posted June 02, 2008 06:01 PM         

All my close friendships seem to be dying and I've fallen off the social ladder. Its been like this since December. It also seems like I haven't been progressing much at all in life.

I'm kind of confused on how to read transits too. I've read all about em' but some of it is still a bit confusing.

posted June 03, 2008 04:04 AM         

I don’t know very much about progressions, but if I look at your chart, I see some oppositions that may be not too easy to handle, currently.

Transiting Saturn opposes your progressed MC, for instance. So, Saturn, the big disciplinator puts a damper on your current life goals and on the way you come up in public, with your professional persona. Mabye he wants you to re-think the plans, goals, objectives that you have made up for yourself – he wants you to do the best you can so that they have a substance in the future. Saturn lets us fail if we haven’t prepared everything properly and haven’t thought it all through thoroughly, he won’t let us get away with half measures. But it’s for our best, at the end of the day.

Transiting Saturn also plays around your 5th house cusp – currently seems to be in the fourth, your very intimate, private, childhood-rooted sector – making you very serious about your private affairs and your deepest cravings. And he will take that seriousness, that “no kidding”-approach into your 5th house of self expression soon. Probably a time of maturation, in a way.

Transiting Pluto is opposing your progressed Ceres – might be that you don’t feel “nurtured” properly or not taken care for in the way you wish. Ceres is in your 2nd house, Pluto from the 8th calls for transformation – probably a call to remodel some (outworn?) modes of feeling comfortable etc…To get acquainted with new, more real and substantial ways of feeling well and at home. Tran. Pluto also conjuncts your natal Saturn and Uranus in 8th house – so it’s definitely a time for a little revolution, a transforming one, because the old rules of control you may have applied to keep your life in check may have to be refreshed. Because you’ve grown them out. (That’s the good news involved: evolvement.)

Then, your progressed Moon and Mars form a conjunction – heating up your emotions, maybe? Make you a bit hasty or: easy to aggravate? And this conjunction sits right on your natal Pluto right now, the planet of power and survival instinct. This gives … a temper, I suppose. ;-) Maybe like: “I wanna have it my way or no way?” Which can be healthy for a while, because it makes us a bit aggressive, maybe, but also can spur us on to new heights.

Transiting Chiron in your 10th – if you feel vulnerable or hurt during this house-transit it will be hard to hide it, but obvious for the people around you, and you probably can’t help letting it all out – and maybe “bite back” once in a while … You might behave more “moody” than you usually do. But this will pass as well. ;-)

Yeah – this seems to be a tough time for you. BUT: Transformations can hurt, but they can make us stronger.

I am sorry if I talked so much about the tougher aspects here – it is because you asked about that.

But you’ve got some supporting and smooth things going on for you as well, of course! ;-)

Porgressed Sun and Mercury in the 7th: Seek for contacts with a meaning for you. You should be able to share your thoughts with likeminded people now better than at other times maybe, because the 7th is much more outgoing and communicative than the 6th, where your natal sun & mercury are orginially positioned. It is a great time for making new contacts, finding new friends and get inspired by talking about yourself! (Like you did here, by posting your chart.) You can profit and learn for such outgoingness a lot now – that’s at least my bet.

Apart from that, progressed Venus and Vesta are almost conjuncting your natal Vesta – and transiting Jupiter does conjunct it – which, in my opinion, means that your private/professional/creative/self expressionist projects receive a nice boost now. You have the chance to get newly inflamed with your endeavours, personal, intellectual, emotional – and Jupiter asks you to think bigger and bolder than ever. Grant yourself some enthusiasm in starting anew with some projects dear to your heart – Jupiter will support you, and progressing Venus and Vesta will also stand by your side – and: It seems to be a mental/mercurial thing, because it’s in the 9th house.

posted June 03, 2008 04:15 AM         

Uranus Transits Through Your Eleventh House: This is the house of friends, hopes, and wishes. It also influences any group or organization that you may belong to. Uranus transiting here can have several possible effects. It could attract you to new friends, people that are very different from those friends you have already. You are more likely to be attracted to people who are best described as strange, eccentric, even bizarre. The people you know, at this time, can have a greater influence on you, to bring about big changes in your life. Conversely, the friends you already have will seem to undergo behavior changes. Groups that you belong to may suddenly seem to be dull and oppressive. There will be a strong urge to leave. Uranus transiting here could also attract you to some sort of new group, particularly one that crusades for some social cause. When Uranus hits, we are seldom content to simply believe something. We have to preach and crusade.