posted September 05, 2005 03:36 PM              

Lots of people, astrologers and civilians alike, are wondering if the planets are leading a double life. Mercury retrograde ended on August 15, but its aftermath feels more like a retrograde than the retrograde did. I’m sure in some other dimension where direction differs according to your holographic gradient, the planets do lead an infinite number of lives. Certainly here on Earth their movements have as many interpretations as there are people watching the sky. But on paper there is no astrological explanation why so many hearts and minds are currently experiencing so much energetic congestion and neither are there any immediate or extraordinary planetary reasons why so many people seem to be so overwhelmed.

The only thing that makes sense to me is prescience—we are overwhelmed now in anticipation the future, a future that includes two months of retrogrades beginning October 1. Just as animals sense an earthquake, some of us sense the slog that lies ahead, and are feeling the burden of getting “it” done before it takes twice as long to do anything. Don’t misunderstand: I am not predicting two months of disaster. I am saying Mars and then Mercury retrograde define October and November, a delineation that could translate into an endless fall. Some will prosper during these months, but most of us will feel as if we are constantly pushing the river. And the current psychic jam is an early warning signal not to procrastinate about important matters. This week and all the weeks of September are the only retrograde frustration free forward motion weeks before mid-December. The only commentary I can offer is, “Oy.”

This week opened with Uranus and the Sun forming an exact opposition. When tense configurations pull apart, we often experience that release in the form of intense events. Because Uranus and the Sun are always about freedom, personal and collective, for the next few days we are likely to be confronted by emancipation declarations of every denomination.

The good news is a Jupiter-Venus conjunction. Venus is in Libra, one of her home signs, sharing the same space with Jupiter, the planet of great good fortune, and their coupling engenders an atmosphere of beauty, grace, and sensual pleasure—a frequency that is sure to soothe overextended and overwrought nervous systems.

What makes astrology a practical tool for conscious living is its ability to delineate cycles. Forewarned means well prepared. So rather than dread what lies ahead, decipher the code of what’s happening now, and then, use that information to create the appropriate strategy for handling the intensity.

posted September 05, 2005 09:13 PM              

How have you been?