Weekly Weather July 24, 2006
Over the next few months, Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune will be forming a big fixed T-square in the sky. As that T-square grows tighter and tighter, the planets will move into additional aspects with Pluto, the Nodes, smaller planets,and the lights to form stressful configurations. The solution to working with the upcoming T-Square energy is to “side with Saturn” instead of hanging out with Jupiter in Scorpio or Neptune in Aquarius. Let other people in your world be, do or play Jupiter and Neptune. You, wise follower of star patterns, do your Saturn to sail through the upcoming energy relatively unscathed. Get out a basic astrology book and look up where your Saturn is by sign and house. Make a list of all the words involved, pick combinations and start doing various tasks around them. Put combinations of words togther to come up with different ideas of Saturn tasks. Focus on doing Saturn whenever Neptune or Jupiter invite you to play with them (and they will). When you find yourself in a three part or person situation, identify who the players are, Jupiter in Scorpio, Neptune in Aquarius and Saturn in Leo. Aim to be Saturn.
When I say “Do your Saturn”, please know that each of you “Do your Saturn” each and every day. Don’t worry. It is part of your chart, your karma and your work in our world. No escaping Saturn! However, there are all KINDS of options, forms, versions and layers of your Saturn! Saturn lives in a house in your chart. Saturn is in a sign when you were born. You have work in both the sign and house placement of your Saturn. Use your list of Saturn’s words so you have a set of ideas to turn to when you feel the seductive, over the top invitations of Neptune and Jupiter. While we often LOVE Neptune and Jupiter, they are simply way TOO too much for the next few months! Too volatile. Too inflammatory! Too out of control! Too excessive! It will feel like some throws gasoline on a fire ~ whoosh Jupiter and Neptune will take off and spiral out of control, carrying you with them. They accelerate rapidly in their current configuration and signs. You will zoom right into chaos that you‘ll feel completely overwhelmed in!
So, yes, that means all sorts of bad old addictive and indulgent behaviors will be sitting right there calling you to join in their “fun”. Watch out for drugs, eating, vomiting, sugar binges, drinking, sexing, depression, disappearing, gambling, spending, or ANY activity that you USED to get lost in and raptured by. Or perhaps new activities you’ve never tried! Remember Jupiter and Neptune are going to ask you to neglect your Saturn. There will be oodles of opportunities for relapses or new indulgences. Back to those rooms, three times a day if need be. Do your Saturn. The invitations from Neptune and Jupiter are going to be flying your way between now and the end of October. Do your Saturn to ground yourself when ever you feel out of control.
An excellent example of the upcoming configuration is skiing on ice. When you ski on ice, you CAN careen wildly down the hill if you aren‘t careful, particularly as you turn or shift directions. However, if you focus on doing proper technique ~ shift your weight on to down hill ski, dig your edges into the hill, lean to gain momentum, remove the weight on uphill ski, stem it out and shift weight evenly as you turn, transfer your weight to the new down hill ski and KEEP your knees (Saturn again!) bent! ~ as you execute your turns it works. You can ski on ice. The world is going to be skiing on ice ~ slipping, sliding, flying along for the next few months. Keep your center of gravity (Saturn) down and solid. Yes, your skis might SLIP a bit as you turn but the turn happens. You don’t go flying into a tree, a snowbank or fall. All around you, folks are waving their arms, standing up, going faster and faster towards each other or collapsing into heaps of color on the mountain. Instructions about how to ski on ice seem completely counter intuitive to every thing your body instinctively wants to do when faced with ice! However if you dig in, bend your knees, focus your energy, and execute your turn, you might slip a touch (it is, after all, ice) but you’ll make it down the mountain alive. Do your Saturn. I want you skiing down the mountain in one piece!
A while back, I had an email exchange with David, an intense Scorpio astrologer. He taught me about the “Fist of God” or “Hammer of Thor” ~ quite a difficult astrological configuration. It makes our life altering Finger of God look like high tea with crumpets and strawberry jam! As we have a number of “Hammers of Thor” forming in the heavens over the next few months, it seemed as good a time as any to talk about the aspect and what it feels like. Don’t you just love astrology?
In myth, Thor was a warrior god who used his mighty hammer to smite his enemies, quite effectively thank you very much. The sparks from his hammer were lightening and the hammer’s sound was thunder! Having a deep love of thunder storms, I am mesmerized by the power of nature as she lets loose those lightening bolts. A Fist or Hammer is comprised of two planets in square to each other with both sesquiquadrate to a third planet forming a rather dynamic threesome. Fists create exceptionally active aspects that demand, require, expect, want and force change as they literally hammer away at our existing structures. While Fingers of God are formed from inconjuncts and sextiles, offering a stressful, yet somewhat ambivalent aspect which MOVES us to take action, Fists of God with squares and sesquiquadrates (sesquiquadrates are squares WITH extra stress built in for fun, jollys and laughs) have a much more IN YOUR FACE quality. Gotta change, gonna change and the time is now as the hammer bangs away at you. As you might expect, Fists of God are found during wars as the hammer of war pounds away at existing structures, changing them forever.
When planets form difficult aspects in the heavens we watch as the aspects are reflected in our external world events. At the same time, we have the SAME aspects forming in our charts! So, that means there is a Hammer of Thor starting to bang away in your chart. Trust me on this, you want to hang out with the hammer, not the object(s) getting banged at. Think of your finger inadvertently hit when pounding a nail into a wall. It is tough to be a nail!
So, over the next few months, the T-square with Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune will create Hammers of Thor as planets move into position (including fast moving ones like the moon!) to transform of our existing life structures. Any planets or sensitive points between 24 to 30 of the mutable signs, particularly Pisces and Gemini, are in Hammer energy. Please note our lunar evolutionary North Node hanging out in the late degrees of Pisces! The whole point of the Hammer is to get you moving toward your new life. So, IF you are standing in Saturn’s part of the T-square, working WITH SATURN ~ you are sending all sorts of energy toward Jupiter and the evolutionary North Node in Pisces ~ smooth sailing AND you go right along with the flow IF you are doing your Saturn.
Thus, my admonition to keep doing your Saturn ~ Saturn’s your hammer. Saturn is why you are here. Saturn is what you signed up to do. Do your Saturn. Saturn, Saturn, Saturn. I want you practicing and practicing with your Saturn NOW before the energy gets SO very intense in fall. By fall, you will have fabulous Saturn muscles developed and will hop right over to hang out with Saturn when Jupiter and Neptune start carrying on dramatically in the middle of the room. You MAY think doing your Saturn is somewhat “silly” in light of all the stuff that is going on in the world around you but THAT is the safest way through the difficult planetary energy ahead of us. Get in a routine to do your Saturn. Each and every day, do your Saturn for at least 10 minutes ~ longe
r if possible. And if you ar
e feeling overwhelmed, engulfed, invisible, trapped or caught up in a whosh of energy that you can’t control, just do your Saturn. It will ground you. Saturn will cover your back and put you back on your feet.
Fist of God? Hmmm perhaps a more friendly analogy is found in the game of lawn Croquette. Quite a mellow game, played on a lawn with wooden mallets and balls, idle chatter, laughter, and lemonade swirling in iced glasses with a touch of mint. You try to get your ball through all the wickets first. Except for that one part…when a competitor’s ball strikes your ball! THEY place their foot on THEIR ball, and whack the side of it with their mallet to send YOUR ball spinning off into the grass, out of the game. They decide where and how far to send your ball. You have absolutely no control! All your wonderful progress GONE in the whack of their stupid mallet. Do you quit playing lawn Croquette? Stomp off in a pout and scowl, alone and miserable, under an oak tree? No! (Well, maybe you take a sip of lemonade, pout prettily and flounce your hair, but DO get right back in YOUR game!) You go find and comfort your poor, picked on, banished ball. And, then, YOU start to hit your ball until both of you are back IN the game. When you hit your ball, you are doing your Saturn. Keep hitting, playing and moving until you are having fun again (not until after October). It is tough to be a Croquette ball! Almost as tough as being a nail! Keep doing your work. Keep doing your Saturn. Keep playing your game. And, if a hammer or mallet or fist knocks you off your desired course, keep doing your Saturn with your own ball until you are back in the game. Let the other guys do Neptune in Aquarius and Jupiter in Scorpio. You do your Saturn. Saturn. Saturn. S-A-T-U-R-N!
Monday, ghosts, ghosts, more ghosts ~ probably a big ONE today. Or maybe tomorrow. Ghosts until Mercury stations to go direct on Friday. You’ve gotten good at chatting up ghosts. If you dig around in a pile in your house expect to find an old love letter or some such that takes you back to your past nest, home and hearth issues. Release it after you re-read it! A long void moon all day means the decisions, comments, advice, ideas, meetings don’t count ~ nothing will come of it!
Tuesday has a wonderful, amazing and difficult new moon at 2 Leo. Read the New Moon column on July 25, 2006. Jupiter and Saturn form a hammer of Thor with the North Node in Pisces. Enormous Life Changing Events begin today! Take advantage of the new moon before you get spun away in chaos to sit down with your life creation list and visualize. Image the new moon’s energy hammering away at any limitations before you. Work your Saturn today. There are quite a number of cranky aspects: Venus is arguing with Chiron saying love and money hurt, hurt, hurt. She is also arguing with Juno and partnerships so traditional and all unions are feeling the strain and irritation. She’s completely irritated with Ceres’s detached can’t we all get along mother energy. She’s out for her own security, covering her bases and taking care of herself. Jupiter has a nasty fight with Pluto suggesting sex, death, the assets of other and taxes combine with legal, religious or foreign matters to move forward with great stress around a very difficult matter. Neptune is arguing with Pallas Athena in Capricorn suggesting crowds or emotionally volatile situations don’t agree with solid, conservative, practical strategic or legal wisdom. And because Mercury IS RETROGRADE please know that whatever is argued, shouted or screamed at you in a hissy fit of insecurity is going to change. However, it might not change for a while.
Wednesday, Sun comes along to completely irritate Pallas who is already feeling a bit blind sided by her encounter with Neptune earlier in the week. One part of you saw it coming while the other part doesn’t believe it actually is here! Venus trines Jupiter suggesting you get money, value or love from the interaction that goes on today. Mercury joining with Saturn by parallel indicates agreements committed to generate results. Virgo moon says dot your “I”s and cross your “T”s with firm attention to details. Again, Mercury’s aspect to Saturn WILL CHANGE as he is retrograde but the news will be interesting to say the least.
Thursday Mars contraparallels Chiron and trines Pallas which means the wounding punch, hit or injury received today will move you closer to your desired legal or strategic result. Mars with Chiron had a painful quality so you are best served by noticing who’s punching at you. While they may SAY they have changed or will change, they haven’t. They are complying to get what they want or to get something to stop.
Friday, the difficult Mercury retrograde ends today! Hooray! Mercury goes direct late in the day and doesn’t leave his shadow until August 12, so you may have a couple more ghosts stopping by. Chat them up! Wasn’t this a difficult couple of weeks? Illuminating but difficult! Mercury’s job is to bring consciousness and he did. You might not always like what he tells you but awareness bring change. Believe it and move forward with your life.
Saturday Venus argues with Vesta and kisses Neptune. If you push off or leave an old familiar home, nest or house today it’s a good thing. You are ready. You are partnering with your future. Pluto’s trined to Juno suggests holding hands with your belief in yourself and what you want. It may not be exactly WHAT you wanted in quite the way or format you anticipated, still forward you go. By November, when Saturn gets to this point in the sky, you’ll feel much better than you do right now. You know it is time for you to move on. Don’t look back, just move on. During the long void moon today know that you can get your knickers in a twist over absolutely nothing. Don’t give extra energy to your worst fears ~ focus on your future.
Sunday is a bit scary and possibly painful as Sun opposes Chiron. Venus feels a bit insecure as she argues with Saturn and seeks assurances that he simply can’t give her right now. Do your Saturn and tell Venus what you CAN do. Venus makes a trine to Uranus that suggests change is part of our lives. Change moves us toward our future, along our path, part and parcel of being a human. Even if the changes feel difficult (and they do), suck it up, do your Saturn and move toward your new nest in the universe. You are going to love it when it finally shows up. (End of October) In the meantime, do your Saturn! Moon in Libra encourages us to focus on the love and relationship even if it seems hard to find right now.
Mundane: On a happy note, researchers announced they have found a promising new treatment for Alzheimers which suppresses the destruction of the brain. Sounds like Hammer of Thor in a good way! Yeah! While I was listening, I heard the three planets’ energy ~ Neptune, Jupiter and Saturn ~ clearly described. Make sure to identify the three planets in every situation you encounter. Pick Saturn.
A reader wrote asking about Israel (May 14, 1948, 4:37 pm, Tel Aviv, Israel : declared “born” by Ben-Gurion or May 15, 1948, Midnight, Haifa, Israel: the UK flag was pulled down, symbolic of the “legal” transfer of sovereignty~ also Palestine’s chart) and the recent firey events in the Middle East. Israel‘s history contains ALL the dates we’ve worked with for the past year or so ~ with 1982/83 and May 2000 very active in her history. Israel’s chart includes a Neptune/ Saturn/ Pluto aspect as well as a Mars/ Jupiter/Uranus aspect. Her Leo planets are angular in either chart. Israel’s Sun is at that hot degree of 23 Taurus that we’ve been watching all year. We can anticipate Thor’s Hammer will be banging away in the Middle East, reshaping it with lightening and thunder.
In my opinion, having a born again President who believes he’s going to be &
ldquo;raptured out” during Armageddon, which, according to biblical mythology in the Book of Revelations, starts in Israel, is NOT a good thing. His belief system, combined with the neo-con right folks deeply entrenched in the USA military-industrial complex, led the current Administration to not-so-benign diplomatic neglect in USA foreign policy regarding Israel since 2000.
Part of my enormous frustration with the current administration’s behavior is the idea that we can somehow “encourage” God to start Armageddon sooner, rather than later, IF that area of the world explodes into war! George says he talks with God and acts on God’s instructions. Will some one please tell George the asteroid Lucifer, or the Devil, is conjunct his Saturn in Cancer in the 12th and aspecting all his progressed Libra planets in the 3rd house of talk?
So, George is listening to, talking and working with Lucifer, or the Devil, NOT God, when he does Saturn! Wait, I take my words back! George is the only person in the world I DON’T want doing his Saturn! The rest of you ~ do your Saturn! George, come on over here and play with nice, friendly Neptune and Jupiter! Now what was that nasty thing (Jupiter in Scorpio) you (Saturn in Leo) said about those silly other world leaders (Neptune in Aquarius) at the G-8 Summit? Any more women flutists or orchestra members (Neptune in Aquarius) you want to grope (Jupiter in Scorpio)? Did you misunderstand (Neptune in Aquarius) Cheney’s advice to “stroke” (Jupiter in Scorpio) the new woman Chancellor of Germany (Saturn in Leo)? Does the Leader of the Free World President (Saturn in Leo) now qualify as a sexual harrasser (Jupiter in Scorpio) or just a wild, drunk and crazy fraternity boy (Neptune in Aquarius) looking for a new crowd to party hearty with until the rapture arrives? See how easy it is to spot the planets? Go for it….
Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee
