Weekly Weather July 23, 2012
The theme for the week is Auspicious Consciousness…. I love that term. Auspicious Consciousness.
Last night, I slept under a portrait of the Seventh Dalai Lama and his friends at the Rubin Museum’s Dreamover. While curled up, snug in my bedding, part of my bedtime story was a poem about Auspicious Consciousness. I fell asleep saying “I LOVE that phrase! Auspicious Consciousness” and proceeded to dream about it.
When I sat down to write the weekly weather column you are reading now, I noticed Pallas, one of the biggest conscious makers around, is SUPER active this week. Born of her father’s pounding headache, Pallas is a brilliant strategist, amazing visionary and detached yet crystal clear judge of what has to happen to make things change. She combines the wisdom of Zeus with the compassion of the divine feminine. She’s active by declination meaning she aligns with the planets to help fire them up, light a flame and help them to see ~ she’s the cosmic flashlight. She’s also active by longitude meaning she encourages through her words and actions your ability to see what you had not seen before. She takes her rightful place in a T-square, Grand Trine, Diamond, and Kite. In each of these configurations, she helps the other planets to see. As an arbitrator of karma and resolver of difficult situations, Pallas Athena is in sparking, match lighting the darkness, initiating and action taking Aries. She’s sitting right next to Uranus, the fire bringing, lightning bolt en-lightener. Between the two of them, playing with matches, electricity, gasoline and flammable liquids, boy oh boy! Oh are we ever going to have Auspicious Consciousness this week!
There are T-squares, Yods or Fingers of God and a Hammer of Thor of stressful, challenging change and cosmic abundance, offering us dynamic energy swirling, fated choices on our life path and dramatic life options or situations that need to be hammered out. My student Gretchen said last week that she went from meeting to meeting and took a moment to figure out who was playing what role in THAT meeting. That is a GREAT technique to use during weeks like this one and last week. Remember EACH of the planets play a role in the stage setting of your life. You job, to make weeks like this one ahead of us a bit easier, is to determine who is playing what role in the various meetings and situations you encounter.
There is a kite which will take us flying towards how we talk to and think about ourselves calling us to that lovely LOWER and NASTY mind which we love to roll around in. You know that voice in your head that says nasty things to you. Things like: “You are SO stupid!” “It will always be this way!” “It’ll never, ever change.” “You won’t be able to do it. Why even try?” This week, the kite is going to be talking trash to you and your innards. Fear. Anxiety. Despair. It is never going to change. Tell it to stop. You get the idea ~ this isn’t a happy kite. But it will fly high enough for us to see, CLEARLY, if we choose to look and stop trash talking ourselves for 10 minutes. And after we look and see it clearly, we can make different choices going forward.
Hope, of course, is offered! There always is a path through the wilderness of our soul. There is a delicious grand trine in Fire which will be illuminating our consciousness as Sun/ Mercury in Leo, Node of Fate in Sagittarius and Uranus /Pallas in Aries form a fire triangle of bright, now I REALLY see it energy above our heads. Fire trines invite us to follow our passions and move toward what inspires, enhances, brightens and lights up our life. All week long, when you get caught in difficult situations with the T-square, Yod or Hammer, and start trash talking yourself or others, focus your attention back to that grand, bright fire trine… center and find your center of gravity. Or perhaps better said, stand in your heart center of illumination. Seek out Auspicious Consciousness. Notice it. Listen for it.
The grand trine in Fire interacts with the tail of the kite…. It wants to take you higher and higher, if only you would let it, allow it, encourage it, and accept the offer to go flying. So when the other planets bring you down, stand in the fire triangle. It takes a kind of standing over your center of gravity like when you are waltzing, skiing, surfing or riding a bike… you can be a bit wobbly at first. But once you get the hang of it, you simply fly. It’s a slight bend in the knees and centering of the hips over the feet.
To ride the Grand Trine in Fire, notice the illumination and patterns emerging or being pointed out by Uranus and Athena in Aries, speak your deepest heart truths by expressing Sun and Mercury in Leo, and finally trust that by doing these things that the North Node of Fate in Sagittarius will HEAR the deepest heart truth and direct you towards it or open the path before you towards attaining Auspicious Consciousness.
In the meantime, you WILL have to deal with the harsher aspect patterns and tough stuff this week. Try to think of the people you encounter as playing roles described by the energy in the heavens. Figure out which role you have been assigned or gotten. If you DON’T want that role, change to one of the other roles available once you figure out the pattern you are in. If you switch to a new role, someone will step into the role you abandon. Think of it as a bit like cosmic improvisation. Just keep saying yes to keep things moving…. Saying No stops the energy from flowing. Move to where your heart, mind, pattern seeing, change making, direction shifting North Node of Fate calls you. Speak your heart’s truth, even if it is a surprising pattern breaker, it will take you forward to your destiny
T-Square ~ action oriented, requires a decision. Often an argument
Mars in Libra, Pluto in Capricorn, Uranus/Pallas in Aries
North Node in Sagittarius, Neptune/ Chiron in Pisces, Jupiter/ Vesta/ Ceres in Gemini
Yod ~ feels fated and out of your control (and it is)
Mercury in Leo, Pluto in Capricorn, Chiron in Pisces
Pluto in Capricorn, Jupiter /Vesta in Gemini, Mercury in Leo
Chiron in Pisces, Mercury in Leo, Mars in Libra
Thor’s Hammer ~ you/they are getting hammered and have to change particularly around relationship choices.
Chiron in Pisces, Jupiter/Ceres in Gemini, Saturn in Libra
Kite ~ kind of whiny and complaining but you SEE things clearly.
North Node in Sagittarius, Uranus/Pallas in Aries, south Node/Jupiter/Vesta/Ceres in Gemini (top of kite) ,Cer and Mercury/ Sun in Leo
Double Yod Key ~ the Yods above are intertwined which makes them just much more stressful.
Mercury in Leo, Pluto in Capricorn, Chiron in Pisces, Jupiter/Vesta in Gemini
Chiron in Pisces, Mercury in Leo, Mars in Libra, Pluto in Capricorn
So forward you go, into the fray. Reframe. Come up with new definitions or ways of seeing the situations before you. Take personal responsibility. Stop looking for the other guy to step in and rescue, save or redeem you. This is YOUR life! YOU are in charge of how it goes. You are in charge of your story.
In honor of Nora Ephron’s recent passing, I dug her books out. I re-read “Heartburn”. It meant a great deal to me when I broke up with my ex. Now, in light of her passing, I read it again with new eyes.
“Of course, I am writing this later, much later, and it worries me that I’ve done what I usually do ~ hidden the anger, covered the pain, pretended it wasn’t there for the sake of the story.
‘Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?’ asked Vera. So I told her why:
Because if I tell the story, I control the version.
Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me.
Because if I tell the story, it doesn’t hurt as much.
Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it. “
Nora kept her illness a secret from even her closest friends. They were all pretty mad when they found out she had died without telling them she was sick for the past six years. But Nora had her reasons. She wanted to avoid that “How are you?” question asked in an intimate way that changes things between people.
I had dinner with my friend Laurie whose husband has Parkinson’s, a debilitating neurological disease. I read her Nora’s closing section of “Heartburn”. Laurie added to Nora’s reasons ,“Maybe she wanted to keep her friendships from changing. Relationships change. ”
Saturn says you are in the final passage of YOUR relationships changing in a very profound way. You have from now until the end of September to get things lined up the way you want. Get busy!
Void Moons This Week
11:22 am EDT July 25, Wednesday to 11:29 pm EDT
12 hour void moon
11:38 am EDT July 26, Thursday to 1:18 am EDT Saturday July 28
Yep ~ A 38 hour void Moon. All Day Friday is Void, Void, Void!
5:01 pm EDT July 29 Sunday to 3:29 am EDT Monday July 30.
Moon Day, Monday July 23 finds Moon in Libra with a hard closing aspect of a conjunction to Saturn. Moon Saturn often means a realization that a particular situation in your life can’t continue the way it has been going. So watch for circumstances in your life today, Tuesday and Wednesday Morning that you simply, absolutely positively have to change. Mars trines Ceres making the morning very productive for creating and nurturing. Mercury’s quintile to Admetos means you communicate in a way that changes things. Remember you control the story. It is YOUR story. When you are 95 and looking back on your life, how will you remember this time? Mars is parallel with Pallas ~ you see something you never spotted before and, MORE IMPORTANTLY, you NEED, SHOULD or MUST take action on it to clear it up, straighten it out or resolve it. Pallas is parallel with the Nodes of Fate so you face a fated choice… choose wisely. Sun is parallel with Pallas too ~ again illumination around your heart’s deepest desire for connection, relationship and partnership. Listen to your inner wisdom and speak your heart’s truth. Now, saying it to the person before you MAY NOT RESULT in you getting what you want from THEM. That may not be possible. Perhaps they were just an “awakener” who inspired you to see what you really wanted, were finally ready for and made you start to move towards it. You have said it out loud for the Universe to hear too. And trust me, Saturn is listening. Saturn wants the answers to the following questions: Have you learned the deeper truths of your chart? Have you learned to claim what is in your chart? Have you learned to stand in your center of gravity and work from there? Are you balanced, skiing/ skating/ surfing/ biking through the relationships in your life both in control and with deftness and developing skill? You may discover this week that you aren’t so good at it as you thought you were. Again, no worries. Saturn is here to help. He’s your good teacher. Relax gently into his kind, supportive arms and try again. Maybe this time will be the break through. Or perhaps next time will be. You just keep trying to get it. He’s paying attention. Mars is opposite Pallas so there can be misunderstandings around the illumination too. Remember, it isn’t out to GET YOU. It is so you can actually SEE IT! Illumination is impersonal. Candles easily share their light with other unlit candles. They are not diminished by sharing their fire energy. They continue to burn in their own light and on their own path. Share your light this week. Help those who are having a bit of trouble seeing their own paths. Mars joins with Admetos so you can also take action to end a relationship that threatens to snuff out your light… we can set boundaries (Saturn) with energy vampires. That is our perfect right. And they might actually be thankful that we set a boundary and framework.
Mars day, Tuesday July 24 finds Moon still in Libra, struggling to make sense of relationships. Moon rolls through that t-square, following the path Mars took last week. We’ll be burying the Denver victims of the latest shooting. Mercury has a sextile to Jupiter, retrograde, offering you the opportunity to reverse or revise a previous decision. You can change your mind. Or rephrase what you would like. At least try. Pallas sextiles Ceres ~ on some level you are seeing how what you did (or didn’t do) created the situation in your life. Feeling victimized? Look at why you hold onto that victim story. Be the hero of your life. Feel unloved or unlovable? Why are you asking people who tell you that they can’t love you, aren’t good enough for you, don’t want you to love you? How can you love yourself better? Abandoned again? How does being abandoned feed into your story of your life? Take Nora Ephron’s suggestions for your own: Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. (or feel sorry for myself). Because if I tell the story, it doesn’t hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it. “ And you are going to get on with it to CHANGE THE STORY IN YOUR FUTURE! Jupiter’s square to Chiron suggests the way you are self talking is perhaps not serving you…or you are listening to people who are trash talking to you and need to stop hanging out with them. Evolve, baby, evolve! Tell yourself a new story. Give yourself a new ending. Mercury’s inconjunct to Chiron says adjust, adjust your story for yourself. Or collapse back into it like a puddle. TELL YOURSELF A DIFFERENT STORY! Mars in the oh so literary sign of Libra joins the nodes of fate in Gemini/Sagittarius ~ the child’s story and the wisdom story. It is all about how we tell the story. Control the version. Get on with it. Be the action hero or heroine of your own life. After all, you are all you’ve got! Sun’s inconjunct to Neptune towards the end of the day offers each of us a chance to change or adjust the dream of our lives. Dream a new dream. Get a new life. Yes, it can be that simple.
Mercury’s day Wednesday July 25 finds a void moon all afternoon in Libra ~Void Moon wants us to reflect on our relationship story through the spiritual approach to our being. Yes, that means today is probably going to suck. Especially if we don’t have the two, our spirit’s need and the reality before us, in alignment. Sun’s bi-quintile to Chiron offers healing or wounding words ~ but ILLUMINATING words. Poseidon stations at 9 Scorpio, taking us deep into our unconscious depths. We are looking for auspicious consciousness here. Mercury perfects his trine to Uranus in fire…. Try other combinations: favorable awareness, promising realizations, positive perception, fortunate notice, propitious mindfulness, lucky cognizance, good awareness, opportune realization, providential consciousness. Go for it. Elevate your perceptions. Sun has a trine to the North Node so notice who you meet today. They could be important to your future. Sun in Leo’s sextile to the South Node allows you to easily release what you no longer need. Mars pushes off Admetos ~ so if you find your temper flaring or anger emerging, dig a bit deeper to the unanswered relationship needs in your being. Mars is in the Venusian Libran sign of relationships where he also had trouble just being plain old Mars, farting, belching and making a mess on the living room table as he watches the ball game. He has to wear the white gloves and drink tea with his pinkie out… Clean his fingernails. Put on a monkey suit. NOT his style, not his style at all. So Mars (and you) might be a bit frustrated with niceties. Put a lid on it and pay attention. The universe is trying to enlighten you. Moon enters Scorpio tonight and gets deep and real.
Jupiter’s day Thursday July 26 finds Moon in Scorpio for the morning and then void for 38, count them, 38 hours. We can anticipate the next few days as full of communications we don’t necessarily want to hear. But hear them we must. Moon squares Mercury in Leo. They ARE telling you the truth even if you don’t want to believe it. Really? Can that actually be TRUE? Yes. Yes. Yes. It is true. At least in THEIR reality it is true. We each operate from our own realities. The beauty of astrology is you are able to see what reality is like on the other guy’s planet via their chart. Today you get to see reality. Trust what you see. BELIEVE IT! Or believe that is why and what THEY believe to be true. And if they believe it to be true, it IS their reality. Mercury’s inconjunct to Pluto says yes it is the truth. Adjust. Adjust. Venus has a quintile to Uranus offering an inspired idea that emerges out of your new understanding of reality on their planet and how it differs from your reality.
Venus’ day Friday July 27 An all day Void Moon in Scorpio on a day with no aspects… ah kick back. Connect to the cosmos. Connect to your inner being. Meditate. Commune with your spirit. Relax, refresh, relinquish. Summer is here in all her abundance. Keep processing what you’ve learned. Pallas’s opposition to Astraea allows you to get clear on a health matter that has been troubling you. Clean and clear out your house or your books. My friend Mark suggests moving the books on your book case every month or so as it sorts and shifts how you think and see things. Read something you would NEVER ordinarily read. Listen to something that you don’t normally listen to. Expand your vision, heart and mind to include new ideas. Dig deep into your psychological stuff to clarity and understanding. You have the life you have because you created it.
Saturn’s day Saturday July 28 After a tough night of dreams, Moon moves into Sagittarius and with it we spring into life again. Mercury is combust the Sun so you are right from YOUR perspective. They are right from THEIR perspective. For centuries people have fought over truth and whose version of truth is the REAL truth. Ain’t no such thing as the “REAL Truth”. We each have a truth that is reflective of our chart’s reality. Sagittarius Moon realizes that there are universal THEMES around truth but no, one all encompassing truth that works for everything and everyone. Well maybe there is a truth we can agree on ~ we are born and we die. The middle part is where we get to create our chart’s reality. If it is in your heart, it is in your chart. Moon skips through the planets in the grand trine in Fire, illuminating and singing, pointing out where the hoped for reality meets the actual reality of your life. Venus’ inconjunct to Juno offers a space where your desire nature can adjust so your partnership or relationship needs can be met. Sometimes we DO have to adjust. So adjust consciously. Auspicious Consciousness. And with a combust Mercury in Leo on the Sun in Leo ~ we DO know what we consciously want. Ah the process… so important to accomplishing the goal. It isn’t anyone’s life but yours. Pluto pushes against Ceres and suggests you let go of other people’s expectations and judgments of you. You lived the life you lived. Neptune’s union with Pallas by declination suggests on some level you might have forgotten your original soul’s contract. Today you remember it. I was sharing parts of my Dreamover experience at the Rubin Museum with a male Scorpio friend. One of my friends slept under a very powerful dismemberment image. I shared that I was secretly very glad I didn’t get THAT image. My Scorpio friend reacted with the following email excerpt about a Shamanic journey he took which reframed “remember” for me.
dismemberment is awesome.
It’s all about….DEATH. and dying. and having an animal – come and DIS-member you – like a vulture comes and picks apart your body – and its limbs are thrown over there and your head is thrown over there…and then…you’re dead and you don’t have a body.
no body
no issues.
get reborn
then…..you RE-member your body
and you have your body put back together again
and you’re all new
refreshed.
its a deep transformation in the shamanic culture
and one of the coolest things i ever did.
its fantastic
and very freeing
buddhism is very deep.
very – deep
So RE-member your soul. Claim it back. Stand in your center of gravity. You don’t have to have your limbs torn apart by a vulture or wild animals. However, if it feels like that is what is happening to you right now, know that you can re-member your soul. Be reborn.
Sun’s Day Sunday July 29 Moon in Sagittarius continues the evolution and expansion. Moon argues with Gemini Venus who leaves her retrograde shadow. All the work of the past nine months that you’ve been doing is clearing and clarify. Vesta comes to the degree of Venus’ station and helps clear out the inner part of your being. Moon’s closing aspect of a sextile to Saturn offers the understanding that with a bit of work, you can get there. And you can. Venus’s sextile to Eris throws her head back and laughs with joyous glee. Eris only works when we agree to go to the dark places she wants to take us. And she only takes us to dark places when we are not in our heart center. Then she can get her hooks into you. So Eris tries again. But Venus, feeling the hook, goes, “NOPE, you are NOT going to get me again. Fooled me once (or 3 million thousand times), shame on you. You are not getting me this time! Adjust your home and hearth to transform and evolve. Uranus has an aspect of illumination from Pallas. Woo-hoo! You see it! Saturn’s sesquiquadrate to Chiron offers stress that you need to take action around to move forward toward what you want. You can do it. If it is in your heart, it is in your chart.
Copyright © 2012. A. C. Ortelee
