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Weekly Weather May 17, 2010

We start our journey into an intense 4 week period this week. As you know, we are approaching the Cardinal T-Square or Climax which is exact and takes place in early August. However, THIS week, we start to work with the energy in earnest. And you know THAT means we’ll be rocking and rolling.

We still are working with Saturn giving us remedial lessons and Saturn tests of our core issues through May 30. So make sure to do your Saturn as outlined over the past few weeks. In my case Saturn requires me to set boundaries. Your Saturn tests will be your Saturn by sign and house as well as the houses that are ruled by Capricorn and Aquarius. Last week, I mentioned my Saturn adventure in setting boundaries by banning certain types of foods from my living room. I have several friends who have no food policies for rooms in their homes. I heard from each one of them. They wanted to know if they were in my column. Yes, they WERE examples of people who were able to SET boundaries gracefully and successfully …. that is why I hang out with them! I learn from them! Look to your Saturn helper friends who model how to do your Saturn successfully for reminders on how to do your Saturn. Remember the reason it is OUR Saturn is we are SUPPOSED to STRUGGLE and WRESTLE with it a bit. Makes life a bit more interesting and robust! Our friends help us as THEIR Saturns are in different places than OUR Saturn.

This week, Saturn adds in the expansion principle as he opposes Jupiter and brings up the story that started in May/June of 2000. You’ll be reminded of the choices you made back then and how they have come forward for you over the past 10 years. I covered this fairly extensively in my New Moon column last week on May 13 so reread that for the Saturn/Jupiter part of the story taking part this week. (See ~ I COULD retype it but I just set a boundary for you! And did my Saturn)

I will repeat what Dane Rudhyar said about the Jupiter Saturn opposition phase or the “full moon” 180 opposition phase: “Objectivity and clear consciousness as result of the personal and social-cultural experience is possible. The original purpose and impulse of the Jupiter / Saturn conjunction has now become a formed concept with a more or less clear image. What was felt in the past is now seen. This may be a revelation or illumination and normally is some kind of fulfillment. But it can also mean, negatively, separation or divorce ~ perhaps even a divorce from reality ~ or a type of inner division such as man against himself.”

Dane further says: “There is a beginning in the darkness, or unconsciousness of instinct AND there is a beginning in the full light of conscious intelligence. There is a beginning in scarcity and in need and there is a possibility of birth out of plenitude and clear vision. (A birth out of plenitude) demands an increased awareness of objective participation in a greater whole. It produces a mounting sense of responsibility in terms of basic social purposes or, if the configuration operates negatively, a sense of defeat or of “what is the use?”

As Dane put it so beautifully, There is a beginning in the full light of conscious intelligence. There is a possibility of birth out of plenitude and clear vision.

And, if you are NOT so happy with where you are right now, there is a beginning in the darkness, or unconsciousness of instinct. There is a beginning in scarcity and in need.

Venus starts us off as she heads through gauntlet of the upcoming, soon to form, t-square. Gauntlets were the old military punishment in which somebody was forced to run between two lines of men armed with weapons who beat him as he passed. In this case, Venus is running the gauntlet of the upcoming t-square as she gets ready to leave Gemini and move into Taurus. She squares Jupiter and Saturn, trines Neptune, squares Uranus, enters Cancer, talks to Chiron (which always hurts), unites with Mars, and opposes Ceres and Pluto. Ouch! What a week!

Venus is filling out the empty space of the t-square. She’s in the spot where the t-square will direct its energy this summer. So via Venus’ dance this week, we will have a foreshadowing or foretaste of what is coming into our lives at the end of July and early August. Venus in Gemini is normally chatty, flirty and connected. As she runs through the gauntlet, she is fighting with the principle of what she wants to create versus the restriction, the good father versus the bad father. (They are actually the SAME father but represent different sides of the relating principle.) She’ll be pulled between two poles ~ Jupiter and Saturn fighting in the sky as she squares them Monday and Tuesday!

Then Venus gets some support, a hug or water perhaps from Neptune that gives her the ability to continue forward at the end of Tuesday. She starts to cry and feel deeply emotional from Neptune’s support and gentle energy. She squares Uranus and breaks apart or breaks down ~ wanting to separate from the union he offers and do her own thing on Wednesday. Right after the divorce energy with Uranus, she enters Cancer and gets VERY emotional. On Thursday, Venus moves forward to trine Chiron, opening up that scab on her wound yet again. Will it EVER heal? Then Friday, she is off to join forces with Mars. Saturday and Sunday, she fights with the creative principle of Ceres’ nurturing force and the revels in the profound, transformative and destructive principle of Pluto. Not an easy week for our intrepid gal Venus! She’ll get through it but won’t have a great time. And she’s noticing what YOU are going to go through in a couple of months.

Think of Venus as your Cosmic Realtor ~ She’s coming through that T-square with a fine eye to help you sell your house and start you new life but FIRST you have to clear it out, clean it up and tweak a few things! Put away those family photos. De clutter your corners and house. Empty the closets even if you have to put stuff into storage. Are you looking to SELL the house or just dangle it, overpriced, on the market for a year or two? So what can you expect this summer in your life and from your chart? Pay attention to what Venus does and says this week!

Sun is cooperating with the t-square and Venus’ pass through the gauntlet of the t-square‘s energy. Sun is in pleasant aspects to the same planets that Venus is struggling with. It is kind of like the teacher or the principal ratting you out for cutting school to your parents. Your parents are going to ask you at dinner, “How was school today?” Make sure to answer that question VERY HONESTLY. Saturn is in cahoots with Sun. Uranus is in cahoots with Sun. Chiron and Neptune want to TRICK you into doing the bad old behavior or trying to HIDE what you are ashamed or fearful of. They are going to make you THINK you can get away with OUT doing your Saturn. Don’t let them fool you.

It is just another trick to make sure that you DO YOUR SATURN and take responsibility for your own behaviors and where you are in your life. You are the reason you are where you are now. Not mom. Not dad. Not siblings. Not the army. Not your high school graduation teacher. Not any thing or any one but you. And you, by DOING your Saturn, will be able to get yourself out of the situations you don’t like in your life and into a new place. The trick is to do your Saturn and don‘t listen to Neptune or Chiron when they tell you that you don‘t have to do the work.

Monday, Cancer moon is highly emotional and has lovely closing aspects so things begun or moved along today and Tuesday have good outcomes with the Moon’s trine to Uranus. The rest of the week does not have good starting aspect ~ great ENDING aspects though! ~ so start things today and tomorrow. Venus begins her gauntlet run today bright and early with a square to Jupiter in Pisces ~ it sounds like a great idea but the practical reality of it will change before it happens. Say yes provisionally with the caveat in your own mind that you can always change your mind later when the terms change. And the terms will change! Mercury has a supportive aspect with Saturn ~ he’s carrying messages between Saturn and Pluto. Even though Pluto and Saturn are fighting and have been for a while, Mercury is trying to patch things up or at least to get them talking. If asked to speak to a person you’ve been fighting with, definitely follow up on it and do it if you can. Venus is inspired to try a different strategy to get what she wants even if she’s not 100% sure she actually wants it ~ again you can change your mind if the DEAL changes! No deal if the deal shifts down the road. And it will. Sun is working productively and well connected with Jupiter showing you the details of how to do things and create positive energy or profound or perhaps new understandings of previous situations. You get it now. Hold that knowledge close to your heart ~ you will need it in a few days. Mars delivers the an unpleasant or rather difficult message to Pluto around 11 pm Eastern Time. Pluto will not be too pleased. This news or action sets the tone for the balance of the week, starting Wednesday. Pluto needs a day or two to figure out what, exactly, he is going to do. Mars is passes his station from December today and leaves his retrograde shadow. So the message could be a follow up from the events of early December or perhaps a new chapter opens.

Tuesday, Moon in Cancer is still emotional and working with Venus now fighting with Saturn. This could also be a dream that wakes you up with a vague sense of unease about a situation. This fight with the critical energy of your being is actually yet another test by Saturn as he prepares to station next week. I know it feels like you can’t catch a break but the part of you that needs to really get this straight has to stand up and do it. Today is one of the most important days of the year in terms of getting a new vision of how you are going to move forward. Sun is cooperating with the creative ideas so start to research what your next options will be. Vesta and Sun are acting up with the Nodes so you want to clear out some old home stuff or work stuff that you no longer need. Sun and Vesta are forming a Hammer of Thor with the Nodes so knock that stuff that you no longer need right out of your life! Venus has a falling in love and gentle energy with Neptune so her earlier fights with Saturn and Jupiter fall away ~ the gauntlet does have nice parts ~ once you are through it you don’t have to go back! Sun trines Saturn in the evening so you will have a jolly time with family or friends reviewing what you’ve accomplished.

Wednesday Moon in Leo is exacerbated by the sensitivity of an opposition to Neptune and closing square to the Sun ~ some days are simply hard to work with. Saturn is appreciative of all the work that took place yesterday with Sun and Vesta ~ he knows how hard life is! Sun squares Neptune making for emotional outbursts. It probably is NOT the situation that they are upset about that they are upset about. The situation they are upset about they don’t have words for ~ it is a primal, deep inside kind of energy that is hungry, hungry, hungry but it doesn’t know what it wants. I know when those days are operating in me, my craving for “comfort food” goes way up ~ read carbohydrates that anesthetize those emotional feelings with a full belly. This is a day you can pick up the food, drink, cigarettes, or drug of choice. The universe is bearing down and an emotional block might be a nice thing to have right about now. The energy continues to build as Mercury delivers difficult news to Pluto. Remember a few days ago, he was talking to Saturn? Well here is when you and everyone else finds out what Saturn is saying. Venus squares Uranus so what is said can make you mad enough to break things off, break things down, break things up. You don’t need to do that. Take some Vitamin C and go for a walk. Separate from the situation before you. Venus enters Cancer tonight so the calling for comfort food will be mighty, mighty high. Sun is inspired by Pluto’s know how and ability. It is good match for both of them so spend time working with the light looking around the hidden crevasses of your mind to see what lurks in it. Treasures and riches oh my!

Thursday finds Moon in Leo proud but alone. She’s not an alone kind of gal when in Leo. She likes to connect, create and laugh. The aspects today are a bit serious. Venus is trine to Chiron at the 00 so expect stories of wounded love causing brutish aspects. And expect stories of found love causing healing ~ all part and parcel of Venus to Chiron. Sun is working with Uranus today so he’s a bit more light hearted than he was with Saturn yesterday. And their flow is a bit easier as water blends more easily than earth does. Sun enters Gemini late in the day. We officially begin the last month of Spring in the North and the last month of fall in the South. The seasons, they are a changing! Let the May flowers begin!

Friday Moon in Virgo only has a few aspects, easy ones even if the Moon’s energy is difficult. Mars is enthusiastic about some expansive project as he starts to speed up and realizes he is clear of his shadow. If you’ve had a situation that has been lingering since last fall, it will want to clear it self up this week. On October 17, 2009, Mars entered Leo for a long, long retrograde. He’s officially finished with it and looking for new adventures. What have you learned since October about how you take action that support your life? How do you take action that sabotages yourself? What did you learn about Envy and Jealousy since last October? How have you integrated that knowledge into your life. You can be envied and duck. You can envy and desire the other’s possessions. The hard part about envy is owning it ~ either as a recipient or giver. Look at the envy story or the story that took place in your chart and the house that holds 0 to 20 of Leo. How did getting clear on that get you clear on the REST of your life? Venus unites with Mars in a happy reunion as she runs the gauntlet. Mars had to wait for her to catch up to him (and she does by declination not zodiacal degree for those who read the column closely). Their union by parallel is important as a marker of closing up that envy cycle. If you envy someone, you want what they have. The other person can feel it as an invasion or intrusion, even if you don’t intend it that way. Or you can feel THEIR envy of you as an ugly and destructive energy. I once did an exchange of services with someone who wanted my ability to read a chart. She was a pretty good astrologer in her own right but had major sibling issues that involved a parent who preferred the other sibling to her as well as a good bit of Scorpio/Virgo in her chart. We were both taught by the same astrology teacher, although we hatched from different litters. She was a class cycle or two behind me. I can’t explain how I read a chart, but I can show you how. After about three sessions of trades, she apparently decided what I did could not be taught easily. And, as I was leaving that day, while we were descending the stairs, she told me a story about how she had picked up and dumped her sister head first into a sink of water while they were doing dishes when in a jealous mood. As my friend Steve says, “Watch for those embedded messages!” That session was the last trade we had. She wasn’t interested in any more trades. Watch for someone to symbolically or physically to dump your head into a sink of dish water today. No worries ~ you’ll be fine. And you will also be clear. It might hurt a bit but it is part of the getting clear process. And if you want to dump someone head first into a sink of dirty dish water, know that is your shadow side of Mars and take appropriate action to own your own stuff. Neptune opposite Vesta combined with Sun square to Chiron is the symbolism of understanding the woundedness of others reflects THEIR stuff, not YOUR stuff. However, YOUR stuff fits nicely in the woundedness of THEIR stuff. Isn’t astrology grand?

Saturn’s day, you are getting clearer and clearer. Virgo moon is toughened as it rolls through the t-square that Venus just danced through. Tough separating aspects today make it a great day to get rid of your stuff ~ garage sale! Tag Sale! Goodwill! Clear out whatever doesn’t nurture you any more.

Sunday Jupiter makes the first of three oppositions to Saturn, reminding us of the project begun in May/June 2000. Think back to what was going on in your life then. Now you are at the full moon phase of it. As Dane Rudhyar put it so beautifully, There is a beginning in the full light of conscious intelligence. There is a possibility of birth out of plenitude and clear vision. And, if you are NOT so happy with where you are right now, there is a beginning in the darkness, or unconsciousness of instinct. There is a beginning in scarcity and in need. Moon in Libra has dream closing aspects. What was the dream back then? What do you want to do NOW? Where are you in relationship to that dream? Sun has an adjusting aspect to Ceres. I figured out what the energy on those stairs WAS about after I left. It made sense that it was the last trade she wanted to do. And, I was okay with it. At least I didn’t end up head first in a sink of water. Mercury asks you to notice and understand the patterns involved. Venus asks you to work with the triangle and power energy in a productive and helpful manner. We are here to partner with others and learn from them. We are here to do our Saturn. Life is full of unexpected joys and sorrows. Dust off your dreams of old. Look at them. Or dream new dreams that match where you are with your life. As an old friend once said to me “Enjoy it as it goes by SO FAST!”

Mundane: Ivar Palsson, my astrologer friend from Iceland wrote with an update on the volcano!

Hello Anne.

As I said in March in my mail, Iceland and Greece share the same explosive recurring fate, both in the economy but we in eruptions. The Greek public revolts when Iceland’s brings its inner core to the surface, burnt to ash under ice pressure, about 50 up to 700 tons Toyota Yaris cars every second thrown into the atmosphere. And that continues unfaltered, up to 60 million Toyotas a day! That is more Toyotas than are recalled or damaged!

Take a look at the live webcam for a minute:
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-thorolfsfelli/

Or from afar to see the ash cloud:
http://eldgos.mila.is/eyjafjallajokull-fra-hvolsvelli/

But I am always selling shrimp and not writing, but maybe my Gemini moon will let me do both in the right proportions.

Thank you for prayers, but perhaps they should be pointed towards the locals near the volcano. I am writing an article where I say that the state should pay for them to leave as in other eruptions, but many are still staying in the heavy ash.

The last explosive eruption of the really big adjacent Katla volcano was in a Saturn-Uranus opposition (see attached). That time Oct 12th 1918 and the following month brought the Spanish Flu to Iceland, killing a good part of the population in a few weeks, mainly in late October 1918 into November. The volcanic ash probably made it worse. The frost from the previous winter also continued (That one was called the Great Frost Winter of 1918).

However, Iceland became a sovereign state then on Dec. 1st, 1918 at around 12:00 noon (to 12:15) in Reykjavik. So, we had an Icelandic parliament but still the Danish king till 1944. Opposition to the ruler, Uranus against Saturn.

There are striking similarities and connections with the USA chart and possibly because the American- led WWI armistice agreement was only three weeks before that time. The Germans never really agreed to that end, so it led to WW2.

I have now a few charts from locals that are affected there. I will look at them and comment, because at least one of those personal birth charts is all about the 0°Aries coming up!

All the best.

Ivar Palsson

And on another front, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, also referred to as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Deepwater BP oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is a massive ongoing oil spill and oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico that started on April 20, 2010 at 9:45 pm, CST, at 22 N37 and 88 W 38. The spill followed a blow out that caused an explosion on the offshore drilling rig, which then sank 48 miles off the coast of Louisiana. The oil spill covers a surface area of at least 2,500 square miles originating from a deepwater oil well 5,000 feet (close to a mile) (1,500 m) below sea level.

The spill is expected to eclipse the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill as the worst US oil disaster in history. Experts fear that it will result in an environmental disaster (against the stars) as the oil from the well site reaches the Gulf coast, damaging the Gulf of Mexico fishing industry, tourism industry, and habitat of hundreds of bird species.

BP was principal developer of the Macondo Prospect oil field and leased the drilling rig from Transocean. The US Government has named BP as the responsible party in the incident and will hold the company accountable for all cleanup costs resulting from the oil spill. BP has accepted responsibility for the oil spill and the cleanup costs but indicated that the accident was not their fault as the rig was run by Transocean personnel, a division of Halliburton (September 15, 1948, 10 am, New York, NY).

Of interest to astrologers is Chiron just entering 0 Pisces earlier that day, and the very angular Saturn opposite Uranus on the MC/IC axis. A permanent wound of the sea ~ certainly the bird and fish hatcheries. The good part is the Part of Fortune high, conjunct the Midheaven and next to Saturn in Virgo ~ off shore drilling off the east and west coasts of the USA appears to be put on hold! Nothing like miles and miles of an unstoppable oil spill to get attention!

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posted May 17, 2010 09:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for popcorn     Edit/Delete Message
Poor me. I've my venus return today, 18 May.
The t-square in aspect to my venus/NN/mars in the end of gemini and the beginning of cancer.
T Uranus/jupiter in Quinkunx to my valentine 26/ siva 27/ ixion 27 in libra.
T Uranus/jupiter in square to my boda 28 in aqua
T saturn in square to my amor 26 /wertex 26 in SAG...
T uranus/jupiter in quinkunx to my antero 28/ leo
T uranus/jupiter in conj to my Draconic venus/hygie/thyche/mars in the end of pisces and beginning of aries...
T neptun/chiron trine my N venus/NN/mars
T nept/chiron conj my N boda
T nept/chiron opp my N antero
T nept/chiron trine my N valentine/siva/ixion

T chiron conj saturn in pisces..

Well, as usual I always think there will happend more than it always make to be....

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posted May 19, 2010 08:15 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message
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