggle until Saturn goes direct in Mid-April. Saturn direct is a great time for loose teeth to fall out! Or perhaps you might decide to pull at your loose tooth by tugging at it with your fingers. You tug at it firmly. Tug directly. Oh, ouch, then your tooth starts to bleed a bit or hurt ~ so you get apprehensive and stop tugging at it. I know, I know, having a loose tooth between now and the end of June is going to drive you SIMPLY CRAZY! However, your loose tooth might not be ready to fall out yet. Go do something else and stop playing with your tooth. Stop worrying about it!
And finally, the first of the March 2007 eclipses arrive! The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming! It is a lunar eclipse on the full moon between Virgo and Pisces. It promises to be a VERY EMOTIONAL eclipse at 12:59 of the Virgo/Pisces axis. If you are like my clients, you’ve already been feeling what the eclipse is about. Wasn’t last week fun? The north node in Pisces, the node of where you are going next, is joined to Uranus in Pisces and adds the volatile, transformative nature of chaos, change and hopefully, a bit of higher consciousness to the eclipse energy. The Sabian Image of A POWERFUL STATESMAN OVERCOMES a STATE OF POLITICAL HYSTERIA is activated by the eclipse. Going to be fun on Planet Earth!
Eclipses work within larger Saros cycles of 18 years. (Actually all lunations do, we only remember eclipses better!) The eclipse is going to bring up March of 1989 events. Think back to what was going on in your life then around your lights, your Sun and Moon, your male and female energies ~ the point of union of your logical and emotional components. I know March 1989 was a particularly profound time in my life. Make sure to act with that time in mind ~ what lessons did you learn from March 1989 that you can apply now? What do you want to change or revise from what you learned back then? Act with love and your best intention in heart as you work with the eclipse energy.
The actual full moon in Virgo/Pisces also culminates the new moon cycle that began on September 3, 2005 when the new moon took place at 11:21 Virgo. The opening quarter was last June 3, 2006 when we were tested around decisions made and projects begun in September 2005. Now we see the results of our actions on the full moon. Do you like what you see? If so, keep on. If not, change it. The closing quarter is December 1, 2007 so push the energy towards what you want, wisely!
I know, the week ahead IS a lot to wrap your mind around! Mercury looking at all sorts of fixed, solid and stuck stuff; Saturn Neptune taking out the loose teeth and big trees in your forest; as the upcoming eclipses say review the life events within a bigger cycle of 18 years of logical and emotional development. Some weeks are like that!
So, what to do? Well, first, remember to breathe. Deep, slow breaths. Lots of them. Air and breaths are most important! Breathe! Second, be gentle and kind with yourself and all the others in your world. The entire world is running on frayed, stressed out nerves and pots of caffeine in the week ahead, complete with shouting and yelling and kvetching and giving birth to their new being. Third, remind yourself that it IS a TRANSITION, a TRANSIT, a moment in time ~ it is NOT for EVER!! It is for now! Then it will be gone, fading into a distant memory. Live as much as you can in the moment. Don’t worry about the stuff you can’t do anything about. Focus on what you can do something about. Decide if you want to take action on it.
Fourth, NO ~ YOU ABSOLUTELY do NOT have to DO some thing, any thing! Eclipses give us the sense that we simply must DO! We must ACT! We HAVE to DO some thing, any thing or we will die! It is a false sense of emergency and do or die in most cases. Now, IF you or your family are facing an actual life and death HEALTH emergency, do call 9-1-1 and get to the hospital. If you are facing a dangerous physical situation, DO call fo
r back up, get extra support
or enlist the police. However, if it just FEELS like you will die AND, as near as you can tell, your heart is beating and your breathing regular and your EMOTIONS are crazy and out of control, you are exactly where you are supposed to be. It is called an eclipse. A particularly emotional eclipse. It will be over in a few weeks. YoU do NOT hAve to do AnY tHinG aT aLL!
Fifth, this why we were building our Saturn muscles all last year. Do your Saturn. Yep, right now. No I am not kidding. Do your Saturn. You can’t do anything about the situation you can’t do anything about. However, you CAN do your Saturn. You CAN do your work in the world. That is how to ground the energy and make it feel a bit more stable and less chaotic. Do your Saturn. Do what you can do and let the rest go. The universe is going to take over the steering wheel for a bit. All you can do is do your Saturn. Ground your energy for yourself by doing your Saturn.
Remember the butter-pillar! Part of a caterpillar’s birth process into a butterfly involves the caterpillar removing itself (with QUITE a struggle) from its cocoon as it morphs into a butterfly. Did you know if you help a caterpillar hatch, it dies? It turns into a butter-pillar corpse ~ neither caterpillar or butterply ~ some strange combo of both. Part of the process of giving birth to oneself is the struggle to emerge from our own, very personal, designed just for our evolution cocoons. We are each giving birth to a new vision of our fixed parts. A new kind of vision that integrates what we’ve learned with where we are now. The new vision will mostly be in our Leo part. Remember, when one thing changes, everything changes. That means all of our fixed parts are changing as our Leo part changes from Saturn‘s journey through it. Do your Saturn (especially the parts you like) and trust in the larger wisdom of the cosmos. All things happen for a reason in their proper time and place.
There are, of course, a number of other aspects going on during the week ahead ~ there always are other aspects during weeks like this! So hang on tight! Remember to breath. You’ll be fine! And ask your angels or guardian angels or friends or mom or dog for help and a hug or two if you need it! You have to ask. That is part of doing your Saturn! Get over the fear of asking for what you need!
Monday, Mercury enters Aquarius, retrograde. Isn’t the view fabulous at 20,000 feet, flying backwards? Mercury has whoosh energy with Mars to help an odd kind of journey get launched. Take off might be a bit crooked or cockeyed but it IS there for you to see, if you decide to look. Me, personally, I plan on closing my eyes. I always close my eyes at take off! And I say a ‘Hail Mary’ or two.
Tuesday, Sun joins with Mercury by parallel as Mercury talks to Jupiter. I call these the ‘Ah-ha’ moments. A kind of forehead slapping, wow, I never thought of that ~ wholly cow THAT is IT! Aspects like this are when DNA’s structure was discovered, Edison’s first light bulb lit up, or the printing press was invented. The pieces of the puzzle finally work, make sense, come together. You get it! Of course, the moon is void all day so it could ALSO be a day when you completely obsess over something you have absolutely NOT a shred or inch of control over. Remember during Void Moons we are supposed to kick back, relax, go with the flow and let the universe whisper to us! We are not supposed to shout at the Universe about how miserable we are. Nor is it overly productive to worry the loose tooth. It is not time for the tooth to fall out yet.
Wednesday, Saturn perfects his retrograde opposition to Neptune today. Act Two of the Saturn / Neptune journey finished. Ta da! So EVEN IF you GET it or GOT it and feel good, you STILL have a pile of work to do to get your new structure built and all of your changes complete. Mercury’s opening sextile to Pluto and Venus’ aspect to Pallas let you see and understand how the whole business is part and parcel of the circle of your life. Part and parcel of your reason for being here at this time and on this patch of earth. Moon in Leo suggest pride kicks in. You are not nearly as whiny as you were the past couple of days ~ feeling a bit better perhaps?
Thursday, Sun has an aspect of brilliance to Pluto. Worry that tooth of yours just a bit more. Maybe it will fall out…. While you are worrying that tooth of yours with your tongue and obsessions, do your Saturn. Moon in Leo has a bunch of aspects today, including occulting Saturn in Leo. Some days we feel like motherless children. Do your Saturn. Doing your Saturn will help ground you.
Friday, busy, busy day. Stressful, busy day. Stressful, stressful day. A hurry and get no where fast kind of day. Remember to breath. Worry that tooth of yours. Do your Saturn. Do your Saturn.
Saturday, our full moon eclipse takes place across the Virgo Pisces axis. Darn that tooth hurts ~ you must have pulled at it a bit too much. The eclipse pulls Uranus into the evolutionary mix as the Sun parallels Uranus in the sky. Virgo Moon moves to oppose both Sun and Uranus. Read my full moon column on this site for more information on how to work with the eclipse energy. Moon in Virgo has a tendency to worry about things it has not a bit of control over. Just go do your work. Do your Saturn.
Sunday, we rest. We need a rest. And good foods ~ indulge a bit in wonderful, nutritious, and healthful foods. What did you dream about last night? Maybe you can trade with a friend a shoulder or foot massage? Do feel the sense of ‘wow I made it’. Have a laugh or two with a dear friend. Remember to breathe. Flex your thumbs to get your will going again. Worry that tooth of yours (if it is still in your mouth) and get ready to face next week!
Mundane: The eclipse is setting off the fixed star cluster of the Swan or Chicken ~ so one more opportunity for my obsession, that darned H5N1 bird flu, to mutate into a form that can be transmitted rapidly among humans. The eclipse is setting off George’s and especially Dick’s charts quite profoundly so I expect the activity in their lives will pick up considerably. I wouldn’t be surprised if they decide to drop tactical nuclear weapons on Iran (and do) with all the triggers taking place in their charts and as the third air craft carrier group arrives in the Persian Gulf. The structure of the eclipse lunation lies flat across the ascendant/ descendant axis when cast for Washington, DC. Eclipses correspond with the collapse of kings and the fall of countries. The South Node is on the Washington, DC ascendant. If I was a court astrologer into predicting the end of kingdoms, I would say the king will fall.
Last week, Dick was met with riots by our friends down under in Australia. England withdrew troops from Iraq and sent Prince Harry off to fight in the war. Putin warned us, very clearly and not so nicely, to keep our bases and nuclear missiles out of Poland and Russia’s other neighbors. He then told the Russian military to aim their nukes at Poland. The US Congress began to revise the initial authorization for war to limit George and Dick’s right to attack all perceived enemies of state willy nilly ~ after all the conditions have changed ~ Sadam is not in power any more and those weapons of mass destruction ~ well it seems Sadam must have moved them to IRAN before he was overthrown. We can expect a verdict in the Scooter Libby Perjury case ~ it will contain a surprise as it takes place on the Saturn/ Neptune square and Virgo Pisces eclipse. Personally, I am hoping for a sealed indictment about the leaker to be UNSEALED now that Scooter’s trial is finished up! The Scooter Libby prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s chart is active too! And, that cute, teeny, tiny piece of legislation slipped into the Military authorization bill last fall about how George and Dick can declare Martial Law and have the US Army fire upon USA civilians for the first time since the Civil War
is getting needed press! Gotta keep a sharp eye on those bad boys… you never know what they will think of next! And, of course, Anna Nicole Smith is getting buried in the Bahamas next to her son unless her mother decides to appeal and we STILL don’t know who her baby’s daddy is….
Also, of general note, the eclipse taking place THISCLOSE in cosmic time to Part Two of the Saturn/Neptune opposition means we WILL witness a number of our leaders, wise ones, old ones, organizations or countries, and all the various categories of ‘firm structures’ in our lives dissolve, disappear, resign or collapse like a sturdy cardboard box does in the rain! Or maybe merely tip over like a huge tree does in the forest when her time is up. We watched the Berlin Wall fall and Russia collapse at the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune in 1989. Make way for the next part of the Saturn Neptune transforming and dissolving structures adventure ~ it will take place all over the world. The Sabian image of A POWERFUL STATESMAN OVERCOMES a STATE OF POLITICAL HYSTERIA describes interesting upcoming events and a busy news week! Remember, being forewarned means you need to get ready to move into position for the next phase of your life. Make way and watch for the new! Let go of the things you need to let go of! Get rid of your consumer debt and variable rate mortgage!
Copyright © 2007 Anne C. Ortelee
