Weekly Weather October 16, 2006
It is a “working at it” kind of week ~ integrating the Uranian click clear break through from last few weeks via the transformative energy of explosions, separations, endings and getting clear on what you deeply want. Time to continue executing, working on and building up your Saturn muscles. Our t-square in the sky continues to tighten, moving toward the exact Jupiter square to Saturn next week as well as both Neptune and Mercury’s stations. This week we can expect the energy to continue to build for NEXT week’s culmination. Consequently, the more you can do your Saturn, the better you will be able to manage the energy flying around your ears.
A few of you have written asking for instructions on how to do your Saturn. Easy. You might not like my answer. What is the thing you are most afraid of in your life right now? What is making you feel neurotic? What problem or situation keeps kicking up and dancing in the corner? What do you want to run away from and yet so deeply long to have resolved? What are you prone to avoid or worry about or obsess over? Where do you wish you could wave a magic wand and make it disappear or be all better or be through this part? That is where your Saturn is. You have Saturn work to do right there! That‘s Saturn. Don’t be afraid of Saturn. Go talk to Saturn. Enlist help from your friends, your family, your accountant, your lawyer, your astrologer, your dog or your therapist do your Saturn. Saturn doesn’t care if you bring along reinforcements! He finds it quite amusing actually. You and Saturn are going to be having a sit-down to figure it out over the next week or so. If you think those people will help you feel better or give you moral support, great! Bring ‘em along. It still will be you and old Saturn who sit down at the table and talk. Act as IF! Act as IF you know what you are doing. Act as IF it is going to work out perfectly. Run right up and greet old Saturn. Shake his hand. Be brave. Offer Saturn a cup of herbal tea and cookies. He likes lemon in his tea, not milk. Most likely, you can help virtually everyone in the world in this area of your life but you have enormous trouble helping yourself. That is where your Saturn is! Gotta apply the wise words you often give to the entire world to your own situation!
Another way to do your Saturn is to admit or acknowledge your Saturn. Off to our dictionary we go: Admit: to permit to enter, to serve as a means of entrance. To permit to join or exercise certain rights, functions or privileges. To have room for, to be able to accommodate. To afford opportunity for. Allowed, permitted. Acknowledge, confess, to grant as true or valid, as for the sake of argument, to accept or allow as true or valid, to afford possibility, permit, allow.
Or maybe you’d prefer the definition of Acknowledge: to confess, avow or admit the existence, reality or truth of, to recognize as being valid or having force or power, to express recognition of, to express thanks or gratitude for, to report the receipt of. To accept or certify as legally binding. These verbs mean to make a disclosure, sometimes with reluctance or under pressure, to accept responsibility for something one makes known or to give recognition to some one. Admit: usually implies marked reluctance in acknowledging one’s acts or accepting a different point of view as a result of pressure. Own: stresses the personal acceptance of and responsibility for one’s deeds. Avow: assert openly and boldly and implies the likelihood of opposition. Confess: emphasizes disclosure of wrong doing. Concede: is to yield to a claim or demand often with some reluctance.
So, do your Saturn. Admit your Saturn. Acknowledge your Saturn. Own your Saturn. Avow your Saturn. Confess your Saturn. Concede your Saturn. Don’t give your Saturn to any one else! No passing the buck. Take and embrace complete responsibility for your Saturn. All you have to do is admit Saturn into your life. Think of all the energy you spend denying Saturn access! Open your front door and let Saturn in! Take his coat. Offer Saturn the best chair in your living room. He is not so bad once you get to know him. He’s a great help and support, ONCE you decide to work WITH him. In fact, you might find that you and Saturn have quite a bit in common. Saturn can show you nifty tricks, skills or techniques (provided you do your Saturn work) to solve the problem at hand. Saturn’s been around the block. He’s seen it all. He’s Saturn. Just don’t hug him. Saturn’s not into hugs. And get fresh lemon for his tea, he prefers organic.
Monday, Sun and Saturn chat as Mars kicks the North Node where it counts. North Node doubles over, clutching his genitals, and falls to the ground. Today is a dirty play day! As in head butts, choke holds, punches below the belt, bad calls, and referees ignoring the increasingly violent play on the court or field. The authorities will call for the other guy. Your side is out of time outs. DO YOUR SATURN!!!!
Tuesday, Sun sextiles Pluto ~ absolute power corrupts absolutely. Do your Saturn. Mars is looking to stir the pot and get Uranus into the fight. He will probably join in and escalate the fight, violence and bad calls. It has the quality of a bar fight in the Wild West with the chairs flying and the bullets zinging by your ear. One of the reasons I have been emphasizing that you build up your Saturn muscle over the past few months was for the next two weeks! I want you doing your Saturn as much as you can, regardless of the Whoosh of stuff going on around your head. Let the rest of the world do Jupiter and Neptune and Pluto, YOU do your Saturn!
Wednesday, Venus works with Saturn and tries to get what she wants. Might be a yes from Saturn today but it will be a no from Pluto tomorrow. Keep doing your Saturn. Push past your 1982/83 story. Go for your dreams.
Thursday has a lovely long void moon. That is a good thing! Cranky, cranky energy. Venus is not particularly pleased with Pluto’s answer. She wants what she wants. Pluto is listening to the Sun, Mars and Uranus and not giving Venus what she wants. Do your Saturn. Now, if it seems that your whole world is going to collapse today, it is an illusion! It is the whoosh of Neptune and Jupiter and Pluto changing form into very scary things in front of you. They are merely reflecting your very worst fears and nightmares. Ignore them. Or keep doing your Saturn. Or go to bed and pull the covers over your head. When you get up out of your bed, do your Saturn.
Friday we rest. Take advantage of the quiet in the heavens and the Libra moon to talk to Saturn about what is going on. He’ll give you advice. Take it. Looks to be sound advice as Jupiter makes an aspect of brilliance to Chiron.
Saturday, as Juno enters Libra and the new moon takes place at 28 Libra, echoes of Fall of 1982 and Spring of 1983 are up in your consciousness. First, look at that situation with new eyes now that you’ve gone through the past year of hell. Second, see how much wiser you are now? Do you see how you’ve grown? Do you see how the situation over the last year taught you that Saturn has a good side too? Do you understand it is not all about you? That is Saturn ~ we learn by doing. While the new moon MAY trigger the bad old memories of that Saturn of yours, I want you to consciously, cohesively, gently and kindly reframe your Saturn. Do you see how Saturn is a force and a power to be reckoned with in your chart? Your Saturn notices things. Your Saturn is pretty darn cool. Admit it, you kind of like Saturn. Maybe you are even a bit proud of Saturn? Saturn holds things accountable. Saturn owns. Saturn admits. Saturn confesses. Saturn avows. Saturn concedes. Saturn acknowledges. So do it already. Invite Saturn into you
r life!
Sunday, hopefu
lly you’ll take advantage of Mercury joining to Jupiter and Venus’s aspect to Pallas to sit down and negotiate a new relationship with Saturn. He‘s not a bad guy. If you DON’T talk to Saturn, next week you are going to have to. The Sun and Mars are all over that 1982/1983 degree. The time of for being accountable to Saturn is now.
Mundane: Over the next two weeks, we have a number of MAJOR events culminating and setting off the USA chart. Back in 1982/83, was the Iran/Contra tale run by the same boys who are in power now. They learned their lessons back then and didn’t leave much in the way of paper trails this time around. Cash on the barrel head. No wire tapping warrants. Merge and protect their data suppliers. Establish unbridled Presidential Powers and call it the Unitary Executive Branch. Take maximum advantage of another “Pearl Harbor” kind of event, call it 9-11, and pass amazing legislation virtually overnight (why was that bill written and ready to go?) called the Patriot Act. Ignore checks and balances as designed in the constitution. Put signing statements on every law passed by Congress to say you aren’t going to do them. Control the voting machines so 80% of the population votes on your equipment without a paper trail or audit mechanism.
In May 2000, Dick Cheney said he was the best guy to be George Bush’s Vice-President. Over the past 6 years, we’ve gone down a long, rather dark path toward creating a totalitarian fascist country. Look up the definition of those words in the dictionary if you don’t believe me! We’ve watched the steady erosion of our civil rights, destruction of the middle class, the consolidation of the free press media into 5 companies, exported our manufacturing base, eliminated jobs, removed our right to declare bankruptcy, enhanced eminent domain to take away property rights, broken our union working force, invaded a sovereign nation, removed habeas corpus from the constitution for our citizens as well as for all of those “unlawful enemy combatants”, permitted torture in our name and spent our two treasures of citizen’s blood and money to control and occupy the fifth largest oil field in the world.
The boys in charge have dispatched the Ike Strike Force, as in Eisenhower Carrier group of the Navy, to sail for Iran’s coast. The Ike Strike Force arrives off the coast of Iran around October 21-22, 2006. While I hate to make predictions like this (my Saturn is in Scorpio in the 8th house and conjunct Venus, the ruler of my 3rd house also in the 8th house), I have a feeling we are going to be invading Iran over the next couple of weeks. Or there will be a “triggering” incident so we CAN invade Iran over the next two weeks. There, I did my Saturn! Saturn and Jupiter do have a mind of their own, so hopefully, I am wrong!
I know astrology works but sometimes….jeeze. Last week I wrote: Wednesday Mars joins with Uranus by declination. Mars and Uranus together mean explosions and not necessarily fun nor pleasant explosions. Expect explosions. Every place. … As the Mars/Uranus midpoint is near the world axis the explosions will be quite public ~ the whole world will know about it. Do your Saturn.
I was at my computer, writing my column (doing my Saturn!), when Cory Lidle’s (March 22, 1972) plane flew into a building outside my apartment window. I looked up at the sound of the crash and watched his plane fall from the sky and burst into a fireball down my block. The craziness of a New York emergency with a zillion fire trucks, police, ambulances, and folks running towards and away from the crash. I live near three hospitals so doctors came running! Mr. Lidle had Saturn in Gemini trine Pluto in Libra, on the world axis, with his Aries Sun tightly opposite his Pluto. His Aries Mercury, ruler of Saturn in Gemini, is retrograde at birth.
“Doing his Saturn” for Mr. Lidle means following the basic rules or instructions, the script, as fast, directly and as firmly as he can (Mercury in Aries). But his Mercury, ruler of his Saturn, is retrograde so he can have trouble with rules and communications ~ things can happen too fast with a Mercury in Aries much less a retrograde one. His Mercury can say or think of things before his Saturn catches up and says, “Nope, that might not be a great idea!” His natal Sun/ Saturn/ Pluto/ Jupiter/ Neptune configuration was activated by the current Sun/ Saturn/ Pluto/ Jupiter/ Neptune configuration in the sky.
Bridges are ruled by the third house (Mercury‘s house), Saturn, Pluto and Neptune. Parachutes are ruled by Neptune ~ his plane had a parachute to “save” it in the case of engine trouble or pilot error. A river was involved, Neptune or perhaps Jupiter in Scorpio as it is a pretty polluted river! The lovely t-square trine to Pluto in the heavens is tightening up ~ Saturn in Leo opposite Neptune in Aquarius and squared by Jupiter in Scorpio.
So, let’s say Mr. Liddle and his California flight instructor, age 26, are excited about their cross country flight at the end of baseball season. They take off, circle the Statue of Liberty and fly up the East River. He’s out of New York City as he’s probably going to be traded by the Yankees. He’s got a parachute on the back of his plane to make him feel confident (Neptune in Aquarius). He has 75 hours of flying time under his belt ~ enough to make his Aries Sun feel it knows what it is doing. The FAA rules (Saturn in Leo) say, “No flying UNDER the 59th Street Bridge”. What can one quick fly under the bridge hurt? It is a silly, controlling rule (Jupiter in Scorpio) to prevent accidents. Besides who is going to know or catch us? His plane disappeared from radar just south of the 59th Street Bridge. Did his tail or rudder clip something under the bridge or on the tram cables to Roosevelt Island when he broke the rule and flew under the bridge?
OR maybe he was having engine trouble. Of course, IF he had engine trouble and was following pilot rules (Saturn in Leo), he COULD have ditched in the East River (Jupiter in Scorpio) with his parachute (Neptune in Aquarius). That would be doing his Saturn in Gemini too. So let’s say he had engine trouble and needed a place to ditch his plane. The section of the river north of the 59th Street Bridge is solidly lined by tall hospital buildings (Jupiter in Scorpio) on the left and the tall middle income planned community (Neptune in Aquarius) Roosevelt Island apartments on the right. My block is the first low section where you can turn in and not hit a tall building. Who wants to ditch and destroy (Jupiter in Scorpio) a brand new $180,000 plane by deploying a parachute (Neptune in Aquarius) to have the darn thing sink like a stone into the East River (Jupiter in Scorpio)? Turn left at the first opening, deploy the parachute (Neptune in Aquarius) and land the puppy on the ground.
OR perhaps he WAS following the rules but that retrograde Mercury in Aries of his got in the way! The FAA rules say you have to turn back before 96th Street, UNLESS you are under air traffic control, to avoid La Guardia airport and its air traffic. He and the California based flight instructor, who hadn’t flown in New York City with her tall buildings, knew they had to turn around AFTER the 59th Street Bridge and BEFORE 96th Street. Perhaps they didn’t realize the river widens a bit further up so you don’t have to make a u-turn over land? Did they know about the blustery, tricky river wind created by the tall buildings lining the low river? Did they misjudge the steering ratio of their new plane?
Regardless, they were inland, flying over apartment buildings and between apartment buildings and eventually into an apartment building (Neptune in Aquarius) instead of flying over the relatively safe river (Jupiter in Scorpio). Every senior pilot (
Jupiter in Scorpio) interviewed said they recommended skipping the East River flight as it was so tricky (Saturn in Gemini) to maneuver or fly in ~ due to all the possible not foreseeable air hazards (Neptune in Aquarius). Every senior pilot said flying up the East River is VERY inviting to beginner, inexperienced pilots (Saturn in Gemini).
After they started to turn, the clip to the tail or rudder from flying under the 59th Street bridge/tram OR the engine trouble OR following the rules but perhaps too soon OR not enough information OR the sight of very tall buildings one block in OR river wind bursts OR inexperience OR whatever ~ Quick, make a U-turn back towards clear, open air and fly over the river! Suddenly, they were into the WHOOSH of the powerful T-Square. Too late ~ too late, there is no time (Saturn) left to do Saturn.
Do your Saturn.
Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee
