Weekly Weather January 8, 2007
I don’t much like the aspects for the week ahead. Mars is approaching his conjunction with Pluto next Saturday so he‘s going to be extra angry, wild and destructive as he finishes up his two year journey with Pluto and gets ready to start a new one. Prior to getting to Pluto, Mars is going to have a chat with Saturn. That energy will feel like a “Wait until your father gets home!” sense of dread, fear and anticipation. Venus joins with Chiron Wednesday so love, desire or passion hurts, gets hurt, wounds or is wounded and begins yet another healing process. Kind of like how the doctors peel burnt skin off when an area is severely burned so the new skin can grow back? They call it debrising ~ which is a pleasant sounding word for a rather painful process. Hurts like crazy AND it is necessary to the healing process ~ they literally scrub the skin off your body. Ouch. And last, but not least, there are a bunch of squabbling and squawking aspects, piles of semis and sesquis, which act like cranky kids trapped in the back seat of the car for WAY too long on a hot, dusty, dry road trip. “This is MY side, get offa MY side! MOM! Make him get offa my side!”
Essentially, the Universe is going to provoke and poke at us in the week ahead. Think of it as a sharp stick prodding at your sensitive parts. Most of us are creatures of habit. We don’t change unless we have to or want to or are annoyed into it or ordered to change by our authority figures. We like doing it the way we‘ve been doing it, thank you very much. It works for us. The Universe wants you to evolve and change. All the aspects are pointing toward that. The planets have been pushing and pulling at you for a while now. Time to change your behavior.
Now, as you know, there are higher and lower forms of cosmic energy. The energy described by the planets in their journey through our heavens can appear in more or less pleasant versions. It is, for the most part, a less pleasant energy week. What you are going to be witnessing is the “shadow” or darker side of the energies. A shadow is part and parcel of a planet’s energy. We don’t much like shadows but they exist. They set us off, irritate us and make us afraid. The shadow energy is what appears when the planet is frustrated, irritated or annoyed beyond words. And remember, Mars is still out of bounds, so a crazed accelerant is being poured onto the planets by the heavens. It can create an explosive and volatile shadow energy. The shadow energy is mad as hell and doesn‘t want to take it any more!
Over the Christmas holidays, I was visiting my family which means I get to watch ‘new’ (to me) TV shows. There was a show with a dog trainer named Cesar Milano. Cesar would take on incredibly vicious, out of control dogs and by the end of a 20 minute segment, they’d behave beautifully. Actually, Cesar trained the dog owners as well as the “bad dogs”! He pointed out where the owners were creating, encouraging or facilitating the dog’s bad behavior. Under the video shots of Cesar training the out of control bad dogs was a warning of “don’t try this by yourself ~ seek out professional help”. It is entirely possible that a situation or circumstance in your life will act like an out of control and very wild “bad dog” in the week ahead. That is the area the universe wants you to change. That is the area you might have to hire or find your own version of a Cesar Milano dog trainer to help you and the situation change. It is time for the situation to change. Time to move to a new level.
While the dogs were “bad”, Cesar pointed out how the owner’s behavior helped contribute to the dog’s “bad” behavior. It takes two to tango, both the dog doing it AND the owner of the dog permitting it, to create a difficult situation with a “bad dog”. While you might not be clear on what to change or how your behavior is contributing to the “bad dog” situation in your own life, trust me on this, it is. The cloud of Neptune’s fog is preventing you from seeing it clearly. However, if you lined up 10 people and told them the story, THEY would all see it! Very clearly.
Next, IF you get phone calls from your friends or family, crying about the “bad dog” situations in their life (and you will), suggest professional help. This is the week when they will actually hear that they need to get the help of their own version of a Cesar Milano ~ be it a therapist, rehabilitation retreat, coach, AA/ Alanon, police, judge, accountant, job counselor, lawyer, Weight Watcher, contractor, astrologer, priest, dog trainer or a doctor. They will recognize the need for a professional to explain to them how to change their behavior.
Then, THEY HAVE TO CHANGE!!
What they have been doing is out of control. They need help. IF they change their behavior, the situation in their life will change, for the better. IF they continue to blame their situation on someone else or external events, or let their bad dog run wild and bite the neighbors, or if they refuse to change, the situation will continue to deteriorate, rapidly, spiraling out of control. Trust me on this too!
It is time for us to change. We have to modify that bad old behavior of ours. It served a loving, terrific and wonderful purpose in our life for a very long time. That is why it was there. We still might love it, even love it alot. But we have to change. It has to change. It is time for us to grow. It is time for change. The only way that happens is if someone changes. It might not be them who change. You can’t make them change any way. So, it might as well be you who changes. The minute you commit to change, and take a step toward change, the universe will shift.
So what to do? Well, I’ll quote Cesar who says “Work/ Exercise, Discipline, Affection”, in that order, is how you train a “bad dog” and make it good. You’ve been reading this column long enough to recognize those first two words of Cesar’s are “Saturn” words. As in “Do your Saturn!” The impetus and pressure from Saturn is going to continue to grow as he moves backwards towards his station mid-April and his upcoming opposition to Neptune in Aquarius at the end of February. The “bad dog” situation in your life is going to get worse and worse and more out of control if you don’t apply the energy of work/ exercise and discipline to the situation before you. Commit to change and take a step or two towards change.
Now, unfortunately, you are NOT going to be able to discipline the “bad dog” in your life. You have to apply the Saturn discipline to YOURSELF! You, as the ‘owner’ of the “bad dog”, need to change, use your Saturn, method and take another approach to dealing with the “bad dog”. The “bad dog” situation is your responsibility! You helped create your “bad dog”. You can, by changing YOUR behavior and doing YOUR SATURN, change your “bad dog” into a good dog. You have to change. If you need help to help you change, go get it ~ ask for it, hire it, or find it. Take advantage of the Mars/ Pluto conjunction coming to get your situation into the hands of a trained professional who can talk you through what you have to do.
In all honestly, part of you knows, already, what you have to do. A very big part of you knows what to do! You were hoping you didn‘t have to do it. That, somehow, THEY would, via a minor miracle, change all by themselves. And they still might change! But, truth be told, they might not change. If fact, they probably won’t change. You have to change. And you, by NOT changing, are enabling them. Yes, enabling. You are part of the reason why they don‘t need to change.
Sometimes, especially during weeks like these, we need
a bit of moral support from
the universe and our fellow creatures on earth. So ask for help for heaven‘s sake! You aren‘t the only one who has found themselves in this situation before! Other folks have gone before you. They can help you navigate the water. Ninety percent of solving a problem is looking at it clearly, recognizing it and understanding what your options are. Go explore your options ~ ALL of your options. Include exploring the options you are most afraid of ~ at least on paper. Draw them, paint them, doodle them. Get to know the options that make you nervous.
Monday, the proverbial stuff hits the fan. Mars makes a trine to Saturn so some authority is going to weigh in, firmly and clearly. Watch for the authority to arrive to know what the bad dog situation is in your life (as if you don‘t already know! But denial is a wonderful thing!). Cesar arrives to show you how to train your bad dog. Or the neighbor calls to say your bad dog bit their child. Or whatever. Listen and watch please. That is the situation that needs addressing. It will be front and center on Monday. You have helped create it. You get to help uncreate it. You have to change you. Your approach to dealing with the situation before you has to change. Whatever you’ve been doing is NOT helping. Gotta change.
Tuesday, expect your bad dog to turn and try to bite you! It is a mad bad dog! Mercury has a union with out of bounds Mars today. Or, the bad dog might just bark at or mouth off towards you. Whatever the bad dog says, it will be your Saturn! Or it will be their Saturn. Discern which and whose Saturn it is. In fact, it is probably BOTH of your Saturns ~ the universe sends us folks that help us grow. You need to learn to set boundaries so they send a boundary-less person to your front door. You need to learn to be more attentive to detail so they send a nit-picker to make you crazy catching all your errors. You need to learn to ask for what you want so they send someone who takes the best stuff ~ exactly what you wanted~ first. You get the idea.
Wednesday, we are in the burn unit. Venus joins with Chiron. Ouch. When someone is burned, they peel away the old, burned skin. Actually, they scrub the burned skin off. It has bacteria, decaying skin, dirt and dust from the fire embedded in it. That old skin can cause an infection if they leave it on there next to the open wound. It Hurts! They scrub the skin off before an infection sets in. You have to scrub off something today. If you don’t, you are going to have it grow and fester into a raging infection by mid-April. Or it will be a really bad dog! Scrub off the situation or the skin that you don’t need any more. Scrub off that skin and situation that doesn’t work for you. It might hurt but it will hurt worse if it keeps festering.
Thursday, the pain from earlier in the week subsides. A major adjustment to the communication or procedure was needed. It is all part and parcel of moving forward with your life. The moon makes lots of aspects today, so move along. Move along. Move along. No worrying about the past few days. It is all part of the plan. Get busy. Ask for help. Start the healing process again. You know that after the skin is peeled off, the body goes “Great! Time to grow more skin!” Today is such a day.
Friday, two squares, Mercury to Juno and Neptune to Vesta, suggest it might be a good day to find a quiet space to breath, sit quietly and think a bit. While you are probably too close to the situation to see WHY it is happening, do know that it is part and parcel of the plan for your evolution as a human being in this life time. You’ve finished the hardest part of your learning experience, for the most part. You have to let it go and move along. I know, letting go IS another hard part! What would it be like if you didn’t have your bad dog in your life? Do you see how you kind of LIKE your bad dog? How your bad dog is there because you LIKE having a bad dog? Do you see how you like to worry about your bad dog? Do you see how your bad dog prevents you from having your own life and doing your own thing? That bad dog of yours is a helpful dog too. The bad dog exists for a reason. If you didn’t have the bad dog, you might have to face your own situation. Don’t worry; there will be another bad dog right around the corner! The universe won’t let you get bored. Venus makes a helpful aspect to Jupiter to offer solutions to the bad dog situation in your life.
Saturday, Mars joins with Pluto. Mars joins with Pluto upon the Galactic Center ~ whatever THAT means! Well, the Galactic Center means it is important. The Galactic Center is the equivalent of a Sun for our Universe. It is what our Milky Way Galaxy revolves around and what our cute little solar system revolves around. Did you know that we all revolve around the Galactic Center? The information or knowledge received today moves us forward. As there are 4 semis and sesquis aspects, it might not be a particularly fun experience, information or knowledge. But it does move you forward! The dread and anticipation and whatever else, will rapidly disappear once it is over. You might be a bit shocked at what happens today. The world will seem a bit smaller, more connected, more related ~ teeny tiny perhaps. You will be aware of the passage of time and how everything, yes, everything, transforms. Nothing stays the same. The tide of time marches on. We move with the tide of time.
Sunday. Forward we go. Mercury’s aspect to Mars suggests while it might be hard to consistently change your behavior, you see WHY you need to change your behavior. If you change your behavior, it changes the situation. It doesn’t matter whether they change or not. If you change, the situation changes. Consciousness arrives as the Sun forms an inconjunct aspect to Saturn. No, there are no guarantees that if you change that it will all work out. However, you HAVE to change for YOU. Not for a guarantee that is meaningless. The change is so YOU can live your OWN life! Make the adjustment between knowing what you have to do and doing what you love. You have to do your Saturn. It is time.
Copyright (© ) 2007 Anne C. Ortelee
