Weekly Weather October 23, 2006
Our week ahead is going to be huge!
Any of ONE the week’s SIXTEEN aspects would make it a “transformative” week. We have SIXTEEN MAJOR aspects, including the perfection of our Jupiter Saturn square and the station of Neptune, the third leg of the fixed T-square. Three planets changing signs out of peace loving Libra into transformative, passionate and possibly destructive BUT preferably evolutionary Scorpio ~ Sun, Mars, and Venus. Two planets station. Mercury stations to go Retrograde in Scorpio right on top of our t-square and on Jupiter. Neptune stations to go Direct, summoning up all sorts of dreams, illusions and imagery. Sun joins with Mars on the last degree of Libra asking us to partner with the month’s new moon and move forward. Venus joins with Mars at 1 Scorpio asking us to define our passions and dreams to have them take form. Sun joins with Venus at 4 Scorpio as they both square Chiron at 4 Aquarius asking us to go forth, create or find our tribe and where we fit in the world. There are bunches of squares, causing action, movement or change ~ Mercury square to Saturn ~ state your passion and objections NOW or be prepared to forever hold your peace! Pluto square to the nodes ~ the world is starting to spin toward her next phase, the last phase is ending ~ wave goodbye to the past ~ send it off with blessings and love as you turn to face the new beginnings.
Of course, the biggest aspect is Jupiter square to Saturn for pass three ~ revisiting the story begun May of 2000 and with test part 1 on December 17, 2005 and test part 2 on June 22, 2006. The final exam is this week! Keep doing your Saturn and you are going to ACE it! Sun and Venus square Chiron ~ our passions uniquely define us and help us make our future life choices. Make a choice from your deepest passionate belief about what you can have and what you love at the depths of your soul. There are several parallels as Venus, Mars and Chiron meet by declination in the sky ~ sometimes what is best for us is hard for those who love us ~ but we have to do what is best for us. It is how we actually show our love for the others by loving ourselves. Love means letting the other person pursue what is best for them even if it is hard for you. The other person gets to make their own choices and live their own life. Just as you get to make your own choices and live your own life. Back to the concept of free will and God ~ you have free will to love OR not love God. That is what free will is ….. You get to decide what you want to love. Coercion is NOT letting you exercise your free will. “Free will issues” are going to be all over the place all week.
The week ahead is what we’ve been emotionally working toward resolving since last year in August 2005. In fact, on a soul or spirit level we’ve been working toward it since Fall 1982. On an intellectual level, we’ve been working toward it since May 2000. On an emotional level, we’ve been working toward it since Saturn entered Leo last summer. All that is left is the physical form ~ time for manifestation! Expect manifestation to occur this week!
We create and experience things on four levels ~ spirit, intellectual, emotional and physical, or by the elements of fire, air, water and earth. Spirit has a desire or passion to experience something and moves towards it. Intellectually we get it and can verbalize the goal. We can talk about it but the NEXT step is the most difficult. Spirit and intellect run into trouble manifesting in form (earth) when EMOTIONALLY (water) they react with or experience fear. Fear makes us remove our emotional energy from the creative act. When we emotionally experience fear, we shrink back, rather than rushing toward, accepting the fear and facing that fear with love. Fear and love are opposite sides of the same energy. We recede with fear. Let’s reframe our fear. Let’s start to think of our “fear” as a marker for “almost being there” in terms of our individual manifestation process. Our fear is our Saturn. Let our fear turn into our love. That is actually what it wants to become. Saturn is the planet of manifestation ~ our fear has to transform to make things manifest.
Saturn as the planet of manifestation is also called in astrology as the planet of fear and limitations. We have to emotionally experience the yearning desire AS WELL AS FACE ANY FEARS (and figure out how to work with or pass them by) to get Saturn to create what we’d like to have in our world. I find it interesting that the things we fear the most are exactly what we manage to create. But of course! Think about it! We’ve contributed SO much emotional energy to our fear BECAUSE we are afraid of our fears! Stuff gets created by our emotions, fear or love, combining with our passion and our intellect! The stuff we are afraid of gets created because we are afraid of it! So bizarre isn’t it?
When we look at what we fear with LOVE, acceptance, gratitude OR if we agree to work with what we fear, rather than shrink from it, we create what we deeply want. Gotta face those fears ~ it is the key to getting what you say you want! This week you will have an opportunity to face your fears. You‘ve been doing your Saturn over the past few months. Doing your Saturn, in any form, is facing your fears.
During a week like this, I resort to describing the energy. There is so much going on in the heavens (and thus in our world). There is not much else to do to make sense of it. Expect lots of turbulence, eruptions and oodles of change. After all we have SIXTEEN BIG ASPECTS rolling around on our earth! If you’ve been doing your Saturn, you’ll be ready. And, just keep doing your Saturn if you get nervous or anxious or feel the “whoosh” of the t-square taking you off to parts or places unknown that you are afraid of. Whatever happens, do your Saturn. It will calm you right down. Face your fear. Just look at it. That is doing your Saturn. So easy, yet so hard.
Sunday’s new moon at 28:40 Libra echoes across time and space. It asked us to start anew with a revised or different vision of the issues from our past. It is time to revisit our known knowns and our accepted wisdoms. We are a moment in time when we can see what and how our known knowns and accepted wisdoms created our life. One of the major stumbling blocks when we start to become conscious is learning and understanding how our beings are settled in, formed, created and passed into solid structures by the roots of our family and early experiences. When you are taught to “believe” in a thing, especially when you are young, it is difficult to separate out what is actually YOUR belief from THE OTHER’s belief.
Back on November 7, 1982, Saturn and Pluto, two of our life structure planets joined in the sky at 27:36 Libra, right next to the degree of Sunday’s New Moon. The conjunction starts a new cycle of consciousness about our life. When two planets join, we continue to track the steps of their cycle dance with each other. We watch whenever planets stop or station on the sensitive degree of 28 Saturn/ Pluto Libra as those moments “wake up” the energy from 1982. All growth cycles have phases. Over the past year, we’ve been “pruning” our 1982-1983 structures, beliefs, limitations and fears. There were a series of sesquiquadrates, described as a combination of squares requesting action and semisquares causing stress between the structures that have grown in our lives.
In the rose world, sesquiquadrates would be called “plucking the suckers”. At the bottom or along the main stem every rose bush, these little cute twigs or baby branches grow, seeking life. They are called “suckers”. Essentially, suckers take advantage of the growing season, rose bush and lovely weather to shoot forth. However, suckers sap the growing essence from the blooms. Suckers divert
energy. Blooms are the ultim
ate purpose of every plant. Suckers use up the bloom’s energy. Rosarians, the fancy name for the gardeners who take care of roses, aggressively snap off and pluck the suckers. They eliminate suckers to enhance, increase and lengthen the balance, fragrance and energy sent to the bloom.
Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with suckers! Suckers are perfectly wonderful little twigs and branches. When I volunteered in a rose garden, I apologized to every bush I plucked! However, the Rosarian In Charge was VERY CLEAR about the need to Eliminate ALL The Suckers! He plucked off “suckers” which were even legitimate branches! Snip, snip, snip. Pluck, pluck, pluck.
The universe, with, or without, your cooperation, has been plucking and snapping suckers off you over the last year or so as you‘ve experienced the pruning energy of the sesquiquadrate of Saturn to Pluto. The universe wants you to bloom. It is time. The suckers in your life are perfectly fine, legitimate branches or twigs ~ they are part and parcel of your rose bush after all! In fact, you might want to keep a few of the suckers on your rose bush! Those suckers make a legitimate case for staying ~ heck they are branches already! To have you bloom, to your highest purpose and potential, you have to pluck your suckers. You have identified your suckers. You know what suckers look like. Pluck any suckers that don’t contribute to your higher path, love, growth or expansion. They are draining your energy and time.
After I learned about plucking suckers, I started checking out rose bushes that grow untended by Crazed Sucker Plucking Rosarians. Rose bushes have lots and lots of suckers! The universe and nature likes abundance. Nature likes redundancy. Sucker covered rose bushes still BLOOM. Their blooms ARE smaller, less fragrant and not as abundant. But they bloom. It takes more work, time and energy to support both the blooms and the suckers. The rose bush life force is diverted into all sorts of suckers where it doesn’t need to go.
Over the next few weeks, the Cosmic Gardener will be coming over to your part of the rose garden to inspect the bushes you’ve been plucking the suckers on for the last year or so. The Cosmic Gardner might decide to pluck a sucker that you (and perhaps even the sucker) consider to be a legitimate branch or twig. Trust the Cosmic Rosarian if a branch or twig gets plucked off and called a sucker. Even if you don‘t agree, trust the plucking the sucker process! The cosmic pluck is to help you grow. That plucked branch or twig can go to grow some place else. You don’t have to keep supporting it with your life force.
And, if the Cosmic Gardener doesn’t pluck a bunch of suckers in your part of the garden over the next week or so that means you’ve been doing your Saturn! Keep on doing your Saturn. Doing your Saturn is another word for plucking your suckers. You’ve learned to identify the suckers from the true branches and purpose of your particular rose bush. You’ve found your path. You are ready to bloom!
Monday we have two planets, Sun and Mars, changing signs and entering the passion, enthusiasm, sacredness and transformative energy of Scorpio. We also have Mercury in Scorpio square to Saturn in Leo ~ expect information or news of endings, possibly difficult news but it marks the end of something major in your life. Sun and Mars join at the last degree of Libra starting a new year cycle with you evaluating and integrating the lessons from 1982 into your life in a brand new way.
Tuesday, Venus joins with Scorpio and a number of blessed gifts of destiny aspects form in the heavens as the Sun, Mars and Venus aspect the North Node of your future path. I don’t care WHAT happens today, I want you sitting down and looking at it as a gift from the Universe because it is! The Cosmic Gardener is coming over to evaluate how well you’ve plucked your suckers! The Cosmic Gardener may or may not pluck a couple more suckers, off your Rose bush. You might not be sure you want to let those suckers go. Trust the Cosmic Gardener on this one. The Cosmic Gardener knows what is needed to make you bloom to your highest potential.
Wednesday, Venus joins with Mars as Jupiter squares Saturn. The Cosmic Gardener is going to pluck off a couple of twigs if your Rose Bush needs those suckers plucked! Plucking is all so you can grow to be what you are meant to be. Saturn and Jupiter make their final square today. Back to the events of 1982, May 2000, December 2005 and June 2006. You get to find out what those events in your life were for, now, today, this week! Get ready! The universe is going to show you some mighty cool parts of your life plan! Pluto squares the Nodes and moves us Forward into our Future.
Thursday is Sucker Plucking Recovery Day. Talk to the Cosmic Gardener about what and why those suckers had to be plucked. Ask questions. Listen to your dreams. Watch for messages from the Universe or the various people in your world. Hear the voice in your soul that pipes up with a clear voice about why. Mercury’s trine in Scorpio to the Node says that clear voice will help you understand why. The sperm and the egg both have to die or perhaps a better word is “transform” to become the egg that will grow into the baby. Tomato and lettuce are cut up and combined to make a salad. They are still the essence or components of tomato and lettuce! BUT they can never, never, ever, return to their original form of a juicy, round red globe growing in the August field or a leafy, fluffy, crispy head of Romaine sparkling with dew. Transformation is what you come to understand today. Transformation is part of our journey here on earth.
Friday, Sun joins Venus. That salad is simply delicious ~ come on, put on a bit of vinegar and oil and toss it high with your tongs. Thank those lettuce pieces and tomato chunks for their energetic and physical contributions to your delicious life salad. Thank the players, people and situations in your life story over the past year for their contribution to your life salad. If they hadn’t contributed their ingredients, you wouldn’t have the lovely, delicious salad you have today. Venus’ and Sun’s square to Chiron points out the changes that are necessary to move you along in your life. Be kind to all you meet today. Everyone’s feeling a bit raw from the tossed salad going on in their lives. Or having their suckers plucked.
Saturn’s day, Mercury stations right on top of Jupiter and our lovely fixed T-square. Mercury in Scorpio is quite the wise fellow. He looks at what you are trying to accomplish and makes suggestions, with very few words, of what you might try to get what you want. Listen to him. Make the adjustments. Venus’ aspect to Saturn suggests you look back at how you WOULD HAVE reacted not so very long ago, versus how you are reacting NOW. Do you see your growth? Do you see your changes? The wisdom that has come with the process? Pretty amazing eh?
Sunday, Neptune stations. Neptune is going direct. So maybe it didn’t turn out quite the way you wanted. There is always tomorrow. You’ve been working your Saturn muscles and getting so clear on stuff. Mars joins with Chiron suggesting a wounding but a profound understanding at the same time. The final form isn’t going to be completely clear until Saturn and Neptune finish their dance at the end of next June. However, you’ve got a glimpse of what it CAN be (as well as a picture of the yucky stuff) Focus on the good parts, the glass half full parts please!
I want to leave you with a thought to hold on to if this week is hard for you (or even if it was easy to pass along to others who had their suckers plucked and need an encouraging word or three of support). Saturn is in Fire. Neptune is in Air. Jupiter is in Water. They all are shooting their considerable energies into Taurus, the empty leg. Taurus is earth. Taurus as in earth manifestation after the emotions, intellect
and passion combine. Now, keep on doing your Saturn as you will be sending all sorts of energy from the t-square into creating what you want in that Taurus leg. No feeling the fear. Well, okay, feel the fear, but face it any way. The fear will transform into love right before your very eyes if you watch and do your Saturn. Taurus is EARTH ~ Taurus is manifestation. Taurus is SPRING TIME! We made it! You made it! The bloom that is you is ready to blossom.
Mundane: Expect the Bush boys to invade Iran. Trigger event on Wednesday. Invasion by the weekend. Cheney and his energy buddies divided up a map of the Middle East oil fields of Iraq and Iran well before 9-11-2001 took place. That Mercury in Scorpio stationing on top of Jupiter in Scorpio is “be afraid, be very afraid” as well as acting on Jupiter in Scorpio plans. As the midpoint of Mercury and Neptune’s station is setting off a pile of stuff, as well as triggering our lovely fixed t-square ~ the energy shoots out into the Taurus leg. Taurus is land! Taurus is value! Taurus is wealth! Valuable earth will be ours! The fixed t-square shoots out into critical points in the charts of both the USA (Sibley July 4, 1776, 5:10 pm Philadelphia, PA) and Iran (proclaimed an Islamic Republic on BBC radio on April 1, 1979, 3:00 pm Tehran, Iran or when the Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile in Paris on Feb 1, 1979, 9:33 am, Tehran, Iran.). I hope I am wrong.
Oh, by the way, Bush signed into law the ability to disappear American Citizens last week ~ including those who negatively affect corporate profits! Make sure to tell your relatives and friends to come looking for you, if you decide to go out on the street to protest our invasion of Iran! And, yes, by writing the above, I am doing my Saturn! Pluck, pluck, pluck those suckers….
Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee
