Weekly Weather January 22, 2007
Forward we go! Our week ahead features Venus entering one of her favorite signs as well as a few aspects that will push us forward on brand new adventures as we continue to wrap up our old stuff. There are an unusual number of parallel declinations in the sky between Venus, Neptune, Mercury, Pluto, and Ceres. Parallels act like conjunctions and begin new things as they end old things. Additionally, there are contraparallels of Venus and Mercury with Saturn. Contraparallels act like oppositions and force us to look at things in a very clear way. We will be looking at our trade, sibling, communication and relationship, desire and value issues as Venus and Mercury face off with Saturn as they join up with Neptune, Ceres and Pluto by declination.
Declinations often seem to have more of an impact in behind the scenes ways. They are kind of a hidden aspect as most astrologers don’t pay much attention to them. However, they reverberate profoundly across earth as they connect planet energies that might not be talking to each other in unusual ways. They are formed by planets being at the same degree of declination (or degrees) above or below the sun’s apparent path around the earth and the equator.
What do I mean by unusual ways? Well, we think of oppositions as being sign and element based fights because, for the most part, they are. Aquarius argues with Leo, air opposes and yet needs fire while Pisces squabbles with Virgo as water opposes and yet needs earth. When we have a contraparallel in the sky, planets that might normally get along are suddenly arguing, even if they are in the same elements and signs! Kind of like fighting with your best friend rather than the person who usually gets on your nerves! Additionally, parallels are extra fun ~ they blend different kinds of energy together that don‘t normally blend ~ so they can create volatile mixtures ~ fire joins with earth and water with air or fire with water and earth with air. You get the idea! Parallels create unions, marriages or partnerships where two people who you can’t imagine WHAT they see in each other get together. They do stuff together. It tends to be volatile! A few weeks ago, Paris Hilton played around with recently single Britney Spears. Their union, which I would call a declination parallel, resulted in Britney flashing the world her panty free va-jay-jay! Wow! Or ick! It depends on your point of view! Regardless, we noticed it, and them, hanging around together.
The other thing that can happen with declination aspects is they magnify the regular zodiac aspects. The proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back ~ it seemed like such a “small” matter, trivial perhaps, and yet it shifted the situation. Forever. A relatively minor struggle or comment and POOF ~ they are gone!
In our week ahead, we are going to see combinations of air, fire and water with our declination mixes. It is one of those weeks where the events that take place will become MORE important over time. Note well what happens. The things that are seeded now set the pace and theme for your future. It is a turning point week.
The other thing of note is Jupiter’s closing square to Uranus in Pisces The current Jupiter/Uranus cycle starte with the conjunction back on February 15, 1997 at 5 Aquarius. It began the cycle which is starting to come to psychological and integrative closure now. In May of 2000, Jupiter squared Uranus at 20:48 Taurus right before he joined with Saturn to start a new 20 year cycle, asking you to make a change. Did you? Back in August of 2003, you culminated the cycle when Jupiter and Uranus opposed each other and looked at each other across the room. You were offered an opportunity to change your relationships then. Did you take it?
Now we have the first of three opportunities to say to the Universe, “Yep, I do get it!” and demonstrate your new and deeply personal knowledge of your own evolution, change and the nature of that Jupiter/Uranus creative evolving and supportive relationship within you. If you DIDN’T take the earlier opportunities to change, expect the universe to smack you upside your head a bit (nicely though as it is Jupiter and Uranus)! Time to change! Change your relationships! Change your self! Jupiter and Uranus will square each other two more times this year, on May 10, 2007 and October 9, 2007. It doesn’t have to be perfect. You don’t have to be perfect. You merely have to be understood, and understand yourself. You have to be willing to change. You have to demonstrate that willingness to all who gaze upon your decisions. Then, of course, you have to act, using and implementing your new knowledge. If you don’t change, the pressure on you will continue to build as Jupiter and Uranus dance with each other the rest of the year!
Finally, Venus and Mercury make an opposition to Saturn while making various declination aspects to Saturn, Neptune, Pluto and Ceres. Venus is what is of value to you and Mercury is opening your mouth and asking for what you want. Knowing and asking in the face of Saturn, Neptune, Pluto and Ceres looking at you and going “WELL?” Do remember if the person you ask first cannot or will not give it to you, that does NOT mean you will never find it. Just that you have to be aware of what you want and you have to say, loudly and clearly, to the universe and anyone who happens to be in the room, what exactly it IS that you want.
Monday, has a squabble squawky kind of energy. Venus is opposite to Saturn and bringing up the story from that last week of August 2006 to flail and flog herself with! Enough already! Let it go. Move on! Around November 12, 2006, Venus squared Saturn and argued with him YET AGAIN about her value to him. Venus opposes Saturn this week, by aspect and declination so the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back is up and active. It is NOT going to be big but it very well might be permanent if you don’t step in, step up and change your behavior! Venus and Saturn aspects have a hard time asking for what they want. They have to ask! And they have to ask CLEARLY for what they want! Otherwise, they will get NADA! NOTHING! ASK!!! It is a wonderful day for feeling sorry for yourself and in major pity, poor me mode. Additionally, Jupiter squares Uranus, the first of three squares, today. The end of the story might very well be postponed until they finish their aspects to each other next October. I know, I am hate it when that happens! We’ll have to wait to find out how the story will turn out. It is called a cliff hanger. Any separations announced today are probably major and permanent and the results of actions undertaken back in February of 1997. Don’t you love astrology? The moon occults Uranus today so expect revelations too!
Tuesday, Venus pushes off Saturn by declination. It is the same story, yet again, but different. It clicks in this time, this moment. If you’ve been trying to figure out what to do about a situation in your life, today you will go “That is what I have to do.” There is inevitability about any decisions made today. You see it in a way you hadn’t seen it before. A click. A settling in of the tumblers on the lock. It was always THERE! You got it intellectually ~ or at least noticed it. Today it becomes real. The emotions shift. And you can’t go home or back to the old version of your truth ever again. This is a lovely day for finding out about financial malfeasance, relationship infidelities, or similar “betrayals” around money, structure, love and value. If I tell you it isn’t a betrayal and will actually be for your benefit down the road, you might not believe me. However, we will BOTH agree that it is a necessary moment in time to get you to move forward. It make also be when you get what you want and are completely freaked out by it. Make sure to ask for what you need. If you can’t ask, get yourself a great lawyer and
have THEM ask for what you
need. No fighting for yourself if you find yourself betrayed. No freaking out if you get what you ask for. If you are the one doing the betraying, fess up. It is time for you to leave now, stop now, or go some place else. It is over. If you are the one who wants to change, you can actually change and evolve now to the next level. Moon in Aries gives us the emotional kick to take a step forward.
Wednesday, we recover, emotionally, psyhically and physically. A bed day is in order if yesterday was bad. If you are the one leaving, pack. If you got what you wanted, well congratulations and on to the next phase! Moon in Aries makes lovely aspects. Forward!
Thursday, when we first start to learn astrology, we learn to see the big cycles. We learn how everything has a beginning, testing, culmination, integration, and conclusion. The cycle happens. We move forward on the wheel of time, the wheel of our fortune. The wheel will be spinning today and getting ready to settle into a new dream or vision tomorrow as Mercury finishes up his last moments before joining with Neptune. Note well what you like and more importantly, do not like. Let go of the do not likes. Send them off to good will or give them away to someone who can use them. As Mercury aspects the North Node today, please take a moment to see how your behavior and actions (or lack of them) have contributed to where you are now. It is always a dance, a dance that helps us grow and evolve. Taurus Moon reminds us that to every thing there is a season.
Friday, Mercury has a change in consciousness. He joins with Neptune in either a beer of sorrow or in a new, revised vision of what he can be if as he HAS decided to change. Mercury joins with Pluto by declination. I know whenever I see this aspect I am reminded of what goes around comes around and we reap what we sow. Do you like what you have in your life? Now is the time to change the image, the request, and move your dreams, toward what you’d like.
Saturday, Venus enters Pisces. There is an opportunity for yes or no. What will you decide? To help your process, I’ll quote Pete Seeger:
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn),
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to plant, a time to reap
A time to kill, a time to heal
A time to laugh, a time to weep
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time to build up,a time to break down
A time to dance, a time to mourn
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time of love, a time of hate
A time of war, a time of peace
A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing
To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose, under heaven
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to rend, a time to sew
A time to love, a time to hate
A time for peace, I swear its not too late
Sunday, I would like you to embrace the possibility of change. You can change. Incrementally, one step at a time! Do a teeny, tiny bit of change today. It will move. Honest. The declination aspects today of Neptune with Ceres and Mercury as Mercury opposes Saturn by both declination and zodiac are our true New Year’s Eve. Time for your resolution! Time to act. Quit smoking. Stop drinking. Put down the drugs. Start exercising. Keep your commitments. Get on a diet. Go to therapy. Quit your job. Take your vitamins. Move. Start your business. Join Match.com. Write your book. Get a dog. Your life is passing you by. What EVER are you waiting for? Permission? Well, the universe is giving you permission to start right now, right here. The new season of your life starts today. Take advantage of the energy of change and evolution. Direct it, consciously, towards your best life. If you change your thoughts, you change your mind. If you change your beliefs, you change.
Mundane: A reader wrote suggesting I expand the astrological history lessons to include currency. The new moon last week on the USA Pluto at 27 Capricorn in our second house of money and next month on the USA Moon at 27 Aquarius in the third house of trade will start a process of our currency collapsing or changing radically over the next few years. Currently, our economy is being artificially supported. We are not seeing the impact of our huge war expenses, the trade deficit or our lack of attention to our growing debt to ourselves and other nations.
The USA dollar is the currency that the world exchanges when they buy and sell oil. All the local country currencies get converted into USA dollars. The USA dollars are exchanged as oil is bought and sold. The USA dollars are converted back into local currencies. By being “the stable currency” of choice, it is in everyone’s interest to support the USA dollar. Right before we invaded Iraq, Saddam Hussein announced he was going to start selling oil in Euros. Iran just made the same announcement. If people have a CHOICE of currencies to purchase oil with, instead having to use the MONOPOLY of the USA Dollar, they will select the currency that is giving them the best exchange rate for their local currency. The Euro solves the age old issue of multiple currencies in Europe. There is now a stable SECOND currency in the world, supported by a number of nations that are stable. The second currency will be available to the world to buy and sell oil.
Second, the USA stopped publishing the M3 back a while ago. The M3 reported on the amount of USA dollars in circulation. Now that we are not publishing the M3, essentially, we can print as much money as we’d like, without telling anyone in the world ~ devaluing our dollar further with too much supply. Of COURSE, we wouldn’t DO that, print extra money without telling the world, but we COULD, if we wanted to! Not publishing the M3 makes our currency less “stable”, predictable and reliable. Our government is not trusted by the world in general right now because we have George at the helm of the ship of state. We’ve stopped telling the world how many USA greenbacks are flowing out into the world by not publishing the M3.
So, if YOU were a foreign country, would you invest in something more or less stable with your country’s money? Would you invest in a currency backed by a country that lies to its people, has invaded another nation, is spending madly, has no savings, is generating a huge war debt, a huge trade deficit and acts like an idiot with next to no knowledge of history combined with an obsession with American Idol and bigger is better? Or would you invest in a nice, reliable, conservative, and stable currency backed by a European Union of Nations, a bunch of grown up, adult countries that have seen and experienced war and deprivation resulting in conservative behavior? Where would you put your money, if you were offered a CHOICE?
Watch for the opposition and declination aspects of Venus and Mercury to Saturn, Pluto and Neptune to produce distinct “Nope, I am not going to do it” energy towards authority figures and power over energy around the world and in your life.
Copyright © 2007 Anne C. Ortelee
