posted February 15, 2010 09:45 AM
Weekly Weather February 15, 2010We have a Monumental Week ahead as Chiron joins with Neptune to start a new 84 year cycle in our lives and the world. These two major energies merge for the first time since September 3, 1945. They don’t merge again until September 20, 2094. They are meeting on February 17, 2010 at 25 minutes after midnight EST at 26:14 in the sign of Aquarius. We can expect a life altering event or two this week that will forever shift how we view the world. When it happens, we may not realize HOW life altering it is. However, hindsight will definitely show us the deeper and truer meaning of the energy even if we don’t realize the magnitude exactly this week. Do pay attention to the news as our interconnected world will definitely record it.
Chiron and Neptune last met up on September 3, 1945 when the Japanese surrendered after the United States dropped atomic bombs on two of their cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Neptune and Chiron were in the sign of peace loving Libra at 5:4. We thought it would be the last war ever fought. Instead, later that month, the United States entered South Korea (where we still have our military deployed today) and Vietnam declared its independence, leading to a protracted military involvement and thousands of lives lost. And, in hindsight, we came to understand what kind of bombs we had actually dropped on those two cities, what the bombs were capable of, the impact of the concept of nuclear weapons, as well as understanding we now had the ability to completely destroy the world and every one in it.
The merger before that was November 1879 and March 1880, at 10 Taurus ~ loving money, beauty, comfort and possessions as the first cash register was installed in a bar to keep track of what was going on with the money, the first town was electrified by Edison, marking the end of the candle making business! Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish slavery.
November 11, 1799 the merger was at 14 Scorpio and Napoleon became the dictator of France on November 9th eventually leading to much death, destruction and power as he attempted to conquer and control the world. The Rosetta stone was discovered during the Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign allowing hieroglyphics to be translated for the first time. The smallpox vaccination was introduced. The income tax was introduced in the United Kingdom to pay for the Napoleonic wars. The USA Congress passed a standardized system of weights and measures. The first regulation of insurance companies was written and the Bank of Manhattan Company opened in NYC, the forerunner to Chase Manhattan Bank.
In August 1742, Feb 1743 and April 1743, the merger was at 9 Cancer, home, hearth, mom and apple pie, as well as the Sun Sign of the United States so Thomas Jefferson was born. Jefferson would grow up to be the inspired and visionary writer of the Declaration of Independence saying all people have the right to pursue life, liberty and happiness and we are SO over a King‘s rule. The first religious journals in America were published. The soaring, beloved and glorious music of Handel’s Messiah was performed for the first time. The first town hall meeting in America took place at Boston's Faneuil Hall. Ben Franklin invented the Franklin Stove ~ freeing women from tending the fireplace’s open hearth and allowing them to cook on a heat regulated stove top.
In December 1658 the merger was at 4 Capricorn so tradition, the old structures and existing authority prevailed over the vision and ideas of change. Oliver Cromwell died at Whitehall on 3 September 1658 — the anniversary of his great military victories at Dunbar and Worcester. A violent storm wracked England during the night of his death, said by his enemies to be the Devil carrying away his soul. Oliver Cromwell’s dream died within a year of when he died. His vision of the Protectorate ended. The ending was followed, in due course, by the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in England.
In 1602, the Neptune/Chiron merger was at 29 Leo fitting for the summer, Sun and beach lovers among us as Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard were discovered. The Leo energy allows us to each be kings of what we seek to learn when the Bodleian Library at Oxford University was opened to the public, establishing the concept of knowledge open to and shared by all members of the community.
As you can see the union of Neptune and Chiron leads to both good and bad results ~ visionary indeed but at the same time potentially not so great. So watch carefully what happens this week as the future will be unfolding a major new chapter with each of us a witness.
At the exact same time as you are paying attention to what is going on in the world to see what takes place, YOU are having a new 84 year cycle start to unfold in YOUR very own chart in the late degrees of your Aquarius house. I encourage you to DREAM BIG! See a need or wound out there in the world and take steps to change it for the better for the collective! And I don’t care if you are 75 and feeling old or 4 and about to start kindergarten next year, DO some thing productive with the energy!
You are right here on planet earth as these two major planetary energies meet in the heavens to start a new cycle. That means You, yes you and your soul! You incarnated to USE this energy in your life time. Nothing like consciously harnessing that Neptune Chiron energy to create the next great whatever your dream is…. In 2094 when an astrologer in the future publishes what went on in 2010, the last time Neptune and Chiron met, YOUR name might be in the article!
And the rest of the week’s energy is fun. Of course, Mars is still retrograde, so your dream might not be in a forward moving direction ~ it might be more what you DON’T want, rather than what you want. No worries ~ just define the vision to head toward out of the negative vision.
And, I would like to make a correction to what I’ve been writing over the past month or so about the men being weird when Mars is retrograde. Women can be weird too. I have a few clients who are women and who are the dominant person in the relationship or who have a number of masculine energy planets. Think the Mars person as opposed to the Venus person in the relationship. In these cases, the woman is actually backing up, reversing direction and being weird. It seems to happen to the person with more “masculine” air and fire planets instead of the “feminine” earth and water planets. Perhaps it is because Mars is in the sign of Leo, answering to the Sun’s driving force for what we want. Mars will be starting to slow down as he gets ready to reverse direction and head forward again. And then we will all go back to normal ~ what ever THAT is.
Venus joins with Jupiter in Pisces and works productively with Pluto, Mercury and Mars to express her desires in a forthright and loving manner. She’s not going to be nearly so waspish and sharp as she’s been the last few weeks when everything was subjected to a long, cold, airy and detached look. She’s back being cuddly, snuggly and warm.
Vesta enters Leo so creativity gets a burst of energy and a bit of drama, particularly around house, office or home matters. Where ever you make a nest, you will be in the mood to cozy it up or fluff it up a bit. Stimulate the clean and clear energy. It is a great week for space clearing when you can get the stale energy out of your house‘s nooks and crannies.
Sun enters Pisces on Thursday. He also forms a fast moving Finger of God with Mars and Saturn over the weekend where you will be asked or offered another choice on the crossroad of your life. Choose wisely.
Moon’s day ~ Monday Moon in Pisces is busy and quite creative with a nice closing aspect. Venus offers you a hot, sexy dream or some type of passion as she worked her energy with Pluto’s last night. Mars is busy working the room and trying to get commitment from the authorities so that means YOU can get commitment from the authorities if you work your sextile right! Go ask for it. If you are off on holiday, make a list of all that you’ve done for your authorities lately so that you are ready to pull it out of your bag or pocket at a moment’s notice. Vesta enters Leo, going retrograde. She’s in the mood to festive up the place and get it looking fine. Give her some support. Change the light bulbs. Freshen up the plant dirt. Add some sparkle or passion to the space you inhabit. Even light a candle or three it will help move the energy along. Consider doing some space clearing with smoky sage, salt water and a bell ~ walk around the perimeter of the rooms in your house or office, hugging the walls. Ring the bell until it sounds clear ~ up and down the wall and particularly in cluttered corners, sprinkle the salt water along the floor and wave the smoky sage or use a lit candle if you don‘t like the smell of sage. Intend for your space to be a place of love, kindness, joy and abundance. Intend for all who visit there to bring loving kindness with them. Ask for all who bring bad energy to be barred or prevented from entering the door. And if the bad energy person comes in one more time ~ (They DO seem to KNOW you’ve space cleaned them right out of your space),~ space clear your space again. You’ll be amazed at how much fresher your house’s energy feels as well as how much better you sleep.
Mars’ day ~ Tuesday wakes us up with turbulent dreams from the night before. If you remember them, write them down or draw them. Lots of connections going on in that busy mind of yours. Try to continue the dreams now that you are awake. It is a day for dreams as it offers us a LONNGGG void Moon, running from early morning to 7:30 pm. We are supposed to dream on long void Moons ~ active imagination while you are awake counts too! Moon enters Aries and later in the evening Venus joins to Jupiter. Both of Venus and Jupiter are in their favorite signs and SO HAPPY to be together. Have you thought more about what your new myth will be? Take time tonight when Venus and Jupiter join at 9:14 pm EST to have a chat with the benefics! Tell Venus and Jupiter what you would like to bring into your life. Talk to Jupiter about your new myth and dreams. Tell Venus your desires. Think of it is a continuation of the New Moon energy from last week's Saturn’s day. You have a great idea that will take you very far if you give it permission to become your passion and your driving mythology. It is also Mardi Gras so spend those last joyous moments before Lent appreciating all you have in your life and your blessing.
Mercury’s day ~ Wednesday Neptune joins with Chiron for the first time since September 1945 and won’t be back in this aspect condition until September of 2094. Let’s make this new 84 year cycle a great one for every one we know and love! Encourage everyone you know to envision their next 84 years of life and love! What is your dream that serves humanity? How can you live your best life to create your unique contribution to the world? Give it your all. Give it your best. One of my clients, who admittedly has a lot of Virgo in her chart, says she always tries to do her absolute best at everything she does. She has a co-worker who says he does the “status quo”. He’s talented as an artist but he’s not spending those skills at the corporate design job where he spends his days. She’s talented as an artist and dedicates her time to both her corporate role in creating designs as well as her private art. He complained to her that since she’d arrived, his job got harder as “status quo” wasn’t good enough any more. Essentially, if he didn’t pick up his game a bit, he’d fail. What is your status quo? What is your excellent? What is your failure? Why aren’t you living in excellent? Once you have YOUR definitions of failure, status quo and success in your mind, look at your life and see how it measures up. As Kris Kristofferson says, “What is even more difficult than failure is when you are perceived as a “success” and you are failing.” Suze Orman says “When you can make the average GREAT, your dreams become a reality.” What does it take to make YOUR day? What is your idea of average? How do you make your average GREAT? What is your myth about success, status quo and failure? Why? Know the myths that guide you. Understand their power! Build new myths that support where you want to go with your life. Start to tell the myths to yourself ~ “Once, when I was young, I believed that …… Now, that I am older and wiser, I believe that SOME of that is still true but I also know my NEW myth for myself is …. Today is Ash Wednesday when we are reminded we will turn back into dust one day ~ And the universe even reminds you that unto dust you shall return by saying the 84 year cycle that starts today will likely not end until after you are gone from this lovely blue and green planet.
Jupiter’s day ~ Thursday’s Moon in Aries is all hot to get things accomplished but remember Mars is still going retrograde so while you might get it done, you very well may have to redo it. No problem with that just know that the final final FINAL will not be until Mars goes direct and clears his shadow. That said, you can make great progress with Mars and Moon in Aries today as the closing aspects are lovely and support your dream. Sun opposite Vesta says cut the stuff loose that you no longer love, love, love. Sun in the last degrees of Aquarius has a critical eye ~ like your fashion forward friend who tells you how BAD you look in that outfit. Time for GOODWILL for the bad old habits, routines, self sabotage and undoing of yourself. Haven’t you been getting SO CLEAR on how you undo yourself over the past couple of weeks? So stop already. You only have to change and take a teeny tiny step out of your current rut into the next place. Venus is SO happy to be connecting with Mars even if he’s telling her that they might have to redo things or try yet again. He whispers in her ear “Just you wait till March 10, honey baby darling Venus. I will be SO there for you!” And he will be. My sister is a coach and makes her basketball players run backwards in wind sprints. It looks so dangerous to my eyes. However, they HAVE to run backwards at times, comfortably, safely and confidently, to guard the ball and follow their opponents down the court. You are going to feel like you are running backwards today ~know that it is to build your skill and confidence. Sun enters Pisces and the changing part of the winter has arrived in the northern hemisphere. Forward we go into mutability and being flexible again.
Venus’ day ~ Friday finds Taurus Moon in a bit of an over promise, over indulge energy but still quite happy. Venus is still feeling juicy and over done from her recent union with Jupiter. Ain’t Love Grand? Moon has a number of aspects today that are encouraging even if the reality that comes out of them is not quite what you want or anticipate. Moon has a closing aspect of a square to Neptune offering over doing, over going, over flowing or over something. But Taurus moon IS exalted so that is not a BAD over thing ~ just not quite as terrific as you thought going in. Still it is very worth it to try for your dream and at least put it out there.
Saturn’s day ~Saturday find Taurus Moon productive. Sun is inconjunct to Mars in a Scorpio style aspect so mentally adjust rather than taking action. Adjust your mind. Figure out what they are doing and why they are doing it! Sun is in the process of forming a Finger of God configuration with Saturn and Mars over the next few days ~ so life direction information comes into your path and asks you to choose. Choose the path that focuses closely on your dreams. Give yourself extra sleep time and dedicate yourself to healing time and practices today. Vesta has a Sparkly fire trine to Juno so let passion guide your choices and decisions. Passion rules. Taurus’ closing aspect is a square to Neptune so you are slightly delusional but hey that will encourage you to take a risk that just might pay off down the road. Dream big and shoot for the sky ~ no worries if it doesn’t happen the way you envision ~ at least you tried. Delusions are only illusions that didn't work out the way you wanted. But they ARE fun!
Sun’s day ~ Sunday finds the Moon void in the morning until 1:47 pm EST. Gemini Moon in the afternoon and evening has lovely and powerful closing aspects so launch projects involving communications and training. Mercury has an aspect of brilliant partnership so take those ideas in your hand and heart and put them to work. They will be great! Mars has a brilliant aspect to Jupiter so expect to learn things today that influence your path and direction. Sun has an adjusting aspect to Saturn so health or physical concerns can be prominent at day’s end. Sun is in a Finger of God configuration with Saturn and Mars ~ life direction information comes into your path. Choose the path that focuses closely on your dreams. Give yourself extra sleep time and dedicate yourself to healing time and practices today. The evening is quite busy and bustling with activity.
Mundane: China and Greece both have very active charts these days. Watching the Stock Market swoon on Friday based on China’s noises, I can only imagine what will happen in June and July when the Cosmic Crossroads takes place. Additionally, we have Neptune joining with Chiron this week so the actions around the world should be paid attention to. Protect your principle so you don’t lose it when the market collapses in June and July.
As the proposed Chiron/Neptune union has been dancing around all year, it so speaks to me of the ongoing drama over health care reform conversations taking place in the USA. Their union will take place smack dab on the USA Moon at 27 Aquarius ~ ruling the people, the collective’s body, as well as all the Cancer planets in our country’s chart. Aquarius is always focused on what is good for the collective as opposed to the individual. I am afraid health care reform might die this week with the conjunction ~ kind of like eliminating the monarchy died when Cromwell died. The time frames even match!
That would leave our health care squarely in the hands of corporations who profit off of our illnesses, deny coverage and make $30 profit on every $100 collected in premiums. It feels simply criminal to profit off of another’s misfortune and illness ~ not to mention being very bad karma. The insurance companies killed the reforms when the Clinton Administration tried to reform health care. This time, the Obama Administration attempted to work with the insurance companies and true health care reform will die yet again. The combination of health care reform dying with the Supreme Court gutting campaign finance limitations for corporate spending last month says to me the Pluto in Capricorn journey will be a long and bumpy one.
And the revolution against it will start in June -July after the markets collapse again. Protect your principle. Remember, when the money “disappears”, it goes into SOME ONE’S pocket! Try to keep YOUR money in YOUR pocket via conservative investments, large cash positions and waiting until that first big hit takes place in between June 6-8.
Reader Mail: My college friend Julie had a life threatening illness and almost died several times last year. I was cleaning up my emails and realized I hadn’t read the last entry in her Caring Bridge journal. It seemed appropriate to quote Julie in this significant week where we are each asked to focus on our dreams and visions for the future.
Julie wrote: As this memorable year 2009 ends, we thought it was fitting that I write the final Caring Bridge entry of the year. You often hear that “things happen for a reason” or that “ every cloud has a silver lining”. Both of those philosophies accurately summarize my impressions of the experience that led to our journal in Caring Bridge. As I review the entries from the very beginning up to now I am overwhelmed with the blessings I have received and that have greatly contributed to my recovery and my outlook today.
A near death experience provides a rare opportunity to look at life from a totally different perspective as well as a need to focus on one day at a time. It meant rebuilding my strength little by little and gaining a deep appreciation for how far I had come, as well as where I wanted to be. I learned not to expect to resume my normal capabilities as quickly as I had lost them and that a positive attitude is really the key to a successful recovery.
The “silver lining” for me has definitely been the realization of how precious life really is, how much we take for granted and how important it is to take time to appreciate.... I also realize how powerful, rewarding and nourishing, the thoughts, prayers, and caring actions of family, friends, colleagues and all of those who have touched my life are and how much we need to cherish all that we have been given.
So as we all look forward to the promises of 2010, please know how much your caring has helped me and mine to find our reason to truly celebrate this new year and how grateful we are for all of you. Happy New Year and Thank you!
Lindaland
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