Weekly Weather January 21, 2008
I feel like weeks (as in the next three or so weeks) like this should have a cosmic TIVO recording all that is going on so we can keep track of it! Kind of like Christmas morning where it can be a massive free for all of unwrapping presents and you miss them opening their “big” one from you! It is going to be hard to focus or stay on point with what is going on. And, frankly, during weeks like this, treading water and watching the world go by is a great idea. Not that you will be able to tread water and watch but that is a great idea!
There is going to be lots and lots of stuff going on all over the place in the heavens! That means there is lots and lots going on in your world and the world around you. So, hang on tight! Remember to breathe. There are oodles of planets active, shifting, changing signs or directions, facing challenges, starting new beginnings or wrapping up and putting a close on old stories with fresh endings. Plus we enter the approach to the powerful spring eclipses coming early next month, adding oomph of clearing out/ cleaning up/ exposing hidden things/ showing for all to see spurts of the energy as well as a karmic twist of sorts. Mars gets ready to stop in the sky and turn direct after his three month retrograde journey so Mars will be driving the points home as he comes to his station degree. The world is full of dual messages right now. What you are receiving, while the truth, has other parts of truth too. It is a partial truth but yet a whole truth. And there are other truths out there. You have to figure out YOUR truth. Focus on YOUR truth like you’d hang onto a life raft. Remember, multi-dimensional, as it there are many, many dimensions, is part and parcel of the story we live while here on earth.
It is a week of seeing dreams coming into form in the world assisted by the grand trine forming in the sky and Mercury dancing with Neptune. Or perhaps your dreams will dash or slip away to be replaced by new dreams. Or you could finally figure out WHAT you want your dream to be ~ in solid images and with a clear vision of how to get there. The element of earth wants to bring things down to ground, to settle things, to make them firm. If earth can’t make things firm, then it wants to move on. Earth trines are about creating power, form and structures in the world.
The week ahead features a strong and active full moon at 2 of creative, performing Leo Moon opposite the witness and collective energy of Aquarius Sun. The full moon combines with three significant and rather personal feeling conjunctions, marking brand new beginnings after the needed or desired endings of an earlier cycle. Mercury joins with Neptune asking us to speak up and talk to or about our dreams. Gotta ask for your dreams ~ at least to yourself. Our old dreams have finished an important chapter. Our new dreams haven’t yet begun but will soon (see Saturn go direct in June!). As Mercury joins with Neptune talk of your dreams. Give those dreams of yours a voice, a picture, a sculpture. Encourage yourself to describe your vision ~ even if is fragmented or partial. Get it out there.
Uranus joins with Pallas to say perhaps you need to change your strategy to get your dream. And you are actually in the mood for a change. My apartment, lived in for 30 years with the appropriate amount of stuff accumulated, was “magically” painted last week. It is causing me to think about where I want everything to go for the next part of my life. It started with a single living room wall that collapsed on the Neptune/Saturn conjunction last June/July, morphed into the entire living room and suddenly was the balance of the apartment with the contents of the eleven bookcases being emptied and moved as well as the kitchen being dismantled. (see New York City Rent Stabilization Laws and the painting regulations!). Out of the blue, all those thoughts came into form in the form of boxes of stuff and books piled every where. The stuff/books can now go any where or no where (goodwill?) or back where it was! My call. Change your strategy and embrace change in your life.
The final conjunction is Venus joined with Pluto. This is not always a pleasant aspect for our love or money or desires in relationships BUT we do need to have those kinds of energies or conversations on occasion. If you have a rather fraught emotional relationship, now, this week, while the planets all are shifting and scurrying around is a lovely time to have “a talk” about your vision of where you‘d like the relationship to go. Ask them if they think they can help you create that vision of a relationship. Speak to their strengths. Speak of your dreams. Ask them what they would like from their relationship with you. And, if it is something you can do, commit to doing it. You might not like what they say but that is okay. Remember Mars and Mercury are both getting ready to shift direction ~ negotiations about actions are a good way to describe that energy. You are simply hooking your wagon to the stars and taking advantage of that have negotiation around actions desired energy.
Venus and Pluto enter Capricorn this week, after their conversation about what they envision for their relationship in fiery Sagittarius. Now, remember, Sagittarian energy can put the foot in the mouth. While what was said was true, it might have stung a bit as the arrows from the archer’s bow can and do sting. That said, isn’t it true ~ just a bit? Do you want to change it? Now Venus can ground it and create form. While Venus is in Cappy is the time to go to work to make the changes discussed in your conversations. Provided, of course, that you want to make and actually CAN make the changes.
Once, I’d been in a lazy phase and not colored or cut my hair. My gray was showing and it was pulled back in a pony tail. My friend Sandra looked at me in the sunlight and announced “Ortelee, you look like a Mennonite! Do you want to look like that? Kind of mousy brown?” I got over the shock and, figured out it wasn’t a compliment but it WAS the truth. Whenever I see my gray roots start to show, her Mennonite comment comes to mind. I take care of those gray roots.
We have Pluto entering Capricorn for the first time since 1762, yes you read that right, 1762. It has been 246 years since Pluto’s been in Capricorn. This event is worth you taking time to go Google ‘Pluto Capricorn’ and read a few of the myriad articles on the shift. Pluto enters Capricorn ~ and shifts out of it in a few months ~ to re-enter it next fall right after our USA elections. He‘ll stay there until November of 2024. We’ll be covering the changes we can expect Pluto in Capricorn to deliver to our world over the next few months. But it will be big, VERY big!
Mercury stops in the sky and turns back wards to go retrograde next Monday, which means we’ll be feeling his station energy build towards the end of the week. Can’t you feel the energy building, building, building?
Also big news, we have the THIRD of five passes of the opening trine of Jupiter to Saturn in Earth signs culminating on January 21, 2008. The first trine was March 16, 2007. The second trine was May 5, 2007. The fourth trine will be September 8, 2008. The fifth trine is on November 21, 2008. The first two were the vision thing. These next three trines are in earth so it is time to take your visions and bring them down to earth. And think back to the project you began in May of 2000, when Jupiter and Saturn joined at 23 Taurus. The project begun then has a culmination of sorts now ~ you’ve received or will be receiving a confirmation from the universe that you are on the right track towards your goal. Trines are our cosmic rewards for doing good work. Watch for your reward.
During a week like this, with so MUCH going on, the best approach is to pay attention and try to avoid making firm or
final decisions. Gather data
. Listen. Have the conversations but say you’ll get back to them with your decision. No need to decide right this moment any way. It is time to pay attention. Once it all calms down, you can start to move forward again. Watch all around you going a bit crazy or being out of control with this energy. Wait until the dust clears and the heavenly turbulence settles down to make any firm or final decisions. And, IF you think you can make firm decisions, think again. Saturn is retrograde. Mars is retrograde. Mercury is stationing to go retrograde. So make ideas of what you want and sit with them. When those planets all reverse again, we are truly able to move forward.
Monday, there are a few squabbly aspects as adjustments are needed. The trine of Jupiter to Saturn culminates, part three of five. Something concrete will appear in your life to mark the shift of energy and remind you of what you began back in May of 2000. Take a moment to be proud of yourself. You done good! Pat yourself on the back. Read or write your progress report. Give yourself an appropriate grade and a loving comment about how terrific you are.
Tuesday, Mercury joins with Neptune by both declination and conjunction. Time to have that conversation with Neptune about your dreams!? Time to be clear on what your vision of your future is!? Give words to your dreams if you can. They don‘t have to be perfect words but they do have to be said. Venus has a working aspect with the nodes to help bring your vision of what you want out and help create it in the world. The flip side of this energy can be depression or emotional conversations. A burst into tears kind of energy, this can be a VERY, very teary and emotional day. So be kind to yourself. Be kind to those you meet. You might give yourself over to some soothing process that supports emotional release ~ music, massage, body work, (but remember THEY are feeling emotional too!). It doesn’t have to be perfect, it only has to go out the door. Label it a draft of what you’d like. You can refine it later.
Wednesday, revise your strategy as Uranus joins with Pallas. Still an emotional day, you have what you have because of your past actions and events. You are now about to move forward. Yes, parts of the past sucked. Parts were wonderful. Parts you wouldn’t give up for all the money in the world. Other parts you’d change in a heart beat. Today is a change in a heart beat day. Uranus says change your strategy, your vision. Rome wasn’t built in a day. Neither were you. Your future is built based on the choices you make today. What do you want to change about your future?
Thursday, Venus joins with Pluto and then zooms off into Capricorn. Hang on. Breathe. Right as she goes, she might poke you REALLY HARD in the ribs and take your breath away as she aspects Chiron. Venus can be like that. The image I get is when I unkindly commented (I thought quietly), to a friend while on the subway about another woman’s rather elaborate nose jewelry. As the woman left the subway, she walked by me and pivoted her spiky heel into my foot. Deliberately. When I said “ Ouch”, she smiled at me a Mona Lisa smile and exited the train. It taught me to keep my mouth shut on subways! I suggest you keep your mouth closed today. Listen. Experience the energy. Know your vision. Get it out there. If you like your nose jewelry big and bold, then pivot your heel in their nasty mouthed foot as you get off the train. If you are going to say something snarky, you are going to get a pivot from the universe. It is fire into earth as Venus changes signs.
Friday, Pluto enters Capricorn. A thousand words and thoughts. But more about that later ~ it’s Capricorn you have to wait! We are going to be working with the energy until 2024, so we have plenty of time to get used to it. Just watch and observe what happens in your world. And yes, as Pluto has an aspect to Chiron, it might hurt a bit.
Saturday, give yourself time off to adjust and breathe. We have very busy weeks ahead of us. You need to recreate and rest to get ready for them. It can be a day of heightened emotions too. You are right where you are supposed to be. Breathe.
Sunday, Mercury is at his station degree. Communications taking place today are VERY important. Watch for what you hear. Venus has an aspect of brilliance to Uranus even as Sun has an adjusting aspect to Saturn. Remember to Adjust. Adjust. Adjust! Regulate. Tinker. Modify. Alter. Fiddle with. Fine tune. Bend. Amend. Tweak. Tinker. Tweak. Are you yelling at your unripe tomatoes again? That doesn‘t help them ripen you know. Maybe you can nurture those unripe tomatoes?
Mundane: Oprah starting her OWN network called OWN, for Oprah Winfrey Network, was lovely imagery to paint last week’s Mercury, Vesta and Chiron aspects. Apparently, she wrote it down in a journal 15 years ago ~ Saturn cycle any one? And Oprah, an Aquarian, is ruled by Saturn. Three cheers for her newest venture. So, write it down in your journal this week and see what you can make manifest in the world. We are waiting! How are you going to create your very own patch of the heavens here on earth?
As Pluto gets ready to leave Sagittarius, we have OJ Simpson in the news again. OJ marked the beginning of our Pluto in Sagittarius journey. OJ helps us wrap it up. Think back to what you were doing in 1994 -95 and watch it reappear, kind of, in a strange way, like OJ is. Pluto in Sagittarius ends. Pluto in Capricorn begins. Off we go!
And the stock markets! It is going to get MUCH worse before it gets better! The media has gotten to calling it a "potentially large recession" ~ can we call it a Depression folks? Pluto in Capricorn, Uranus, ruler of crashes, return to the 1929 stock market crash area, Neptune on the USA moon in the second house of the second house, the meltdown of the housing market, deregulation of the banking and brokerage industries and the soon to come unwinding of the hedge funds (holding all those Boomer pension accounts and disappearing virtually ovenight). The upcoming depression is going to be with us for a while. Depressions are a good way to get rid of that pesky middle class that thinks it is entitled. So look at your 13 year Jupiter/Pluto list. Get started on the stuff that doesn’t cost money. Get yourself busy. Money, while lovely to have, is an illusion. We’ve valued as a collective, bits of paper with numbers on them, pieces of greem paper specifically. We’ve given it a whole lot of stuff (and masses of emotional content) it doesn’t really need or want. Free yourself from worshipping or worrying about it! You’ll be fine. It is all about what you think is important!
Copyright © 2008 Anne Ortelee
