The energy in the heavens shifts considerably as Venus leaves passionate, self starting and driven desiring Aries on Monday and enters her ruling sign, benevolent, gracious, fixed Taurus. Next Saturday is rocking as two planets change signs. Mars leaves the sign of his fall, Cancer, where he has trouble asserting himself and enters blustery, proud, fixed Leo. Out of bounds Mercury exits changeable Gemini where is he is quick witted and sharp tongued to enter indirect, yet goal oriented Cancer where he keeps his counsel and checks emotions before speaking. Against the backdrop of planets changing zodiac signs, Saturn and Jupiter continue to move toward their second square with each other on June 22. Simultaneously, the North Node of Destiny gets set to travel over the world axis for the next few weeks. We are ending a 19 year karmic cycle as our lunar nodes prepare to start a new cycle in the last degrees of Pisces. The new cycle, beginning in a few weeks, won’t complete until December of 2025. The cycle we are wrapping up began way back in December 1987.
When planets change zodiac signs in the sky, it creates turbulence in how they behave as they leave one mode of action, element,and gender to enter into a completely new set of skills and behaviors. Kind of like jumping into a cold water pool on a hot day after sunbathing, there is a bit of splash and a mild shock to the system, until planets settle into their new signs ~ usually about 3 degrees worth of swimming around in the new element, water, earth, air or fire. As planets get ready to jump into the water, for the last three degrees of the sign or so, they are rolling themselves off the sun baked chaise, standing up, walking to the pool and adjusting their bathing suit as they stick a toe in to check the water’s temperature. In these six degrees, 3 ending and 3 beginning, we watchers of the heavens have a very strong and unique opportunity to push or direct energy as the planets are, for lack of a better word, distractible and amenable to changes. They don‘t have the full sense of their next environment. They aren‘t paying too much attention to the one they have been in for the last 27 degrees. Need to go to the bathroom? Want something to drink? Interested in swimming laps and getting some exercise instead of just splashing around in the shallow end? Want to wake up the hottie on the chaise next to you and suggest they join you for a skinny dip in the pool ~ maybe sprinkle water on them? You get the idea. So focus on what you want the planets to do for you as they enter their new signs.
I want to give you an idea for what to do with Venus as she changes signs and enters Taurus. She’s entering TAURUS! Remember that yucky sign that Mars was stuck in all fall as he attempted to survive his bull fight or avoid being killed by Medusa? While Mars is not particularly happy in Taurus, Venus simply adores, adores, adores Taurus! So send your Venus on a hearts and love mission to sooth and caress the parts of you that were so scratched open, dug at and picked on last fall by Mars stuck in the traffic jam. Have Venus bring your wounded parts flowers, chocolate bon bons and nice hot oil massage for the tense, stressed and tired muscles. When the Sun was going through Taurus, I kept writing about how you had to look and see. As Mercury was rolling through Taurus and them Gemini, I asked you to see the duality, how both sides of the story needed to exist for it to happen, black and white, good and evil.
Now, we have Venus going through Taurus. I want you loving, embracing, hugging and kissing, with enormous passion, last fall’s lessons learned, the battles you fought, and the understandings you gained. Gotta make peace with that part of you to integrate it into your being and use it in the 19 years ahead. You have less than 30 degrees to do it! Only until the nodes change signs mid-June when the south node shifts out of Libra, Venus’ other sign, and enters Pisces to start a new 19 year journey. Unfortunately, Venus is not going to change into Gemini until after the nodes exit the zodiac. We don’t have much time left for you to figure out what last fall was for karmically ~ to see the duality of that experience in all it‘s glorious deliciousness. Even if you haven’t figured last fall out completely (and you may not for a while), I want you sending love, love, love, forgiveness and peace to last fall’s people and situations so you can move along to your fullest life.
Forgiveness is for US, not the other guy! We don’t even have to tell them we forgive them. We have to let it go for ourselves! When we hold on to a wound, we maintain a karmic tie to the pain, the hurt, and create an inability to let it go as we keeping picking at it, preventing it from healing. If we let it go or put it down, we can move on with our life. If we hold a grudge, send the other (or yourself) any negative, critical energy, or obsesses about why or why not, we stay stuck, stuck, stuck in the hurt. I hope you will decide to dedicate the next few weeks to affirmations about how fall’s situation and the one back in 1982/83 were for your greater soul growth. They were necessary times for you to become the person you are here to become. Ask your guides or your dreams or your friends for understanding of what those situations gave you ~ how did they help shape you into the cute little human being you are right now? The human with a whole bunch of living left to do.
If we use the battlefield analogy from last fall ~Gettysburg comes to mind where the battlefield holes and mounds exist over 100 years later, the holes are where men bled their life force out to die or be forever wounded. Earth doesn’t move unless you pick up a shovel! Remember when I asked you what you wanted to do to the battlefield in your soul? Leave it as a hole? Fill it in with dirt? Let nature reclaim it? Put a bench there? Plant flowers, a tree, a garden or erect a memorial stone? What did you decide to do? Now, is the time to revisit your decision. Be kind to the hallowed ground that received your pain, blood and sweat. Let that part of you rest in peace. Do you know what you want to do with your battlefield? Start with forgiveness and see where Venus takes you.
Monday, Venus changes signs as Mars in the last degrees of Cancer joins with Juno the planet of bonding, unions and love. You are going to be partnering and starting a new union with something. I suggest you consciously choose what you want to get married to. Now, Juno gets a bad rap. She was Zeus’s wife. He’d go out philandering with various and sundry women. Then Juno would come along to punish or kill the WOMEN! She didn’t do much to old randy Zeus. Now, to my mind, it takes two to tango! But, rather than holding Zeus accountable for HIS actions and behavior, Juno only blamed the women who tangoed with him. Every one has a role in the dance! Acknowledge it, forgive all concerned and move along.
Tuesday, Venus is busy as Mercury protests to Saturn that he didn’t do anything! Just as Mercury got away with stealing Apollo’s cows because he said, “How could I have done that? I am just a baby! I am an innocent” Ah, but Mercury, you and I both do things, consciously or not, because we want something. We are responsible for our behavior and actions. Do what you love will you? Venus is having a chat with the North Node and Neptune suggesting she’s got an idea of what she wants to do but not a whole bunch of courage. Have her give a shout out to Mars to ask or tell him what she wants. You know, that 3 degree leaving and beginning? Does Mars want a glass of water or need anything from the hotel room? You get the idea.
Wednesday, Sun trines Chiron as he parallels Mars indicating we’ll start to understand how our wounds contribute to our essence and our unique soul’s path. Hey, no one said it would be easy being a spiritual being in a physical form! But, if you don’t have anything
better to do, you might as
well settle into your being and get adjusted to how your energy works.
Thursday, Mercury is STILL out of bounds! He’s feral, wild and not domesticated. He’s causing a bit of a ruckus as he moves through the last few degrees of Gemini. He’s arguing with Jupiter, facing off with Pluto, and cooperating with the detached Mother Earth energy. So yes, he’s right. Yes, AND words said today can completely change, forever, and ever, how you (or they) feel about each other. Caution please.
Friday, the same caution as yesterday applies, except now it applies to Mars as he argues with Uranus. Mercury is aspecting Juno. Hark to our earlier tale about Juno. Can Juno please hold Zeus accountable? Can she not go kill off the object of his philandering? It takes two to tango! Zeus was there too!
Saturday expresses the hope that we’ve learned our lessons as Mercury moves into sensitive Cancer and Mars moves into proud Leo. They push your buttons JUST AS MUCH as you push their buttons. Dance for two. Tango! Victims need a victimizer. Sadists need masochists. You get the idea. And the world goes round and round.
Hopefully, on Sunday, as Uranus fights with Juno at the last degrees of Cancer and Venus turns her back on Saturn, Juno and Venus come to understand we create what we want or desire or believe we are worthy of having. Don’t like it? Create some thing else. I remember a friend in college telling me that all men “philander“, it was how they were built. Her father philandered. She dated and ultimately married (multiple) men who philandered. Our belief systems create what we allow. Our belief systems tell the world who we are because we believe our version of reality. Think of the things you used to believe in ~ Santa Claus or the tooth fairy come to mind. The concepts behind those beliefs served a purpose and had value! Santa kept you good, if only by threatening a lump of coal, and taught you to believe in the abundance of the universe. The fairy said your teeth were SO special that she’d give you money to fork them over while you slept at night. Of course, it was your mom who wanted to keep your baby teeth safe and sound, along with your lock of hair and baby bracelet in a baggie in her jewelry box. That little lost tooth of yours had value!
So what do you value? What is it that Venus can love and cherish as she moves into lovely, warm and gracious Taurus?
Mundane: The USA Progressed Mars stations, in his detriment, at 18 Libra, on July 20, 2006. It is the first time in the history of our nation that Mars has stationed by secondary progression. Venus, ruler of progressed Mars, is in her detriment, progressed into Aries. Progressed Mars is going to be retrograde for the next 80 years. Then it will take Mars another 62 years to get back to the degree where he is now, in 2148 or so. Mars’ retrograde will take him back to 0 Libra. He passed 0 Libra to enter his shadow back in Sept 1940, during the Battle of Britain as Germany was bombing England. Stations are magical moments in time or history when changes occur. PROGRESSED stations are bigger magical moments. Consciousness and our beliefs change or create our world. Now, as we ALL went through such a lovely Taurus Mars retrograde last fall, we have an idea of what the progressed retrograde Mars cosmic energy is going to call us to do. Every one ready? Time to jump in the pool!
Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee
