Weekly Weather October 30, 2006
Over the week ahead, the energy starts to settle down a bit from the turbulence of last week. The Cosmic Gardener stopped by last week in the form of that Saturn Jupiter square. You and the Gardner inspected your work over the last year in identifying and plucking the suckers from your life. The whole purpose of plucking suckers was to increase and enhance your bloom. The Gardener (or you) might have made a few more adjustments and plucked a couple of big suckers. And then, we all took a bit of time to recover as sucker plucking can be exhausting.
This week we can find ourselves continuing to pluck a few suckers from our life and our unique Rose Bush. However, going forward we’ll be plucking with a bit more confidence, assurance and knowledge as we think, “Wow, I DO know what I am doing! Well, kinda of sorta of. That looks like a sucker too! Pluck!” Mercury in Scorpio is going backwards over our fixed t-square. And then Mercury is going to forwards over our fixed t-square. This week, Mercury joins with Jupiter and squares Saturn. Next week, Mercury squares Neptune. Mercury dancing backwards through our t-square of change and evolution is going to make for an interesting couple of weeks.
Mercury in Scorpio retrograde will bring back all sorts of ghosts for us talk with like he did last June. I want you to chat up every single ghost you run into. They are YOUR ghosts and they are NOT scary. Chat them up. Talk and ask LOTS of questions ~ especially what you always wanted to know! Now, if a ghost contacts YOU, MAKE SURE TO LISTEN to what the ghost has to say. Then, you can ask your ghost a lot of questions. The ghost wants to talk to you and tell you stuff. I don’t want you hanging up on your ghosts or walking away from them thinking you know EXACTLY what they are going to say. You don‘t know. Trust me on this one. Listen to your Ghost. See how much you can learn from chatting up your Ghosts.
Now, as this is a unique kind of Rose Garden, please know that the Suckers you’ve plucked from your rose bush can talk too. Your Suckers will be reappearing to trying to get back on your Rose Bush during the Mercury retrograde. Treat them like Ghosts. I want you to think of your Suckers as ghosts and chat them up. Or listen to the sad Sucker’s story. Chat them up.
Now, with the Suckers, you have the opportunity to make a few choices. They OR You can change. They OR You decided not to change. They and You accept each other the way you each are, agree to disagree and drop the problem area into the nearest sewer drain. You CAN let the Sucker back into your life. You CAN tell the Sucker they’ve been plucked and need to go find a new Rose Bush or patch of dirt of their own.
DON’T MAKE THE CHOICE or DECISION about what to do with the Sucker WHILE MERCURY IS RETROGRADE! Tell the Sucker what you need the Sucker to do to come back into your life and to get back on your Rose Bush. Tell the Sucker that he or she is on probation and not, at all, guaranteed a permanent spot on your Rose Bush until the END OF FEBRUARY 2007. Or maybe don’t tell the Sucker that but know deep in your heart that by the end of February YOU will know if you want that Sucker back in your life and back sharing your vital energy.
Remember Suckers can grow and bloom into legitimate branches! Suckers can have lovely blooms upon them IF they want to. Right now, that Sucker can be renamed a provisional Twig, IF YOU WANT TO. You have to say what YOU want the Sucker/Twig TO DO if they are going to stay in your garden and climb back on your Rose Bush. If the Sucker/Twig can do it, great. The Sucker/Twig HAS to do it, consistently, until the end of February of 2007. The Sucker/Twig has to enhance your life. The Sucker/Twig has to maximize your bloom to stay in your garden. The Sucker/Twig has to stop drugging and drinking or whatever is causing the problem and seek help to change permanently. For example, the Sucker/Twig needs to attend 90 meetings of AA in 90 days. The Sucker/Twig needs to get into therapy WITH or WITHOUT you. The Sucker/Twig has to STOP doing whatever. The Sucker/Twig has to START doing whatever. Again, it is a unique kind of Rose Garden. You CAN let the Sucker/Twig climb back onto your Rose Bush IF you want to. You can also put the Sucker/Twig right next to you and watch what they are doing. Postpone making yourdecision until the end of February 2007. Or at the very least, postpone making your decision until Mercury is out of retrograde and past his Scorpio shadow degree of 9, December 5, 2006. Remember Retrogrades are for RESEARCH and REVISION and RECONSIDERING.
The other exciting cosmic event that happens later in the week is the Full Moon at 12:58 Taurus on Sunday. All last fall we worked with Mars in Taurus traveling back and forth over this degree, trapped in a bullfight or argument with Medusa, by Saturn and Jupiter in early Leo and Scorpio. So, with the full moon taking place in this area of the chart, you will have an event, in the Taurus area of your chart, that lets you know how much you’ve grown over the past year. Full moon’s are culmination energies, as the Universe takes advantage of the bright reflected light to let our souls see clearly at night how much we’ve accomplished. As the moon ripens to fullness, it echoes our own ripening to fullness.
Think about it for a minute. Combine the current Mercury retrograde in Scorpio stationing and moving back and forth opposite last fall’s Mars in Taurus stationing and moving back and forth and with this week’s Full Moon in Taurus. The fixed areas of your chart are about to demonstrate and show you how very much you’ve changed since last year. If we think of our lives as a series of growing cycles, we’ve come through and completed a fairly stressful patch of a major growth cycle. Look at how different your belief systems are now! Think about how much you’ve evolved and learned! That hard won and struggled for knowledge will NEVER leave you! It integrates into your soul and being over the next couple of weeks as Jupiter finishes his journey in Scorpio. Wise old Mercury pops back into ask you what you learned that you didn’t know back then. All serving the purpose of your soul’s evolution….
Monday, Mercury has a bit of a spat with Pluto as he joins Jupiter. Harsh words or perhaps understanding word appear in your life today. Mars makes a fast moving square to Chiron and triggers your soul wound. Now that you’ve finishes all the lessons from last year, it is time to go find your new tribe. Jupiters lovely, warm trine to the North Node brings a sense of optomism to the whole process. Might not be the situation you exactly want in your life right now (see that Mars square Chiron) but you are on the road towards it. Chat up any ghosts or Sucker/Twigs you meet.
Tuesday, Mercury trines the node for past two in his retrograde journey. Chat up ghosts and Sucker/Twigs. If you take the time today to focus on the changes in YOU in the midst of the hustlely, bustlely busy day (the moon has quite a few aspects) it will be helpful! If you take the time to drag old Venus out and ask her opinion about all the changes she’s noticed in you, you might be pleasantly surprised at her answers. The Moon in Pisces reminds us this is the night the veil between the two worlds of living and dead is the thinnest. It is a great night to meditate with deceased relatives or friends in mind and talk to your past and now literal ghosts.
Wednesday has a pile of activity, not all of it pleasant but the point of it is to help you get what you need to get to move onto the next phase of your life. The Cosmic Gardener might pluck one or two of your last Suckers today. Or at least point the Suckers out for you to pluck. Or the Sucker/Twig will make an appeal to you to take them back or whatever. State your desires, needs and grounds. Look that Cosmic Gardener or Sucker/Twig CLEARLY in the
eye. The Sun’s aspect
to Saturn says it will be MUCH EASIER than you think it is. They will look smaller, you will feel taller, it’s a growing up kind of energy! Venus has a BE-UUU-T -FULL aspect to Uranus suggesting the moment of change and transformation is upon us. You are going to need a day or so to recover from whatever happens today. Schedule light on Thursday if you can as Friday is going to be part two of today.
Thursday, Venus aspect to Saturn and Sun’s to Pluto suggest a moment of conciousness. It is very scary when you grow past the point your family or friends have grown to. You feel a bit alone in the world. You are. It is okay. Part of the reason we have such resistance to knowledge and change is it means we FEEL we have to lose or leave things behind. Those things travel with you. No, you can’t go home again. And, yes, it IS sad. But, you know what? It is also over. Recover from Wednesday and move toward your new life. Your luggage is lighter. You’ll meet new friends. You’ll find what you want. Especially now that you are crystal clear about it (thank you Saturn). It will be okay. Hold the hand of your guardian angel if you feel too lonely.
Friday, Sun makes a repeat of the BE-UUU-T-FULL aspect to Uranus indicating your ego and soul gets it today! Mercury has an aspect of brilliance to Chiron. If you sit still enough and hush up long enough to listen to your inner voice (the higher part of your being that is the wise voice~ not the naggy worry voice that was so busy yesterday and last week!) you might hear a comforting word or three. We arrive in this world to serve a purpose. Sometimes we get off track because we get scared of what happened in our lives or our past. Rather than looking at it and thinking “hey, that was scary but oh well!” we think WE did it, caused it or are the problem. Today, the Universe is going to, hopefully very gently, point out to you that the only way to acquire mastery in your life is to practice and perhaps fail. Perhaps you won’t do as well as you wanted to. However, you learned. Next time you’ll do better because ALL the stuff you learned is in your soul and able to guide you. Act As If you were a little person learning to walk or ride a bike, now is the time to pick yourself back up off the ground and try again.
All around you, you can see people walking or riding bikes. You have to figure out how to do it yourself. The problem or perhaps gift (or actually combination of both) is to understand that the stuff you’ve been learning over the last year, you haven’t had any models to follow. No one is walking around showing you how to do your Saturn. In fact, your family and friends probably discouraged you from doing your Saturn when you were little. You’ve been on your own figuring this one out. Figuring out how to do that darn Saturn of yours has taken a whole darn year as well as the balance of your life. Now, don‘t sit down in a frustrated mess and cry. You‘ve learned a whole bunch of cool stuff. Take that Saturn of yours and go teach someone else what you‘ve learned about how to work with Saturn! You know there is someone in your world that is struggling with a similar issue. You‘ve been teaching them how to do their Saturn all year while you’ve been struggling to figure out how to do your next level of Saturn. Take a look at how what you‘ve been struggling with for so long is what you’ve been teaching them how to do. When they call you in tears this week or with a great deal of pride to report what they have accomplished, your job is to know YOU have done YOUR Saturn by supporting them. And call your Saturn teacher and thank them.
Saturday, go read Friday again. Make that phone call. Be a ghost in some one’s life. (I assume IF you read this column you are NOT a Sucker or Twig! ~ but if you are a Sucker or Twig, make the phone call too.)
Sunday, we rest. And we have our full moon in Taurus. Go read my full moon report on this site. If you didn’t figure it out over the past few days, you will today. Mercury’s aspect to Juno reminds us that we partner with the folks we need to partner with to learn our lessons. If we don’t do our charts, folks, events and situations will show up in our lives and do our charts for us. However, they might NOT do OUR CHARTS the way we would like them to do our charts! That means we need to take responsibility for our lives and do our OWN Charts ~ not blame it on the other guy! Whether we do our own charts or farm them out to the other guy, we WILL reap the harvest and consequences of our actions and our charts! Continue to do your Saturn. Just because he’s finished with Jupiter, no lollygagging or rest for you! Saturn’s still dancing with Neptune until next June. Do Your Saturn.
Mundane: I thought it was way, way cool that the Saturn/Jupiter square only brought more nasty stuff to light and that we didn’t invade in Iran (yet)! Perhaps the GOP Neo-con Suckers are finally being Plucked? Yeah! Rush Limbaugh picked on Michael J. Fox and his disease and he got plucked in return. Dick Cheney said he liked dunking terrorists into water ~ otherwise known as Waterboarding ~ and while he didn’t get plucked, Tony Snow was questioned extensively about waterboarding as a form of torture at a White House Press Conference. Of course, the fact that the Japanese in World War Two were found guilty of war crimes for water boarding our POWs wasn’t mentioned.
Mercury’s retrograde over our fixed t-square brings days to watch and pay attention to this week, specifically Monday during his square to Jupiter and Wednesday during his square to Saturn for triggering events for an Iran invasion. Mercury in Scorpio setting off the t-square shoots an enormous amount of energy into the Taurus portion of a chart. Taurus is land and valuable land at that. Mercury in Scorpio is also a fear based Mercury when operating at his lower lever of energy. Expect fear words to be dancing around the world. Not real fear words but fear words none the less. Act with love. Do your Saturn.
Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee
