posted March 16, 2010 07:29 AM         

As you can see, I was a bit swamped by all the activity going on in my world and just floated away on the energy! Lots of water planets trining all my water planets ~ and off I was carried away by the stream! Apologies for the late column posting!

There is LOTS and lots and LOTS of cosmic activity in the heavens in the week ahead so we’ll be bustling and hopping around down here on earth.

As we begin the week, there are five planets in Pisces water: Jupiter, Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Uranus. The asteroid Athena is in Scorpio and the South Node resides in Cancer. All those water planets are talking to each other in a giant cosmic swirl of energy ~ kind of like a drain in the bottom of the pool.

THAT is A LOT of WATER flying around in the heavens. The ancient astrologers would say there is “too much water” causing us as well as the world to be soggy, damp, swamped and flooded. People are saying they are overwhelmed, flooded, swept away, awash. Emotions are flowing freely with all the water as people cope with all the emotions and feelings swirling around them. Not much ground to be had. We are adrift in a watery sea.

Mercury, the cosmic messenger, is super busy, moving fast and making numerous aspects this week. Mercury is in limitless water at the beginning of the week and at a loss for words or finds communicating with out an up swell of profound emotions to be rather difficult. He’s teary! Look for the tears in people’s eyes. On Wednesday, Mercury changes signs, leaving the oceanic emotional, watery depths of Pisces for the fired up, sassy, passionate and often cutting speech or words of Aries. Mercury’s many aspects promise you will hear all sorts of interesting things ~ good, bad and indifferent things ~ as he whooshes along in the sky this week.

Mercury will ask you to make decisions about continuing or ending relationships. He’s all about getting you clear about where you want to go next. He will advise you to make no more delays ~ it is time to start to move and decide on things. He might ask you to make unpopular decisions as he opposes Saturn and squares Pluto during the week. Mercury also trines Mars in Leo so go with your gut. That will be the good decision to make. Your instincts are correct on this one.

On Saturday, the Sun enters Aries ~ officially starting spring in the Northern Hemisphere and fall in the Southern Hemisphere. As the Sun crosses the equator, heading north, it makes the north’s days longer and the south‘s days shorter. Sun’s entry into cardinal fire further reduces the water flowing all around us. Finally we start to dry out a bit and wring out the excess water from our being.

Sun will follow Mercury into conversations with Saturn and Pluto. So, after GETTING information, you’ll want to SEE or DO something about that information starting Saturday and continuing into next week. Sun trines Mars to take effective action. Both Mercury’s information and Sun’s decisions will be some how related to what went on last week, in particular last Tuesday and Wednesday. That was when Venus in Aries rolled over the same position that Mercury and the Sun step into this week. She got the desires out on the table. Now Mercury and the Sun get to act on them. All three of them are getting you ready for what happens this summer, starting June 6 to 8 and going through early August, while we are living under the cardinal cross in the sky. June to August are when Jupiter and Uranus reach the same points as Venus, Mercury and Sun are at now. So make sure to pay attention to what happens THIS WEEK and LAST WEEK as the Universe is giving you a sneak preview about what you can expect this summer.

We find ourselves starting to move forward as Mars is moving direct. Our path is clear. Our direction is not so clear (just yet.) Our direction will be clear soon enough. Start walking down the path. The energy of the week, plus the clean up efforts in the months ahead from mid-April through May and June into late July, will make our direction clear. Start walking down your path. The parts that are clear are ready and waiting for you. Where, exactly, you are going, isn’t QUITE clear yet, but you are on your way!

Can’t you feel it? It is there like the pulse of your heart or the knowledge of sap rising in the trees or the bare bushes starting to turn red as the juice of sun and new life awakens them to a new growth season. We’ve been in a fairly dark winter but now we are moving forward again. All to the good.

Know your path. Don’t worry about your Direction. Start to move forward on your path. And clear out those bad old behaviors that keep getting in your way! Stop them already. Give yourself (and the other guy or gal) a break. Modify and be grateful for the many blessings in your life.

If you make a decision to consciously live your chart (and that includes living and working with the hard parts of your chart too), you will have everything your heart and soul desired. Yes, that is the way it works! Don’t you love astrology?

Monday is a watery, flowing kind of day. We have five planets in Pisces all connected within a few degrees of each other. Moon in Pisces is especially intuitive and connected. The New Moon today takes place right next to Mercury and Uranus so expect unexpected emotional communications or connections to take place. There is a desire for culmination, emotional relations, union and unity. On the other hand, the Sabian Image for the Sun and Moon is “A NEW MOON REVEALS THAT IT’S TIME FOR PEOPLE TO GO AHEAD WITH THEIR DIFFERENT PROJECTS while the Sabian Image for Uranus and Mercury is A HARVEST MOON ILLUMINATES THE SKY.

Think about it for a minute ~ Uranus the great divider and revolutionary is joined to Mercury the great communicator and guide to the heart’s desires. The two of them are sitting right on top of the Sun and Moon. Sun and Moon represent your purpose for existing as well as your emotional needs that need to be met for you to be happy. How powerful a new beginning we have today. Work with the energy of the New Moon as it starts to separate from the lunation and rolls over Uranus and Mercury. Mercury joins Uranus to make you learn something especially important today ~ perhaps even a bit shocking but still part of what you need to know.

Tuesday’s Moon in Aries has lovely closing aspects so if you didn’t get a chance to have a new Moon ritual last night, do one today or tomorrow on the rising Aries energy. Mercury is particularly active today as he talks to Neptune. Note your dreams upon awakening. Uranus points out that you may not be able to work with this particular partner. One of you is going to have to change. And it probably won’t be the other guy who changes! Uranus wants to break free while Juno in fixed earth says I am who I am. Deal with me! Know that while the inherent nature of partners is “supposed” to be to support each other, sometimes you get partners that drive you crazy. The crazy making partners are there to help you learn how to own your own side of the story. Words that wound can fly today! Be conscious. Be clear. Suck it up. Apologize if you were wrong. And maybe apologize even if you weren’t wrong but were just driven over the edge because they made you so crazed you wanted to jump. I am not suggesting you roll over and play dead. Bad behavior is bad behavior. Focus instead on the bigger picture here. Move towards the goal. Once Venus figures out HOW to partner, by incorporating a carrot with a stick or by simply visualizing how you’d like the partnering energy to work between you, it will shift. Focus and breathe.

Wednesday finds the Aries Moon supporting Mercury’s journey into Aries. Mercury has words today! He’s no longer swamped and overwhelmed. He’s got his mouth and his mojo back. No more rolling in the endless waves of emotional oceans. Remember that sharpness of tongue comes with Mercury in Aries. Your words (or their words) can cut like a razor blade. Sun joins Uranus while you are sleeping so expect illumination in or from your dreams. Make sure to note the “AH-HA” moment today. It should be profound. It will shift how you see things. Again we have a number of Mercury aspects today as he talks to bunches of people as he leaves Pisces to enter Aries. A wise person once said “ I know I am pushing your buttons. HOWEVER, THEY ARE YOUR BUTTONS!” If someone pushes your buttons today, put some cotton balls over them. Or pad them. Or decorate them. Or wear a down vest zipped up so they can’t push them. You are in charge of how you respond to your buttons being pushed! Expect a brilliant idea of how to proceed as Mercury works with Mars and the Node ~ you don’t HAVE to do it the same old way do you? You can change. Come on, you KNOW you can change. Maybe hire an electrician to unhook your buttons? Once they are not hard wired any more, you’ll find it much easier to deal. Focus on where you are going. The path is clear. The direction is not so clear.

Thursday Mercury has even MORE aspects. Again, aren’t you amazed at all you have learned the past few days? Moon is void from 7:23 am to Noon:29 EDT so take the morning to follow up on pleasurable or routine things. Mercury is quite happy today as he opposes Saturn ~ he gets to see his pattern and understand it via the face off or opposition from the other. Is there common ground you can agree on? Venus is content to expand and play tonight. Expect brilliant ideas to flow in. Mercury is joined to Venus and Jupiter by declination so buy the communication equivalent of a lottery ticket ~ ask for what you want tonight. You will get a yes or at least heard clearly and they will try to make it happen.

Friday finds Moon in Taurus dealing with feeling good but wanting to be more laid back. Ceres enters Capricorn to become more focused on good parenting and to enhance the areas that need to be nurtured in a solid, reliable and dependable manner. Rearrange furniture or order the new sofa. It will be exactly what you want once you are done moving stuff around. Again, this is a lovely day to ask for your desire. You may not get it but ask so they can start to work on it.

Saturn’s day is a bit stressed but quite active. Mercury squares Pluto while you sleep so your dreams will include power dynamics and struggles over who gets what. Sun enters Aries and starts the spring season. Sun also fights with the maternal principle so for the most part, people are not feeling emotionally supported by those who they WANT to support them. A mother I knew used to say to her kids, “I didn’t give birth to you to put you adrift on an ice floe.” You or the people in your life might feel a bit adrift on an ice floe. No problem! The ice will melt soon. Or the zipper on their /your jacket will reflect the sun so the rescue planes can appear. Some times life can feel hard. Today is such day. However, this too shall pass so focus on what or where you are headed. You know the path. You don’t know the direction yet. Work On the part you know. No stressing about the part you don’t know. Enjoy the process. Count your blessings.

Sun Moon in Gemini makes for a chatty, social kind of day. The closing aspects are timed to support connections and creation. There is a lot of get stuff moving energy in the day so tackle the projects you’ve been avoiding or postponing. You’ll be surprised how fast it actually goes or takes. Mercury has a cup of tea and the rest of the energy is about helping the Sun stand for what it believes in. Sun has a hard aspect to Saturn after it decides what action to take so no regrets. Listen to you description of who you are. Is that STILL who you are? Venus square to the Node suggests that love has a choice. She can go up or down. Choose up for Venus. Choose toward the light.

Reader Mail:

Bill of VA wrote: I am not a financial person but...Money market funds may not be redeemable in a crisis based on an SEC decision: Suspending Money Market Redemptions Is Now Legal; SEC Approves New Money Market Regulation In 4-1 Vote. Meltdown Zero Hedge discussed a month ago the disastrous prospects of what would happen if the new proposal contemplated by the SEC, which would allow the suspension of redemptions from Money Market Funds, were to pass. Well, in a nearly unanimous vote, Money Market Funds now have the ability to suspend redemptions, courtesy of the SEC's just passed 4-1 vote. This explains the negative rate on bills: at this point, should there be another meltdown, money market investors will not, repeat not, be able to withdraw their money purely on the whim of Mary Shapiro (June 19, 1955, Long Island, NY), the head of the SEC. As the SEC noted following the vote: "We understand that suspending redemptions may impose hardships on investors who rely on their ability to redeem shares." Too bad investors' hardships considerations ended up being completely irrelevant.

Anne answers: Thanks Bill. I wasn’t aware of that the SEC voted to Suspend Money Market Redemptions. It makes sense. There could be a run on the money market funds in the event of a financial meltdown. The funds would have to sell stocks to redeem the shares, causing a death spiral of sorts. Of course, passing that law NOW makes me think, they are aware of how close we are to ANOTHER financial meltdown. We astrologers KNOW there is going to be another meltdown (August 2 and June 6-8). Back when ENRON collapsed, people were unable to sell or cash out their 401K holdings and were wiped out financially as they watched. I guess mattresses are a good idea after all!

When Venus entered the square to Pluto and the opposition to Saturn last week, the news was “GET BACK into the financial markets and start trading again!” My comment to the radio station was “Fool me once, shame on you, Fool me twice, shame on me!” The FIRST financial collapse happened when Pluto entered Capricorn. Pluto was all by himself ~ a lonesome fellow, alone, who wreaked all kinds of havoc on the financial markets. This summer Pluto has a HUGE fight with Saturn, Jupiter and Uranus. Three against one ~ not great odds! When the planetary gods fight, it gets hot down here on earth too.

Preserve your principle. While the money seems to “disappear” overnight, it actually goes into someone’s hands. Keep your money in your own hands.