Weekly Weather February 4, 2008
The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming! After the past few weeks of turbulent changes, we enter the spring 2008 eclipse cycle. Eclipses heighten the emotional content of every day life. They wake up previously sleeping giants and get them to roar VERY loudly! They expose things for the entire world to see. Both the Sun and the Moon travel independently from each other, rolling along on their merry paths on their journey through the solar system. An eclipse makes the Sun and Moon sit down with Planet Earth to take a firm look at what is going on. What is going on here? It is kind of like when you notice your kitchen wall behind your stove is full of spatters, completely filthy and it needs to be cleaned or painted! Eclipses cause us to NOTICE things we might have previously missed, overlooked or not realized. The stuff was always there, spatter here, splatters there, bit of orange squash from Thanksgiving right there, but now, some how, those spatters have reached critical mass. And NOW, the walls needs to be cleaned or painted IMMEDIATELY!
That is the other thing with eclipses. Often, it is a situation that has been dragging on for months and months and months ~ maybe even years. But, now, suddenly, immediately, if not sooner, we need to take action to make it change and shift or morph into something else. There is nothing much new about the situation. However, WE now have a sense of URGENCY that WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF IT IMMEDIATELY! So breathe. Take a break. You are feeling all sorts of developmental tension from other situations and things that have nothing to do with the situation at hand, even if this situation is getting on your last nerve right now. It actually isn’t about the spatters behind the stove. It is what the spatters behind the stove MEAN! In the bigger picture. And truth be told, it isn’t about the spatters at all, it is about this other thing that you haven’t been doing that you are taking out on the spatters.
There are other things taking place during the eclipse week ~ but they all tie back into the eclipse and help it move us forward… We have the Sun joining with Chiron to make us aware of where we still have to grow and heal. Sun’s healing rays on our wound(s) will light them up for us and, quite possibly, the entire world to see. Hopefully, Sun light, the best disinfectant of all, will heal and warm that wound of yours. The healing around the wound is to help you figure out why you are here and to help you do your work.
Mercury, going backwards through the zodiac, will be bringing us all sorts of ghosts so we can have an awakening of a profound nature. Mercury is very involved with the eclipse energy, joined with a pile of planets in the middle degrees of Aquarius. If you combine the energy of the eclipses with Mercury stationing and going retrograde over those same degrees, do know that you can expect profound information or words that create changes in your psyche. The changes will propel you forward towards the next phase of your journey. Don’t take the words personally. And, as there is SO MUCH clutter and confusion around Mercury right now, make sure to double, triple and quadruple check that what you heard was what you heard. There are plenty of opportunities for misunderstandings on this lunation.
Sun also joins with Neptune ~ so you can be enraptured or discouraged as the lunation takes place. Both are possible. Don’t worry about it. Go with the flow. Take a bath. Dream. Choose a tarot card. Meditate. Open a beloved book and read inspirational words to calm yourself down. Sun and Neptune begin a New Year long cycle of whispering about their dreams for their future into your ears.
Mars is fairly quiet this week. He is moving forward again and getting orders from that confused and befuddled Mercury. So make sure to double check, and check a third or even a fourth time to make sure you REALLY want to do something before you actually go to do it. Mars is of two minds as he is in Gemini. He does have a lovely aspect to Saturn saying what is the bigger purpose of the situation or larger service involved here? How can that continue to be served while moving forward in your life? There is a brilliance involved here. What are you trying to accomplish? Can it sit and wait for a bit until you are in a clearer head or cleaner space to see what you see when the fog clears?
Remember Mercury, exalted in Aquarius, is in charge of all the Virgo and Gemini planets ~ so he is in charge of Saturn and Mars. Saturn and Mars are, or should be, aware that Mercury is not in his right mind right now. Mercury, their sassy and smart as a whip friend, is going backwards, trapped between Chiron, Sun, Moon and Neptune. Mercury is going to hear things through the distortions of those energies ~ wounding foggy words, healing and inspirational words, words which help him know who he is in his core. Most of the time Mercury in Aquarius is 99.999999% right. Not now. He’s making bad decisions. Or uninformed decisions. There is an ENORMOUS possibility for major miscommunication, misunderstanding, misstatements and mistakes. The confusion is, actually, for a purpose. Watch your reactions, pay attention and see what you see. It will be profound. It is a profound reveal that takes place during the week ~ or perhaps it took place last week and you are figuring it out right now. There is no way to know if it is true but do note what it, the reveal or the hidden information, is. Don’t take action on it. Note it. But don’t act! Or at least try not to act. No, actually, I’ve reconsidered ~ don’t act.
Monday, Venus trines Ceres as she gets ready to leave the grand trine in earth between Jupiter, Saturn and Ceres. When a fast moving planet runs through the middle of a slower moving set of planets in a sky configuration, we often find it gathers the energy of the planets and brings the energy like a bunch of flowers or a lovely gift to the next place it goes. Venus is going to meet up with Chiron and Uranus on the day of the eclipse. Her gifts and flowers includes new details on how to re-create or re-organize structures in the world (Saturn in Virgo), transformation or expansion of physical possibilities (Jupiter in Capricorn) and the birthing, creation or manifestation of something new, valuable, solid, beautiful and exciting (Ceres in Taurus). Pretty good stuff eh? Venus, carrying these gifts, will bring them to Chiron in Aquarius ~ they are in service to healing the wound of her local tribe ~ and to Uranus in Pisces ~ they inspire others to move towards their own hopes and dreams. All week long ~ watch what the universe wants you to create.
Tuesday, Sun joins with Chiron to start a New Year long cycle around healing energies and creations. The Sun and Chiron’s marriage or union takes place on the world axis so there is a VERY public quality about it. Mercury is quite active as he joins with Juno by declination and sextiles Juno by zodiac degree at the degree of the eclipse in a few days. Partnership issues are paramount. What you partner with you create. You are judged by the company you keep. What is your vision and how are you moving toward it? Remember Mercury, while still retrograde, is brilliant in Aquarius. So watch for new awakenings, offers and ideas placed before you ~ they have a quality of numinous inspiration. Gaze at them and see what you see.
Wednesday, the new moon eclipse at 17:44 Aquarius, in the natural wheel’s house of hopes and dreams, is quite profound and exceptionally good for creating things. The eclipse takes place on the north node of moving you forward and out into the world. Read the new moon column on this site for more information on how to work with the eclipse energy. Please, please, please, take time to breathe and let the pulse of the eclipse energy shift and ebb a bit before you take action(s). There are numerous cranky, crabby aspects involved as Mercury has aspects of comparisons that a
re not kind nor nice as well
as interactions with wounding words and difficult changes. Be careful what you ask for AND at the same time DO make sure to ask. It is a VERY POWERFUL eclipse for creation or manifestation. It is telling us what Pluto in Capricorn will be about if we care to look. Me, I am looking! And asking. And being as clear as I can be. Add to all asks ~ as it serves my greater good and my soul’s purpose ~ that way things can be adjusted down the line if you didn’t ask so good.
Thursday, Mars has an aspect of brilliance to Saturn as Mercury, moving backwards, joins with Chiron. The point of all the various parts of your life journey was to get you to where you are now. If you knew back then what you know now, would you have changed anything? What would you have adjusted? With that in mind, taking the energy of what has surfaced over the past few weeks of turbulent planetary activity, what do you think you want to do going forward that is different than what you’ve done up until now? Yep, that is the lesson of the eclipse. We create our lives, all the parts and parcels of them. All the villains, victories, dreams and dramas are to help us evolve. It doesn’t have to be hard. You do have to evolve. Life and the world don’t sit still. You can’t sit still either. You have to evolve, grow and change. You can rest, by the road for a bit. But sooner or later, you are going to need a drink of water or a bite of food ~ and, when you get up to move on to get those things, the evolution continues.
Friday, Sun meets a new partner as Venus in Capricorn seeks to adjust the partnership to meet the newly determined needs. Juno in Sagittarius is a bit prone to over promise or over commit. Be conscious or careful that you don’t do either. It is not that important right now, but once Saturn starts to go direct at the end of June, you will be unable to keep the commitments you are making today.
Saturn’s day Sun and Neptune have a handshake deal. The vision is in place, the details need to be ironed out. Push for them to settle. Remember Mercury is in a bit of a fog and not seeing or negotiating very clearly. It is a problem to finalize things right now so make sure to put in an "either side can leave" clause. Promises made now are not going to be completely kept. They will be kept but something about them will have to change. They are not completely accurate (Remember Mercury is off his game because he is retrograde!). The considerations are not clear or the information is not quite right. Some thing, some where is off. The intentions are good; they are not lying to you or trying to deceive you. It is just that life will get in the way down the road a piece. So say yes, with an option to exit if you need to get out of it or change your mind. Forward you go.
Sunday, Venus is cranky, cranky, and cranky. She delivered her goodies to the universe earlier in the week. Now she’s feeling unappreciated and not particularly loved, adored or cherished. Sun joins with Neptune to create a vision of what can be. Venus can get what she wants. It will take time. It will also take going to folks who can actually DO it for her. Those folks are not necessarily the same folks she is currently asking or talking to. Thus the disconnect. If you are asking folks to do something they can’t, won’t or don’t want to do, they are not going to do it! It is pretty simple really. Remember that quote ~ you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear! You can make a fabulous and lovely leather purse, however, out of the sow‘s ear! Or perhaps you can make a leather purse and later add a silk lining? You get the idea. It is about working with what you have with an eye toward the future. Let Venus bitch and complain for a bit. She has to get it out of her system. She needs to vent, vent, and vent to get rid of the cranky, cranky, and cranky energy. Then suggest Venus go shopping for some silk, recycle a scarf she no longer wears or perhaps decide to use the material she has before her in the way it wants to be used.
Copyright © 2008 Anne Ortelee
