Weekly Weather May 2, 2011
Forward we go! Yesterday, Mars and Jupiter joined up in the sign of creative, initiating, I AM energy of the starting action oriented fire of Aries. Time to imagine your next 2 or 12 years depending on which format or time frame you prefer. Both types of cycles are actually starting right now but 12 years of forward vision does seem a bit daunting if you are a mutable sign or feeling a bit battered about in your life these days! Those of you who would like to opt out of 12 year plan, can plan for the next two instead. But plan you must!
Imagine that the entire Universe is holding its collective breathe as you reach and make your life decisions at this pivotal crossroads in your life. Pivotal cross roads you ask? Most certainly! Six outer planets have changed signs in less than three years with five of them changing this last year. Change is here ~ ready or not. And we do certainly see oodles of change in the world events around the globe as well as in our own life. Plus there are profound changes in the lives of our family and friends ~ all pointing toward our conscious or maybe less than conscious evolutionary drives.
As a student of the heavens, you understand that even in your hour of greatest anguish, you can cry out to the stars with an expression of your heartfelt feelings to find an answering resonance there. When you cry out, the universe turns towards you in sympathy. The stars explain, echo and describe the situations we find ourselves in on earth. They don’t compel us but they do support our memory and remembering. The stars cradle and nurture us as we crawl forward, growing up, maturing and seeking to understand the reasons and greater purpose of our being alive on earth at this time.
Cycles repeat and echo each other as the planets dance in the heavens. The stars also begin new cycles of life, by startling us with the changes from the old cycle or reminding us of the old as we start a new life. Time is measured by the rotation and orbit of planets through space ~ so the planets ARE literally our clocks or time keepers of our life cycles. It takes a day for the earth to pivot around in space and a year for the earth to orbit the Sun ~ measuring out the days and years of our lives.
Mars joining with Jupiter and both of them joining with Eris last week mark three new cycles beginning. I AM taking action to not be annoyed ~ Mars /Eris ~ or perhaps I am annoyed so I am going to take some new action instead of my old action. Jupiter/Eris ~ I AM creating or expanding my connections, relationships and interaction with society because I have discord that needs to be addressed. Mars/ Jupiter ~ I AM taking action to create my new family, society and relationships for the next big cycle of my life.
Saturn is where he was in 1981. All weekend long, as the wedding of Prince William and Kate filled the news cycle, frequent mentions were made of Prince Charles and Diana’s wedding in 1981. Compare and contrast the different dresses, ages, backgrounds, weddings, family structures and ceremonies.
I am sitting on a shady deck overlooking the Atlantic ocean as I write this column at an 80th birthday party/ family reunion in Florida. Frequent mentions are made of a previous MUCH WILDER party15 years ago, when my dad turned 65. Now we have 4 and 7 year old great-grand children as the entertainment and every body goes to bed around 9 pm. What a change with half a Saturn cycle!
Italo Calvino said “ Memory has to be strong enough to enable us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to learn without ceasing to be the same person, but it also as to be weak enough to allow us to keep moving into the future.”
So here we sit as Mars in Aries rules the heavens. Virtually every planet up there in the sky is answering to him or looking to him for the signal to go. Mars is so happy in his ruler, direct and competent. He is helping all the other planets to figure out their I AM energy so they can speak with a clear, crisp heart and vision.
So whether or not we are aware of it, Mars says that each of us are starting a series of new cycles. Hopefully because you read this column you ARE aware of it. And because your friends and family know of your interest in the sky, share the I AM envisioning idea with them too.
Apply your common sense, intelligence, open heart, clear eyes, patience and dreams to help you start the new cycle(s) of your life. All the outer planets in the heavens are starting new cycles. You are too! Listen for the I AM and move towards that. Not a fear based I AM but a clear voiced I AM.
A major crossroads! Choose wisely as the universe holds its breath and waits to see what you decide to do. Act on your heart felt, deepest instinctive I AM.
As we are beginning so many major cycles, a few readers have written to ask how to best initiate the energy. So, going forth, I’m going to include some ideas on how to initiate and evoke the planets consciously in your life. As a Virgo gal, I am a lover of ritual to start things off. So create for yourself a Mars/ Jupiter ritual to celebrate the inauguration of their new cycle. It can be quite simple as those two planets are plain spoken, direct and clear ~ especially when in Aries.
Ritual for Mars/ Jupiter New Two Year Cycle.
Gather your chart, a candle and some paper. Figure out where 22 of Aries falls in your chart. Think about the situation in your life in that area of your chart (or the area where you’ve been experiencing a bit of discord lately if you don‘t know your chart). Look to where Jupiter and Mars live in your natal chart as well as the Aries, Scorpio, Sagittarius and Pisces houses to see where to expand your life ~ or rather where your life will be expanding based on the beginning of the new cycle.
Gather herbs, plants or crystals of Jupiter (tulips, iris, sage, turquoise ) and Mars (garlic, onions, fennel, hot peppers, radish, red stone, ruby, garnet) to help invoke their energy.
Light the candle. Ask Mars and Jupiter for guidance about how to proceed in the next two or 12 years as they begin a new action oriented cycle in your life and that sector of your life. Write down the inspiration and ideas that come to you. Frame them in positive phrases.
Some times it can be hard to know what your I AM is. Some times your I AM is more a I DON’T WANT TO. That is totally fine. Write the POSITIVE version of the I don’t want to make them I want tos. Go for your dream of your best, most conscious life.
Void Moons for the Week
2:51 am EDT All day Tuesday May 3 to 1:09 pm Wednesday afternoon May 4 ~ 34 hour void moon.
4:12 pm EDT Friday May 6 to 10:32 pm EDT.
There is a lovely New Moon in Taurus on Tuesday asking us to put down roots and plan solidly for our futures. Taurus encourages us to settle into a dream of what we want and grow toward it. The solid, reliable energy of fixed earth encourages us to extend our roots deep into her substance for grounding and cleansing.
Mercury continues to travel through his shadow, moving slowly in middle degrees of Aries. Keep paying attention to the conversations and information you are receiving now. Mercury will catch up with Jupiter and Mars and bring them news of his journey retrograde. He always finds out cool stuff and tells the world during retrogrades. Also he’s been working on getting you clear about your I AM energy as he’s been in an argumentative mode. He is not getting along well with Saturn so expect arguments or disagreements with authorities early in the week.
Venus is traveling rapidly through Aries now, and has a bundle of aspects interested in clarifying the dreams and desires in your heart. She doesn’t have a great deal of patience however. Find the area you can agree on. Stand there. Agree to disagree on the things you can’t do now or find consensus on now. Delay decision making on the contentious items until mid-June, when Saturn goes direct. Structural and desired changes made NOW out of haste and irritation will only be revised in mid-June. State your I AM energy about or around the contentious items. Every one is in a very I AM mood so be aware that things can escalate quickly into a fight or disagreement. Use the energy to envision the future instead of fighting. Come up with a plan.
The asteroid Vesta is beyond busy this week. Normally our home and hearth gal STAYS home, alone, tending the fire and quietly stirring the pot. She’s in the mood to clarify, cleanse and release as she rolls around on the equator and aspects a number of planets clustered there by declination. Great week for a liver detox or whole system cleanse. Great week to clear out the junk from your house and let it go to good will. Pitch the papers from your office. Great week to organize and de-clutter using the last bits of Mercury retrograde to power through it. Great week to start an exercise program or diet with the I AM energy of Mars/ Jupiter joining. Plus all that Vesta activity creates a clean place for the Mars Jupiter aspect to launch from. You KNOW you feel great after cleaning out the closet or garage and looking at the new organization there.
Juno stations to move direct on May 2 at 13 Virgo. Partnership energy needs adjusting this week. When she is in Virgo, Juno counts. She counts how much I do versus how much you do. Counting is good for bankers but not so good for love. Juno’s in an adjusting aspect to all the other planets in Aries. She’s in charge of saying “Did you bring your mittens? Do you have the tickets? A coat in case it gets cold?” All the Aries planets want to hit her. Or at least ignore her. People will want to renegotiate relationships this week. Take the requests under advisement as the shifts needed are not actually going to take place until mid-June. But get the vision and conversation going.
The first part of the week is quite productive with Taurus and Gemini moons with good closing aspects. The weekend promises emotional difficulties as the Cancer Moon squares all the discordant planets early in the breaking up t-square to set them all grumbling and whining. Cancer Moon squares Mars in Aries so the nurturing principle fights with the I AM taking action principle. Don’t be afraid to state your needs. If you don’t ask, you don’t get. Besides, Mercury is going to rat you out if you don’t speak up. As my mother used to say, “Better I hear it from you that from one of the neighbors.” Ask already.
Moon day Monday May 2, 2011Moon in Taurus has powerful closing aspects of new beginnings with the new Moon early Tuesday morning. Moon trines Pluto in Capricorn late afternoon offering a vision of the future you want to plant or grow in your life. Today is a great day to envision your future with the solid earth aspects ready and willing to dig a safe hole in the earth for your future to grow in. Juno stations asking us to negotiate our partnerships and relationships in the light of the new information gathered since mid-March and in alignment with the vision Mars and Jupiter’s union is asking you to focus on. You are at a crossroads. Take a deep breath and speak your I AM in clear and strong tones. Not arguing tones ~ but clarity tones.
All the fire in the sky asks you to vision, to see, to inspire your being with a dream of the future that you are working towards. Venus sextiles Pallas offering you a vision of the patterns at work in your life. Understand them for the inspirational and not so inspiring dark parts. Venus argues with Juno so the partnerships that used to work need some adjustments. Mercury contraparallel to Saturn in the early evening hours suggest a bit of disagreement with your authority figures ~ including yourself. You are not in the mood to listen to yourself or your boss order you around. Say the I AM again.
Tuesday Mars’ day May 3 Moon is Void in Taurus all day long. There is a New Moon in Taurus that you would best do the New Moon creation ritual on after she goes direct on Wednesday afternoon when Moon is harnessed again and happy in Gemini. But IMAGINE the energy you want to plant under this Taurus energy during today‘s void moon. Taurus wants us to put down roots and grow things in security, safety and to accumulate. Take the time to cleanse your system today with a liver cleanse or juice fast to launch the energy. Void moons invite us to exercise our dreams, imaginations, cloud watching and doodle in our lazing about. We can also look at all the potentials even if nothing comes of it. Watch who you meet today as Mars and Sun both meet up with the Node of Destiny so you can pull in people or situations that are important to your future. Venus semi-squares Neptune so you can be deceived or deluded so double check all things financial today. Adjust your speed a tad ~ you don’t have to accomplish EVERYTHING in one week. You simply have to move towards stuff.
Wednesday, Mercury’s day, May 4 the Moon is void in the morning and enters Gemini at 1:09 pm. The Gemini moon has lovely closing aspects so the next few days you can get oodles of things accomplished. Vesta, the goddess of home and hearth, is hopping around and super busy today working on things around home and hearth. Today is a great day to move forward on all matters related to creating a cozy and comfortable nest for yourself to live and work in. Shopping for home, clearing closets, decorating, painting, planning, and getting connected with what you love. Sun squares Pallas so take the counter intuitive approach ~ Taurus Sun wants practical, reliable and dependable while Pallas in Aquarius has the big picture of what she wants. Discuss ~ both have important points to bring to the situation. Find the place where you agree and move from there. There is an energy of feeling like you are “growing up” today as Sun works with ending energy to remind you that all things end so you’d better live while you can. Nothing clarifies like knowing there is a due date. You become aware of a due date on your life or someone else’s life.
Thursday, Jupiter’s day, May 5 Moon in Gemini continues the conversations begun earlier in the week. Moon trines Saturn suggesting this is a good time to commence. There are aspects of brilliance today so look for support or ideas that help you move forward. A lingering sniffle can bloom into a cold today so take some extra vitamin C and get to bed earlier. You’ll find you are super charged to get things accomplished today ~ again you don’t have to FINISH it all ~ you merely have to start it and move along.
Friday, Venus’ day May 6, Moon in Gemini has a number of productive aspects as she aspects all the fire planets ~ Air Moon excites all those Fire planets and causes each of them to flare. Expect to find yourself some version of “on fire” as the heavens offer a working and productive version of blowing gently on a log to make it bloom with licks of fire. Stimulated by the air moon are, in order, connections, loves and desires, communications, siblings, contracts, expansion, benevolence, joy, enthusiasm and abundance, and concluding with action and taking charge as you go for what you want. AND you do all that before 4:12 pm EDT! A rocking and rolling day indeed. Even your mother and the creative principle is supportive!
Saturn’s day, Saturn May 7, Moon in Cancer kind of has a nervous breakdown after all the productivity of the past few days. You might need a bed day. You might find you are HIGHLY emotional. Sometimes when the planets get us moving so fast we don’t have time to think about what we are doing, when they calm down, or drop us off the wave of energy that we are riding, we realize HOW our emotions were NOT processed. You have to process emotions today and tomorrow as Cancer moon, perhaps the most sensitive moon that FEELS for a living butts heads with all those Aries planets shouting I AM! “What were you thinking?” “You didn’t take my feelings into consideration!” “Do you ever notice anyone besides yourself?” etc. It is Cancer Moon’s emotional response to your and the world’s I AM energy this week. Or perhaps YOU want to say the sentences above to some one ELSE. Skip it today. Essentially, it is pointless as the planets WANT to argue. Feel your feelings. Process them. Shout your I AM energy at someone other than who ever you’ve been giving it to all week. Allow space for all concerned to have their version of their reality. And if you find the split is going on INSIDE of you, the FEELing part is arguing with the I AM action part ~ just sit down with your insides and give them a nice cup of tea. They will work it out. Change IS hard and there has been a lot of it lately. All your parts are catching up with each other. Today and Sunday can be “end” the relationship days too. If someone “ends” a relationship you’ve been ambivalent about, let them roll. If it is a relationship worth fighting for, suggest they wait until mid-June when things are clearer all around. Take a “break” rather than giving it a hard ending. There is too much going on to process clearly right now.
Sun’s day May 8, the processing continues as Cancer Moon gets to the easier planets to deal with. WE still have a great deal of I AM energy fighting with I FEEL energy but not from the meaner planets. Allow the deeper feelings from yesterday to swirl and come out to be expressed. You will feel better once the I FEEL energy is heard. And if the I AM energy is coming from the “other” person, turn to a softer person to be heard. I AM can’t hear you right now. They are too caught up in the action and being right instead of being open. It IS a problem with all that Aries energy flying around ~ saying I AM SORRY is not a word combination they can create. And, truth be told, they really ARE NOT sorry. If it is an internal dialogue between your I AM and your I FEEL planets, you have to know that sometimes your chart and the planets in the sky are NOT going to get along and this is one of those times. So nurture yourself the best you can. Comfort food helps. Snuggling up helps. Basic good old mom and apple pie energy helps. You will feel better tomorrow. Today and yesterday, nobody feels particularly nurtured.
Copyright © 2011 A. C. Ortelee
