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posted December 21, 2009 01:21 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for venus in gemini     Edit/Delete Message
Oh my....look at this week! I promise to send you all positive, loving, compassionate energy. Please send it back to me. I think we're all going to need it.


Weekly Weather December 21, 2009

SNOW DELAY! Sorry about the late posting. The east coast and NYC was covered with 10 inches of snow!

The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming! We are in the build up period to the eclipses on December 31, 2009 and January 15, 2010. They are companion eclipses to the ones we had this summer when all sorts of people left our lives. Part two, the wrap up, starts now. We can expect endings and concluding events tied to that period of time. We will also start a new cycle of energy with the full Moon eclipse on December 31, 2009. And we can expect a similar but shorter season of death, loss or departures like we had this summer as the eclipses are in Cancer and Capricorn axis, asking us to each grow up and take on additional responsibilities for our lives and in our world.

We have all sorts of upsets ahead of us this week. And the rest of the month is none too tranquil either! We are going to be astounded at all the changes and revelations in our lives. Didn’t you find out AMAZING or astonishing things LAST WEEK? This week is even BETTER or MORE news and revelations!

First up is the Solstice ~ the longest night of the year and the shortest day for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere and reversed in the Southern Hemisphere. Sun reaches the Tropic of Capricorn and appears to stand still for three days. Then Sun begins to move back across the sky, lengthening each day a minute or two more for the North and shortening every day for the South as we proceed through the season. The Solstice marks the end of the old season and beginning of the new. In many cultures, the Solstice also marks the end of the Solar year and the birth of the Sun in a NEW year. We cast an Ingress chart for the moment the Sun enters Capricorn, 12:47 pm EST, to see what the year will hold for us. Similar to the solar return for birthdays, this Ingress chart is the anima mundi or world chart.

On Sunday, Mars stationed to go retrograde and won’t clear his shadow until mid-May, spending a very long eight months in the sign of Leo, starting back mid-October. We each will know exactly what we want by the end of May and, with any luck, maybe even HAVE it. Mars is tied to our passion and where our ego and solar desire to create and live in form wants to take us. Mars is how we get there and get it. You’ll like it! Go for your dream! Unfortunately, we can often find a million and one reasons NOT to do our dream or work towards creating our dream. We can sit around and come up with reasons why it isn’t happening for us. Well, now is the time when we really ARE blocked. While Mars is retrograde, it WILL feel like your dream is on hold, delayed, obfuscated, blocked or held back. All that frustrated Mars energy should be directed at what you CAN actually DO something about, not what, on who or where you find yourself getting stuck. The stuck part is only to make you REALLY frustrated so you get up and go create your dream.

Mars retrograde also puts the kabosh on projects or situation begun since Mid-October as they encounter unexplainable or inexplicable delays. Go with the flow. Take time to do the other stuff you’ve been avoiding if you find yourself blocked in a certain area.

Mars retrograde means situations move backwards, our mojo is missing and our men folk get mighty weird. Postpone heavy emotional decisions if you can. You are going to reverse or change your mind once Mars switches direction later in March. Be wary of serious commitments during this time as you won’t or it won’t work out as expected. And old loves, spouses, partners and situations return to “spice” up our lives. So YES the issues are probably still there ~ the ones that caused the split ~ and NO they probably aren’t going to change that much ~ BUT you are in the mood to go back to old places yourself.

Jupiter and Neptune join in the heavens for round three of build-your-dream. Similar to build a bear, you have a dream some where in your Aquarian house that inspires you, whispers in your ear, or nuzzles your neck. Now is the time to move ~ definitively, steadfastly and slowly to make your dream come true. In a backwards ways as Mars is retrograde but also in a future plan kind of way as they want you to plan for the future.

The planet Jupiter wants to expand your dream for you. The planet Neptune wants you to inspire and be inspired by your dream. Venus also speaks the dream as she talks with Neptune and Jupiter and says “Hey Big Guys, wanna help a gal make her dreams and desires come true?”

The end of the week is quite tough emotionally for a few reasons. As easy and mellow as Thanksgiving was with the long void moon in Pisces, will be as action charged, depth probing and argumentative as Christmas will be with the aspects taking place. Sun, now in Capricorn, joins with Pluto and squares Saturn. Venus changes signs into Capricorn where upon she promptly joins with Pluto and squares Saturn. Ouch. Our ego light and purpose joins with our heart’s desire in a giant cosmic power struggle with Pluto as Saturn swats at them both. Light and dark are needed to see things clearly. It might be dark. Remember, it is a transit and designed for you to see thing. Venus doesn’t do too well with Saturn or Pluto as she is so not about the ‘nasty‘ parts of life. Sun does okay as he is so much bigger than them and they need him to revolve around, but even he finds his normally sunny disposition darkened, challenged and stressed when he meets up with The Dark Lord of the Underworld and The Ringed Lord of Karma, boom, boom, right after each other.

Mercury in practical earth, silent and solid, plain spoken words Capricorn slows to a stop and reverses his direct motion on December 26th, the day after Christmas and beginning of Kwanzaa. Mercury gets a bit more crafty when he is in Capricorn, parsing his words and choosing them carefully so he‘s not hung up on things. No getting a commitment out of him if he’s not ready. So communications, conversations and connections are more serious or delayed as he stops the day after Christmas to go retrograde until January 15, the day of the Solar eclipse.

So what does it all mean? That is a LOT of activity ~ Sun and Venus changing signs into somber earth Capricorn and aspecting Pluto and Saturn, Mercury stopping, Mars stopped and now starting to reverse things, Jupiter and Neptune joining. And all these aspects take place under the building energy of the emotional lunar full moon eclipse.

It is going to be a doozy. The next couple weeks are action packed!

You are going to take responsibility for your side of the story. You are part of the story and need to own it.

You are going to see THEIR side of the story too. You are going to understand it like you never did before.

Whatever the situations before you, remember, you brought them into your life to learn from and grow from. Reflect on what that school wants you to understand about yourself and your path.

Pluto in Capricorn will reveal what he actually WANTS you to do while he is in Capricorn.

Saturn in Libra will lay out the tasks before you and suggest a way to partner with him going forward. Saturn has your back on this one.

Neither of which do you have to actually DO any thing about until mid-July. You are in revision and fine tune mode right now.

No points for suffering. Pain is part of life. Suffering is optional. Put the suffering part down. Or throw it out with the dead Christmas tree or the wrapping papers.

Whatever the painful situation before you is, own it, hold it, understand your role in it, and then RELEASE IT!

No blaming. No shaming. No should of, could of, would of. You are where you are. They are where they are. From this point forward you proceed.

Focus on the angel on the top of the Christmas tree. Focus on the ornaments and twinkling lights. Focus on the fresh snow. Focus on a childlike enjoyment of life. Forget the sadness for a bit. Focus on what Peace on Earth, Good Will to All means to you. Focus on whatever takes you out of yourself and into the positive parts of your world and your life.

Now, it is ENTIRELY possible that because YOU have worked hard on figuring out your path and dedicated yourself to bringing consciousness to yourself, that you will NOT have a very tough week. But all around you, folks WILL be having a hard time! If that is the case, get them focused on what they can actually DO something about (not much but there IS at least one or two things). Encourage them to do that. As for the rest of it, encourage them to put the hard stuff down and not beat themselves up or shame, blame or pick on themselves. There is enough of that nasty stuff flying around already, we don’t need more of it. And them doing it to themselves is totally counterproductive

We are at a major turning point cosmologically. While Pluto has been in Capricorn for a bit, NOW is when the rubber starts to hit the road so to speak. The time ahead is what all the rest of your life has been leading up to. You are totally ready, even if you don’t think you are.

Give yourself over to trust the process of evolution, life and growth. You don’t think about your heart beating or your lungs breathing or all the cells in your body, busy, busy, busy with the work of keeping you alive, functioning and whole. Yet they are. They know you have a reason to be here, even if YOU wonder what it is. So trust the process. Show up. Do the work before you. Live your life. Make sure to laugh a little bit every hour to keep the energy high and happy.

Monday Moon is void all day long~ bringing a bit of a slow day for a change. Moon enters Pisces at the end of the day east coast time. During the day, the Sun enters Capricorn, beginning the Winter Season in the Northern Hemisphere and the Summer Season in the Southern Hemisphere. Neptune and Jupiter join making it a day of receiving profound inspiration or idealization. Time to create and follow up on your dreams. You start a new 12 year cycle today, ready or not, in your Aquarian house. You’ve been mulling it over for a while. Today, the energy of Neptune and Jupiter links up for the third time this year, releasing, possibly with a lot of emotion, that which needs to leave you. Cry, wail or feel the emotions stir as they empty out of you into the ethers. At the same time, Neptune and Jupiter encourage you to grow or turn toward what your new dream. You are ready to go. Venus encourages you to connect with Neptune. Think back to December of 2007 to see what started back then. As Pluto readied himself to enter Capricorn, he joined with Jupiter at the same degree as the conjunction today. Back then, you had a vision. How are you doing on creating the transformative vision from then in your life? What have you finished? What is next to be accomplished? Where do you go from here? Mull on those questions and where they lead you during the void moon.

Tuesday Moon ins Pisces brings a quiet day. Sun fights with Juno so partnerships can end or break up today. As Juno is on the world axis, the break is a public one. Mercury joins with Jupiter by declination so words of peace and beauty flow freely. Honor your deeper hopes and inner vision. Note your dreams and day dreams upon awakening. Just because your family didn’t teach you how to do it, doesn’t mean you can’t learn. You are a smart person. What policy of the family or teachings you were taught to believe seem to undermine you? Can you let them go? Why live in a state of undermining yourself. Own the energy. Don’t let it spill out all over the place. Today, because of all the difficult energy flying around, it will be hard to NOT take things personally. To the best of your ability don’t. It isn’t personal. Its policy. You know the rules. We all make mistakes. Own your side of the mistake.

Wednesday, Mercury joins with Uranus by declination suggesting the separation is complete or permanent. Mercury joins the North node so we all move forward with our communication skills. It is a big travel day with good flowing aspects. Things cost a bit more than you thought it would so make sure to double check all receipts before you pay. Mistakes are often on important documents so have some one who has NOT seen it before do the final proof before it goes out the door. Whatever the shocking news, on some level, you expected it, didn’t you? Hasn’t this been brewing for a bit?

Thursday Sun joins with Pluto as Moon is in Aries adding fire to the story. Tempers flare. Power plays or power struggles take place. Triangles emerge. Vesta pokes at the Node ~ on some level you can’t go home again and you KNOW it is IRREVOCABLE. Yes, irrevocable even if Mars is retrograde ~ you might WANT it to reverse but THAT is not going to happen. Part of you wants the past to be the current time. Part of you wants the current time to be different than it actually is. Focus on what you can actually DO something about. Because Mars is retrograde, there is a longing for the old time when you were young. Part of the reason a Christmas tale involved ghosts from Scrooge’s past is so we each can see how we got to where we are now based on the choices we made. Holidays are a tough time for people. We all have a fantasy in our head of what a “perfect Christmas” looks like. No such thing as perfect. Focus on the love in the room. Find the love and bless it.

Friday is Christmas. Moon is still in Aries and still in the mood to argue or fight. Mercury joins with Neptune bringing caroling and joy and misunderstood words. Mercury joins with Neptune bringing tears, dissolution and loss. The rapture is not so rapturous when Venus enters Capricorn, bringing a note of seriousness to the festivities. Sun’s square to Saturn reminds you how fleeting life is as the passage of time and Christmases Past come to mind. Think back on earlier years ~ both good and bad ~ and how the holidays mark the transition and movement of time in our lives. When my Grandfather turned 90, he announced he would no longer be attending Christmas at our house. When asked why, he said he got tired and the day was too long. When asked what he would do instead, he said, “I have 90 years of Christmases in my head. I’ll go back and think about them! I’ll be fine.” Think about your past Christmases in the hustle and bustle of the day. It will help you avoid fighting as well as give you plenty to talk about. Make sure to get yourself out the door and into the fresh air for a bit of connection with the cosmos and the heavens. Living in doors you forget how beautiful the world actually IS! Appreciate the growing moon in the sky. As Mercury grinds to a halt today be conscious that words carry extra potency as their ruler is stopping in cardinal earth and push into people’s souls very hard and fast. Capricorn words cut the earth and make a trench where they dig in.

Saturn’s day is the return the stuff day. My aunt would always stop by with a car full of discounted wrapping paper and Christmas cards the day after Christmas. She hit those stores fast and early! Today the instincts will be slower yet involve the same energy. Prepare for the future while finishing putting away the presents you opened yesterday. Moon is busy upon awakening. Connect with the expansion of Jupiter and Neptune as Moon sextiles them and encourages forward motion. Mercury stations today to move retrograde until the Solar eclipse on January 15, 2010. Feelings, words, and thoughts go internal to re-emerge then. All the Christmas information and news that appeared will go underground and emerge in a new form on the eclipse when you will be able to make sense of it. The Moon is void in Aries until 3:26 pm east coast time so let the energy flow around you. Mercury, Sun and the Nodes all merge by declination. Pay attention to what you hear. You’ll understand it soon enough. Taurus Moon trines Venus and Pluto helping you to process the more difficult information of Thursday and Friday.

Sunday Mars fights with Saturn. The structures need revising. REVISE THEM. Mars is going backwards, seeking a new order or way of doing things even if he has trouble verbalizing that is what he is doing. Small changes in patterns result in big results over time. Remember the rocket that completely missed Venus because of a rounding error? Tiny changes result in big changes over time. Make a tiny change that you can live with today. Lots of energy around making the house and home more beautiful today. Install the new shower head. Hang the pictures. Put away the presents. Sit quietly with the tree and a cup of tea. Mercury argues with Venus across the solstice point. Think back to Monday when Sun entered Capricorn and reflect on what you know now that you didn’t know then. The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming!

Reader Mail:

Marianne wrote: Anne, sometime back you mentioned a second date as problematic for swine flu epidemic and if I remember correctly it was in December. I am seeing a lot about a possible mutation that is more a pneumonic plague and that it has hit the US. What was the date in December?

Anne answers: That mutation would be taking place now ~ between December 7 and this week as Jupiter joins with Neptune. Or possibly around February 17, 2010 when Neptune and Chiron link up for their third and final time. I know my lungs are completely clogged up with whatever it is that I picked up!

Personal: Lots of Changes Going on Around Here! Mars in my natal 6th and 7th house has been RATHER disruptive with work, habits, health, life and employees. Hopefully, the Mars retrograde will get me back on track!

The Moon columns are not gone, just swamped out of existence by the Gang of Three in my first house causing a difficult lung infection with their inconjunct to my sixth house planets. Besides, the Moons were in Sagittarius so they are LATE!

On a sad note and, yet hopefully, terrific, wonderful and great transition for her, Ruth Salen, my assistant for the past four years is moving on.

Ruth joined me in December of 2005. The four years have simply flown by! She handled the phone messages and emails as well as various other tasks and responsibilities. She was the front door / gate keeper for my astrology practice. Her Virgo Moon could always be counted on to structure, quantify and organize. Her Aries Sun/ Jupiter can do spirit accomplished tasks with speed and alacrity. She encouraged. She offered great ideas. She figured out how to fix the problems. She made me laugh with her wry observations and sense of humor.

In the time Ruth’s been working with me, my practice has more than doubled, thanks to her effective scheduling, follow up and follow through. She‘s heading off to a new position with her very own office to help run a foundation for children as well as pursue her myriad other interests.

When Ruth resigned, the Part of Fortune was on the Moon and North Node so I know the move will be excellent for her and take her life forward in a great direction. Ruth will always have a special place in my heart (You always remember your first ~ in this case, my first assistant!) as well as my eternal wishes for blessings, peace, happiness and bundles of love in her life.

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posted December 21, 2009 06:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for vertiver     Edit/Delete Message
Does anyone know when the last RX Mars cycle was and what sign or signs it was in?

RX Mars in Leo will slowly go back to conjunct my Leo Sun and Mercury in the 8th. So far the effects of Mars haven't seemed too obvious, I guess I had more energy when T.Mars was conjunct my Sun similar to when T. Sun in Sag. was conjunct my Asc.

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posted December 21, 2009 06:19 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Unmoved     Edit/Delete Message
vertiver -

It was on 30th June 2007, time 19:49 Universal Time. Sign: Capricorn, around early degrees of Cap, but I have not figured out which exact angle.

and on the article, this rings true, and I am not looking forward to when I have to take responsibility for my side of the story

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You are going to take responsibility for your side of the story. You are part of the story and need to own it.

You are going to see THEIR side of the story too. You are going to understand it like you never did before.


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posted December 22, 2009 04:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
*bumping to spread the joy*

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posted December 22, 2009 08:20 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for running_bull     Edit/Delete Message
Thank you!

Hmm, Retrograde Mars conjunct natal Moon, I'll have to look into that.

I felt this eclipse pattern quiet strongly, the most since the big ones in 2002/2003.

I broke up with a guy I was dating on the 21st, so it looks like it was part of this cycle and will have some permanency, so I am happy about that.

As far as old lovers returning, I experience that a lot and not looking forward to it. I have one that e-mailed me last week that he would like to see me while nearby after Christmas. Not sure about that one.

Whatever happens, I am ready for any changes. bring 'em on.

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posted December 22, 2009 09:11 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Node     Edit/Delete Message
I am in full-out tippy toe this week!

And the last extended Mars retro like this one was in 1995. Started Jan 2 @ 2 Virgo and went to 13 Leo.

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posted December 28, 2009 01:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for running_bull     Edit/Delete Message
I am kind of excited about the December 31 eclipse!
Doing my chart now to see where it falls and only see the eclipse trining uranus, which I will have to look into.

Anyone else excited?

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