Weekly Weather November 12, 2007
Mars stations, stopping dead in the sky to pause and pivot at 12 Cancer on Thursday. Mars then goes backward for a few months until turning direct again at 24 Gemini on January 30, 2008. On September 18, 2007, right after the mutable eclipses, Mars was at 24 Gemini and entered his shadow. That means any and all stories begun back in September will start to be revised and revisited as Mars moves backwards through the heavens.
Additionally, our men friends, ruled by Mars, will revisit projects, decisions, or actions with a seeming unwillingness to proceed OR will want to return, with a renewed ability, desire or need to repair or resolve old issues. Our women friends will be dealing with an inability to move forward decisively or a desire to resolve older issues and problems. While Mars retrograde is much harder on men than women, virtually no one is going much of any place while Mars is retrograde. We are going to be focusing on our security needs, our desires for safety, home, nurturing while seeking assurances that it will all turn out all right from whoever will offer it. As the retrograde takes place in a cardinal, initiating and taking action sign and moves back into a mutable, fluctuating expect those kinds of actions towards “already decided” actions.
The Universe, when presenting us with any planetary retrogrades, gives us an opportunity for a cosmic do-over. Another chance of sorts to an old, seemingly resolved and acted upon situation. Retrogrades are an opportunity to “RE” ~ a way to repair, replace, remend or redo. We get to think about and possibly re-do or re-create that which was previously cast in stone. Mars is our very own personal planet of how we take action in the world. In our charts, it describes the way be move, aggress, go for what we want and our sexual nature. Mars only goes retrograde every two years so the last time was fall of 2005, when he was moving backwards through the constellation of Taurus.
I remember during my first astrology reading, the astrologer telling me I would have a chance to repair a fraying connection with a major computer services client that was rapidly going south. I dismissed his information as foolish as I wanted to “fire the client”. The woman involved and causing all the problems was simply NOT the type to change her mind. And, frankly, neither was I. Actually, neither of us changed our minds. However, there WAS a reorganization (a lovely retrograde word with an “RE”) so she was not in charge of or able to influence my contract any more. Low and behold, an opportunity did come to repair the relationship as the planets involved went retrograde!
You will have such an opportunity about the situation(s) in your life that have appeared, formed and crystallized since the eclipses took place in late August and early September. It will take place in your late Gemini and early Cancer ruled houses or areas of life. Whatever the story involved, IF it feels like an un-natural or un-resolved energy, take steps to redo or resolve it once Mars goes backwards. You have until the end of January 2008 to redo things, as Mars is retrograde until then. You have until the beginning of April 2008 until Mars gets back to where he is right now in the sky. At that time, you will be ready to move forward towards all sorts of new stuff, full speed ahead and no hold barred. Until then the beginning of April, take time to resolve and release your past as Mars wakes up your actions and asks you to review them. Any and all planets found between 24 Mutable and 13 Cardinal are open to have their decisions revisited, choices questioned and actions offered a new or revised opportunity of how to act, move or appear in the world as Mars aspects them.
Think of it as the Universe acting like your Mother did, offering you an opportunity to make it right over the fight with your sibling (or whatever type of Mars event it was) and fess up/apologize or she’ll send you to your room. Or you can dig in and clutch at the choices and actions made because you are feeling insecure and not so safe. Often, when we are in a hurry or rush, we promise things we have trouble delivering on or perhaps take an emotional short cut because it seems easier. This is a great time to renegotiate those choices, decisions and contracts. Or to completely take your decision back or change your mind as your impetus to move forward will be changing.
This is also one of those times when folks are going to “need to take a break” or “require extra space” or be “feeling needy” or “kind of whiny” or “yearning for the good old days when we were happy” or “wanting to move back home”. Security blanket time. Emotionally we will be seeking a simple life ~or a perhaps a time we perceived as being ’simple’ Let it go. Explore it emotionally. Indulge in the feelings of needing to retreat. Take or give the needed space. Do not deny or avoid the anger that surfaces. Mars retrogrades are delightful energies for getting you in touch with exactly how irritated you are about the whole situation all over again. Feel your feelings. Do not hide them. Do not bury them.
Let them go and have their own version of security ~ it will not work. But let them have it any way. Until Mars goes direct, they are not going to be able to hear you. And consider, and reconsider, IF you want to act on your own feelings. My advice would be to notice your feelings (especially the anger ones), park them in the corner until February and go off to do something else with all that revising, revisiting, reacting Mars energy. The therapists call it sublimation. Direct it at a diet. Redesign your sales plan for your business. Don’t you have a world of stuff you can get busy doing rather than whining about a situation you can do absolutely nothing about? So go do it. Go work on your to-do list. Plan your next 13 years of life. Get your space cleared out. Build your business. Once Mars gets back to the degree of 12 Cancer at the beginning of April, they will either be back at your side, (or not). And, Mars, plus the rest of the world, will be ready to move forward. Between now and then, truth be told, there is not a darn thing you can do about it. Mars is retrograde for YOU too! So do retrograde things and let the rest of it sit in the corner until it is ready to move forward again.
Back to the upcoming Jupiter/ Pluto conjunction in Sagittarius which we talked about last week. We are still working the new moon’s energy about what you want to create for the next 13 years of your life. I went and bought myself a lovely purple three ring notebook and added 12 dividers ~ one for each house or area of my life. I am in the process of taking the various houses and listing the kinds of things I would like to include or create in my next 13 years of life. I suggest you do the same. Does not have to be about the “fine details” ~ just focus on the big picture ~ the top of the mountain view so to speak. What do you want for your health and being, finances, skills, siblings, neighborhood, home, family, fun, creativity, children, work, pets, partnerships, mergers and sex life, travel, beliefs, authorities, career, friends, hopes and dreams and spiritual purpose? Not too hard. No rules. Just build yourself an overview.
This is your opportunity to take a conscious hold of a conjunction of an outer transpersonal planet like Pluto with Jupiter ~ the principle of expansion and abundance of Jupiter in his rulership combined with the nuclear reactor energy of Pluto at the last degrees of changeable, righteous bonfire. The conjunction starts a new 13 year development cycle in the house that holds 28 Sagittarius. And, RIGHT AFTER the Jupiter/ Pluto’s conjunction in late Sagittarius, Pluto enters Capricorn to begin a 13-year journey. Talk about a “manifesting in the world” set of energies! I do not think it cannot get much
stronger than riding on the
back of the planet of transformation as he enters the sign of cardinal, action taking, and building in the world earth after he joined with the god of abundance and expansion.
And, over the next 13 years, Jupiter is rolling around your chart, going through each and every house, bringing to bear on that house how you would like it to grow and expand. A year a house for Jupiter. So get your vision in place with the conjunction and fuel that Jupiter with Pluto‘s profound power. You can ALWAYS change your mind if you want to. But do the vision thing. Do the vision thing for ALL the parts of your chart ~ make sure to be balanced in giving attention to the various parts of your life.
I know, part of you is looking a bit askance at the last paragraphs. In your mind, you are asking yourself, ‘Has old Ortelee lost her marbles to a Neptune transit?’ Right now, you might even be still licking a left over Saturn in Leo wound and not feeling AT ALL like doing a big picture vision kind of thing for your future. And, no, I am not promising it is going to magically appear in your life via a magic genii or a winning lottery ticket. You are going to get there the old fashioned way ~ by working your Saturn towards what you want. But you CAN get there! Or at least have fun trying to get there! Saturn in Virgo wants a to-do list so he knows what to do. Sagittarius always wants an expansive vision and a series of goals. Pluto soon to be in Capricorn wants a REALLY BIG vision and extremely large pile of goals! So give it to them. Give it to the planets. Challenge them to live up to their potential! Kind of fun isn‘t it? Kind of like a Christmas list for Santa. You might not get every present on it but at least tell the bearded fellow what you want! Conscious living through astrology!
Monday, we have a very busy day via aspects between Venus, Mercury and Saturn with the nodes of destiny. Kind of intrigued you with that notebook of dreams idea did I? Good, go start to put one together. A page for each house is a start. A vision for what you want. Mercury likes the details ~ he also has aspects with Saturn and Pallas. If you go looking for shoes, you have an idea what you want to buy ~ height of heel, color, shape. So do the same thing with your life. Give yourself a plan. Hey, it can‘t hurt! Besides Moon in Sagittarius has wide open, long range dreams today. Let your Moon go wild! Remember Mars is stopping in the sky, so folks can be feeling the frustration and acting angry. You, on the other hand, are taking all that Mars energy very personally and telling him what you want to make you feel safe and secure in your life.
Tuesday, record your dreams into the book upon awakening. Mercury has lovely aspects with the nodes encouraging your dreams to be a bit more specific. See how easy it is? Moon in Capricorn grounds the dreams a bit. And gets Saturn paying attention. Gotta dream it to get it. Mars energy continues to build. People are very reactive all around you. Focus on what you want to create. Station energy is very, very powerful if directed like a laser beam at what it wants.
Wednesday, Sun joins with Juno at 21 Scorpio as Mercury argues up close and personal with Chiron. Wounds are apparent if we choose to partner with folks that push our buttons. Of course, the VERY reason for their existence in our life IS to push our buttons. Until we figure out how to push our own buttons, they push and we react and grow. Wouldn’t it be easier to push your own buttons? Get back to work on your dream book. Mars is stopped in the sky preparing to shift and go backwards. The heavens, particularly Mars, is paying attention to your dreams.
Thursday, Mars stops and pivots on 12 Cancer. Venus is busy with Juno, Pallas, and Saturn while Sun is busy with Jupiter. For the most part, the aspects are “WORKING” aspects ~ meaning they have stress but can also accomplish things with a bit of effort. They are NOT blocked ~ they are aggravated. But they are also able to see clearly. Direct that laser beam Mars wisely. This is a day when relationships can be blown up for no other reason than it is time for them to end.
Friday, Mercury has a working sextile aspect to Saturn and a bit of a stressful aspect to Jupiter ~ stress that can be resolved with action. You have to ask today! There is a very important thing you have to ask for today! Make sure to get it out of your mouth ~ on to paper or into their ears or out in an email. This is a great day for envisioning contracts and connections that you’d like to make too. Also if someone offers to connect you with a person, take them up on it. Romantic, work, job interview or simple contact ~ there is much more there to see and explore.
Saturns day has no planetary aspects but does have Moon in Aquarius eclipsing Neptune as she has working aspects with Jupiter and Pluto. Working aspects mean with a bit of a push you can get a great deal accomplished fairly easily. This is a LOVELY day to hang with friends, do work for the greater good, volunteer to help raise a barn, build a house, or clear out things you no longer need. It is one of those get a lot done days! And add more to your dream book! Maybe images? Or words? Or talk about your dream book with your friends so they start to create their own? Or have friends over to create dream books together? Or help your kids create them? You only go around once. Might as well have fun in each and every house in your chart!
Sunday, Uranus as a working aspect with Ceres. Again, Ceres going retrograde in Taurus speaks to nurturing and help create havens on earth for the creatures we co-inhabit our world with. That can be children, ourselves, our pets or the animals that share our back yard. Mars suggests to Vesta that actions taken today have long range impact. Venus has a closing trine to Chiron. What do you want to partner with? More ideas for your book? More understanding of how that which wounds us helps to create us. We can always put down the wound but the scar ~ think of it as a badge of bravery! A mark that you survived. You are alive and present and here on earth. So what do you want to do now? Take a deep breath and move toward it. It is that easy! Honest.
Mundane: Mars stations at 12:26 Cancer on two important Suns ~ the United States and George Bush‘s. Mars is the planet of war and violence, among other things ~ and seeks to take action, particularly when it is doing interesting things like stopping in the sky on a leader’s natal Sun. Transiting Chiron in Aquarius is moving up in George’s seventh house to form a Finger of God with his Progressed Sun at 12 Virgo, and his Natal Sun and stationing Mars at 12 Cancer outputting all that energy on to his Progressed Pluto and Natal Pluto at 11/12 Leo, near to his Ascendant. Fingers of God have fated qualities to them, even transiting ones. There is a element of feeling fated events are taking place.
I’ve kind of given up on my hope that George will die in office to fulfill the old Tecumsah Indian curse that Presidents elected in a year ending in a zero don’t get to complete their terms. Besides, then we get Dick as President. Dick always has a heart attack when he starts a new job and he’s getting up there so Nancy Pelosi would be our new President. We aren’t going to be that lucky! Mars is retrograde!
At any rate, we are stuck with George sitting in front of our eagle crest. Mars is stationing right on his Sun. Mars and Uranus are forming a transiting Finger of God in his chart ~ affecting the 12th house of how we undo ourselves and the 2nd house of money, talents and skills. We can expect a fated occurrence that we are going to have to adjust to of a 12th and 2nd house nature.
One of the things George was actually good at back when he was a not-so successful businessman was driving the businesses he ran right into bankruptcy, needing and being financially bailed out. As of July 2006, the USA Mars went retrograde by secondar
y progression for the next 80 years. This will be the FIRST transiting Mars retrograde since the secondary progressed Mars retrograde took place in the USA chart. As we astrologers know, the natal chart responds when the heavens repeat the configurations in the sky. Our chart is going to be singing with the Mars retrograde.
I am not too sure there is anyone around who can (or wants to) bail out the good old US of A under the decisively inept leadership of George W. Bush. We’ve burned quite a few bridges. We‘ve alienated our friends as well as made more enemies. We owe a very, very large pile of money for the war. We have a huge debt. We don’t have much left in our line of credit or remaining to be sold off. Is there even anyone around who can or wants to save George’s butt?
Of other interest is the successful H Res. 333 vote to begin investigating impeaching Dick Cheney which took place last Tuesday. Last April 24, when Jupiter was at 19 Sagittarius and before Neptune stationed to go retrograde, Dennis Kucinich introduced H Res 333. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have since petitioned the House of Representatives to demand impeachment of the Vice President. And 22 members of Congress have cosponsored H. Res. 333, the Articles of Impeachment against the Vice President. Last week as Jupiter sextiled Neptune at 19 stationing to go direct, Congressman Kucinich brought H Res. 333 to the floor of Congress for a vote, using a ‘privileged resolution’. It was voted on! It passed! H Res. has now gone to John Conyers’ committee. If Dick is the one who is actually running the country, this could be the Mars station story on George’s Sun in the 12th (the hidden leader behind the scenes) as well as the USA Sun. It is going to be an interesting week!
Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee
