Weekly Weather January 29, 2007
Adjust. Adjust. Adjust.
Time to adjust. Whenever you run into a situation in your world that is hmmmm, difficult? Crazy making? Crabby? Cranky? Vexing? Irritating? Stressful? Annoying? Not going the way you’d like? Or perhaps it is one of those very bad dogs in your life barking and barking and barking at your boss, you, the mailman or your neighbor’s cat or the squirrel in the tree? Adjust. Your job is to announce “Well, I guess it is time to adjust!” And adjust! OR suggest the other guy adjust. Suggest nicely! “Perhaps an adjustment is needed?”
THEY are NOT going to want to adjust any more than YOU want to adjust. Or perhaps BOTH of you can AGREE to adjust, A SMIDGE, just a smidge, hold hands and jump into the adjustment pond at the count of one-two-three! Some things or some ones or some situations must, need, have to, simply have to adjust.
We have oodles of adjusting energy ahead! Cranky, crabby, adjusting energy. Adjust. Adjust. Adjust. And, it, whatever it is, doesn’t want to adjust! In fact, it probably wants to stamp its feet and have a bit of a temper tantrum right in front of you. The point of adjusting energy aspects (semi-sextiles, semi-squares and inconjuncts) is to frustrate us! When we are sufficiently frustrated, we act. We get frustrated into producing change or movement. We move out of inertia towards action OR we change from unconscious behavior into conscious behavior.
The energy for the week is semi-square stress energies (four of them) and semi-sextile energies (eight of them). Semi-sextile energies act like inconjuncts in reverse. They require we live in the moment and make sure to watch out for what is coming out of our blind spot. Semi-square energies create irritation. Plain old irritation. Live in the moment and deal with the situation before you AS IT IS.
During aspects like these, I often fantasize about what it would be like to be queen of the world. Well, IF I RULED the World, THEN I would …. But I don’t rule the world. You don’t rule the world. We merely live in it with a few billion other folks who also wish THEY ruled the world in the week ahead too! We all need to adjust.
So why does the universe send us energy like this? So we can see things clearly as we move forward. So we learn to take care of ourselves better. So we become a bit better at navigating the world. And, finally, so we learn, and Remember, to KEEP looking at the world in our BRAND NEW way.
Remember when you pulled out to change a lane without checking your blind spot? And then that car to your left, IN your blind spot, honked VERY LOUDLY ~ startling you? You might have even side swiped them with your side mirror? And you DEFINITELY swerved RIGHT back into your lane? That’s the energy of the week ahead. Adjust. The point of blind spots is to remind us to LOOK. Pay attention. Turn your head and check to SEE if there is something IN your blind spot BEFORE you change lanes! LOOK! Ask the passenger if you are close enough to the curb as you parallel park.
Eventually, you will remember or learn well enough or whatever but right now the universe is trying to teach you to be a bit more conscious about what you are looking at. You are learning about your blind spot. You will have to adjust to deal with the reality of your blind spot a bit more graciously. No long horn honks and “Jesus, Mary and Joseph!” curses as you pull quickly back into your lane, aborting that lane change into your blind spot. You are learning how to navigate with a bit more clarity. To notice you HAVE a blind spot! To judge your blind spot clearly. To see your blind spot for what it is.
It isn‘t bad. It isn‘t wrong. It is just YOUR blind spot. We all have blind spots. Take notice of your blind spot. And, if you have a bit of a fender bender this week, or manage to rip the stupid mirror off your stupid car because you forgot to look before you lept, you‘ve learned a valuable lesson! It is a mirror. A stupid, expensive, silly mirror in a ridiculous place on the side of the road because the stupid mirror DOESN’T SHOW YOU cars driving smack dab in the middle of YOUR BLIND SPOT! However, the sound of that mirror crunching right off your car sure pointed out your blind spot didn’t it?
Your blind spot is what the Universe wants you to see. However, I am betting the blind spot is not on your car. The blind spot involves a situation right in front of your very nose. Watch for you blind spot this week. We also have Sun joining with Chiron and Mercury changing signs into dreamy Pisces. We have a lovely full moon at 12:59 Leo, on Candlemas or Ground Hog Day marking the Sun’s cross quarter or semi-square day in his journey across our heavens. The full moon culminates projects begun back in August 4, 2005 when a new moon at 12 Leo took place. You remember, right after that difficult family story described by Saturn in Cancer finished up? Way back when Saturn first entered Leo and you made a solemn vow to do something or other different once you figured out the family drama? So how have you done? I know, I know. You’ve been distracted. It’s been a tough go with Saturn in Leo and that darned fixed cross. But time is a-wasting.
Aren’t blind spots fun? Do you see how your blind spot might have distracted you from the tasks at hand in your life? Maybe even diverted you from living your fullest life? Not to worry. All part of the cosmic plan. All part of learning to do your Saturn. All part of learning to integrate that blind spot into your new method of driving so you can accelerate into the fast lane. So make sure to adjust if you run into situations that require it. You only have to be conscious of adjusting and watching out for that blind spot until mid-April when Saturn stations to go direct. After that, you are going to integrate the blind spot right into you new way of driving your life.
Moon’s day, Monday, asks us to focus our brilliance on whom, what and how we partner as well as our actions. The moon in Gemini is void for over three hours today. Think about the connection between what you SAY you want and what you are actually DOING to GET or CREATE what you SAY you want. Where is the block? Time to adjust. Where is your blind spot? Mercury’s aspect to Mars causes Mars to point out the Sun’s blind spot. It is a 12th house aspect and a blind spot in your chart and your being. The aspects today will illuminate HOW you UNDO yourself. No judgment here. Just hear the cosmic horn honk and get your butt back into your lane! You can even swear if you want to. Or perhaps watch your mirror get taken off and THEN adjust and get back into your lane. We ALL have blind spots. This happens to be yours.
Tuesday, Mars’ day, finds yesterday’s ‘almost’ fender bender in your life and perhaps your missing mirror leading you to a profound new wisdom and understanding of your blind spot. Yep, you might be a bit shaken by yesterday’s or today‘s events. Sun joins with Chiron today. It is a dent. It is your life. It is a dent in your life. You are alive and well. These things happen. Dents happen. Adjust. Adjust. Adjust. The whole point of learning about blind spots is so they DON’T STAY as blind spots as you continue down the road of your life. You are going to look a bit more closely next time. Life is about the bangs, bumps, dents and bruises we get as we travel along as well as the fun stuff. While we may not like that dent part, it is part and parcel of the package of life. Blind spots are only blind spots if you don’t know you have a blind spot! Once you know about a blind spot, it isn’t blind any more! Very cool eh?
Wednesday is Mercury’s day and he‘s got positive aspects to Pluto and Juno while the world experiences a very long void moon in Cancer. That means you can get news that nothing will come of! The news sounds goo
d, maybe even fabulous, deli
cious and delectible. But think of it as more of an enticement than a deliverable! You will have to adjust your expectations over the next few days. And, if the news makes you nervous, great! Look at how it makes you nervous! Is THAT another blind spot? I thought so.
Thursday, Jupiter’s day, the moon has no aspects but there are bunches of squabbles in the heavens between various cranky planets. Sun is cranky with Mom ~ “No, you are NOT going out of the house dressed like that!” Adjust. Adjust. Saturn is delusion as he faces off with Neptune ~ “Will you stop with your silly dream?” Adjust. Adjust. Partnerships aren‘t nurturing ~ “You only hurt the ones you love (sometimes)!” Adjust. Adjust. Home and hearth have arguments ~ “When you use the last roll of paper towels will you WRITE it on the shopping list!” Adjust. Adjust. Ego and freedom squabble. Or perhaps the ‘free will’ decides it wants to exercise it’s version of freedom with an iron will ~ “You aren’t the boss of me!” Adjust. Adjust. Blind spots all. Adjust. Adjust. Adjust.
Friday, Venus’ day, finds the moon full in Leo as Mercury makes a last brilliant communication via dreams. As you sleep, Mercury moves out of Aquarius into Pisces. Do make an effort to remember your vivid dreams when you awaken in the morning. There are important messages in the dreams about you using your power strategically as well as understanding the impact of power upon you. Good power and bad power. Blind spots. Both power dynamics and blind spots are active and awake under the aspects today. Pluto has harsh aspects to Pallas Athena and to the Sun so watch for power and Pluto situations. Words can hurt today as Mercury joins with Chiron by declination. Avoid signing permanent release contracts today. Take the weekend to think about it your options. Moon also occults Saturn, bringing Saturn’s energy to the forefront of your emotions. Remember ~ adjust, adjust, adjust. Make sure to adjust. You don’t have to decide right this second. Let them know on next week. Read my full moon column for more information on dealing with the full moon energy today.
Saturn’s day finds Mars aspecting Uranus and the Sun sextiling Jupiter. Today you are going to think about all the stuff you SHOULD have said yesterday! Gather data. Get the piles ready. Buy the new filing cabinets and shredder. Do your research. Decide what it is you‘d like to accomplish. Today is a particularly productive day for tackling the projects that have been dawdling on your desk or closets that are overflowing. If you are a thrift shopper or garage sale person, LOTS of bargains will be available this weekend and next week. It is a lovely day to harness the energy of the heavens towards setting up systems, projects or situations to support your future. Virgo moon makes it a day to take on Herculean tasks AND actually finish them. Perhaps prepare your taxes?
Sun’s day finds Pluto putting the finishing touches on yesterday’s project as the Virgo Moon continues to make wonderful if expensive or expansive projects clip along. Personally, I’ve decided to paint my kitchen and tile my kitchen floor this weekend. The aspects are too wonderful to waste! If you put yesterday‘s aspects with today‘s and just labor away like all a lovely, hard working Virgo, you‘ll be AMAZED, simply Amazed, at all you accomplish.
Mundane: Even George and Dick don’t rule the world. They are going to have to adjust too! Expect slap downs, tantrums, bad behavior and hissy fits from our leaders. Adjust. Adjust. Adjust. There is a good possibility that Mr. Cheney will have a health problem as the transiting Sun joins with transiting Chiron right smack on his Natal Sun in the sixth house (January 30, 1941, 7:30 pm CST, Lincoln, Nebraska) on January 30, 2007. His chart is further set off by the full moon in his sixth house on February 2, 2006. Remember, the sixth house rules Mr. Cheney’s employees, as in Scooter Libby, his indicted former chief aide. Scooter Libby’s perjury and obstruction trial is underway. In the Justice Department’s trial about their thwarted investigation into the Valerie Plame Leak case, Mr. Cheney will be testifying FOR the defense, AGAINST the government’s case, the USA CIA and federal investigators. Gonna be IN~ TER~ rest~ ting! Pop a big batch of buttered popcorn with parmesan cheese and sit down to watch it on C-Span! The Libby trial promises to be great fun with the aspects for the week ahead. Also, now that the new Congress is seated, look for action and investigations into the Bush/ Cheney Administration secrets as Mercury enters Pisces. Copyright © 2007 Anne C. Ortelee
