posted September 14, 2009 07:30 AM         

Monday There are 12 aspects today while the moon is void in Cancer making us extra sensitive to all we encounter as emotions swirl and next to nothing lands solidly where we expect it to land. Venus argues with Chiron wounding us with words or an old energy that we so want to release. Can you see how that wound worked SO WELL for you before? Can you see how it is time to put it down and grow up? Time to grow up. Juno enters Pisces where she is seeking to partner with the down trodden or under supported. She’s looking to take care of those that can’t take care of themselves. Careful to not sign up for more than you can do. Mars and Mercury have aspects of over committing to Jupiter ~ so the small task will grow VERY big and QUITE large before you are finished. Bite off a little bit ~ less than you can chew. It will expand in your mouth.

Tuesday has only 5 aspects but they are doozies. Saturn opposes Uranus part three of five oppositions. Back to late October and early November, election day, when the initial change took place. Back to late January and early February, the 6th, when part two took place. Today we have part three. Or actually last week and this week, culminating today. The crazy with correction. Remember Saturn is going forward in rules and regulations Virgo. He’s playing by the book, keeping the score and following the rules. Uranus is going retrograde so he’s perceived as being the crazy and wild one, even as he keeps pointing out the need for change, change, change! Uranus is the outbreak of unexpected. Saturn is the correction and structure placed around that outbreak of the unexpected. Mars has a terrific idea that might be a bit “self protecting” but that you should definitely take it by the security issues and run with it. People will vote yes as it answers their security needs too! Venus is working on her new definition of love and desire. Often when we “get” what we’ve dreamed of, we have nothing else planned. Today it looks like one of the dreams you planned for yourself might not happen. That is okay. The current format of that old dream isn’t happening but the new dream is lying right there behind or next to the old dream. If your dream seems to blow up or explode today, remember that Pluto going direct is wanting you to see the dream for all of its good and all of its not so good.

Wednesday if something shattered or broke yesterday, clean it up. Weep a bit. Wail perhaps. Venus is arguing with Uranus about his crazy and bad behavior. On another hand, she is secretly thrilled too. 12 aspects. There is a demand that you adjust today. The heavens are shouting adjust, adjust! Take their advice. All you have to do to adjust is withdraw. Take your energy back. Stop controlling. Stop acting crazy. Recognize YOU are in charge of YOUR life. There comes a point in time when you can’t blame your dog for eating your homework, your mother, father, bad childhood, broken home, cheating spouse, drug problem or whatever. Today is that day. Sun says to Neptune ~ adjust that dream of yours to fit the reality before you. Venus says to Uranus ~ stop acting like a crazy fool and do what you love for a change. Chiron says to Pallas ~ the reason you are continuing to be wounded and hurt over and over and over again is because you keep picking at your wound and pulling the scab off. You need to stop picking at yourself. Let yourself heal. Stop repeating the same self defeating stories. Learn new ones that are more uplifting. Start telling stories where you are the heroine or hero! Give yourself some credit for all the GOOD stuff you do. Sit down, make a list of all the stuff you’ve done today ~ starting with feeding the dog or scooping the litter. Look at all the good you’ve contributed! Be pleased with yourself. You can have your new dream. Look at who you are and how far you’ve come in your life! Some times we forget that the point of life is to grow. Think back 7 years from today. What all have you learned and figured out since then? What has happened to you in your role as parent, partner, lover, friend, co-worker? Do you see how you’ve changed and evolved? You can do even MORE in the next seven years! Conscious evolution!

Thursday has 9 aspects but they are DOOZIES too! Sun comes to illuminate the Saturn Uranus opposition of two days ago. The light arrives. You can feel a bit depressed as the Sun joins with Saturn for the day and fights with change. It does seem like things are never going to change on days like this. At the same time, you only have to look at a baby or a kitten to see how fast and quickly they learn things and grow. You can do that too. You can learn things and grow. I went to my doctor’s office last week. He is offering regular folks the ability to harvest their stem cells and keep them for a rainy health day down the road. For only $7,500 and 4 hours of your time, you can take the fountain of life in your body, your stem cells, and store them (another $800 per year). To quote from his website, “What most patients do not realize is that stem cells circulate in the body throughout the bloodstream. You are constantly making stem cells which replace cells including skin, liver, heart, and cartilage! We make new cells to replenish cells that are aging and becoming dysfunctional.

As we get older, we have fewer and fewer of these circulating stem cells, and the stem cells we have are not as good at evolving into other replacement cells. As we get older we don't reproduce as many skin cells. The skin cells don't make as much collagen and the skin begins to sag.

We are now able to take the stem cells that are circulating and collect them and freeze them. Wouldn't that be a wonderful insurance policy if they were available when we needed them for a serious problem later on?”

Today, on a cosmic level, your stem cells are feeling mighty old and worn out. However, they are in there. Circulating. Replacing the old and outworn cells with new and frisky stem cells. Stem cells are “crazy” cells that can turn into any type of cell needed in your body. You have the ability to make stem cells! You have the ability to change. Every cell in your being is calling out to shift. Mercury has an argument with Pluto today, on the world axis, so expect difficult or sad news. Expect to feel you can’t shift. Know you can harvest your stem cells. Know your body can dispatch your circulating stem cells to your heart or lungs or whatever organ to replenish, replace and refresh it. You have to adjust your dream a bit to take advantage of the infusion of life and light into your life. Believe in your dream. Believe it!

Friday find us with 7 aspects and a New MOON. Read the new Moon report on this site or sign up to receive it early via my newsletter. Only two aspects, and quiet ones at that means it is time for a contemplative poem. Virgo New Moons are about the service, habit or work area in our life. The daily give and take of how we live. Desiderata, a wonderful poem by Max Ehrman seemed appropriate. New beginnings today. Focus on the new beginnings of how you want to live your life. Think about how you want to partner with yourself to create the life you are going to live.

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others,
even to the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Saturn day has 9 aspects! Right out of communing with the trees and the stars, your right to exist is starting to swirl again! Moon in Libra bounces back and forth between her choices. Rosh Hashannah, the Jewish New Year, begins. Next week we mark a new beginning as the fall season arrives and next chapter of life for all of us begins. Today is a fixit up kind of energy even as you bounce. Mercury is looking to partner with creation in a different way ~ this whole has to be my way or else business is getting kind of tiring. How about a little for me and a bit for you and a donation to charity for the rest of it? Mutable signs ask us to partner in a different and more flexible way. Crazy with a choice? Your dream is going to need another adjustment today ~ back to the seedlings. Back to the bitty dreams. Back to the hopes of partnering. Uranus wants to clear out the place ~ crazy cleaning and clearing. No Saturn in sight. While we don’t recommend throwing away partner’s moth eaten college letter sweater with out asking, today is a day you could actually get away with it! They might just say yes! Push for it with a “IF you get rid of this you have more space for your future!” Truth be told, they are ready to let it go. While this is still a new moon energy, it is a terrific day to do releasing rituals of things you don’t want to carry forward into Pluto in Capricorn. Release is appropriate as you clear out that college letter sweater and your old unneeded emotions as well. Just drop them all in the good will bucket.

Sun day whooshes in with 14 aspects ~ ZOWWEE!!! Moon in Libra is rocking and rolling. Venus leaves Leo and enters Virgo where she gets a bit more thin skinned and sensitive to criticism. Great. Just what we need ~ MORE sensitivity when all this crazy energy is flying around. Sun is combust Mercury so we don’t see the error of our thinking and believe we are completely correct. The other guy doesn’t see anything wrong with THEIR thinking either. Can we agree to disagree? Or agree to do something else? Within today there are a number of excellent ideas or plans to change how you are doing things. All of them are brilliant even if you don’t know how to get them all accomplished. Just write them down so you don’t forget them. Expect at least 5 FINE ideas. Venus wants to push her power drives a bit ~ open up the triangles ~ you, another and a third person or thing ~ to healthy discussion. Jealousy day if you are not careful. Get the big picture, at least a sketch of it, in writing or onto paper so you can run it by folks next week. Remember, it might FEEL crazy but it is about correcting crazy into the new reality. Out of the problems come the solutions if you look at the true source of the problem. Not the symptom. Look at the source. Pay attention your dreams as well as the ghosts you run into today. You may also find papers or memories of those ghosts which count just as much. Mull. Remember to sit in the cognitive dissonance. Enjoy it. You don’t KNOW where you are going just yet but you are on the way! Trust that the universe is unfolding as it should.

Mundane: Extreme tension abounds. Crazy with Correction. Responsibility with Freedom. Saturn and Uranus are at it again! Whether it was some one calling the President a liar in front of the nation and Congress or meltdowns and man kisses at the US Open Tennis Matches or dramas at the Video Music Award show there is a general level of craziness that we’ve been watching happen. See crazy and think Uranus.

There have also, right behind each of these crazy moments, been follow up moments where regular folks stood up and said “I can make this right!” And then they proceeded to do so. Think Saturn when you see I can make this right

When I sat down to write the rest of the column Sunday night, the Video Music Award show was the latest out break of crazy with correction. Taylor Swift won an award for best female video. Kanye West jumped on the stage, interrupted, saying he thought Beyonce's "Single Ladies" video was wrongly overlooked. "Hey Taylor, I'm really happy for you, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time." That was the crazy Uranus.

Fortunately, Taylor got another chance to complete her acceptance speech. When Beyonce accepted the Best Video Award for "Single Ladies," she invited Taylor back on stage.

"Wow, this is amazing," Beyonce said when receiving her award. "I remember being 17-years-old and up for my first MTV award with Destiny's Child. It was one of the most exciting moments in my life. So, I'd like for Taylor to come out and have her moment."

Taylor then joined Beyonce on stage and recited her acceptance speech. That was the Saturn correction.

Crazy ~ Uranus ~ Correction ~ Saturn. Forward into the wild week ahead!

Obama described what he said was "a coarsening of our political dialogue" where "the loudest, shrillest voices get the most attention" in a nonstop news cycle. Crazy Uranus is at it again!