Weekly Weather July 30, 2007
Okay, here we go! The time has arrived for the last phase of our individual evolutionary journey of Saturn through Leo. The week features the build up of the Saturn in Leo in harmonious trine to Pluto in Sagittarius as Jupiter, ruler of Pluto’s Sagittarius energy, pauses to station and turn direct in the sky on August 6. That will be the underlying thrum, thrum, thrum of the week ahead. And what a thrum, thrum, thrum that cosmic pulse will have. Kind of the pulse at a rock concert ~ where the bass fills your chest with thrum sounds so your innards vibrate after the beat has passed. THRUM, THRUM, THRUM.
Think about it. Saturn was opposite to Pluto at 9-11. Now, over the next week or so, Saturn forms the closing trine of his 38-year journey begun in fall 1982 when he joined with Pluto at the last degrees of Libra to teach you a lesson about partnership and relationships. Time to harvest the information and experiences you’ve learned during Saturn and Pluto’s dance through your chart! What do you know about the evolutionary nature of change? If you could talk to the version of you from 1982 and share the wisdom you’ve gained since then, what would you say to your younger self? Yes, there is one constant in the world! That constant is change! We all evolve and change. Don’t dawdle when difficult changes arrive as new and exciting things are right around the corner after them. At least, that is what I would say to MY younger self ~ so much time spent mourning the losses and not moving forward into the new stuff. What would you say to your younger self?
However, BEFORE THAT closing trine happens, Mars in Taurus, ruled by Venus retrograde in her least favorite sign will argue with Saturn in Leo. He’ll complain or perhaps have a temper tantrum about what or how he never, ever gets what he wants from the Lord of No, obstruction, restriction and limitations. Watch for excessive Mars energy! Watch for excessive IMPOTENT Mars energy. Direct Mars toward what you WANT to create and can actually get accomplished! Let the other stuff in your life be. Leave it alone. Don’t pick at it! Don’t shoot all your Mars energy toward the stuff you are NOT getting or is not to your liking or at the people getting on your last nerve ~ even if you are incredibly frustrated by them and the entire situation! Just take your Mars and go do or work toward something you CAN accomplish!
Mercury enters Leo this week. Finally Mercury gets some words to explain all the emotions swirling in and through him over the past few months during his retrograde journey through Cancer. Now, caution with that transition too ~ words moving from formless, fast moving river water into fixed, firm, flaring fire energy can burn the receiver of your words and you. YOU will finally find the words to express what you‘ve been feeling! THEY, however, have been on their own separate journey, working in their own reality. They are probably NOT even AWARE of what you‘ve been going through emotionally since Mercury entered Cancer around Memorial Day! You‘ve been doing that process as a silent journey while Mercury carried you over the emotions of family, connections, security, nurturing and feelings. So be conscious of that part of the story too. The journey has been for and about YOU, not them! They are on their own journey!
And, while you may THINK they are aware of what they‘ve done to YOU, actually, they have been working on their own stuff. Their journey has been for and about THEM, not you, THEM! They are on their own journey! They are probably completely clueless about what‘s been going on in your world. They happen to be a mirror, reflecting your stuff back at you. They were working on THEIR stuff that happens to nicely integrate with YOUR stuff. Now, it also means, they might call YOU and deliver a dose of fixed fire at your head or other vulnerable body parts once Mercury finds his voice. IF that happens, understand YOU are acting as THEIR mirror! Be nice. Take the fixed fire energy and thank them and the universe for its lovely version of how things work in our cosmic playground. Such a lovely cosmic circle we play in!
The best way to navigate this entire week is to keep the intent clean in your heart and soul! Clean intent ~ good idea. Not clean intent ~ going to teach them a lesson, gonna show them how they need to be, going to do it for their own good, going to show them I am superior to them and know more than they do ~ VERY BAD IDEA! VERY, Very, very BAD Idea! Clean intent. Crystal clean intent!
And, as is often the case, it is a week when the Sun and Mercury are exceptionally busy. So while you are busy evolving, dealing with the THRUM, harnessing your inner two-year-old toddler of a Mars having a temper tantrum, learning how to speak with fiery words instead of whining, the Sun and Mercury will be sending you all sorts of information! On a good day, weeks like this are life changing. On a bad day, weeks like this are life changing. So, as Joan Didion says in her book, The Year of Magical Thinking, “Life changes in an instant!” The change we’ve been working toward, struggling with, and pushing toward or away from takes place now, this week! And, it will, like most major changes, take place in an instant! How cool is that? And after the instant, we move forward to the next chapter of our life.
Monday, Sun has aspects to Mercury and Juno suggesting we see in a new way how we partner with our life to create it. Both Sun and Mercury have adjusting aspects to the node and Neptune. What would happen if you didn’t have your history behind you? What would you do with no ties, strings, or connections to the life you currently have? Imagine, you are sitting in a spaceship getting ready to arrive on planet earth ~ you have all the knowledge you’ve acquired up until now AND you can pick anywhere, be in relations with any one, or have any item you desire. Would you pick where you are now in your life? Would you keep the same life? What would you get rid of? Move toward the stuff you love. Let go of the stuff you don’t love. Imagine what else you’d like.
Tuesday, Mars squares Saturn. Sun pushes off from Vesta. Mercury has an adjusting aspect to the node. Move. Move. Move toward what you love. The beauty of living in the moment is every moment is new. What do you love? The world is going to be pretty darn cranky today as Mars squares Saturn. But you, focused on what you love, will be fine, just fine. Breathe.
Wednesday, Sun joins with Mars by declination. You know about watching when the rockets get launched from Cape Canaveral. How the rocket sits there for a while before slowly starting to move off the launching pad towards the heavens? That is the energy of today. Make the needed adjustments to move your own individual rocket forward off your platform. Hop in your space capsule. The only way to get things to change is to get over the inertia of a dead standstill into forward motion. Start your engines. Feel the flush of energy pulsing through your being. The fuels are being lit. The smoke is rising. The fires are burning. Strapped to a rocket you are! Your life is a rocket for your soul. It is getting ready to take off after the long journey of Saturn through the fixed signs helping you get clear about the mission ahead.
Thursday, countdown begins as Mercury joins with Jupiter by parallel and Sun trines Jupiter by zodiac sign. Jupiter is slowing to station and move direct next week, which is when you will actually launch. In the meantime, go through your checklist of things you want to accomplish on your next mission. Review what you’ve accomplished over the past two years. The thing that always seemed so unfair to me (and I am a Virgo!), was the astronauts got up in space and WORK the whole time. Why couldn’t they just sit and look out the windows at the cool view? Nope, they have to drive, sleep, exercise, do experiments, buil
d the space station, deliver
supplies, repair stuff and go on space walks. While doing all THAT stuff, they get to look at Planet Earth and the other things out there in their spare time. Same with you. You get to live your life while doing all the other stuff you do. Make sure to look around you today and appreciate what your life has given you. I almost forgot to add ~ Happy Birthday to my favorite Honeybee of a Lion!
Friday, Mercury has a working aspect with Mars. So maybe you can pivot the part of your life that you are working on so when you look up or reach for a new tool, you are looking out the space shuttle window at earth passing by below you. Maybe watch a sunrise or sunset while repairing the solar collector. Or shift your gaze toward Mars or the Moon as you record the scientific data. Sure, you have to work, but you also get to appreciate your surroundings and the very cool views from the space shuttle. Make a plan for when you get out to outer space for what you want to do to take advantage of the fun parts too!
Saturn’s day, the energy is starting to build. Uranus is starting to move you forward towards the next part of your life. Mercury leaves Cancer and enters Leo, finding his voice after his long, emotional silence of Cancer. The roar of the rocket builds. You can’t hear anything but the roar of energy. Venus pushes off from Uranus ~ WATCH FOR EMOTIONAL EXCESSES! They will spring out of nowhere. Recognize part and parcel of what ever you are exceptionally emotional about was to get you to here. There are no mistakes, just roads not taken or taken for reasons that don‘t serve us any more. They did serve a purpose at the time. Remember to breathe. Time for new roads.
Sunday, the energy is just going to build and build as our rocket gets ready to blast off tomorrow. Sun is opposite Chiron. For every force, there is an equal and opposite force, for every action an equal and opposite reaction. We live in a universe of duality. Please see how the situations in your life got you to the perfect place you are now. Mars in contraparallel aspect to Vesta says it is time to leave the comfort and security of home and hearth and head out into the big wild unknown. Think of all the folks who have contributed to get you to the place you are now, ready to blast off into the heavens and create your next chapter of life. In the case of the space shuttle, there were engineers, mechanics, computers, air force fliers, training, medical exams, and most important the dream of being an astronaut. In your life, there were parents, siblings, childhood, education, pets, lessons and loves that got you to where you are now. So where do you want to go next?
Mundane: Saturn is separating from Neptune so the clouds of Neptune are clearing meaning lots of information is surfacing for us to notice and absorb. Subpoenas were issued for Karl Rove and his assistant regarding the Justice Department firings. They were ordered to appear before Congress on August 2. Alberto Gonzalez testified before Congress. He lied again. Or as they said “was not entirely truthful or forth coming” in his answers to their questions. Congress has asked for a Special Prosecutor to investigate the Attorney General of the United States for perjury. Back during Watergate, the beginning of the end was when Nixon tried to fire the Special Prosecutor investigating the bungled break in. Two levels of the Justice Department resigned before Robert Bork fired the prosecutor. As we are NOW going to be investigating the Justice Department, it will be interesting to see how this one goes down!
Harriet Myers was determined to be acting in ‘Contempt of Congress’ for failing to appear before Congress. Did you know there is a jail in the basement of Congress? And, there was additional testimony before Congress regarding the thousands of Iraqi war veterans returning home to hearings where they are declared to have “prior mental conditions”, instead of PTSD from the war. Then, they are discharged from the military and no longer eligible for further medical care from the VA. According to Contractor testimony before Congress, we are apparently using kidnapped slave labor to build the Baghdad American Embassy. Gotta love it. Maybe we can kidnap a few more planeloads of slaves and have them rebuild New Orleans?
Bush’s recently signed executive order saying that he can confiscate the assets of any of us preventing the war in Iraq from moving forward were quite interesting to me. I am still trying to get the signing time for that particular order to see if it will be used or is a delusion. Part and parcel of our current American experience is an attention span of about 20 seconds. We forget that people and corporations can (and do) have long-term plans that are executed over time. We, as regular people, do not tend to think that way. We live our lives. However, others, especially those bent on certain goals or with major power complexes, DO have master plans that they are executing against. We need to remember that is part of THEIR story, even if we do not have the same vision of the world. Therefore, I find that particular executive order a bit scary. These folks sneak legislation into the Patriot Act and act on it before anyone is aware it is in there. Do not assume benign ~ it is not benign. It is a plan.
The Pat Tillman death story finally starts to have an answer of sorts due to a Freedom of Information Act filed by AP. Tillman had three bullets in his forehead. It appears he was murdered, fragged as they call it in the military, by his own men. No evidence of friendly fire was found in the area. Three bullets shot into his head from an M16 weapon about 10 yards away. His uniform and diary were burned. The army lawyers congratulated themselves in emails that they prevented it from becoming a criminal investigation. The general involved in the cover-up lost a star after failing to remember things over 70 times. Interesting times we live in.
Thanks for the friendly reminder from Ann in Florida via Malissa in New York! I was so irritated by the Scooter Libby pardon that I did not write up the solar return chart for the USA (July 4, 1776, 5:10 pm in Philadelphia, PA.) for the year. Then, Neptune, life, various trips and summer got in the way! Sorry about that! So, with apologies to any of you waiting for almost a month, here we go. A Solar Return is when the Sun returns to the place it was at the birth. There are two types of returns, regular and precessed. Precessed adjusts for the precession of the equinoxes (the movement of the stars backwards through the zodiac over time). I like to look at both and am always amazed at how they each, in different ways, reflect the future events.
Both charts indicate significant financial difficulties for the USA. Mars, ruler of the second house of money, values and finances, in both charts, is in its detriment, afflicting the public in significant ways. New York City’s (January 1, 1898, 12:01 am, New York, NY) chart is activated by regular solar return, suggesting all eyes will be focused on her and her fortunes. As New York is having Pluto in Sagittarius come to join her chart ruler and descendant ruler, Venus and Mars at 29 of Sagittarius in the third house, that makes sense. Excitement with the subways, neighborhoods, financial markets and gambling. Looks like financial shenanigans, illusions, delusions, gambling and/or drug issues will surface toward the end of July and beginning of August and again next March as Uranus passes the sensitive points.
The eclipse on September 11 will cause a major adjustment to people’s belief systems and security issues as it sets off the solar return’s Uranus, very active in both charts. Our beliefs and security issues will be further adjusted and amplified by a secondary part of news in February. Additionally, the February 7, 2008 eclipse’s north node is on the USA chart’s moon, implying further shocking news coming to light about our country.
As we are having a Uranus return for
the Stock Market Crash from 1929, combining it with the solar returns, I predict the Stock Market will have a major, major crash ~ comparable in scope to the one that took place in 1929. In this case, instead of the unregulated margin accounts that collapsed in 1929, it will be the over leveraged hedge funds that unwind combined with the collapse of the secondary and sub-prime mortgage market. As hedge funds are highly leveraged financial gambles currently investing regular folks’ pension funds that would coordinate with major adjustments to the security beliefs. The crash will firmly entrench once Pluto enters Capricorn for good, next fall, but we’ll see the beginnings of it as Saturn enters Virgo and Pluto enters Capricorn in the fall.
On a positive note, it looks like Venus in Leo captured in a trine between Saturn and Pluto and the Sun inconjunct to retrograde Jupiter will soften the impact of these events via conscious adjustments to our values and beliefs about what we actually need to have. Nothing like a 2 year run through Virgo by Saturn to get us focused on the key components in our lives. What IS important to us? By restructuring our beliefs about our foundations and our values, we’ll find ourselves in a more secure position in the future. We do have a lovely trine between Saturn and Pluto in the chart. Evolution takes place in many forms, even countries can evolve.
Checking the solar return against the natal chart, we’ll find out what will be the nature of our nation’s Pluto return in January when Pluto enters Capricorn. While we have quite a while until Pluto reaches natal 27 Capricorn Pluto, the entry of Pluto into the sign acts as a warning shot across the bow of the ship of state about what we can anticipate. As Pluto resides in the second house of money and values, and rules the 12th house of undoing and secret enemies, those are the areas to watch.
Solar Return Neptune at the end of the second house, speaks to ongoing financial, value and fiscal confusion. As Neptune continues to approach his union with natal Moon, financial matters will remain confused, unclear and operate under the cloudy fog of Neptune. Moon as the ruler of the seventh house Cancer planets will continue to feel the approaching energy of Neptune in terms of our appearance to the open enemies and others in partnership observing us. Neptune on the progressed Mercury suggesting continued confusion around communication and the war efforts in Iraq. Neptune will be inconjunct to natal Neptune in the ninth house suggesting we will not be hearing things clearly around legal, foreign or religious matters.
Solar return Uranus in the third house indicates ongoing, indecisive, conversations or arguments (square to natal Mars in Gemini) about the appropriate approaches to take.
Solar return Saturn will be in the ninth house for the next year suggesting foreign issues will remain a restricting area for the country. We probably are not leaving Iraq any time soon. Still too much to steal.
Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee
