posted January 19, 2010 07:31 AM         

Well last week was certainly rather wild and wooly! Earthquakes! Fights! Excitement! Secrets revealed! Drama! Explosions! So what broke free in YOUR life and shifted dramatically? Could you feel the energy moving?

All that energy was the eclipse on the North Node of Destiny, Mercury going direct on Pluto and square to Saturn as Saturn stationed to go retrograde and Jupiter entered Pisces.

Now we enter a period of retreat as a part of us moves forward. Mars is still going backwards in Leo until March 10 and now Saturn has joined him in reverse mode. Saturn is going to go back into late Virgo, where he was at the beginning of October of 2009. We are going to gather up the pieces of the story from back then to finish them up this spring. Once we get all that restructured we zoom ahead into the Cardinal Cross in June and July.

The Cardinal Cross will be part two of the economic collapse prior to the needed restructuring promised by Pluto in Capricorn. It will be similar to when Pluto entered Scorpio and we had the huge AIDS bloom where it felt like everyone was dying or when Pluto entered Sagittarius and it seemed every Catholic parish had a pedophile priest who molested children.

Now we will have the sense that every bank and corporate structure is unstable or cracking. Or perhaps our government will crack or appear unstable. Capricorn rules corporations, banks, governments and big business. Your job between now and the end of May is to evaluate your financial holdings and take the needed steps to PRESERVE your capital. Put your capital in safe, non-risky investments that you can point to such as real estate, cash or gold. Find a place where you can let your principle hang out and be safe/preserved. Do NOT go venturing back into the stock market unless you completely know what you are doing. When the economic collapse happens, it will be quite quick and take a big drop very, very fast.

Our week ahead is reasonably quiet after last week. Sun and Venus enter Aquarius and leave grumpy, cold, earth bound Capricorn behind for the vision, objective view and flight of Aquarius. Sun and Venus also talk to Saturn in a lovely conversation about their respective values. It is a week for you to focus on YOUR values. What DO you value? What is the dream you want to partner with? Get a bit clearer on the processes and procedures you need to take to move toward it as you finish up reorganizing while Mercury journeys through his Capricorn shadow until early February.

Monday is a holiday in the USA when we celebrate the life of civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr. A minister and profound speaker, his speech “I have a dream” applies to us in our changing circumstances. Think about the changes taking place in your life. What is your vision for them. What is your dream? Read Reverend King’s words and apply them to your life: I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together." This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning: My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

Venus enters Aquarius ~ raise your vision and sights higher ~ to the mountain. To the concept of freedom in your life. Venus is particularly active today and asks us to describe our heart and soul’s desire. Moon in Pisces has lovely closing aspects making today and tomorrow lovely days to focus on your hopes and get things out the door that support those dreams of yours. Venus enters Aquarius ~ raise your vision and sights higher ~ to the mountain. To the concept of freedom in your life. Venus is particularly active today and asks us to describe our heart and soul’s desire. Moon in Pisces has lovely closing aspects making today and tomorrow lovely days to focus on your hopes and get things out the door that support those dreams of yours.

Tuesday Moon in Pisces has no aspects but still is basking in the productive energy of yesterday. Mars is in the mood to fight with the strategy that seemed so, SO perfect the other day. It can be an envy day as Mercury focuses on his union with Saturn and can find himself wanting or needing a bit of support and doesn’t receive it. So Mercury gets mad or jealous or envious ~ remember he IS the god who stole his big brother Apollo’s cows (covetousness is a deadly sin!), then lied about it and tried to cover it up. It is a great day to clear things up around the house or office as the shift of energy of the Sun from Earth to Air supports the energetic exchange. Or perhaps it is time to clear your space energetically and invoke into your life what your fondest hopes and dreams are.

Wednesday Mercury has a brilliant idea that he needs to take immediate action on, even if it involves going back on a previously negotiated deal. As long as it isn’t signed, it isn’t final. You can always change your mind. And today you might just want to change your mind. Chiron has a healing fifth harmonic this evening around 7 pm east coast time. Make sure to answer the phone or check your email as you may be pleasantly surprised about. Moon in Aries in the afternoon is impatient and ready to rock and roll.

Thursday Moon in Aries is incredibly productive as it takes action in support of its dream. Mars will be talking about how much he’s done to support the process and how hard he’s worked. And he HAS worked hard ~ VERY hard! But no one much cares. It is time for him and you to move along to the next project or process. The closing aspects speak to the Moon’s deepest and most profound dreams ~ let her have her head and support. Mars is supportive of the feminine energy ~ women say yes today so make sure to ask them for what you want. Women want to partner with others, create, and relate. There can be a competitive energy today too~ not envy but it may feel a bit like it. Think of it as a recognition and repetition of the desire for deep merging. Nothing like thinking you are losing something to get you focused on the fact that you actually DO want it and don‘t want to lose it. Ambivalent energy is NOT in the room.

Friday Venus trines Saturn so she is serious and focused on what she wants. Moon is in Aries in the morning until 2:47 pm EST when she goes void until 11:39 pm EST. Again, it is a kick butt and get stuff out the door. Women are a bit less cooperative than yesterday but if you explain WHY you want them to do things, they will adjust and give you a “yes”. Again a great day to get things out the door before the void moon. The afternoon is terrific for focused dreaming.

Saturn’s day finds Taurus moon quite busy as he talks to just about every planet in the sky. She has difficult closing aspects so watch what you wish for or ask for on this one ~ you may just get it. And NOT want it once you get it!

Sunday Sun trines Saturn offering productive energy bright and early in the morning. Sun also wants to clear out the home space so this is a very productive day for tackling that closet or cleaning/organizing project that you’ve been postponing for a time now. Dreams are troubled last night and if you hit the couch for a bit today. Taurus Moon is a natural couch potato and would like nothing better than to settle in for a day and relate. The end of the day can have anger and road rage come out of nowhere. Be careful driving as the energy is volatile. Also be QUIET and keep your not so kind comments to yourself. The words spoken today dig deep and strong into the soul of the person who hears them. Be CAREFUL as the words have an element of reverberation or resonance that goes far deeper into the listener’s being than you realize when you are saying the words. Double check that they heard what you said by asking them to repeat it. You’d be surprised HOW much and often people DON’T actually hear what you say.

Mundane Astrology::

Haiti : According to Nicholas Campion’s Book of World Horoscopes: “After being colonized by Spain, Haiti was ceded to France in 1697. Pressure for independence first came from escaped slaves. On 14 August 1791, a slave rebellion began that was to lead to independence for the whole state. Full de jure independence was gained on January 1, 1804 when the Act of Independence was signed at Gonaives.” A quick examination of the chart finds Saturn at 3 Libra 27, the degree of last week‘s transiting Saturn station, Mars at 3 Capricorn 33 receiving the impact of transiting Pluto, transiting Mars retrograde at 15 Leo in the country’s South Node of Loss and transiting Neptune/Chiron square to 25 Scorpio 06 Neptune. The progressions and solar arcs further illuminate the difficult energy from the transiting planets to the natal chart.

NBC’s Late Night Wars ~ Looks like a WHOLE lot of Envy going on! Jay Leno (April 28, 1950, 2:03 am, New Rochelle, NY) and Conan O’Brien (April 18, 1963) continue to be in the news with Conan refusing to move back ½ hour and keep the Tonight Show.

I was kind of stunned by the level of glee, ENVY and malice exhibited by various talk show hosts all of whom are clearly opinionated about the matter. Whether it was David Letterman imitating Jay Leno’s voice and his “SVU of Jay Leno” clip or Craig Ferguson talking about what goes on at the Late Night Talk Show Hosts Dormitory at night or Conan O’Brien telling America’s children “You can grow up to be anything you want unless Jay Leno wants that job.”

Conan O’Brian CLEARLY doesn’t have an astrologer on his staff! The darn Aries is giving up and LEAVING before the transits are over! Bone head move on his part! His proud (and envious) Mars in Leo is telling his exalted Aries Sun to walk out. However, Conan’s Mars in Leo BEATS Jay’s Virgo Mars retrograde EVERY DAY IF he stays in the game! Plus Conan is leaving under Mars retrograde AND Mercury retrograde AND Saturn stationing retrograde. No, no, NO! Don’t go! Stay and fight with that exalted Sun of yours!

Conan signed his contract in 2004 ~ 6 years ago. According to his own statement, he’s been fantasizing about what he’d do with the Tonight Show for the last 6 years as he waited in the wings. However, Conan actually took over the show as Saturn was starting to square the Saturn in the chart when he signed the contract. And he’s lasted about 6 months ~ see my Pinball Approach to Astrology on this site! When we get to the 7th year, like NOW, the universe gives you a test and says “Are you ACTUALLY up for your dream?” We astrologers call it the crisis of having to take action square! Transiting Saturn’s opening square to Conan’s contract signing Saturn says IF you really want the show Conan,, you are going to have to fight for it. Yet, Conan is giving up without a fight!.

And we wonder why America is going down the tubes! What kind of example is Conan for the Children of America walking away without landing a punch or two? What is he showing the precious demographic of 19 to 49 year olds?

Conan is taking the money and leaving ~ which is a fine alternative if that is what he really wants. However, IF as he says, he HAS fantasized his ENTIRE life about being the Tonight Show Host, you’d think Conan would fight a bit harder for his dream to come true or for it to last longer than a brief few months! His entire chart is saying “Fight! Fight! Don’t give up! Fight!” And, yet he is walking out. Ego is a hard thing to control. Ego combined with Envy even worse. Envy can make you do self sabotaging things.

If Conan were my client, I would tell him to sit tight and smile widely. Take the ½ hour time shift for the time being. Let NBC save face and fix the Leno mess they’ve made. Conan should KEEP HIS JOB ~ the HOSTING JOB OF THE TONIGHT SHOW ~ which he TECHNICALLY HAS and NEVER LOST! At least TRY the change until the transits clear up in late June/ early July when we know what is actually going on!

We still have two more Saturn / Uranus oppositions ~ end of April and end of July for the Young Vital Turk to take over from the Older Tired Guy. Mars going direct in Leo will cross over that critical degree of 15 around May 7 to 9th. Another potentially hot date is March 10, when the currently retrograde Leo Mars stations and starts to move forward again. We also have a Saturn Pluto square at the end of January and mid-August.

Jay Leno’s chart has some major and rather nasty health aspects coming up as well as life altering progressions. Conan leaves now burning and bombing all the bridges he built during his career at NBC as he rides off into the sunset with his millions.

Jay retires/leaves between end of January 2010 and the end of September 2010 when transiting Saturn in Libra dives into his south node in the 8th house of endings as it sets off his progressed fallen Mars in Libra on the edge of the South Node. Jay is a TAURUS so Libra and Venus changes are VERY important for him. Jay also has a number of progressions changing signs for the next 30 years, including his Venus in Taurus and Ascendant in Taurus both heading into Gemini.

Who is the next NBC comedian up at bat for the Tonight Show Host slot!? In House? An NBC sitcom star? Some one from Saturday Night Live? Some one from Kansas or Nebraska who appeals to middle America? Outside talent brought it? It sure ain’t going to be Conan coming back!

American Idol: Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller are starting to take the gloves off. Again the green eyed monster of ENVY seems to be rolling around in that story. Gotta love the Mars in Leo retrograde.