posted April 26, 2010 07:30 AM         

Weekly Weather April 26, 2010

Happy Saturn Uranus Opposition!

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posted April 26, 2010 03:29 PM         

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

posted April 26, 2010 06:29 PM         

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

posted April 27, 2010 07:30 AM         

Saturn and Uranus have their fourth of five oppositions this week at 28:46 Virgo/ Pisces. The opposition of these cosmic heavy weights taking place at the last degrees of the mutable signs allows for some mighty weird things to take place this week. Mutable signs ARE a bit crazy, much as we might love them. Think of your Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces coworkers, friends or family members ~ consistent, predictable, reliable and stable are not words that come to mind when talking about their behaviors. The mutable or common signs rule the season change over periods ~ Pisces ~ some times winter/ other times spring; Gemini ~ sometimes spring/ other times summer; Virgo ~ some times summer/other times fall; and Sagittarius ~ some times fall/ other times winter. Back and forth. Back and forth. Change is what we can be sure of with Mutable signs and the planets that live in the mutable signs.

Saturn is retrograde right now so Uranus ~ the change and change now energy is moving forward. Uranus has the “upper hand”. Expect change even if you don’t quite recognize it when it shows up bearing flowers and a sweet smile saying do you forgive me? Uranus is one step away from Chaos. He simply loves to surprise us with very new and unexpected events, ideas or inspirations.

Mercury is retrograde in Taurus and bringing us all down to earth in practical ways to redo, revise and revisit the choices and decisions we’ve made over the past few months. Saturn retrograde in Virgo, Mercury’s sign, is actually quite practical and working well as he moves backwards to create the future by cleaning up and organizing the present and revise the recent past. Mercury retrograde is combining with Saturn retrograde to make a double negative. As you math mavens all know, double negatives make a positive. So Saturn and Mercury’s retrogrades make a positive. The desire will be to sweep all the recent troubles of the past few weeks under the rug and move along or pack the passel of problems up in a box and put it in the closet out of sight.

Don’t you dare do that!

No packing things away while they are dirty. If you put your wool clothes away for the summer without dry cleaning them, the moths eat holes in them right where the food stains were! And you didn’t even know where you got the moths from! If you put your shirts away unwashed, you have no one but yourself to blame for the large, ugly and now permanent splotches of stains when you unpack them.

You have until the end of May, Memorial Day Weekend, to get the situation resolved! You need to get the situation figured out so it works well for every one involved. Once the end of May comes, Saturn stations to go direct as Neptune stations to go retrograde. Locked and loaded, Saturn is full steam ahead into Libra with the new vision (or the bad stains) firmly in place. If you don‘t get the sticky and icky stuff resolved by the end of May, you are STUCK with that partner AND THE BAD BEHAVIOR for the duration of Saturn in Libra (which is a LONG, long time!) Libra Saturn partner energy, complete with all the unresolved problems, is much more difficult to work with than Saturn retrograde in Virgo with Mercury in Taurus retrograde who are BOTH making an attempt to get along nicely and in a positive manner right now. It is Mercury retrograde ~ it can and WILL reverse once he goes direct on May 11. Negotiate for what you want while he is backwards. It is much easier to negotiate the end play, strategy or exit plan when it seems like a far off possibility.

And, of course, we look back at history to see how it got to here and how we got to here. That history look back helps us prevent all sorts of problems when we go forward. So think back to November 4, 2008, February 6, 2009, and September 14, 2009 to see what was going on THEN which is what got you to where you are NOW.

Saturn is trying to teach you HOW to be the best you can be. He wants you to SIMPLY love it when you Do Your Saturn. Saturn is what you are called to do in this lifetime. However, because he has a tough reputation and can be a bit of a bully at times, we do like to avoid his more difficult aspects. You’ve been learning and learning, practicing and practicing how to do things in a new way since Saturn entered Virgo on September 2, 2007. You’ve become a skilled craftsperson in the Capricorn and Aquarius areas of your chart. You’ve become better at doing your Saturn by sign and house location.

When Saturn moves into the sign of partnership on July 21, we are going to be equal partners with our new life that starts over the summer and continues until 2024. We are going to be expected to talk about what we are doing and why we do it. We are going to be asked to account for and balance the opposing forces in new and much more public ways. We’ll be in a brand new season of our lives. We’ll be starting on another major chapter as we move above the horizon of the world chart. We will be expected to “know how”. Get your remedial education in now! Fix the known problems before the end of May!

Our week ahead also features a Full Moon in 8 Scorpio, Ceres stationing retrograde at 4 Capricorn as well as Saturn inconjunct to Neptune. The Full Moon pushes us to culminate the story begun on October 28, 2008 and tested on July 28, 2009. Ceres going backwards in Capricorn will continue to travel with Pluto, remaking and transforming our nurturing and caring energy.

Saturn inconjunct to Neptune is a bit of nasty business mucking up the works. They might even make you cry. Saturn is going to point out the flaw in your dream. Right now, Neptune is moving slower, making him the apex planet so the inconjunct to Saturn is a Scorpio energy. You have to make a psychological adjustment to deal with the flaw or problem with your upcoming or planned dream. You may not be able to make a physical adjustment as the energy is pushing for a psychological change on your part.

It is time to come to an inner understanding. A giant step toward consciousness. You have to let it go and let it be. Live and let live. You have to change YOUR inner vision of how it going to work. Or you have to kill them ~ which is another way to deal with that nasty Aries ~ Scorpio stuff. Not literally kill them, of course ~ no one wants that kind of karma or to do jail time for the idiot who is driving you crazy. You can fire them. Or stop talking their calls. Or, on the INSIDE you can sever your connection to the drama and pain. You can leave. Or you can “leave” and pursue what YOU need to do for your own life. Think back to when Neptune and Saturn joined in early Capricorn to see where your initial stage of disillusionment began between March and November of 1989. Then add in the hard times, June 1998 to April 1999 and August 2006 to June 2007 to catch on and understand the larger cycle at work here.

Monday Moon in Libra accompanies us all day long with a lovely closing trine to Neptune suggesting it is time to pursue that dream of yours. Saturn opposes Uranus for the fourth time, breaking through the walls of old stogy into a new reality of change. Mars has a terrific idea and is ready to move forward to create it. He‘s picking up speed and is actually proud of his creation. Pluto is inconjunct to Juno asking us to suck it up and make nice with partners we’ve dissed, cursed or been very rude to. Juno is Pluto’s brother Zeus’ wife. While the blood bond between brothers is strong, that pillow talk stuff is mighty powerful medicine in deed. So if an apology is offered to you, graciously accept it. And then say to them what you found offensive about their behavior and that you never expect them to behave like that again. If you need to apologize to someone for your bad behavior, take the steps to do so today or tomorrow. The stars are with you!

Tuesday you have a simply fabulous idea around 8 pm so make sure to do it and put it into motion. The moon is void between 3:45 pm and 6:28 pm EDT prior to entering Scorpio. While normally the Moon in Scorpio is tough, this moon has lovely closing aspects to Saturn and invokes a full Moon with the Taurus Sun. Mars in Leo will receive the square from the Moon so passions can be very high. Disrespect is a problem energy today. If someone roars at you it is because they are feeling disrespected by some thing you said or did. Or something they THOUGHT you said or did. Again, the apology energy from yesterday is still available to resolve the situations that present themselves.

Wednesday is one of the more volatile days of the month as Moon in Scorpio opposes the Taurus planets, Sun and Mercury, at the same time that Mercury moves combust to the Sun and catches on fire! Mercury joined to the Sun, particularly retrograde and in Taurus, doesn‘t think it is wrong, doesn‘t think it did ANY thing out of line and feels its views and behaviors were entirely justified. The Full Moon takes place today so emotions are swirling around and erupting out of nowhere. The emotions erupt for clarity but still they are erupting from some mighty dark places. Mercury has a number of aspects by declination so pay particular attention to what people say to you today and tomorrow. Moon in Scorpio is going to trigger Mercury to reveal some pretty big secrets. Heck, Mercury has been wanting to reveal these secrets for a while! Listen. Take notes. Notice what is said to you or perhaps what is left Unsaid. Ceres stations to go retrograde at 4 Capricorn and receives a bit of squabbles energy from Venus. Remember the Towanda scene in Fried Green Tomatoes where the Kathy Bates character slams her car into the two teenage girls’ car who take her parking spot? It is THAT kind of energy today, when left unattended or unwatched.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b9Z3MYo2M0
The point of the energy is to awaken your inner Towanda. Towanda was a righter of wrongs and Queen beyond compare! Embrace that dark creative energy.

Thursday continue to watch the words and stories that Mercury brings to you. He aspects Ceres, Venus, and Uranus today. He is spilling the dish, airing the dirty laundry and trying to get all sorts of trouble stirred up. He is TELLING THE TRUTH. Remember, no packing away the clothes if they are dirty. No sweeping problems under the rug. No hiding the box in the closet hoping it will resolve itself if it sits long enough. Today is a great day to tackle any and all problems as Moon sextiles Saturn and trines Uranus right before it goes void tonight. You can get a great deal accomplished if you open up the triangle energy and don’t allow it to fester unchecked. Venus has a Virgo type inconjunct to Pluto suggesting you lift up and vacuum under all the furniture and couch cushions ~ and that means in every space you hang out at work and home. Move stuff and clear it out. Look at the dark crevices to clean them out and open up the spaces. You’ll find all sorts of things if you do! On a metaphorical level, vacuum and dust off your personal and professional relationships too. You’ll be amazed at what you find!

Friday we start to feel the inconjunct of Saturn to Neptune in earnest asking you to adjust the dream as Mercury continues to talk to lots of planets in the sky. Mercury chats with Juno, Neptune, and Venus making us aware of how we partner with things that undo or handicap our ability to get what we want. We self-sabotage because of our partner choices. Not any more. You are aware of what is going on and what you need to do. So continue to focus on what you are trying to accomplish. Mercury clears Neptune so you actually will see things much more clearly. Break up, break down, readjust or fiddle around with creative partnerships that don’t work for you any more. Moon in Sagittarius has a huge longing for freedom and a desire to do its own thing. Moon has closing aspects that imply separation with the square to Uranus. Give yourself permission to follow your own dream even if you can’t explain it to anyone else and even if everyone thinks you are crazy.

Saturn’s Day is Beltane or May Day. We are at the cross-quarter day between Spring and Summer ~ half way through the season of Spring! Beltane was the day pagans took to the fields to make love amidst the bloom and growth of spring and danced around the May Pole. All efforts were to encourage Mom Earth to be abundant and fruitful in her growing season. Now days most of us can‘t get naked and make love in the fields without getting arrested. However, the energy of spring is in full flower. Moon in Sagittarius wants us to explore and expand our ideas. As befits Beltane, Venus is quite active today. She’s connecting with the Node of Destiny so notice who you meet. Juno, the partnership asteroid, is also connecting with the Node of Destiny and Venus to form a new and productive partnership. Mercury is still talking and attempting to make sure you know exactly what is going on. Pay attention. Sun joins with Mercury so the information is forthcoming in a clear and concise manner. You aren’t going to miss this one! Connections are important so notice who reaches out to you too. Collect contact information as they are part of your soon to be revealed future.

Sunday finds Saturn perfecting his inconjunct to Neptune saying it is time to adjust the dream to the new vision. It is not that there is anything wrong with your old dream. However, it is not working for you in the manner or method that is USED to work for you. Uranus suggests a new strategy for dealing with the energy in a more public manner as Pallas gets ready to leave the world axis and Uranus moves onto it. This is an opportunity for a public and profound transformation. Saturn wants us to clean up our bad old habits to get ready for our new life. We have to grow up SOME time. It might as well be now. Being a grown up is not a bad thing. And if you are a 5 year old running around in a 45 year old body, it does present problems in dealing with the world in an adult manner. Today adjust and grow up. Life is complex and full of all levels of reality. Layers and layers and layers of reality that calls us to deal with the world as the complex place it actually is. That said, all you really needed to know, you learned in kindergarten. And that leftover wound from your childhood? Can we put it away now? If you’ve learned anything over the past few weeks as Saturn approaches Uranus it is that you are now an adult ~ like it or not ~ you are one of the people who helps make the place run. Scary eh? As Jimmy Buffet says “We are the people our parents warned us about!” And we are in charge!

posted April 27, 2010 11:13 AM         

I have tr. Venus conjunction exact my natal Venus tomorrow, so hopefully that'll make things bearable. Hopefully!!

I know I need to get some things taken care of soon. I love the bit about moths. One of the things I need to do soon is get an exterminator over here because we live in a old house and we have had a problem with cloth moths in the past--dang buggers are persistent too--and I saw one fluttering around my bedroom the other night. Definitely need to take care of that next month, for sure.

posted April 27, 2010 01:31 PM         

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Change is what we can be sure of with Mutable signs and the planets that live in the mutable signs.

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posted April 27, 2010 02:27 PM         

How`s the furbabies?

Aqua energy is high here under the Scorps full moon

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

posted April 27, 2010 03:18 PM         

Rita has Glaucoma in her right eye, and can no longer see. She lost her left eye, two years ago, to the same thing.) We're using steroid drops, in an effort to keep the swelling down, but they're only helping so much. When we took her to see Dr. Luke, he said that she was now blind, and wouldn't regain her vision. That ended up not being true, for almost two weeks - the day after her vet visit, her eye had gone down, and she could see well enough to jump from her favourite chair to the couch, and to find her way around (for the most part). Then one Saturday, I heard her fall down the stairs, and I realized she could no longer see. (She'd had a bit of trouble the previous day, but this was worse.)

She barely moved around, for a while, but has been regaining a certain amount of confidence, over the past two weeks. Her attitude is a lot better than mine would be, if I were in her situation. She goes into huge wiggles, when she realizes that one of "her people" is in front of her, and covers their face in kisses.

Bertie was diagnosed with heart trouble (moderate congestive heart failure), and is on diuretics, twice a day. We were giving him something called Circu Flow - something the vet approved of - but it's been a month, and we need to stop for a while, so we're giving him Hawthorn and Arjuna (my aunt knows a man who said that, six months after he started to take Arjuna, he felt a difference, and within a year, it had reversed his condition). I don't know if we'll have the same luck with Bertie, but it's worth a shot.

posted April 27, 2010 03:20 PM         

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let me know what your fabulous ideas are around 8

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posted April 27, 2010 03:30 PM         

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Lady Gaga and Beyonce’s Telephone video has turned more than a few heads, what with its blatent prison lesbianism and mass murder scenes.

If porn sales and internet download figures are correct, there is no shortage of demand and consumption for videos depicting hot girl on girl action. So long as these videos are created for the pleasure of the men watching. Examine a female prison lesbian scene and discover the male fantasy, the male point of view, is nowhere to be found. In fact, it excludes a male entirely. What does this do? It ****** said men off. Yes Billy Bob Joe America with your itchy porn finger and youporn obsession, I’m looking at you!

The groups up in arms over the violence in the Gaga’s Telephone video? I wonder how many of them happily popped a can of PBR and eyeballed “Operation Shock and Awe” from their couches. Personally, I’m not a fan of real or fake of violence, but don’t freak out on Lady Gaga, then turn around and purchase Grand Theft Auto and Metal Gear Solid for your kids to play on their Wii’s.

Genius lies in the artists who push the envelope. They force us to take a look back at our fragile egos. It is in our emotional reaction to a music video, film or piece of art that informing us, not the art itself.

If you are confronted with something that makes you uncomfortable, don’t walk away feeling icky from that person, idea, situation or art. Use the opportunity to take a deep look at why you reacted that way to begin with.

Let’s use the issues raises by Googaloo’s Telephone video to create a Tarot Spread examining things which make us uncomfortable.

What is pushing your buttons?

Think of an idea, person or thing that is making you uncomfortable, bothered or nervous. With this issue in mind, perform the following Tarot spread . . .

Card 1. What fears does this issue bring up?

Card 2. How is my reaction connected in my ego?

Card 3. When I experience discomfort, what does it provoke me to examine in myself?

Card 4. What can I learn from my reaction to this issue?

Pull a fifth card if you are seeking practical resolution to this issue. Use this card as a springboard for an action you can take.

From one little monster to another . . . good luck

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I don't mind anyone mulling things over, asking questions, or asking someone to think about something in a different way, as long as they don't assume that the way they're looking at the things is 'the' right way, and the rest of us just don't know what we're talking about if we disagree - and that we aren't even trying to understand.

posted April 27, 2010 05:17 PM         

I used to get angina and had a "galloping" heartbeat--my heart was weakened by many years of depression, nervous exhaustion, poor diet and self-neglect--but those symptoms are gone completely. I still have problems keeping my blood pressure under control but these two things seem to help. What I really need is a less stressful life.

posted April 27, 2010 06:13 PM         

I can feel anger for a while, but I know what you mean about the comments, re: karma biting someone eventually.