Weekly Weather January 28, 2008
Another week of changes are upon us ~ actually the cessation of changes and the freezing of action. But freezing the action can be as powerful as movement and often is MORE powerful, transformative and earth shaking! This week, Mars stops in the sky and turns direct and starts moving forward right after Mercury stops in the sky to begin to move retrograde or backwards. Those dual stations going in opposite directions will make the beginning of the week a strange combination of energies as the stations happen on Monday (Mercury) and Wednesday (Mars). The Planet stations affect the day or so before and after in the case of Mercury and the three days before or after in the case of Mars as they slow to a stop and reverse directions. Essentially the resonance of their stations is in place from last Saturday, January 26th through next Saturday, February 2nd.
That means the entire week is turbulent, rocking, rolling, stopping perhaps as something strange is taking place. Mercury rules the Virgo and Gemini houses and planets in those signs as well as in YOUR chart. Currently in the sky, Mercury is in charge of Saturn in Virgo and soon stationing to go direct Mars in Gemini. Please notice that ~ Mercury is in charge of Mars in Gemini stationing to go forward even as he, himself, Mercury, is stopping to go retrograde. Mercury is in charge of the Lord of Karma, moving retrograde, even as he, Mercury, is stationing to go retrograde himself. Do you think Mercury is going to be paying attention? No, not at all. Mercury‘s way too preoccupied and distracted by his own stuff. BUT Mercury SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION! He is in charge of Mars, Saturn and Himself. But is Mercury is also in the fog of Neptune so he’s not with it in his usual fine fashion. Expect cloudy Mercury moments all over the place.
So YOU, yes YOU, must pay attention instead! You have to help Mercury. He’s got too much on his plate to be withit. Give Mercury the gift of yourself as second pair of eyes, ears and hands. Mercury, in a double negative with Saturn (two retrogrades ~ his and Saturn’s) makes it an OMPH kind of week for karma stuff to surface in your life. Big time Karma stuff! By karma stuff I mean those noticed or unnoticed revolutionary shifts that in hindsight we go “Wow, THAT moment was pivotal!” Meeting people, first dates, moments that mark a directional shift for you into a new place. It marks the moments in time when we DO KNOW we are shifting into the next place. It marks the moments in time when we don’t know we are shifting into a new place even as we do. If you’ve been having that anticipatory anxiety or sense of something about to change but you don’t know what or where, that is the energy I am talking about. If you look, you’ll find it in your Mercury or Mars ruled houses or perhaps in your Aquarius house. You’ll know what the anxiety energy is about this week. You’ll ground that energy a bit and see it more clearly. Not completely clearly as Mercury is stationing to go back into Neptune’s fog. But a bit more clearly. Hold on to the fleeting glimpse of it. The glimpse is important!
Let’s talk a bit about Mercury moving back into Neptune’s fog. I think of Neptune as, among other things, the Universe’s way of keeping you clueless and helpless. Neptune has a set of cosmic blindfolds that he puts over your eyes. You don’t see stuff with Neptune or during Neptune transits. You are kind of clueless. All your friends can see it clearly but you? Nope, not you. You are caught in the rapture of Neptune. You are, also, on occasion, a bit helpless and way too trusting during Neptune transits. Your job during a Neptune transit is to trust the process and stay open to it while at the same time noticing that the hot guy you met sucks wind through his teeth and maybe, perhaps has a wife hidden some place because that is why he won’t give you his home phone number and it explains the white mark on his left ring finger. When clients have a Neptune transit coming in their chart, I often tell them the universe is about to blindfold them so they don’t or won’t get nervous about the changes that are coming. If they can’t see the changes, they can’t get anxious. Or so the universe or Neptune thinks. But even saying they can’t get anxious gets those of us with control issues anxious ~ blindfolded by the heavens or Neptune, we go and get hyper alert to every little thing.
Did you ever play that trust and team building game where they have you don a blind fold and agree be led around a room by other people you don‘t know? It will be like that this week. Remember how you became hyper-alert as your sense of sight disappeared and you began to move forward? The world is going to be hyper alert this week. Hyper, hyper alert and very, very, very sensitive! Think of it as having a giant blindfold on so the entire world will be extremely anxious. The world is not seeing things clearly. And with that in mind, the world desperately wants to take action as Mars stops in the sky. When the world or heavens reflect that stopping story, it becomes indicative of our story down here on planet earth.
Remember, we live in a live system ~ our human body. Our heart pulses, lub-dub, 60 to 80 times a minute. Our blood rushes through our veins and arteries. Our billions of individual cells exchange oxygen and CO2 as our lungs breathe in and out. We are not static beings ~ ever. We move, at least on the inside, constantly, all the time, day and night, 24/7/365 for all the years of our life. So when Mars, the planet of movement, stops it throws our resonance off. Our bodies go ~ what? Something stopped. Mars stopping makes us FEEL we are stopping. Stopping, to our body, is the equivalent of dying. When we stop breathing, we die. When our heart stops beating, we die. When Mars stops, it creates a resonance in us that makes us think we have to take action or we are going to die. Our action planet, Mars, stops at the same time the planet in charge of our breath, Mercury, stops. When our breathing stops, we think we are going to die. Mercury, the planet in charge of our breath is stopped too. That is an enormous amount of STOPPED tension resonating through the solar system into our bodies. You are not going to die if you don’t take action. You are not going to die if you don’t know immediately. And with the wild eddying currents of energy, you are better off watching what is going on than taking action. Breathe. Watch. Notice for Mercury and Mars, while they are preoccupied with their stations, what is going on. Be Mars and Mercury’s eyes and ears.
The reason the karma is going to pop to the surface this week is because the Mercury and Mars stopping energy, involves 5 of our 12 houses ~ Aquarius, Gemini, Virgo, Scorpio and Aries. That is WAY too crazed energy being held up to keep an eye on controlling the karmic parts of the chart. Turbulent energy has a way of letting or causing things to pop to the surface so we can see them. Call it a Freudian slip if you will or perhaps a moment of clarity or a blurt out of crystal clear truth or a paper you find on a desk top or a five year old going off to draw on the wall with a crayon what they saw at daddy‘s house last weekend. Do watch for it. Watch for Mercury and Mars. Pay attention. There is a very big karmic message coming through the turbulence. Remember Mercury and Mars are preoccupied. Watch for it. The message will be there.
As the turbulence begins, we also enter the Spring eclipse season ~ The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming! Think back to Spring 1989 and 1970 to see what the eclipse season will hold for you ~ echoes of the same energies so watch for them. There are a number of very positive energies this week ~ trines and beginnings and movements toward what you want. So while all the turbulence is going on, make sure to bring your project list for th
e next 13 years and do some
work on it. Jupiter has lovely aspects including a conjunction to Venus! Jupiter‘s still got that hammer of his so make sure Jupiter has something to hammer on!
Monday, Mercury stations to go retrograde as he joins with the nodes and Juno. Back to noticing what you partner with. Who is the villain in your story? If the villain left OR you ignored the villain, what would happen next? Mercury promises to bring all sorts of interesting Ghosts into your life as he moves backwards through mid-February. He’s going retrograde during the eclipse cycles so the ghosts can be VERY old ghosts from long ago. Think back to the lessons from Spring 1989 and Spring 1970 and Spring 1951 to see what you see about how they relate to now. It is all a big cosmic circle. Hyper alert begins today.
Tuesday, Venus has an aspect of brilliance with Pallas as she pokes at Neptune and Mercury traveling with their blindfolds on. You get the hang of the blind fold today ~ or maybe you figured out how to peek underneath it at the floor through the gap by your nose. Just being able to see your feet is grounding! Take action today to take advantage of the Venus trine to Saturn to follow-up on something you’ve let slip ~ particularly around money or value or what you desire or are owed. Sun, in the form of ego, has to swallow his pride a bit and ask for what he needs or wants. This is the middle day ~ Mercury is stopped, Mars is stopped. And Venus is pushing on Saturn to pop the karma story into the light of day. Watch for it! Watch for the karma to pop!
Wednesday, Mars stations to go direct as Uranus squares Juno. The change is here! Mars is in charge of the MOON today too ~ so the stop and shift will be highly emotional and bring up stories from the bullfight/ Medusa story in November of 2005. You are integrating the story from that fall, two long years ago, into your life. So whether you were a helicopter pilot, the Bull, Matador, Perseus or Medusa, the universe is asking you to go back and see how the stories all relate. Isn’t it amazing? Remember when things seem to stop they actually are stopping to go forward in a new direction! This pause is for a new direction to take place in your life and to offer you a new vision of what you want to do. Mars is activating the early September energies from last year~ when he entered his shadow and the middle of November 2007 when he stopped moving forwards to go backwards. Mars entered his shadow, following the eclipse that took place in September at 18 Virgo where Uranus is soon to oppose. All the changes going on in your life since last March are part and parcel of the same story. Link them together. Do you see how they are related?
Thursday, Neptune joins with Vesta~ go paint your house, do a liver detox or clean something. Clear out the energy in your space. Or throw a towel over the piles to decorate them. Neptune wants you to purge your system, home and body ~ clean it, clear it, purify it, make it a temple. This is a terrific day to undertake a cleanse or start to release into beauty and creating the vision of what you want your life to become. Smudge your home or office. Sprinkle it with salt water and ring bells throughout your space to clear the energy of stagnant or stale parts. Or maybe rent a sad movie and cry on your couch? It is a cleanse and stay clear of the world kind of day. Besides the Moon is void all day long. You can’t do or go much of any place any way. Take advantage of the void and kick back into the Moon’s arms to relax and refresh.
Friday, Venus joins with Jupiter as the Sun has a power aspect with Pluto. Yep, time to start again. If you fasted yesterday, make today be light, light, light and give your liver another day of time off. Start or update your symbolic or visual journal with what you want to do. Remember to breathe.
Saturday, Mercury joins with Vesta as well as with Neptune. Clear vision of what isn’t clear. Blindfolds about what is not to be seen. Saturn or karma popping to the surface for all to observe. It is changing. Things are changing. Sun squares Ceres saying you can’t go home again and you don’t really want to. Cry, clean, paint, dream, stay in bed depressed with the covers over your head, walk with a blind fold on, be silent. Listen to the sound of your heart beating. Chant. Change. Forward to the eclipses we go. Lots of activity as the planets settle into their new directions and the world starts to move again.
Sunday, Pluto joins with Vesta ~ transformation of the home and hearth takes place now. Venus is active with the nodes in semi-stressful aspects but it will all be fine. Might not be exactly what you want but it is a start. And a start, after a week like this, is a mighty fine thing. Did you see what the karma was that popped this week? Interesting eh?
Mundane: The wild and wooly stock market will be rather crazed for a few more weeks! Then it will calm down. It is going to REALLY be bad starting next fall when the major crash happens ~ Saturn opposite Uranus as Pluto enters Capricorn for good. What is happening now is child’s play. Get your financial houses in order. Pay off debts. Refinance into fixed rate mortgage if you can. Take some of your money off the stock market table ~ out of gambles into euros or gold or stable somethings. The total cycle is 13 to 14 years. The hardest part is the first 4 years ~ starting now. You will be fine. How much of the stuff on that 13 year Jupiter/ Pluto list of yours required money? See, it is that simple. Forward you go. You will be fine!
Copyright © 2008 Anne Ortelee
