Weekly Weather October 1, 2007
Fall begins in earnest during the week ahead. We are back in Saturn’s school, hanging out in Virgo‘s classroom for the next two years. Mercury in Scorpio now rules that Saturn in Virgo. We’ve moved out of the air, theory, conceptual version of Saturn in Virgo of the past few weeks, while Mercury was traveling in Libra. We are now entering into the fixed intensity of a Scorpionic Mercury which takes charge of Saturn for a while. The amount of change that Saturn in Leo and his life altering opposition to Neptune brought to your life and your fixed houses over the past two years is starting to firm up and solidify. Think of those fixed houses of yours as starting to coalesce like water freezes into ice cubes in your freezer. First, the surface of your fixed houses get a sheen of thin glass ice on the top. Underneath, the houses are still fluid. Thin glass ice forms on the top of your fixed houses this week. Soon, those fixed houses of yours will harden into solid forms, especially that Leo area which underwent such profound changes. We are still in the early stages of mutable Saturn in Virgo so you aren’t solid or feeling on solid ground just yet!
Remember how if you want ice before it is ready, the potential ice cube is only a combination of ice sheet on the top and water underneath? That is the imagery for the week ahead. We are currently in the approach or the shadow stage of both Mercury and Mars. Mercury, in charge of our thoughts and beliefs and Mars, in charge of our actions and their impact on the world, have delicious retrogrades coming up. They both promise us lovely and long (in the case of Mars) retrogrades to do “RE” words ~ re-vise, re-visit, re-do, re-commence, re-start, re-connect, re-communicate, and re-act. “RE”s are the cosmic symbolisms to us to think, and re-think, again or act and re-act, again. The goal of retrogrades is to offer us the opportunity to have a do-over or another chance at the planet‘s energy. Time to try again to get what we would like to have or create in our lives. During the upcoming retrograde times, we will be offered the opportunity to break and reform the surface and shape of the ice forming in our life’s ice cube trays. No worries. No stress. Just know, the form things are taking before you may change many times over the next few months until it forms clearly and solidly in early spring. Keep your goal focused in your mind’s eye. Move crisply through your life with partially formed ice cubes tinkling in your umbrella drink.
Mercury is the ruler of Saturn in Virgo. Depending on what and where Mercury is in the sky and in your chart, Saturn in Virgo’s behavior is going to change to answer to Mercury‘s guidance and instructions. Remember MUTABLE Virgo changes so much BECAUSE it is ruled by the ever adapting Mercury‘s changing information! Mercury stations and goes retrograde next week.
This week Mercury and Saturn will have a little chat about you and your progress in your life. Mercury has been moving ahead of the Sun for a bit now, acting as a scout of sorts. He has noticed how you have been doing in the world. This week Mercury is reporting in on your behavior and talking with Saturn. Mercury and Saturn are going to decide what, if anything, you learned during Saturn’s journey through Leo. More importantly, they will decide where you need remedial work or new work to develop your life’s skills to serve your purpose while Saturn travels through Virgo for the next two years. Not to worry.
It is kind of like when your parents go to have a parent/ teacher conference about you, the student they have in common. Saturn is responsible for teaching you in this lifetime. Sun is responsible for guiding your soul and parenting you to your potential as described by your Sun and the Leo house in your chart. Mercury, meeting up with both Sun and Saturn over the next few weeks, is talking to them about the essential parts or areas that you need to improve while in Saturn in Virgo school. Remember, Mercury is in Scorpio. He knows. He does not miss a trick.
The areas that get pointed out to you this week are the areas you are going to be working on for the next two years. Hopefully, you are fully aware of what these areas ARE so the information you receive will not be much of a surprise to you. They don’t have those Parent / Teacher conferences until after the Teacher has had a chance to assess where you are, skill wise. If you are told you need extra help with Math or Reading or work or finance or relationships or dealing with authority or being prompt or whatever area of your life, please, please, please put a plan in place to have it start to happen.
So, know the universe, in the form of Saturn and Sun are going to be all over the “needs improvement” part of your being, chart and life in the week ahead. Listen to them. Hear what they say. Maybe do what they say. Or at least TRY to do or hear what they say. Or at least acknowledge you hear what they are pointing out and look with your bright shiny eyes to see how it is true. You may decide you do not want to change who you are or how you act in the world. That is perfectly okay. Free will and all that jazz. Nevertheless, do understand NOT changing your behavior will have some major consequences down the road. The ice is starting to form in the ice cube tray of your life. This part is going to be frozen in soon if you do not adjust it or develop it better.
Monday is a busy day. Mercury talks with Saturn. They discuss and come up with a plan to improve your behavior or skill set. Pallas opposite Saturn and trine to Mercury can help you set up a structured strategy and plan for action that WILL HELP YOU SUCCEED IF YOU FOLLOW IT! Please watch for what happens today. If you’d like to start a diet or project or lay out goals for how to get where you want to go, today is a FABULOUS day for putting that plan on paper and following the steps into action. Often we have habits that we have acquired from our family, our Saturn or by falling into habits that do not help us or even hinder us. Today you can see what they are, very clearly. Intentions are lovely. Action is where it is at. Enough with the chatter. Time to do some actual work already.
For example, I know Mercury and Saturn are going to tell the Sun that I am bad at burning my reading cds promptly, billing (or following up on billing) and promptly answering correspondence like emails. All of these are areas I need to improve to be a better astrologer in the world. No surprise there. However, I need to do remedial work in that area of my life for the next two years to get it into shape.
Tuesday Sun has an aspect of brilliance to Pallas after Mercury and Saturn worked with her yesterday to develop the plan for you. Do you mean to tell me that if I just do xyz, that abc will happen? Yes, that is what is going to happen! I promise! I remember back when I was studying photography. I took the “roll of film a day” class. The teacher said, “If you want to be a photographer and improve your skills, you have to do your craft each and every day.” Each member of the class was expected to shoot a roll of 36 exposure black and white film, develop it, make a contact sheet and at least one 8×11 print from the roll for each and every day of the class. We had to journal about what we shot or felt or whatever. It did not matter if we were moving, sick, not in the mood, had to work or how life got in our way of shooting our roll of film a day. We had to do those tasks. The class met once a week on Monday evenings. It was an amazing process to go through personally. It was an equally fascinating experience to watch my fellow classmates go through it. I want you to put yourself into a similar structure from now until April 5, 2008. Figure out what your “roll of film a day” is (hint look at what Saturn, Sun and Mercury talked about that needs improving in y
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uo;s take advantage of Mars and his nice long retrograde journey in Cancer and Gemini to get your skill set built up and improved in this area. Think of the “roll of film a day” as going into life tutoring! Or extra help for your soul. Doing your version of a “roll of film a day” will build a muscle in your soul that you will be very proud of by the end of March.
Wednesday Venus trines Pluto. Do I have your commitment? I know, it looks like your version of “a roll of film a day” might be easy from the vantage point of now. We will see how easy it is to actually DO once you get your life rolling. Essentially, we are making the thing that you love to do part and parcel of your life. Well, actually the thing you love to do IS part and parcel of your life. This part, the part that we are now exercising is the part that is hard or difficult for you to do. This part is also related to your Saturn. Oh that Saturn, he seems to just stick his nose into every place in your chart! Especially into the part that needs improvement. So let’s improve it. Let’s work with Saturn. Working with your Saturn will make you a better whatever you are supposed to be. And yes, even when you are moving, or sick or not feeling like it, you’d be surprised how wonderful the photos, or your version of the roll of film a day or working with your Saturn turns out.
Thursday Sun trines Chiron asking him for a bit of advice. The long void moon in emotional Cancer today offers us all sorts of cosmic information and goodies about our choices and our lives. We have the concept that there are better ways, perhaps, than the one we are doing or choosing. You are going to have some emotions about those choices of yours today. Take a close look at the emotions to see their source. It isn‘t time to change the emotions. Just note them, feel them, and let the emotions rise and flow. Watch the emotions ebb with time. They are emotions. That is all they are. Water is only one part of the creation cycle of Air, Fire, Water and Earth. But emotions are a very important part! So watch your emotions and what they DO to you today.
Friday Ceres pushes off the Node by declination. You may decide, today, that you do not want to do something any more. Ceres offers you an opportunity to release that bad old behavior, or to grow up or to move along. Or to NOT grow up. You may decide you LIKE doing whatever that bad old behavior is! You actually LOVE your bad old behavior! Remember, that bad old behavior gives you something! Those bad old behaviors of ours always give us something! Bad old behaviors give you something that you needed or wanted or desired. Now, that can be TRUE even IF, at the same time, that bad old behavior may NOT be the healthiest way to go about living your life.
There will be a person assuming an authoritarian position in your life, as your Mother or Father did, today. They will point out that bad old behavior of yours. Well, stick to your guns if you want to continue doing the bad old behavior. Or change. But change only because YOU want to change. Change because you have actually figured out that bad old behavior of yours is not serving you the way it used to serve you. You are ready to grow up in that area.
Think back to the area Saturn, Mercury and the Sun spoke to you about earlier in the week. You know, the “needs improvement” area. The “roll of film a day” shoot it, change it and build the muscle area from now until April. That area. I bet if you look you will see that area is related to your Saturn. It is your Saturn’s biggest issue or fear! It is SO related to that dear old Saturn of yours!
For example, burning cds after a reading. Saturn in Scorpio has a fear of endings. Burning the cd means the reading has ended ~ the reading is locked in plastic forever and sent off into the mail to a person I might never talk to again or ever meet. Next, following up on billing ~ Saturn in the eighth house of other people’s money ~ can I ask other people to pay me for doing astrology readings? Third example, communication avoidance. Saturn in Scorpio has a fear of merging or connecting on a profound level. At the same time, Saturn in Scorpio is all about the occult (which is connecting and merging with hidden stuff) AND I am SUPPOSED to be a grown up!
Now, I can merge with the chart and the client in a Scorpionic triangle of disclosure, revelation and information. But at the same time, I dance nervously at the edge or the ending of the reading with all those Saturn words ~ inadequacy, terror, fear, and avoidance. To the outside world, my behavior looks SO stupid. Burn the silly disc and mail it! How hard is that!?!
See the dichotomy of Saturn? What we love we fear at the same time. It is because we love it SO much that we fear it SO much. Try applying it to the situation in your life. What is the behavior the Sun, Mercury and Saturn talked to you about changing at the beginning of the week? What is your “roll of film a day” effort going to be? Do you see how it relates to your Saturn’s issues? Do you see how it is both the love and fear parts of your Saturn by sign and house placement? That is what Saturn in Virgo is all about, sidling up, digging in and doing a little teeny tiny bit of the scary part of your Saturn each and every day. Talk to Mars, Pallas and Pluto to come up with a transformative action strategy for getting your version of the “roll of film a day” accomplished! Figure out how to burn the cds in your life. Those bad old behaviors of ours do have a reason to exist. They LIKE to dance around in the corner of our lives and laugh at us. It gives them great pleasure in fact.
Saturn’s day brings Sun’s gift of brilliance to the Node and your life‘s direction. Moon in Leo lights up an understanding of how to proceed. Vesta offers an opportunity to adjust your efforts in your mind. It actually is as easy as all that! Burning a disc is not hard. Nor is shooting a roll of film a day. However, what or why you are AVOIDING burning the disc or shooting the roll of film, now THAT is INTERESTING! We do so get in our own way! Saturn in Virgo is about handling that getting in your own way part of your Saturn with PRACTICAL plans, steps to figure it out and make it work. Saturn in Virgo is NOT about giving yourself a hard time about what you do or don’t do. Saturn in Virgo is about getting a new habit in place that extinguishes the bad old behaviors that muck you up in the first place. Every moment is a new beginning.
Sunday is quiet. So make a plan. Use the Virgo moon to get yourself in some sort of Virgo order. Moon occults Saturn suggesting you can see how that bad old behavior of yours did serve you! Isn’t it cool how it works? Does it still need to work that way? Hmm? Reflect. Mercury slows down to a crawl as he reaches his station point in the sky. Mars gets ready to implement his action plan with Saturn next week. Habits can change. You can change. Your life can change. That is what Saturn in Virgo will be about. Changing your structures, processes, routines and life to create what you would love to have in your life.
Copyright © 2007 Anne Ortelee
