Weekly Weather June 18, 2012.
Time to get ready to rock and roll….There is lots of stuff in the heavens indicating ready, set, GO ! It is time for Action!
While you might want to pull the covers over your head, snooze on some charts like Max my cat is, it will be hard to sleep or skip through the next couple of weeks unfazed by or ignoring what life sends your way. The heavens are going to be push, push, pushing at you and pull, pull, pulling your energy in all sorts of directions. Up, down, over, out, in, above, below, left, right and sideways… it is a huge swirling mass of stuff up there right now. As above, so below, as without, so within.
Sun enters Cancer ~ setting off the world axis. The reaching of the Summer solstice marks when the Sun appears to stop for three days and reverse direction. It triggers the shift of seasons ~ into summer in the northern hemisphere, and into winter in the southern hemisphere. World events take place. This shift triggers the recent eclipse at 0 Gemini so we can anticipate a few world figures exiting the stage, and in some cases, actually leaving earth. We close the eclipse energy with the New Moon this week at 28 Gemini. We wrap up the stories that began in December 2010 as well as the Gemini/Sagittarius story this week.
Mars is back to the degree of his retrograde station of January 23, 2012 so the story that seemed to stop then, or reverse, can resurface to seek resolution and/or closure now. Mars is also in a stress position, standing in the 12th house of Libra with stationing Saturn at 22 Libra forming a semi-sextile to 22 Mars Virgo… this is a fairly significant health aspect. It can undermine or cause the unanticipated undoing of existing or proposed partnerships. Expect to hear bad or difficult news around healing or health matters. Mars is at the degree of the USA Neptune triggering a deep sadness across our nation, suggesting one of the leaders of our country departs.
Saturn stopped for these three months at the master number of 22 asks each of us to retell, revise, redo or revisit our stories about ourselves and our relationships. He is asking us to take responsibility for the nature and type of relationships in our lives. He’s been grinding away at this degree since the beginning of November. Now we have the finale! The crescendo! The last exciting moments of connection and drama happen this week and next. Saturn will be stopping by to ask us what we really, truly want in our relationship lives. So often our stories are tied to our defeats or sorrows or sadness’s or hurts. Like little children, we tell ourselves the same story over and over again. Children will ask you to re-read the same story countless times. Or listen to the same song over and over and over again. The repetition is comforting to them ~ they know how it is going to turn out. They have mastery over the outcome.
We are not children. Yet we tell ourselves the same story over and over and over again.
What would happen if we changed our story? What would happen if we shifted the ending or the conclusions we drew from our history and our life’s stories? What if, instead of saying we are “bad” at relationships, instead we reminded ourselves the relationships we allow into our lives are reflections of what we think we deserve? The relationships might be reflections of the lower energies of our chart but they reflect what we think we are worth.
With Venus in Gemini answering to Mercury in Cancer ~ we can shift ~ easily ~ water and air ~ what we tell ourselves. We can be flexible in the stories that rule our lives.
What if we reframed our approach to the difficult areas of our life and instead gave it a new spin, a new story, or anticipated a different outcome? One of my favorite columnists says “Every relationship doesn’t work out until a relationship does work.” His words removes the fear of failure. Edison replied, when asked how it felt to have failed 1,000 times while making the light bulb, “I didn’t fail. I found out 1,000 ways that didn’t work.” Edison didn’t take it personally. He kept on trying. Somewhere, along in our life, based on our stories, we stopped being willing to deal with “not working”. We label it “failure” and give up.
Saturn, this week and next, will ask you to pick up and deal with that area in your life ~ particularly around what you partner with or where you have relationships that are “not working”. Don’t label it a failure. Thank it for what you learned from it. Bless it. Acknowledge it might not be working for you the way you want. Do you want to change the players or start a brand new game? Do you want to change your approach to it? Do you want to move on?
It is time to decide. It is time to commit or bail out over the next two weeks. Yes, it is that big… You’ve had since last November. Nothing is perfect. Is it good enough? Does it match what you want? Is it not what your heart calls you to? Change! Change this week as Mars and Saturn give you the impetus to see your story in a new light or framework. Change next week as Saturn stations in the heavens. Two weeks to reframe and retell your story into a version that you like better…. And then they lived happily ever after….. (together or apart?).
We have the first of seven squares of Uranus and Pluto this week. We are being asked to evolve and change. Rent “Whale Rider” and watch it. We are each the little girl AND the grandfather. We each have the two planets in our chart having an argument. Are we changing? Are we staying the same? What is our vision of our future? We have energies in our being that are struggling to shift, change and evolve. Both Uranus and Pluto are in our charts ~ squaring each other asking us to focus on the change(s) that we need to make that will nurture and take better care of our being, our life and our loves and beloveds. Change we must. The time has come. No fear. Act toward in your higher soul’s great vision. No fear. Stand brave and bold to help all the parts of you that are nervous. Please know that the reason you desire it is because it is in your chart and thus it is in your heart. Focus. Breathe. Take action.
You only have today. Make the best of it.
” Freckles” by Natasha Bedingfield comes to mind
I used to care so much about what others think about
Almost didn’t have a thought of my own
The slightest remark would make me embark
On the journey of self doubt
But that was a while ago
This girl has got stronger
If I knew then what I know now
I would have told myself don’t worry any longer it’s OK
[Chorus:]
’cause a face without freckles is like a sky without stars
Why waste a second not loving who you are
Those little imperfections make you beautiful, lovable, valuable,
They show your personality inside your heart
Reflecting who you are
Who you are
Who you are
Who you are
I wondered if I could trade my body with somebody else in magazines
Would the whole world fall at my feet?
I felt unworthy and would blame my failures on the ugliness I could see
When the mirror looked at me
Sometimes I still feel like the little girl who doesn’t belong in her own world
But I’m getting better
And I’m reminding myself
[Chorus]
cause a face without freckles is like a sky without stars
Why waste a second not loving who you are
Those little imperfections make you beautiful, lovable, valuable,
They show your personality inside your heart
Reflecting who you are
Reflecting who you are
Reflecting who you are
Hmmm
Whoooooo whoa hmmmm oooooo
The balance of the days will be posted later.
copyright (c) 2012 A. C. Ortelee
