Weekly Weather January 24, 2011
Did you feel the shift last week when Jupiter entered Aries? A new 12 year cycle began! Forward into a new, emerging season, spouting seeds, and source of all beginnings, Aries has a fury of primitive self expression and forceful pioneering ideas or changes. Aries, like the Ram, lowers his head and blindly charges. Jupiter, the jolly giant involved with describing how we relate to the community around us, asks us to combine his expansion, higher mind, enthusiasm, and generosity with the fire passion of me-first adventurous energy of Aries. A new 12 year cycle indeed!
Think back to the earlier Jupiter entering Aries cycles and times in your life: April 1951, April 1963, March 1975, March 1987, February 1999, last June and Now! The cycle we began last week runs until May 2022.
Expand Jupiter’s entry into Aries a bit further by looking at the natal placement of Jupiter in your chart as well as the houses ruled by Sagittarius and Pisces. The themes of justice, the higher mind or calling of humans, the vision of humanity and expansive benevolence as well as your spiritual calling, how you can undo yourself by not following your heart or higher instincts added to your connection to your soul’s path and karma blend together with each and every change of Jupiter by sign. However, when Jupiter changes signs to begin a new cycle, we leave behind the last 12 years, like a clump of dirty clothes the floor, to start the next cycle of living, relating and expanding into our purpose for being on earth.
And on a mundane level, we notice the changes in our lives too. In my house, the two fire sign cats suddenly were wild and crazy guys ~ even the four legged critters among us noticed Jupiter entering Aries!
Think about where you became VERY clear last weekend that you weren’t in the mood to xyz a single moment longer! That is Jupiter in Aries. Look at the place where you suddenly wanted to get all organized and coordinated so you could “get a fresh start”. That is Jupiter in Aries. Notice the place of impatience in your being, where you are tired of playing nice or by the “rules” designed by other people. That is Jupiter in Aries. Pay attention to the “Pick ME!” energy waving its hands at you. Yep, Jupiter in Aries.
Where did you suddenly HAVE TO HAVE a BRAND NEW FILL-IN-THE-BLANK: home, job, partner, career, sibling, book, group, pet, money, child, boss, co-worker, car, church or course of learning. That spot! That is where Jupiter is right now. That place where the newness of fresh life sang its heart out to you while the oldness, the old life, had to be dumped like a bag of smelly fish scales on a hot August day ( see Pisces saying so LONG!). That place is where Jupiter is wanting you to have a fresh vision and start in your life.
So get your new vision all shined up and ready to go! Jupiter is wanting to get to work on it! Hurry up already!
Saturn in Libra stations this week, to move backwards until June 12. If you have Saturn retrograde in your chart, where you’ve been feeling blocked, held back and restricted, will suddenly shift and start to move forward. If you have Saturn direct in your chart, you will start to feel a bit blocked, held back and restricted. Both conditions of Saturn, direct or retrograde, will be going back to the events of October 23 or so, to retrieve or repair what fell apart then.
Saturn is cycling through history also. He’s tying together the events of September of 1981 to August 1982, August 1952 to October 1952, and September 1922 to September 1923. Often if we look back at our family history, we find shrouded in the family or cultural past the clues we need to navigate the current shoals, eddies and rapids before us now. We are in a different role, after all it is 29 years later, but the story is some how the same story.
Saturn and Jupiter are having a conversation in the heavens as they move toward their third opposition in the sky. Think back to the cycle that began on May 28, 2000 when they joined at 22:43 Taurus. For the last 10 years, Jupiter and Saturn have been building a new reality in your life. The new reality was based on unifying and combining your vision when Jupiter entered Aries in February 1999 and Saturn entered Aries in April 1996.
On May 23, 2010 Jupiter and Saturn fought and asked you to adjust your vision when they were at 27:52 Pisces/ Virgo, on August 16, 2010 the second fight took place at 2:26 Aries/Libra and the final showdown will be March 28, 2011 at 14”21 Aries/ Libra.
Last week I was kind of blown off course by the not completely unexpected news of Steve Jobs of Apple leaving his job for medical reasons. For whatever reason, the energy of his emailed announcement knocked me “out of commission” for a couple of days. My Pisces Moon said “Retreat. Go to your bed. Sleep, process and release.” And so off I went. Slept. Processed. Released. It was the end of a cycle for me too.
Steve’s been looking pretty crappy lately, quite skinny ~ even for a Virgo Rising ~ following his liver transplant and his Whipple procedure to excise his rare form of pancreatic cancer. I come from a medical family ~ dad a neurologist, mom a nurse ~ so I know quite a bit about medicine as it was the dinner table talk in my childhood home. And, for many centuries, including today in quite a few cultures, astrology is used to diagnose illness. As I read the articles, I kept running into references of 12 years in his career cycle ~ ah that Jupiter in Aries was coming too WAY soon.
In 2005, Steve gave a simply brilliant commencement speech at Stanford University. I encourage you to watch the entire speech and have included the link below. I’ve excerpted part of it here.
“Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something–your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever–because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference. “
A bit further in the speech, Steve talked about his confrontation with pancreatic cancer and death:
“Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don’t want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it’s quite true. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
So as you look at the cycles opening before you, trust that your chart as well as your soul will guide you. If you follow your heart, you will move toward where you are supposed to go. If you turn to look back at where you’ve come from, you will see how your choices up until now connect in a beautiful mosaic that forms your life. Look back and connect those dots in your life.
Monday Moon’s day January 24 finds the Moon in Libra, seeking to partner with others to create a future reality. The closing aspects for today and tomorrow are a trine to Neptune so it makes sense to focus on the higher dream version of your hopes and wishes. As Neptune’s reaches the end of his 13 year journey through the sign of hopes and wishes, he has dissolved or dissipated many of the old hopes and wishes you had in January 1998. Now Jupiter in Aries asks you for your NEW hopes and wishes. Get talking to him! He’s meeting up with Saturn to get them into the master plan. Mercury, the messenger of the gods has a rare argument with Zeus ~ normally they are the best of buddies. But today people who you normally LIKE get on your last NERVE. Even your favorite people can drive you crazy. No worries. It is a temporary situation, fueled by Jupiter’s impatience with Mercury right now. Clear out your house, schedule, office or responsibilities today to help get you ready for the future. Can’t think with that much clutter. Pitch it! You will figure out something you need to let go of or end or be more contained about. Speak up and contain it. Short tempers are part of the energy ~ Saturn is stationing to go retrograde so we are feeling his energy stopped. People are not in the mood to listen either. It feels like there is simply NOT enough time OR they are shocked by what they hear. There IS time for the important things so focus on getting the important things done.
Tuesday Mars’ Day January 25 Moon in Libra continues to push for partnership and the aspects are easier than yesterday. Look to see who you meet today. They can be important for the future of your dreams. You will know what you are going to do with them in the fall but for now collect the business cards and write the follow up notes. Mercury makes a creative and brilliant aspect to Uranus so say yes to ideas that seem a bit out there even if you have absolutely no idea how you are going to get them accomplished. The emotions can flow freely today as people step up to help. Daughters fight with fathers. Pattern seers push against authorities that say they are wrong. As my friend Shane says, “If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck….” Yes, it is a duck. See it clearly today. Nothing inherently wrong with ducks but a duck it is. Name it. The energy of your nest wants to be seen in a new light. Change those light bulbs! Switch out the vision of what you are going for. You can find a new love or partner or family member today ~ reach out and touch people you’ve lost touch with. Embrace your inner strength. Think of how much you have learned and grown. You can receive difficult news today as Sun links up with the Lord of Death and transformation by earth aspect. Saturn is stopped. All events take on an extra sense of being of value, important and are fraught with meaning. Why is this day different than other days? Saturn is stopped. Pay attention to his messages to you.
Wednesday Mercury’s Day January 26 Moon in Scorpio has a lovely closing aspect of a trine to Uranus offering a creative interpretation of last fall’s journey of Venus through Scorpio. Scorpio always wants us to look deeper, deeper, and even MORE deeper. Today Saturn stations at 1:11 am on 1 in 11 ~ I know my friend Julian the numerologist would point to those master numbers and the initiating energy of a one. Time to master the energy of your life. Start to see things differently today. Images and memories from fall 1982 arrive in your life today. Understand the bigger arc of your life’s story. If 1982 hadn’t happened, you wouldn’t be here today. If 1952 hadn’t taken place, no story as it appears before you now would be happening. If 1923 was not in your history, you wouldn’t be part of history. We each carry our ancestry with us as well as the decisions and life choices of the people who brought us into this world and raised us. Look back at your families past to figure out the current connect the dots story before you. Understand the story taking place today and see how it, combined with the other stories, shaped your vision of the world. Think back to the full moon and winter solstice on December 21, 2010 to see how the stories tie together. As Steve Jobs said, “Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward … but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. … because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart… and that will make all the difference.” Today the Universe is actually helping you to connect the dots.
Mercury’s square to Saturn makes it tempting to just skip this exercise as it seems too hard. It is so essential to understanding who you are. Look deeply at it with the energy and the penetrating psychological wisdom of Scorpio. Make hard choices for yourself today. See the patterns and refuse to take the bait. Instead use the discord to inspire yourself to higher realms, to find your best, to revise your dream to fit your new vision of reality. Mars wants to say it is hopeless and finished. Nope, it is not finished until you are dead. And even then, the karma continues. Sow good seeds today.
Thursday Jupiter January 27 Moon in Scorpio continues to take us a deep, psychological journey with a closing aspect of illumination. Throw away the stuff that is worn, torn or depleted today. Let it go. Let there be room for new. Inspire yourself, challenge yourself, to take the dissatisfaction you feel today to do what you need to do to change it. Change and death are the only inevitable things in life. Every day, with every breathe, we are changing inside. Give yourself permission to take the irritation and dissatisfaction and change today. Health matters can resolve and work nicely today. The idea that is tugging at the side of your brain is simply brilliant so give it a bit of room to expand, talk about it, get it out on paper in a rough draft. Such is the beauty of Saturn. Pay attention to who you met this week, they may very well be who you are working with in the fall, even if they seem a bit irritating right now. You or they will be in a different place come September. You might be tempted to end a partnership or relationship today ~ it actually only needs adjusting.
Friday Venus’ Day January 28 Moon in Sagittarius has tough closing aspects offering you a way to end or separate from a situation you would like to be rid of. Mars joins with Ceres so we are fighting with and against the principle of how to nurture ourselves or others. It is a day when people will NOT want to be comforted. They want to spout out, sound off, fight, or complain. Let them. Mars in Aquarius is very irritated with stupidity ~ even if it isn’t really stupid ~ they find it stupid. There is always a reason for things even if on the surface you might not see what or why it exists. Emotions are very close to the surface too and eyes sting and tear at sharp words. Vesta enters Capricorn so take it back to basics. Do your REALLY LOVE IT? Do you REALLY USE IT? Do you Actually NEED it? You may want it but do you need it? That irritation you feel is so about to burst out of your skin. Focus on YOUR dreams. It is a day when people will be projecting their stuff all over you. Give their stuff back to them. Sure they might be jealous, or angry or mad at the world for whatever reason. Saturn stations are darn frustrating. They have a perfect right to be (as do you). HOWEVER, a much better use of the irritation energy is to direct it out towards getting things accomplish rather than creating or enacting a scorched earth policy.
Saturn’s Day January 29 Moon in Sagittarius continues to flare the energy up, up, up towards a break up, break through, break down or fight to change things. Push for the change you want. Come up with a creative approach to the transform the energy. Shift it a bit into a new kind of negotiation or change. That slight shift will help enormously. Envision emotionally what you want. Change the pattern of how you see things. Back to the vision of how you got to where you are now from the life review you did earlier in the week. Understand the situation as part of the series of dots of your life. Revision it into a different vision or story. Take and use the irritation constructively. Decide to adjust the pattern and voila, you have change. Partners or friends can say very wounding things today. Sure it might be true but it isn’t nice.
Sun’s Day January 30 finds the Moon in Capricorn bright and early with solid and productive closing aspects over the next few days. Emotional dreams or dramas from yesterday color the energy of today. We have a rocking week ahead of us so take time today to organize yourself for it. You will be happy you did the chores, cooking, cleaning or organizing today as there will be NO time to do it next week. And time will continue to feel like it is accelerating (it is) so envisioning or revising your schedule is a good idea too. Make time for the things you know you want to do ~ be healthy selfish. You need to give yourself permission to do the things that inspire you to live your best life. Sun is emotional today as it looks back on the story from last fall. Understand it as part of the larger arc of your life. Venus argues with the deeper feelings asking how would you feel if you DIDN’T do it? It is something that makes you happy. So go for it. Sun joins with Ceres giving you an encouraging word to create something you want or to modify your diet, nurturing or caring energy. Plant seeds that you want to grow big and tall. Start on projects that take a while with an overview and a planning book so Ceres knows where she can find the green beans when the height of summer comes and the garden is overgrown. We aren’t encouraged to think of our life as the story of you. It is though. Your life is the story of you. What would you tell someone about your life if they didn’t know you? What are your new or revised dreams for your life? What is your 30 second elevator speech? (An elevator speech is a short pithy something you say in the 30 seconds it takes to ride an elevator to give someone an idea of who you are or what you can do for them or what you‘d like from them.) Pitch your own advertising campaign to yourself (feel free to borrow from other campaigns that you like!). Practice saying it, with a wide, friendly smile in your bathroom mirror until you look like someone you’d want to buy something from. Don’t be surprised if that exercise makes you uncomfortable. It will. We don’t look ourselves in the eye very often and pitch to our story to ourselves. Try it. And do it every day until you get it sounding fabulous. Watch who you meet today as you might just want to create something with them. And if you meet yourself in the mirror, so much the better. At least you know who you are!?!
The balance of days will be posted later today. I reorganized MY writing schedule and created a whole BIG block of time to write each week rather than catch as catch can. Catch as catch can was NOT working any more. Jupiter needs a bit more time. He WANTS more time. Now he has it. And the two week rolling schedule is Jupiter’s and my new vision for when Jupiter went into Aries (now). The big picture is coming into focus, slowly, slowly. Forward we go….
Twitter! I am twittering interesting aspects with the help of my assistant Rose. So sign up for my twitter ~ anneortelee ~ to get hot aspects sent to your phone, ipad, or email! I’ll be sending dates and times with a brief description ~ particularly of those pesky void moons that are so hard to keep track of. You’ll get an alert when the moon goes void and enters the next sign so you can use the energy productively and proactively.
Interesting Offerings: I am helping coordinate an ISAR Counseling Course in New York City over President’s Weekend, February 18, 19 and 20. There are a four spaces left. The 20 hour counseling course is part of the ISAR certification process. It is mandatory for becoming an ISAR CAP. It usually is offered at conferences which requires you spend a couple of extra hotel nights with the related expenses to take it. If you’ve ever wondered what to say to a client when the chart or a reading opens up a difficult patch of emotions, this course is for you! It also is great for newbies who wonder just how to communicate with a client and wrestle with the astrology information at the same time. Confidence builds as it helps you learn actual counseling technical skills. It is a wonderful use of 20 hours of your time and $295 of your money. So come join us. Plus you get a lovely certificate suitable for framing!
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