posted March 07, 2010 10:30 PM         

“Anger is a secondary emotion.” the very wise 15 year old Veronica said to her mother Maureen. “What?” replied her mother. “Anger is a secondary emotion.” Veronica repeated.

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” - Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Mars stations this week so anger will be front and center. As will envy, action, war, aggression, drive, sex, power, energy, rage and acting out ~ all various forms of Mars energy. Temper tantrums. Because Mars is stopped in the sky, unfortunately, we will probably notice all the harder and more primal versions of Mars energy dancing around the room. Mars can’t move so he is frustrated. Anger is a secondary emotion of Mars‘ drive to DO SOME THING! See if you can find the primary emotion of Mars or some other planet (hint: look at planets in aspect to your Mars) at work under the secondary emotion of Anger. That is the emotional front to focus on and channel.

Underneath, behind, or inside anger, there was a primary feeling that appeared right before the anger. We always feel something right before anger. Drop down into your angry feelings and identify the triggering feeling beneath the anger. If you sit in your anger, you don’t actually know WHAT to DO to make it go away. You are angry. If you can identify the triggering emotion for your anger, you can strategize a solution or actions to take.

Anger can be an intense emotion because it means we feel strongly about something! Anger can teach us about what we value, need, lack, desire, believe as well as point out our insecurities. Anger tells us which emotional needs are important to us.

Of course, when we are angry, we downshift into a lower evolutionary level ~ back towards those early cave man or cave woman years. Primal. Primitive. Angry. Anger allows us to survive too!

Ask what you are afraid of. Figure out what feelings preceded your anger. Look to see if there is something you are trying to control or that is out of control. Consider what choices you have. See if there are other feelings inside of you muddling up the source.

Reframe the anger ~ make it be “Energized!” Say to yourself “I feel energized by my anger to put my skills to the most productive use. I am going to use my anger productively and not let it to go to waste.”

Anger is from Old Norse angr meaning “trouble, sorrow.” and ultimately from an Indo-European base meaning “tight, painful,”. It is the ancestor of English anxious, anguish, hangnail, and angina. Mars in the sign of the heart, Leo, stopped, means lots of heart attacks ~ literally, spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. Call the doctor at the first sign of pain!

In addition to Mars stopping in the sky on Wednesday, Venus is in Aries. As my old astrology teacher used to say Venus in Aries is “Hunt them, hump them, dump them.” She wants what she wants when she wants it. She LIKES to hunt. Unfortunately, her hunting is circumscribed this week, as the ruler of Aries, Mars, is stopped in the heavens. Venus also is EXCEPTIONALLY frustrated as first she opposes Saturn on Tuesday and she squares Pluto on Thursday ~ straddling the Mars station on Wednesday.

Suffice to say this is NOT a good week to have a pleasant or friendly conversation with someone about matters ruled by either Venus or Mars ~ love, money, partnership, sex, actions toward commitment or those type of energies come to mind. The energy is rather harsh and uncompromising. It is a GREAT week to break up with someone! It is a GREAT week to clear the air and get all the dirty laundry out into the world for all to see ~ especially dirty laundry about misused money, love or actions. People will reverse their positions this week too.

You may find yourself feeling rather ANGRY or negative versions of Mars. Dig to the deeper emotion below it. Venus entering into the harsh dialogue between Saturn and Pluto makes a realization about her limits in the areas they rule. No she probably can’t have what she wants when she wants it ~ there are rules that she has to follow. No she doesn’t have the power or ability to bend the situation to meet her desires ~ the triangle has two on one side while she is on the other. Two against one means she can lose.

Watch for two against one situations ~ that is the negative form of the power triad taking place this week. Attempt to open up the triangle if it feels safe to you. It may not feel safe to open up the triangle, in which case, notice that there is a triangle energy operating in the story and wait a bit until Mars gets some speed and Venus separates from her Saturn and Pluto aspect. Dig into the anger you feel to find the primary emotion. It is in there. Triangles are difficult for most of us. This is a difficult triangle week.

There also are a BUNCH of planets in WATER ~ Pisces to be specific. The planets are Mercury, Jupiter, Sun and Uranus which represent our actions of communication, relationships, ego purpose and creativity. Pisces planets get overwhelmed fairly easily. They want to run away and hide. Actually, they swim off like little fish to seek safety from the storms. So we will find our ability to communicate, connect, express what our needs are for ourselves are as well as our creative ideas a bit on the soggy or wet side as well as skittish like a school of scared fish. Tears will flow from our eyes very easily.

Feelings or quiet statements like “I feel flooded.” come out of our mouths. We will hear words like flooded, swamped, adrift, afloat, drowning, wet, soaked, inundated, drenched, underwater, or in over my head. All part of that energy system in the sky asking us to get clear on what is important to us. Lots of water planets. There is a life raft around if you look for it. You are not alone in the sea all by yourself. Wait till you ride to the top of a wave and look for the lift raft.

If we combine all the water with the fire energy of Venus and Mars, we get hot water. We’ll hear “I am so steamed”. Words like boiling over, head of steam, hot water, cooking, simmering, bubbling, percolating, pressed, pressurized (think pressure cooker ~ water and heat!), torrid, roasting, and blistering will come out of our mouths. Or other people‘s mouths. Encourage them to look for the primary emotion under those words too!

We are back to mid-October 2009 with the Mars station. We will bring up the week or so before December 20, 2009 when Mars created a situation that we’ve had to work with for the last few months. Now Mars stops to go forward and we get clear on what exactly was REALLY going on. All to the good. Once we are clear on it, we know what we want to do.

This week is NOT when you are necessarily going to get clear. This is the week when the information ARRIVES, stirring up all those emotions from back last October and December. After all the water has a chance to simmer down, you get to process the anger or what ever gets stirred up this week. Just go with the flow. Mars stopped in the sky is a powerful paused energy. All sorts of things POP out of people’s mouths and hearts when Mars pauses.

Mars is in Leo until June 7. You’ll process and work through the energy of Mars in Leo between now and then. No need to push the ocean of energy this week or attempt to overcome that stopped Mars energy. Notice, gather information, pause, watch the anger or whatever the Mars energy brings up ~ look below the surface to see what it is the PRIMARY emotion. THAT PRIMARY EMOTION is what you are supposed to work with between now and June. Get clear on what it is this week so you can work with it over the next couple of months as Mars retraces his steps in Leo.

Monday is the Moon’s day. Mars is stopped in the sky. The Moon in fire Sagittarius in the morning and earth Capricorn in the afternoon have good closing aspects for getting work accomplished. Venus has positive aspects today with reorganizing and connecting the dots. Pay attention to the emotions swirling around today. Venus also has hard aspects to Saturn, making you see a situation VERY clearly that perhaps you had not seen before. Emotional clarity is at hand as the Moon sets off the week’s t-square of Venus opposite Saturn and square Pluto with her fast movement through it in the afternoon and early evening. The Moon in Capricorn is ever practical. While you may SEE what you are frustrated by, it is not the time to take action on it. Most of the time, we don’t actually pay attention to things going on around us. Today you will. Notice. Take notes. Plan on taking action next week, after the new moon. The energy of release is happening now ~ not the energy of creation. Release to freedom.

Tuesday is Mars’ day so expect the anger to really rise. Venus is in the midst of flowing through and forming a t-square with Saturn and Pluto. In early June, 6 to 8, the situation before you today will be resolved when Jupiter and Uranus blow it up and cause a new kind of creation. Notice it. Venus opposite Saturn says your night dreams are going to be of frustration and blockage so make sure to notice what they are. Mars is stopped in the sky, building up the tension of blocked energy. Part of this frustration is from old childhood patterns and beliefs. Another part is because you actually NURTURE it or are REWARDED by it. You might have very good reasons for nurturing it - or you certainly did have good reasons in the past. However, NOW the nurturing or rewarding is getting on your last nerve.

One of my favorite stories is about the 3 year old at the diner. He was there with his mother and father. He was whining. His mother took care of his every whine. Whiners always get on my nerves so I noticed him and his mother because they annoyed me ~ whine -react, whine -react. Dad sat silently eating. Mom got up to go to the bathroom. The kid whined at his father to pour the ketchup. Dad says “That whining **** doesn‘t work with me! It only works with your mother.” The little boy paused. He asked his father, in a very grown up manner, without a trace of whine in his voice, for the ketchup. The dad complied, taking the cap off the bottle and passing the ketchup. They ate in silence. Mom returns. And, of course, the kid starts to whine again. She starts to react again.

Notice what you are whining about. Notice who is whining at you. Stopped Mars can be whiny ~ frustration about how to get what you want. Mars is blocked now. Mars will open up soon enough. Does the whining thing still work for you? Do you still reward whining? Did whining USE to work? Keep whining as a skill but consider developing other skills too! That 3 year old got it. You can get it too! Mars stopped and Venus frustrated says time to develop new skills to get what you want!

Wednesday is Mercury’s day so the communications principle is dancing around the room. Mars stops today. Mars stops every 18 months or so. We as a people don’t deal with his stopped energy very well. We get quite frustrated and pertutized by the pause. Today is maximum frustration. Tomorrow it all starts to be relieved and we feel like we are moving forward again. Remember Anger is a secondary emotion ~ dig for what the stopped Mars is bringing up for you. Mercury has an aspect of brilliance with Pluto ~ so the heavens will reveal some very important information to you. Pay attention to what comes out of the mouths of others in their frustration. Remember YOU know about astrology. They just are having a bad day and talking too much! Pay attention to what others say and do today as they are revealing, revealing, revealing who they are. Saturn wants you to understand the security in the old behaviors. Whining worked for the kid. His mother couldn’t take it and gave him whatever he wanted when he whined. It was fairly obvious that his father was of my school ~ whining didn‘t work with dad. The kid was smart enough to modify his behavior to get what he wanted from his father. Now the habits, in YOUR case, are much more ingrained (20 years, 33 years, 45 years, 55 years, 70 years) and embedded in your being than the 3 year old boy’s habits were. However ALL habits can be changed. Mars rules our HABITUAL ways of taking actions. We all take actions in ways that work for us or were rewarded in our past. Now we are being asked by the universe to learn NEW actions because the old actions are completely blocked.

Thursday is Jupiter’s day and finds Venus squaring Pluto. So what do you suppose would happen if there was a video recording the 3 year old son’s and dad’s interchange? And then you showed the video to the mom. Do you think the whining would stop? Do you think mom and son would change their behavior dynamic? Or ~ most important question ~ does the dynamic SERVE the mother and son? Often our more difficult dynamics SERVE the relationship some how. Because the dynamics give US something as well as give the other guy something. The kid whined and got what he wanted. The mother gave him what he wanted because he whined. Deeper than that ~ whined. Why didn’t ASK work, like it did with dad? Because WHINED was reinforced as a behavior more than ASKED. Mom reacted faster to whined than asked. The kid used whine because it worked! Dad doesn’t like whine, so ask works with dad. Be as creative as the kid. Try a new technique to get the ketchup. Even if it makes you a bit nervous. It will work. Moon in Aquarius has lovely closing aspects for things begun today.

Friday, Venus rules the roost. She’s clear of the t-square with Saturn and Pluto. The energy shift will be palpable today. Mercury connected you to some whopping amazing dreams last night. Make sure to note them upon awakening. Sun joins with the Node today so pay attention to who you meet or connect with. They will be important to your future. Get those business cards and contact information! Otherwise it is a day with few aspects but MARS IS MOVING FORWARD so you can too!

Saturn’s day has a long void moon in the morning and Moon enters Pisces in the after noon with decent closing aspects so the weekend offers you an opportunity to get a lot accomplished. Moon is going to set off all the Pisces planets so dancing is a good idea. Swimming. Singing. Movement. Playing in the great outdoors and doing a spring thing! YEAH! Mars is direct! Think back on the week you just had and review it from the perspective of the soul’s journey. Pisces is always about our interconnections on a soul level to experiences that broaden our horizons or make us think more about what we are attempting to accomplish. Like the oceans connect us all on earth in a swirl of energy, planets moving through Pisces are at the end of their journey and ready for the new dream to emerge in a soon to arrive Spring in our chart and the world‘s chart.

We are finishing up an 84 year cycle with Uranus in the late degrees of Pisces, asking us to start a new chapter of creativity, chaos, change and creation in June. We are finishing up a 12 year cycle with Jupiter in Pisces asking us to start a new cycle of relationships, community, spirituality, beliefs and connections in June. That is part of why I’ve been encouraging you to come up with your new mythology. All this change is coming! And a brand new cycle of creation will begin on June 6-8. Today you get to see the patterns that contributed to your OLD cycle clearly. If you understand your PATTERNS you can change them to fit your new dreams. You can also modify your PATTERNS to work with your life.

My friend Marianne’s Mom, now in her 90s, was a 50’s wife. She often entertained her husband’s clients at galas and parties. She had a favorite pattern for her formal dresses ~ scoop neck, tight bodice, a-line sheath, with wide tank straps ~ sleeveless. She had the dress made in various fabrics with jackets, wraps or stoles to match. In all the party photos of Marianne‘s parents, there Mom was in the same dress, different fabric and adjusted style of jacket/ wrap/ stole. There are patterns in your life that WORK for you. There are patterns in your life that DID work for you but now need to be replaced, refreshed or discarded. There are new patterns you can add. Today you get to start to figure out which patterns you want to keep and which ones need to be replaced and what new ones you would like to add. Review the patterns.

Sun’s day the pattern seeing planet, Pallas, stations to go retrograde. Over the next few months, until June 24, as Pallas goes backwards in Scorpio, helping you review your patterns with an eye toward what works and should be kept versus what needs to be sent to the recycle bin. Patterns exist because they are easy guides to create something. You are in the process of creating a new mythology for yourself. Some of the patterns are good and keep working for you. Use them over and over again, like Marianne’s mom did. Other patterns? Well, it IS time to drop them. Make a note of what those patterns are that you want to replace or get rid of. Today Mercury joins with the Sun in Pisces so you see very clearly how to support your Sun as it soon starts a new one year journey. You understand your soul’s point of view. Listen to it. And aren’t you feeling happy now that Mars is going direct!?

posted March 08, 2010 06:07 PM         

I spent Monday fighting deep depression which overwhelmed me so I spent the afternoon in bed & the evening fighting tears.

All this astro junk is sitting on my Pisces AC not to mention tr Moon cnj natal Moon in Sag.

posted March 09, 2010 01:30 AM         

At least I was in good company.