Weekly Weather November 5, 2007
It is a week of new beginnings for our dreams and ideas as Pallas, Neptune and Mercury start to move forward after last week’s stations’ when they all turned direct on their tippy toes like ballet dancers. This week, Mercury enters Scorpio and Venus enters Libra, two of their favorite signs, to add a positive if intense level of passion to our desires, love, work and world. Sun clears his square to Neptune and creates a trine to Uranus indicating clarity in his Scorpio thinking after our recent bit of cloudiness or depression or loss. Venus has a closing square to Pluto saying there is a cost of Virgo work for your passionate dreams to come true. There also is a new moon on Friday at 17 Scorpio, with the Sabian Image of A QUIET PATH THROUGH WOODS BRILLIANT IN AUTUMN COLORING.
Remember too, we are getting ready for Mars to station as he reaches his station degree and stops next week. Mars is stopping dead in the sky in action taking, security seeking, emotional Cancer. At the same time, Mercury races to catch up with Mars as the Sun seeks to use Mars’ energy from last week’s sextile and move out into the world. The combination of those three working energies around Mars plus the freshness of Mercury and Venus in new signs means we have powerful cosmic energy available to us to launch THE CONCEPT of new events, processes and procedures or BEGIN to take action in our world.
There is a lot of air, water and earth energy flowing around out there so while the IDEA (air) may have EMOTIONS (Water) supporting it to add to the ability to be physically CREATED (earth), the passion (fire) for them is not strong just yet. There is not much fire ~ only Jupiter and Pluto in balsamic approach to each other. Your new cosmic fire will begin to roar again in December when Jupiter and Pluto merge. Before their union, right now, is the time for drawing up the plans of what you want to create and build. It is going to take time to create and build. It always does.
Saturn in Virgo is reminds us that while those glorious ideas look fabulous or seem terrific, there is hard work, time and layers of meaning, practice and structure behind them. The “overnight success” that wrote and received thousands of rejection letters before her book was published. The composer who labored away waiting tables at night as he wrote music all day. The actor showing up for thousands of auditions to create their dream, while trying to differentiate themselves from all the OTHER tall, thin blondes applying for the Slim Fast commercial. You get the idea. We have an American fantasy of “overnight” success ~ fed by the vision of reality TV, American Idol and our culture of “want it get it”. And, yes, there ARE overnight successes. However, more often than not, true success is born of showing up day after day and doing your work. Toiling with your hopes in your heart. Doing the slogging parts as well as the fun parts. Showing up. Practicing. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Practice. And practice some more. Such is the message of Saturn in Virgo.
Saturn wants us to create a giant to-do list. Have you ever planned a wedding or a big event with myriad details? There are literally “Thousands of Decisions!” So many “Things to Look At”. Choices. Choices. Choices. What is your flower budget? Band or DJ? Buffet or table service? Photographs? Dress? Number of Bridesmaids? Flower children? Who sits where? Dealing with the in-laws and your own relatives about the guest list. You get the idea. You are in the process, between now and January of planning the next 13 to 15 years of your life. Think of it as a VERY BIG WEDDING. In fact, it IS your wedding to your life. You are getting married to the next 13 to 15 years of your life. Often we slip into or through our lives quietly and a bit unconsciously. Life seems to happen to us. We experience our days as a series of unrelated events. We may process our Life’s Meaning and endless cycles in retrospect when we look back on it over an astrologer’s table. Or perhaps we remember while reminiscing with old friends at a reunion or after facing a life ending event. Those things or events remind us life is short and there are no guarantees so make the most of it!
And, NO, you are NOT expected to KNOW WHAT YOU WANT for the rest of your life. However, you will be feeling like you are SUPPOSED to know what you want for the rest of your life. That is an important distinction. SUPPOSED TO versus ACTUAL KNOWING.
When I was deciding where I wanted to go for college, I remember crying hysterically as it seemed like such an important decision! It was going to affect the rest of my life! I had no clue while all my good friends seemed to know exactly what they wanted to major in and where they wanted to go to school. My mother calmed me down, and got me focused on what I LIKED. Pick a college based on what you LIKE?!? What a concept! So we sat down with a version of Benjamin Franklin’s T-chart ~ likes on one side, dislikes on the other side. I made a list. When I got to the deciding point ~ two schools ended up being equal in their offerings, ~ I picked one because it had a winning basketball team! I knew absolutely NOTHING about basketball. I had gone to an All-Girls Catholic High School with a bunch of nuns so the idea of going to basketball games with boys intrigued me. Basketball games seemed like one of the things you would want to do when you were in college. Thus, my choice was made. Once I got to that college, I learned that going to basketball games actually was NOT that interesting to me ~ but I loved, loved, loved the college even if I was not very keen on basketball.
So trust in the heavens will you? Over the last couple of years, you’ve learned what you love or want to create in your life while Saturn went through Leo. Put that thing you learned you love into your life on a daily basis. Put more of that beloved thing, person, job, or work into your life. Follow your likes. Your chart describes your likes, what you are attracted to, what you want to do. Your chart holds the secret of your likes. Truth be told, not that I want to minimize astrology, one of the main things I do during a reading is affirm and confirm that what people are doing is actually their path. Your likes are your path! Or at least a very major part of your path. And that thing you are somewhat afraid of yet very drawn towards ~ that Saturn of yours ~ that is the biggest like of them all. So just do your Saturn! Do a bit of conscious Saturn each and every day.
Now, it cannot be avoided ~ there are likes described by our chart that are better for us than other likes. Each and every sign has good parts and bad parts. This is ALSO one of those choice points in time and in your life. Make sure to “Minimize the Bad Parts!” For example, IF you have a strong Neptune and are called to creative pursuits involving illusion, delusion and arts, please avoid the drugs and alcohol ~ the lower (and quite legitimate forms) of Neptune in our world. Add instead of a daily couple of cocktails or snorts, add time for music, dance, creation, meditation, chanting mantra or some kind of art to your life. Do not disappear or dissolve. Show up singing. Do not cry. Take a shower. You get the idea. Get yourself a book of good astrological keywords so you can push yourself in a productive direction of things ruled by the signs involved when you are feeling despair or desperate. For example, my friend Barbara has a very strong Libra Neptune placement in her chart. Right now, she is between her empty child nest of five children moving out and some new relationships arriving and forming. So Barbara has taken to singing and humming to herself to accompany herself through life. Collaborating with herself via music she sings to keep herself company ~ an excellent way to use that strong Neptune of hers!
Despair and desperation are part of the process right now too.
Neptune does that to folks!
People are going to be feeling like they have to make choices that are going to affect the rest of their lives. And truth be told, “We Are Making Choices that Affect the Rest of Our Lives!” Make sure to proclaim that to yourself in a loud, deep announcer like voice! Do remember though, IF you tell people that, they might get as hysterical as I was those many years ago. It is all steps. Step by step. It is all process. Process by process. Piece by piece a life is assembled. Living life is like planning a never-ending wedding. Ask the unique, individual-to-you questions to get the unique, individual-to-you answers you are looking for. Ground it down to earth. Break it into parts and smaller decisions. Create your own Benjamin Franklin T-chart of likes and dislikes.
If you know what you want to do, GREAT! Help those around you that are in puddles of tears. If you do not know completely, or are not exactly sure what you want to do, know that you are right where you are supposed to be. You know what you like. The universe proposed to you during Saturn in Leo. It is time to plan your life wedding. Start, right where you are, to dig in and do the stuff before you that needs to be done to live your life. Buy a wedding/ life-planning notebook. Scribble ideas into it. There is no right or wrong decisions here. It is your life, baby, not some else’s.
To keep with our analogy of wedding planning ~ we do have the relatives and the people in your life to consider or at least pay attention to or listen to. You know how that goes! They ALL HAVE OPINIONS about what you should do! THEY ALL WILL EXPRESS THOSE OPINIONS! Remember, it is YOUR LIFE! It is Your wedding to Your Life! It is YOUR life we are discussing here! If you want to elope, elope. If you want to have your wedding on a beach at sunset and your mother hates sand and sun, well figure it out. You are a smart person. DO have your wedding on the beach with a special umbrella and create a carpet path for your mother and other guests to walk on. (Assuming, of course, that you even want your mother to come!) This is YOUR life ~ not their lives ~ your life! So live and plan YOUR life. You are not going to get far down the road before Mars stops ~ essentially your job right now is to start to book the location. Decide on what kind of life you want for the next 13 years and start looking for the location!
Monday, Saturn has a gift of brilliance and partnership with Juno ~ a to do list? A book of ideas for your life? Cool, you can do that! Venus builds to a closing square to Pluto giving her more ideas of how she wants to integrate her passions into practical and affirmative plans for her future. She‘s going to join with Pluto in January to start a new cycle. But between now and then she‘s full of ideas as she races to catch up with the Sun and Mercury. Remember all the people she was talking to back at the party when Saturn wanted to leave and was tapping his toes impatiently? She was gathering ideas back then.
Tuesday, wake up and record your dreams. They were important! Venus and Pluto were talking late into the night. Build on that to-do list of yours ~ maybe a big binder with parts that can come out? Moon in Libra makes the energy active if a bit harsh as she comes to square Mars getting ready to station in Cancer. It IS your life after all. Other people will always have their ideas of what they want you to do to live your life. You have to live your own life. It isn’t their life. It is YOUR life.
Wednesday, Neptune squares Juno after Saturn had his gift aspect with Juno on Monday. Often we think things are mutually exclusive. They are not. They are dual. Today duality appears. The cloud shifts. What you want to collaborate with is apparent. You can have your wedding on the beach. You only need to get a carpet to help people (your mother) deal with the sand in their shoes. A friend mentions a beach carpet rental place! Voila, problem solved. Yes, it is as easy as that! Remember, Saturn is in Virgo! Virgo is all about solving problems. Solving problems is the name of the game. A process can always be created to solve a problem. Or at least create a process to work with it. I am not going to mention that the issue actually is NOT that your mother does not want to go to a wedding on the beach because of the sand. You will find out the issue soon enough. So WATCH for the problem that surfaces today. Then create the “solution” for it. You are going to be wrestling with the problem of a bigger nature down the road apiece. Must take a stand some place and right here, right now, is when and where to do it. Sun’s trine to Uranus says the creativity comes from YOU! The Creativity does not come from them! So own and embrace your creativity. It is YOURS! Your very own and unique gift from the heavens. Moreover, you deserve to be recognized for being creative it even if it is just finding out where to rent a carpet for the beach.
Thursday, Venus enters Libra as Mercury sextiles Pluto and Sun has an aspect of brilliance with the South Node. Mercury, communication and Venus love and money are in the same sign ~ although at opposite ends of the sign ~ Libra. This is called a semi-sextile. Semi-sextiles are working aspects of 30 degrees. You have to ASK semi-sextiles to help you or they do not. Semi-sextiles can be either 12th or 2nd house aspects on either side of the planet in question. Twelfth house aspects are our blind spots. Similar to driving a car, you need to look to your left to see if another car is in your blind spot before you change lanes. LOOK! Turn your head and look. Second house aspects are our talents and skills. We don‘t often know what our talents and skills are! Second house aspects are also the people riding in the front seat of the car right next to us ~ they can look to see if traffic is coming before we pull out. But, we have to ASK them to LOOK. You have to take action to get things to move today but move they will.Semi-sextiles require action.
Friday Mercury has a gift of home and hearth energy with Vesta. What is home for you? Where do you want to nest over the next 13 years? It is not going to necessarily be where you have been nesting the past few years ~ you have outgrown that nest. Venus has an adjusting aspect to strategic Pallas, who is just starting to move direct in sacrificial, creative Pisces. Sun joins with Pluto by declination ~ there is power in numbers and righteousness. There is power in values and beliefs. A house divided will fall. A house united will stand. We forget that sometimes. Who are you united with? Who stands with you? Who stands against you? What do you want? The new moon at 17 Scorpio invites us to collaborate with our vision of A QUIET PATH THROUGH WOODS BRILLIANT IN AUTUMN COLORING. Return to nature and your core values today. What is the most important thing to you? What do you love? Read the new moon report on this site for more information on how to work with the new moon’s energy.
Saturn’s day, Venus has a squabbly aspect with Ceres. It is hard to defend what you believe to be right when faced with your security needs. But the greater security comes from following your true path even if it is not secure. Honest. I promise. That is one of those life conundrums! Follow your path even if it is not secure.
Sunday, Mercury enters Scorpio. Let the analysis of what you want to create begin! Let Mercury get all dark and twisty on you. Mercury is going into the underworld right now. Let him. He‘s the only planet who can enter the underworld without being affected. He is the messenger, in fact, to the underworld ~ traveling back and forth between the depths of our being and the world. Mercury loves to delve in to the gossip to get the dirt. Mercury also has an aspect of creativity with Uranus and partnership with Juno. Traditions provide security and routine ~ but sometimes they need to change. This is such a time. Change your traditions toward where you are heading next in the world. Jupiter supports the
vision thing! Keep your vision in your head as you move forward. And Watch, Watch, Watch, for messages from the Sun (important folks in your life or your soul‘s purpose talking in your ear). Sun has powerful and clearing aspects with Neptune and Saturn. It all exists for a purpose and reason. You just have to figure out what the purpose and reason are~ and NO the purpose and reason are not to make you crazy. The purpose and reason are to help the evolution of the species. So evolve already!
Mundane. The Writers Guild is going on strike! Hollywood ~ our very own land of Neptune and dreams ~ is closing down and picketing the corporations that now run the place. The vote by the writers to strike took place as Neptune trined Mercury in Air signs ~ communications, ideas, and their station to move direct. Makes sense astrologically. Saturn in Virgo means we will have MANY MORE strikes over the next two years as LABOR (the servants of an industry so to speak) are ruled by the sixth house energy of VIRGO. Saturn in Virgo means Labor (Virgo) want to crystallize and restructure their deals with the authorities (Saturn). It is time to put a stake in the sand and take up the picket signs. As I understand it from my writer friends, the corporations (big media you better watch out ~ Pluto in Capricorn is coming!) are not sharing the media pie very well. Therefore, the writers are taking their balls, so to speak, or actually their pens and laptops, home. They are returning with a picket sign to march in front of the studio gates.
The writers (and soon to come the directors and actors contract) are seeking 1) Residuals for reuse of content (like replaying TV shows) on the internet; 2) Coverage and protections for original content (new stuff created for the internet.); 3) Basic protections so that when original stuff is created for the internet, they have rights. If they make an amazing character or show, they get the right to share in its success; 4) DVDs ~ Currently the writers get .3% per DVD, they are asking for .6% (Anne’s comment 3 cents to 6 cents per DVD seems reasonable to me!); 5) Enforcement of Coverage ~ Corporations need to honor the contracts they sign; 6) Expansion of Coverage ~Corporations need to cover stuff where writers are working without coverage. The two big areas without coverage are animation and reality. Those writers should be covered too.
Negotiations are not happening. The corporations are not moving on "digital delivery". Since all content is going to be digitally delivered in the coming years, the writers will lose the residuals as soon as that happens. Pluto entering a new sign always has the energy of the sign (Corporations) get quite a bit worse before it evolves for the better. We are approaching our Pluto return as a country. Pluto is leaving the sign of Sagittarius ~ writing and publishing ~ to enter Capricorn (corporations and control) in January. The strike might resolve when Pluto and Jupiter join on December 11th. Or it could be a long, long, long, long strike (or perhaps the directors and actors will strike?) as Pluto swings back into Sagittarius from June to November 2008 after a brief journey in Capricorn. Creativity makes these corporations lots of money. Come on corporations, share. Didn’t you learn to share in kindergarten? Oh, I forget, you didn’t GO to kindergarten did you? You are not a person! You are a corporations. You don’t know HOW to share unless you are shown HOW to share!
Please pray for two souls ~ David Winters, murdered while helping a battered woman, Sandra Gokey, also murdered, move out of her abusive home into a new life. In David’s last moments, he managed to save his 10-year-old grandson from being killed by the knife wielding stepfather. And please pray for that grandson ~ imagine being 10 years old and watching your mother and grandfather be fatally stabbed by your stepfather before he slit his own throat? David is the oldest nephew of Peggy, my father’s wife of 24 years. My third house family web is vibrating again! A kind and gentle, disabled, Vietnam vet, David turned 60 on September 21. I am so glad Saturn is off my Pisces Moon and away from that South Node!
Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee
