Weekly Weather October 9, 2006
It is going to be a Uranus kind of week! I completely love Uranus weeks. He‘s my most favorite, favorite planet as he’s unpredictable BUT so exCEPTionally CLEAR about what he wants or doesn‘t want to do. Uranus is nicknamed “The Great Awakener”. Expect those Ah-HA! Moments in yourself, friends and family and, hopefully, all around the world. Breakdowns, break throughs, break ups, clearings, crashes, ah ha’s, seeing it clearly, eruptions, explosions, expansions, chaos and creativity. The “cosmic click” and settling in of deep understanding and figuring at a soul level. All week long, click, clear, click, clear, click, clear, clear, clear. The next few weeks ahead are what we‘ve been working toward all year! It is finally here! Jupiter and Saturn are going to meet for their last and final pass, providing the concluding chapters of story from 1982/83 and the kick off, new beginning and adjustment of what started in the May 2000. Yeah! Do your Saturn when in ANY kind of doubt ~ your GOOD Saturn ~ to calm down the whoosh of fast moving energy. It might feel a bit too fast for your taste. Nevertheless, I bet you will be singing once Uranus starts clearing all sorts of stuff out of the way. You are going to “get it” on a soul level this week!
When we learn new things, particularly things that have a deep emotional content, especially important things like those that we have been working on over the past year, we can “say” them out loud and explain them intellectually before we “get” them emotionally. We have heard it a million times. We know the routine. We can parrot the words about our situation. We know what our wise friends and relatives say about the problems we are working on ~ “It isn‘t about you.” “It reflects your issue, but it is actually their issue.” “Do you see what is going on here?” “Do you see how it is not about you?” “Do you see how you invited it in?” “Do you see how this ties back to that xyz issue from your childhood?” Those wise friends and relatives of ours see it clearly. We often do not. We have a big old blind spot sitting right there!
We nod our heads yes. They listen to us talk and go through it, yet again, our sad tale of woe or our problem with xyz. We might even say our friend’s words back to them, as we‘ve learned what they say to us by heart. However, deep, far down in our sad, little heart, we simply do not believe them or their silly, stupid words. We don’t believe it. We think it is about us. We somehow caused it, are bad, or are the source of the problem. And, admittedly, some times we are those things ~ BUT NOT THIS WEEK! Equally often, we are super, super sensitive to a particular area of our chart. We think we are at fault. We did it or, more likely, didn‘t do it. After all, it is Saturn! Moreover, 9 times out of 10, that area happens to be right where our Saturn is found. Or, one out of 10 times, it is where a poor planet involved with our Saturn is found. And when that planet is being picked, it wakes up our Saturn. So, right away, old Mr. Saturn weighs in on the “issue” ~ yeech. And, thus, Saturn STILL has a say in the matter! We feel awful. That is our “bad” Saturn when we feel awful. Or perhaps our fearful Saturn. Not our good Saturn.
So, where is the area of your life you are very exhausted and don’t think you can take it any more? That is going to change this week and next. Keep doing your Saturn. Trust me. Trust the heavens. Trust your chart. Keep doing your Saturn. You want to do your Saturn. You do not want any one else doing your Saturn for you, especially when you aren‘t looking. You are going to have a very large cosmic click where your Saturn is. Or perhaps the events of the past few weeks will produce a cosmic click in your being and your Saturn as you mull them over. You are going to understand everything much, much better. The shift is about to take place!!
Psychologists call it Transference. I call it giving your chart to the other person to do. When we have a part of ourselves that we simply cannot stand, we manage to find or create situations where the parts of us that we simply cannot stand start to act up “all by themselves”. The parts we can’t stand dance away over in the corner of the room, calling attention to themselves as they shout and yell at us for attention. Events conspire, difficult people appear, and situations devolve. “All of a sudden” you find yourself in the “situation that always seems to happen to me”.
Psychologists call it Repression. I call it NOT owning your chart. Your chart is your chart. You are in charge of ALL the parts of your chart. You can DO your chart or someone else will DO your chart for you. When you are little, people do your chart FOR you ~ your parents, your siblings, and your experiences. Essentially, people do your chart FOR you until around your Saturn return at age 28. Between ages 28 to 58, you figure out how to do your own chart. Or you repress your chart. Now, please know, repression is NEVER a good idea. We repress who and what we are either because 1) we can‘t stand it, 2) hate it about ourselves, 3) were shamed into hating our desires or 4) merely don‘t know how to deploy it in a healthy and productive manner because we were never taught HOW to work with it properly. What ever is Repressed still, STILL HAS TO COME OUT SOME place! It is energy. Energy needs to express itself. Not repress ~ express!
If I explain repressed energy as water, we completely get the concept! WATER! Spill water and watch. Water flows towards the lowest point of the surface. Water spreads out. Water eventually pools at the lowest point. If we try to hold back the Saturn stuff we hate about ourselves, the stuff leaks out, just like water, and flows towards the lowest forms of how it can appear. It pools there. Where do you put towels when fluid spills? Usually at the leading edge of the water ~ to stop it and prevent it from pooling or flowing all over the place. Now apply that concept to Saturn. SATURN. Spill Saturn and watch.You are going to see how Saturn flows, just like water, to the lowest level, when it spills, is repressed, ignored, hated or unattended over the next weeks ahead. Your job is to Do Your Saturn so it does not spill all over the place, willy-nilly and muck stuff up. Encourage the rest of the folks in your world to do their Saturn too!
Monday is Columbus Day so many folks are off. That is a good thing! Mercury is in a heck of a bad mood ~ he is in Scorpio so his tongue is sharp, biting, piercing and stinging. Jupiter and Pluto are accelerating him (kind of like throwing gasoline on a bonfire) way out of control. Mercury is arguing with the Nodes of destiny and Juno, or who and what we choose to collaborate with. Venus needs to make an adjustment with Uranus about how she is going to get what she wants. If she does not adjust, it is over ~ or there’s going to be a big fight. Mercury is NOT in the mood for ANY nonsense.
If someone loses it with you today, know they are frustrated about their OWN stuff which you are representing to them ~ their issue. If YOU lose it with someone today, it is YOUR stuff Saturn wants you to change ~ you are giving away something in your chart and not owning it. You are letting your Saturn spill willy-nilly all over the place. Must get a grip on Saturn over the next few weeks before Saturn finishes his square to Jupiter. And IF you think you aren‘t getting Saturn, you will never get Saturn, you will die alone with your cats on a couch, please just take a look back at the past year. Can you see how MUCH BETTER YOU ARE at “it” or at Saturn than you USED to BE? That is called growth, my dear friend. Saturnian Growth. Not perfection. Saturnian Growth. Be VERY proud of your progress! Give yourself a gol
d star or maybe three gold s
tars and a piece of chocolate. You‘ve earned it. You picked your Saturn and now you are learning to work with your Saturn! And, nope, you cannot “fix Saturn forever” but you can continue to get better at working with Saturn. You are learning to work with your Saturn, quite productively I might add. That is a VERY good thing ~ VERY Good Saturn! Watch, out of the corner of your eye ~ Old Saturn is quite proud of you even if he is a bit of curmudgeon and has trouble with finding the words. He looks pleased in a Saturn kind of way. Gotta watch for his clues.
Tuesday, assuming you survived yesterday’s Mercurial outburst in that wonderful Scorpio, your click-clears start now. If you were bowled over by Mercury’s outburst, well that is another area to work on as you go forward with your Saturn. Take it under advisement and add it to your Saturn pile. You are going to get the click-clears all week. And at the same time, you have to focus on doing your Saturn, not hanging out with Jupiter or Neptune. Let them go play by themselves. Take responsibility. We get to watch Saturn in his good and bad versions of taking responsibility, providing security, structure, support, accountability and clear authority over the next few weeks. Venus in Libra in her aspect to Pluto figures out something of importance. Sun in Libra trines Neptune in Aquarius, so the fog will start to clear abit ~ or at least you notice a bit of light breaking through.
We create the situations we need to help us grow and help us fulfill our chart’s potential. Today, the Sun and Mercury’s aspect to Uranus offer an understanding of why the situations exist in your life. You collaborated with it to create the opportunity for awakening. You do not have to do it that way any more if you do not want to. Uranus is oft compared to Prometheus as a “fire bringer” and awakener. Think of how humankind’s life changed when it discovered how to harness, for good and bad, fire. Fire cooks our meat, drives our cars, flies our planes as it creates global warming and acid rain. Partners bring both parts of changes, good and bad, into our lives. All part of the kaleidoscope we call life.
Wednesday Mars joins with Uranus by declination. Mars and Uranus together mean explosions and not necessarily fun nor pleasant explosions. Expect explosions. Every place. All the folks who do not read astrology columns like this one are going to be mighty, mighty cranky and explosive. You might be mighty cranky too. If you are cranky and explosive know what is wanting to explode is that thing you have been so attached to for so long. Time to let it go. 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.
Thursday, Chiron stations to go direct. He is in the sign of Aquarius and will be dredging up stuff from that difficult Mercury retrograde station earlier in the summer when he stopped to go retrograde. Your new tribe will start to arrive after he goes direct. You’ve been looking for a while. Time for your new tribe to arrive. Mars has a helpful working aspect to Saturn so do your Saturn. Not much else you can do today. Do your Saturn. There is profound woundedness and sadness around the world. A sadness of how one tribe wounds the “other” tribe when actually we are all the same tribe under our skins. If we care to look. Do your Saturn. Send out love to those who need it. Hug your loved ones.
Friday Chiron trines Vesta. Remember stuff manifests on four levels ~ spirit, mind, emotion and physical. You might not be able to do much about one of the four levels causing trouble in the world but you CAN take some action on the other levels. Do it. It will help you. It will help the world. Sun joins with Uranus by parallel. Today, worldviews will be reinforced for the next clump of time or changed for your future viewing pleasure. People always remember that Prometheus was chained to a rock and had his liver eaten out by an eagle every day for giving us human beings fire in defiance of the gods. Folks tend to forget he DID get free and went on to live happily every after PLUS humankind got fire for his troubles and beliefs in the need to change. If it feels like an eagle is eating your liver out today or that you are chained to a rock being tortured, you are EXACTLY where you are supposed to be! You will get free of that rock, grow a new liver in a bit, and live happily ever after. True blue promise. Just let the click-clears happen around you. Support those you love in their click-clears too.
Saturday, Venus understands how to free Prometheus. Love baby. Its all about the Love. Not fear. The love. Believe the actions. Actions speak louder than words. Look for the good side of Saturn, observe the fear side of Saturn. Saturn is every where! Sun’s aspect to Jupiter suggests a bit of heel clicking and zip pity do da energy if you‘ve been doing your Saturn. If you find yourself in a same old, same old place, NOW is the time to change your vision of how your life can be. Do your Saturn. Focus on that. No worries about how. Just show up. Do your Saturn. No arguing with Saturn. NO Whining at him. He’s not in the mood to talk to you right now. Do your work. Show up. Take responsibility. Provide security. Create structure. Build support. Practice accountability. Exercise your clear authority. You can do it. Saturn. Saturn. Saturn.
Sunday can be a collapse on the couch in a stream of tears day OR a vision of how your life can change. Work towards the change version. I have no problem with couch time. We do need to feel sorry for ourselves from time to time. Heck, this living business is darn tough. However, Mars in Libra says partner with something to transform it as Mars works with Pluto‘s powerful energy. And, if you can, Mercury’s square to Neptune suggests you keep your mouth shut and simply observe what is happening. There is a “what goes around comes around” kind of energy with Saturn’s aspect to Pallas. We reap what we sow. Do your Saturn.
Mundane: In our world, we had two excellent, if quite difficult, examples of Saturn ~ in his good and bad versions ~ last week. Both involved what happens when difficult parts of our experiences, souls and beings are repressed, hidden and left to their own devices to seek out and pool in the lower forms of Saturn energy. We have to watch and help Saturn by our actions in his good and bad versions of taking responsibility, providing security, structure, support, accountability and clear authority.
A man who wanted to stop his fantasies about sexually abusing female children shot a number of Amish schoolgirls. He dismissed the boys and teachers and kept the girls in the schoolhouse. The older, 11 to 13 year old, Amish girls volunteered themselves to be shot first to stop or prevent the shooting of the younger girls. After the massacre, the Amish community reached out to the family of the man who executed their children, offered their condolences and prayers. The Amish designated that funding go to the widow of the shooter and her children as well as towards their expensive medical bills. They quietly buried their dead girls. They mourned. The note left behind by the killer said he had been 12 when his initial sex abuses happened (Jupiter in Scorpio folks!) to him.
In the House of Representatives of the United States Congress, we have young male pages, who sought protection and help from various members of Congress FOR YEARS. They were seeking protection from a man who had fantasies about sexually abusing male children. When the pages, repeatedly, did not get help, they went to various newspapers and news outlets. Most of the media turned the story down. Eventually, they found someone willing to listen to and help them. The Congressman involved resigned. He said alcohol made him do it. Next, he said a priest abused him as a child. Both probably are quite true statements as we know a Saturn repressed is a Saturn that seeks i
ts lowest form. Repeating the negative behavior or experiences that happened to us as well as self-medicating with alcohol or drugs are common. We think it resolves or abates our memories and our hated desires.
The Speaker of the House as well as other House members were told about the man’s inappropriate behavior, emails and comments. They did nothing to stop it. The ‘Leaders’ told the pages to put up with the unwanted sexual behavior IF they wanted future political careers. Once the news broke, the ‘Leaders’ blamed the children for publicizing it, the opposition party (who actually don‘t seem to be involved according to the news media that broke the story), the ex-President who has been out of office for 6 years, the homosexuals, and the sex obsessed Liberal Media who are seeking to destroy them. The ‘Leaders’ did not take responsibility for their behavior. At any point over the past 12 years (Jupiter in Scorpio folks!), after the GOP took power in 1994, or at any of the many times they were told about the situation, they could have stepped up and acted to stop it. They did not do their Saturns. So now, we will all get to watch Saturn in Leo perform his square to Jupiter in Scorpio and see what happens. My money is on Saturn! I adore Jupiter but Saturn always wins in these situations.
On a minor note, because it is completely driving me crazy, tell all your friends that Pedophilia is NOT a homosexual act! Homo means you like YOUR kind of body for sex. Hetereo means you like the OTHER kind of body for sex. Pedi means you like Children‘s bodies for sex ~ you know pediatrics, pediatrician, pedi ~ children! If you were abused sexually as a child by an adult or older sibling, it had an impact on your being and your soul. Sexual abuse is about POWER over! It is violence. It happened to you! You can choose to work it out! Do NOT repress it! Do not hide from it! Chances are quite good that the abuser of YOU was abused too. Stop the cycle. Get help for your Saturn.
We get to watch Saturn in his good and bad versions of taking responsibility, providing security, structure, support, accountability and clear authority over the next few weeks. See why I‘ve been harping on doing your Saturn for the last few months? That Neptune in Aquarius and Jupiter in Scorpio in a t-square with Saturn have a very big WHOOSH quality once it gets going. Do your Saturn.
Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee
