posted August 30, 2009 08:10 PM         

It’s a short, fast moving week without a lot of aspects yet asking us to do a lot of work. Okay, I am a Virgo, so I believe in preparation and plans…. Next month there is SO much going on, you need to get ready for it starting right now. And this week is a great week to start!

Think Roto-tiller. The eclipses softened or weakened or removed things that you are not going to need when Pluto gets into Capricorn for good, strong and true. Pluto does that NEXT week, when Pluto goes direct on September 11th. This week and next, Pluto’s at the degree of his station and also on the world axis of highly public events, pushing, pushing, pushing on you, me and each of our fellow human beings to evolve, grow up and be responsible. Around you are things planted in your life that you don’t need or want any more. Roto-tiller time! Take the roto-tiller to them! Dig up the soil they are planted in. Till the land around the undesired plants or people. Turn them. Twist them. Pull on them. Get them out of the landscape of your life. Break them up into small pieces so you can get them out of your garden, house or life. Put them in a pile to compost.

Think Compost Pile. Compost piles recognize that the detritus of our life is actually useful and can be recycled into cool stuff for the gardens in our lives to use. The detritus served a purpose. Yet, it is finished. We don’t need those potato peels, apple cores or leftover broccoli stalks. We don’t need those negative thoughts, difficult people or stressful situations any more. We are able, and encouraged actually, to throw them all on to the Compost Pile. If they really want to be in our lives, they can crawl off that compost pile and wiggle their way back into the kitchen and our hearts. (Hopefully with a change of attitude or behavior). But consider composting them!

Think Recycle bin. Your junk is another person’s treasure. Ebay makes many millions letting you sell your old stuff on their “electronic garage sale” so it can become some one else‘s new stuff. Leftovers put to use and made into soup. Donate. Recycle. Sell it on Ebay. Post it on Craig’s list. Give it to Good will. Clear out the stuff you no longer need. Remove their numbers from your cell phone. Rip their cards and letters up. Delete their email addresses. Donate the people or situations you no longer want in your life to the Cosmic Good Will.

Saturn in Virgo is when we learn skills that we will take out into the world. It is our cosmic apprenticeship so to speak. The Universe wants us to assess our skills to see where they can still be improved. The Universe wants us to look at the stuff that isn’t working so well any more, clean it up and let it go. The Universe wants us to recognize which of our skills are going to be the ones we hone as we head out into Pluto in Capricorn. Only the most useful, practical and helpful, due to Capricorn’s influence, are going to be what you actually need. For the rest, you are going to be charged $15 per bag by the airlines so you can take it with you! Do you actually NEED it?

If in doubt, throw it out. Virgo is the Cinderella sign of the zodiac as Virgo rules the house of the father‘s second wife ~ who is the one who made Cinderella hang out cleaning the fireplace and doing the laundry. Of course, Cinderella agreed (because she didn’t know better) to hang out by the fireplace and do the chores. Cinderella’s been learning all sorts of things over the past few months. Cinderella's been learning all sorts of stuff since Virgo and Saturn started dancing together in Fall 2007. She knows she doesn’t HAVE to hang out and clear our the cinders any more. She knows it is a choice to stay now. Well, Cindy, you are about to get an invitation to go to the ball when Saturn moves into Libra. Your fairy god mother (who, truth be told, is actually YOU changing your approach to the parts of your life that aren‘t working) is about to appear. You need to get ready.

We are each going to face moments of personal truth in September. We will each be asked to change our ways ~ change our behavior or choices to evolve and grow into the next chapter of our lives. Or we will decide to stay the same, stick with the course and sink back into our lives, unchanged, due to fear of the unknown or the difficulty of changing or for any one of 1,001 excellent stories/ reasons we tell ourselves and others.

However, if in the quiet of your soul, you are staying where you don’t want to stay because of fear, both the universe and Saturn know. Your soul knows. It is going to start to ache very badly in the months ahead.

If you are beating a strategic retreat and don’t like the DIRECTION of the changes you are making due to finances, housing, health or other reasons, AND you STILL have a plan to change your life, no worries. You have the time delayed change plan. April and July of 2010 will offer you a chance to change the structure of your life yet again. If you are of the 1,001 reasons why you CAN’T change due only to fear, you will also have two more options in April and July. Listen to your heart. Living in a situation that you hate is hard on the psyche, body and soul.

The week ahead features stressful yet take action aspects ~ sesquiquadrates galore! The combination of a square and semi-square, sesquis (as they prefer to be called <wink> by their friends) are 135 degree angles. Squares contribute 90 degrees while semi-squares throw in 45 degrees. Sesquis add to a 9 of perfection, completion and karma. Take action to relieve the stress. Action will make you feel better. The stress points to the place or point of growth for your soul. The action relieves the stress. Plus you get something accomplished.

There also is a Full Moon on September 4, culminating the story begun in March of 2008, a year and a half ago. Mercury slows to his station degree. He goes retrograde on September 7. Pluto is grinding into the world axis, preparing for his station and turning direct on September 11th. A world axis Pluto station means we can expect big news in our lives and our world over the next few weeks. Any planets sitting on the world axis make us VERY aware of what is going on in the world around us. Pluto, lord of the underworld, in a cardinal action taking sign, stopping on it often, historically, has caused major wars, eruptions or earthquakes to take place. History has turned and changed directions on Pluto stations, particularly stations on the world axis!

That is why I want you to get ready to change directions in the next few weeks. Start to prepare NOW so you’ll be ready to GO when the time comes. No use running around with a laundry basket of unfinished tasks when your fairy god mother appears to dress you for the ball. Roto-tiller. Compost. Recycle. Pack. Plan. Get ready.

Monday Moon in Capricorn early in the day offers a solid opportunity to get the week off to a good start. There is a void moon at 2:09 pm east coast time that runs till 11:43 pm so take the afternoon for rest and planning about what you are going to recycle, compost or roto-tiller over the next two weeks. Saturn asks you to adjust. Remember if it is a OLD soul wound, it doesn’t have to move forward with you while Pluto is journeying through Capricorn. He only asks that you LEARN from the wound. That you look at what the wound gave you and adjust your behavior. If you take the approach that I do that the wound was needed to GET YOU TO WHERE YOU ARE NOW, you can see it for the growth, pain and pruning that it gave to you. Understand the wound as part of what your soul needed. You received it. You don’t have to keep doing the same old, same old, stirring the wound up and making it bleed. You only have to agree to change a teeny tiny bit and everything around you will start to shift too. Venus and Uranus join with the North Node and Juno respectively by declination asking you to make a teeny tiny shift. Shift towards adding more of what you love. Move towards what you want to partner with going forward in your life. All profound change is ultimately incremental and process oriented when it begins. Radical changes take place when the incremental changes don’t cut it any more and the Universe or fate knocks us off our horse with a lightening bolt like Saul on the Road to Damascus. We are at a cross roads between incremental and radical changes. Change incrementally so the radical change, when it arrives, finds you ready and willing to go. Radical change can be expected mid-month of September. Get ready.

Tuesday Moon in Aquarius has us taking the 20,000 foot view of our lives with a detached vision or approach. Venus has an aspect of easy brilliance to Pluto so she’s working from a place of love (Leo) and what is best for your Sun to be able to shine its brightest. Is the situation before you helping you shine? Are you hiding your light under a bushel? What good does that do you or any one? The more you live in your authentic soul’s life and heart’s desire, the better it is for the rest of the world, particularly those around you who love you. Pallas Athena has a sesqui to the North Node of Destiny while Mercury in Libra has a sesqui to Jupiter hanging out with the Gang of Three. Action taking under stress. Action taking relieves the stress. Time for some truth telling folks. Action taking under stress. Action taking relieves the stress. I once read a book called Radical Honesty which advised you answer people honestly at all times even when the social or kind lie might be a better or easier choice. Clearly the book was written by a fellow with a Stellium in Sagittarius! However, right now, with Mercury in Libra, ruled by Leo Venus, the universe suggests you stand in a love place and speak your truth. Speak with Radical Honesty about your heart. Speak of your fears. Speak of your hopes. Love yourself. Be kind to the other person in the story. But DO MAKE SURE TO speak the truth of what YOU would like. They are then fully and completely informed. They can make a choice if they would like to participate with you in the vision you have of your future. They know what they would like in THEIR future. You can partner with them or not but at least the truth rests between the two of you.

Wednesday Moon is in Aquarius all day long….. Great day to get the stuff ready to go to Good Will, the compost pile or to roto-tiller. Take the big picture of what you really need and want in your life going forward. What’s the vision? What’s the hope and dream? What serves the greater good of your being? Sometimes the greater good of your being is not the same as the other guys’ greater good. And when that happens, you reach a cross roads. Today is just such a day. Mars has a sesqui with Jupiter. Action taking under stress. Action taking relieves the stress. Mars in Cancer can be a bit self protective even as it wants to nurture. Boundaries are suggested. When it comes right down to it we are each responsible for our own lives and our own outcomes. Sure we are interdependent on the other people in our lives but our soul is aching for us to be true to its vision for our life. What is your soul aching for? Can you take a teeny tiny step toward that? Do you see how to do it yet? Teeny tiny….Venus has a hard aspect to Saturn saying sometimes you have to let go of what you have to go for the dream. You have to let go of the trapezee bar to fly through space to the next trapezee bar. There is a net! Saturn is your net. You are doing your Saturn when you go for your dream ~ particularly the dream you are SO AFRAID of or were discouraged from doing when you were young and impressionable. Go for your dream today. Or make a vision or plan of what that dream looks like.

Thursday Moon in Pisces softens the Mercury Mars square. It is a consciousness opening square with Mercury is going to see that Mars is acting from a place of fear. See the soul of the person. Talk to that. Talk to the soul of the person. Or talk to YOUR soul. The mess that is causing the fear is what they are afraid of. Encourage them to take teeny tiny steps to roto-tiller it. Or compost it. Or recycle it. Some one else will want what they no longer want but are holding on to out of fear. Same with you. Roto-tiller the fear too! It is not something you need to carry forward. So much of the time we are controlled or inhibited by our fears. As they grow and get louder, bigger and stronger, we shrink and get smaller and smaller. Do you want that for yourself? Why? Go sit for a while with your inner Cinderella, the scared little girl in the corner afraid to do more than make a peep to ask for a crumb of bread. Your needs aren’t many. But you need to take care of yourself. You need to help your soul get to where it wants to go. Compost what you don’t need any more.

Friday brings us a full moon. Read the full moon report on this website for more information. It will be posted on Friday. If you want an early edition, sign up for the newsletter using the tab on the left of my website. Venus has a sesqui with Uranus. Action taking under stress. Action taking relieves the stress. Venus in Leo knows what she wants. Uranus in Pisces is the agent of change that can help her get there. Venus has to take actions to move towards the changes she wants. Neptune pushes off from Vesta. Once Cinderella stands up and takes a stand for herself, she can’t go back to hanging out quietly by the fire place sweeping the cinders. Think of the people throughout history that stood their ground, holding strong to their beliefs and convictions. Their firm stance changed their world and ours. The various Kennedys. Anwar Sadat. Nelson Mandela. Rosa Parks. George Washington. Patrick Henry. Gandhi. Winston Churchill. Joan of Arc. Ronald Reagan. Martin Luther King. Florence Nightingale. It doesn’t have to be a big change. It just means you have to stand in your truth. Make a small change and stand in your truth.

Saturn’s day finds Venus joining with Mars by declination in the heavens. Yes, it is that easy! See how easy it was to stand in your truth? It shifted your world a teeny tiny bit. If you continue to stand in your truth, you will continue to shift the world. Pisces moon works with the outer planets to get ready for the return of school days, work days and September's end of the growing season and harvest. Moon is void for the afternoon making it a great day to compost, recycle and redistribute the things you no longer need.

Sunday Moon in Aries ruled by Mars in Cancer means you will have to take action, whether you want to or not. Action taking under stress. Action taking relieves the stress. We have yet another sesqui ~ actually TWO sesquis! Mars sesqui to Chiron ~ actions can cause wounds. You have to take action to move past the wound. Don’t be afraid. Take action. Sun sesquis the North Node of Destiny ~ there before you is a fork in the road. You are going to have to choose, very soon, whether you evolve, stay the same or de-evolve. Stand in the quiet place where you can hear your soul whisper in your ear. Think of your life up to now and know that the cross roads before you is a very important moment in your life. Listen to what your heart wants. Listen to your soul’s whispers. Say yes to giving yourself permission to move toward your dream. Just a teeny tiny step. One step. Then another. And soon you are on the road to your dream.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference

Robert Frost (1874–1963).