posted June 26, 2008 12:40 PM         

Recently I've examined my lifestyle, habits, friends, career and have been in this "cleaning mode" ever since!

Literally -- first I started to clean up my diet and make it balanced and healthy, then I decided to literally clean my entire apartment (with a toothbrush!), then I decided to do "The Master Cleanse" detox (basically a 10 day fast), I'm getting ready to leave my job for a new one (interviewing next week), and I've decided to redecorate my entire apartment! Plus, I've "let go" of all the toxic people in my life... old lovers, old friends... anyone that makes me feel guilty or less confident about myself.

I have to tell you, for once: I REALLY FEEL GREAT! Maybe I'm just high from my 10 day fast or something, but I really feel like I'm a new person ready to take on the world.

Is this some aspect of my chart? Any other aquas out there feeling this way?

posted June 26, 2008 01:19 PM         

I was going to start a thread today about Aqua suns and not being able to let go... I had a dream about my most recent ex last night that left me all twitterpated and confused when I woke up. I showered, got ready for work, and all the while thought about how I always do that. I have always had such a hard time giving myself over to newness because of some stupid memory sneaking up and engulfing all rationality.

Then I thought about how I would write him a letter to say hi, and to tell him I was sorry for laying so much blame on him for what went wrong in our relationship. How I had been so angry and bitter and spent a lot of time thinking it was his fault for manipulating me into losing myself to the relationship.

Then it hit me

ZAP, URANUS!!

It's me. It's nobody else that can effect positive changes in my life. It's nobody else that can break from old patterns if I want anything to be better.

So, I did not write to him. I will not write to anyone. I will not try to contact people I have hurt and broken a bit just to appease my own soul and guilt.

I am doing a house cleaning myself, in a way.

Although, it began months ago with huge life changes (home, career, friends), I just got it today.

posted June 26, 2008 01:33 PM         

Uranus is the oddball of the solar system. For starters, it rolls along its side -- on its equator -- instead of spinning upright in its orbit the way planets typically do. Uranus is also in retrograde for more than half of the year. This means it is only direct for two weeks, and is retrograde for about five months out of every Earth year.

Astrologically, Uranus liberates you from the shackles of convention and applies pressure to change whatever is stagnant in your life. Uranus rules electromagnetic energy and is like a lightning storm that creates chaos as it cleans the air, revealing a fresh new world once the storm has cleared.

But when Uranus is retrograde, expect the unexpected. Wonderful and startling surprises are very possible. This retrograde may set your wild side free, or it could make a notoriously outgoing person uncharacteristically shy.

To know exactly what to expect, review the placement of Uranus in your birth chart. If Uranus is direct in a chart, intuitive and inventive impulses flow on a regular basis. However, when Uranus is retrograde in a birth chart, rebellious urges tend to bottle up and then burst forth, seemingly out of nowhere. A retrograde period seems to reawaken freedom urges within individuals, causing them to suddenly and unconsciously rebel against any ruts or confinement in life. Is Uranus retrograde in your birth chart? Should you be on guard against your own rebellious tendencies in the following months to come?