posted August 02, 2010 07:26 AM
Weekly Weather August 2, 2010 Reality testing time! The nature of our reality will permanently CHANGE in the week ahead. We won’t look at the world in the same way, ever, ever again.
The T-Square perfects! Lots and lots of volatility in the week ahead as the Cosmic Cross actually HAPPENS! We are finally here! At long last it arrives! And yet it seems to have taken forever for the T-Square to perfect! The tension we’ve all been feeling over the past few weeks will culminate in the week ahead. Particularly stressed days are Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday as Mars shakes things up. Fights with and between virtually everyone in the world will be the norm for a few days. Then there will be part two on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of the next week as Venus follows Mars through the T-square asking us to determine what is of value to us. First Mars runs through the T-square then right behind him comes Venus running through the gauntlet of difficult energy. Oy vey!
Mars will trigger the T-square’s energy to release its contents. Mars is war, violence, action, accidents, explosive and quite critical in his approach right now. Venus, while we normally think of her as a nice gal, does have a warrior energy to her ~ especially when she is irritated. She’s irritated. Fortunately, by the end of the week when she goes through the t-square, she’s not as irritated as she is earlier in the week. But she too acts as a trigger to the T-square setting off its energy a second time. Like the suicide bombers, the transit of the two of them will pack a one-two punch in our lives.
Immediately following Mars and Venus through the t-square, the Sun steps through and aspects all the planets from his position on the world axis at 15 of the Fixed signs ~ Leo. We will rapidly see the results of our actions.
Be cautious in the routine events of your life ~ seat belts buckled. No speeding. Helmets when biking or rollerblading. No jumping out of air planes unless you absolutely have to. Double check when crossing the street, pulling out or backing up. Be aware that the entire world will be extra, extra in the mode to explode or blow up or have accidents or mishaps. All the people who DON’T read astrology columns, will be roaming the world with this energy afoot. They will be preoccupied with the situation(s) taking place in THEIR lives so they can cause an accident with YOU in YOUR life!
The eclipses from June 26 will be triggered by Mars and Venus moving to square the degree of the Full Moon Lunation. So events, situations or people from late June and early July will reappear or come forward to remind you of their moment(s) in your life. People from that time can, should and will reappear. Hold onto no hard feelings. Listen to what they have to say. Decide what you want to do. Move forward with the situation. Envision your best life.
Various astrologers have been watching this t-square mess of energy arrive. We look at the degrees to see what will happen. Many astrologers, including me, forecast a major stock market collapse, due to some “trigger” of the financial markets. What could be the trigger? In late June, early July, during the eclipse period, there was a very weird, still unexplained UFO over China which shut down the airport for several hours. We are still waiting for the companion volcano in Iceland to erupt. The earlier eruption shut down the air space, disrupted trade and travel. Previous eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull have been followed by eruptions at its larger neighbor, Katla. The first series of eruptions took place on March 20, 2010 when Sun was at 0 Aries, Saturn was at 1 Libra and Pluto was at 5 Capricorn. The transiting t-square sits on these degrees as Mars and Venus moves through the configuration. We have the t-square configuration taking place on the World axis so the financial Markets in Europe where there was volatility all last spring are a spot to watch. Mars is war and his square to Pluto often “starts” wars ~ so perhaps an unprovoked attack, act of war or attack “out of nowhere”. And last but not least, there is a funky series of health aspects being triggered so some unforeseen health issue could erupt to circle the globe. We’ll know soon enough!
Mercury enters his shadow, preparing for his upcoming retrograde later this month. The stuff that lands on your plate THIS week will be what you are working on through September 26 when Mercury clears his retrograde degree. We also have Venus entering Libra to make her a bit more pleasant than she’s been the past few weeks. Juno enters Leo so we are inspired to partner with our heart’s desire ~ give yourself permission to at LEAST THINK about what your heart’s desire IS!
The t-square empting into Cancer’s houses can make us feel under nourished or like an unhappy baby. We are screaming “I want MY mama!” ~ in the cosmic sense of a shout out! We want someone, anyone, to take care of us. We’ll need to nurture ourselves this week as the world may not be able or up for taking care of us. You need to take care of your Moon. You will need to soothe yourself. Food, alcohol, sleep, shopping and drugs all come to mind as short term ways we can nurture and sooth ourselves. However, they are not the most productive or healthiest choices for nurturing ourselves.
Other ways to soothe yourself include meditating, breathing, letting go of the situation, or slow down and pay attention to what is triggering you to want to nurture yourself. Tell the inner voice that is yelling at you to be quiet! Focus on where you are right now without distractions.
You can change your thoughts. Hold your pinkie finger to calm your mind and Mercury. Rub that fat part of your hand below the pinkie and above the wrist to soothe the Moon and nurture your heart needs. Daydream about a better time in your life. Mindfully worry or zone out ~ give yourself permission to delve in, make a how could I fix it list or disappear from your worries for a bit. Think back on what made you feel secure before and pull those memories up.
You can take actions or give your body sensations to calm yourself too! Back when you were little, they didn’t just feed you to make you feel nurtured. Pamper yourself. Smell things that make you feel connected or take you back to earlier happier times. Walk. Run. Climb. Watch clouds. Swim. Sweat. Sleep. Soak. Dance. Clean. Massage your self. Listen to guided meditation tapes that change your mental state. Distract yourself with mental games, crossword puzzles, knitting, painting, crafting, sewing, needlepoint, playing music, banging on a drum, weeding the garden, or working on a complicated puzzle spread across the card table.
You can connect with others to nurture yourself ~ volunteer, learn reiki, take a massage class, meet up with a friend, invite folks over for a night of cards and laughter, play bridge at a club, explore art galleries or museums, hang out with kids or dogs, get yourself out of your own life and into someone else’s life to help them ~ run errands for a friend who needs support, do a random act of kindness for a stranger, organize a friend’s closet or find a task you like to do for yourself and do it for someone else.
So what to do? Apply consciousness. And remember to breath. Know that this too shall pass. Breathing and passing will take care of themselves. These are transits. Consciousness is a bit harder yet actually a great way to approach these difficult energies.
The other thing to remember is it is a T-square. While you may have been holding down the fort in one area of the difficult energy, you can always switch out to a different place ~ recognize who YOU are in the energy exchange and try on a different role.
Transits of planets are energy beings. Planets literally act like characters in a play and take on roles based on the signs they are in as they move around your chart. Over the next few months, in any emotionally charged encounter with a person, the odds are excellent that you are going to be ONE leg of that t-square. The person you are interacting with is going to be another leg of that t-square. And some where nearby is the third and possibly fourth legs. All the legs are yours to use if you know what you are doing.
Your job is to identify WHICH of the energies or legs each person is embodying. Know which energy YOU are in the exchange. Take your role AND DO THE HIGHER VERSION of the planet’s energy or character‘s behavior. That will offer an attempt to the heavens and the person with whom you are interacting to lift the t-square out of the mud and into a higher form of behaving.
The roles are:
Uranus in Aries ~ CHANGE AGENT
Lower form: rebellious, angry, impulsive, fighting, hotheaded.
Higher form: visionary, creative, initiating, starting and leading the needed changes.
Saturn in Libra AUTHORITY
Lower form: an authority that is unable to make a decision, take responsibility or stick with a decision. Vacillating.
Higher form: an authority who partners with the other person to achieve agreed on goals ~ able to work out a compromise so all are partially satisfied and partially unsatisfied..
Pluto in Capricorn: DESTRUCTION/ POWER
Lower form: Triangles that are two against one. Power over. Do it my way or else. Dominator model. Realizing how insignificant you are.
Higher form. Opening up the triangle so all three parties are involved. Invoking the higher power or authority available (there always is one). Sharing power or helping the other evolve.
In every interaction, determine if you are Uranus, Saturn or Pluto. Change roles. If you’ve been behaving like Uranus, rebellious and non-cooperative assume the role of Saturn and become a good authority and responsible. If you are in a difficult conflict, look around for the higher that both of your Authority ~ Pluto ~ and ask for his intervention.
Additionally, while I don’t normally include the Uranian system’s Trans-Neptunians in this column, I am adding them now as two of them ~ Hades and Kronos are very, very active and sitting near 0 Cancer, the outlet of the t-square. If we count the Trans-Neptunian points, we are working with a grand cross ~ creating a cross or a crucifixion of stuck, trapped energy. As you might guess, Hades is malefic ~ literally rules hell and all sorts of hellish things while Kronos is about age, endings, time, decrepit decay as well as power grabs. Not pleasant energies to be working with but we will each be asked to work with them this summer. So creative strategies are the rules to play with as you figure out other approaches to take to the energy flying around.
Because we have 5, count them, 5 outer planets shifting signs, we are being bombarded with a lot of shifting energy. We are being asked to evolve in up to 5 areas of our life and up to 75% of our chart. All that energy shifting IS quite exhausting! Go to bed early. Give yourself a break. Get extra sleep. Schedule a bit of space into your calendar to allow for spaciousness ~ both mental and emotional spaciousness.
Remember they are call TRANSITS because they are TRANSITORY… No need for permanent, final solutions that involve guns, pills, jumping off buildings, knives or other permanent and final solutions. Let the energy wash over you. Maintain mindfulness. Understand it is energy you are to work with in a productive manner. If it isn’t feeling productive, don’t go there. Sit and watch.
Monday August 2, Moon in Taurus gives a firm feeling or solidness to the energy with difficult closing aspects as it squares Neptune. Expect the unexpected. Mars is in orb of the t-square. Juno enters Leo so we are asked to partner in a new way with our heart’s desire as we get a brilliant idea about how to proceed. Follow the idea. Mercury is sesquiquadrate the Goddess of Discord so arguments appear out of nowhere and Hell erupts! People are tense, irritable and cranky. Lots of tension in the neck and shoulder area as we carry the story in our bodies. To the extent that you can support yourself with healthy food and a bit of exercise or stretching ~ incorporate those into your day. It will help a bit. Call the folks you love and tell them you love them. We all can use a random act of kindness today!
Tuesday August 3 we wake to the news of change. Jupiter squared Pluto in the late night so the expansion energy of transformation is on and moving. Jupiter is not in a great sign right now, the sign of war, and he squares Pluto in a land sign so perhaps we will feel there is a land grab or power over mood taking place. Things are moving fast and furious. Uranus trines Juno on the world axis so people unite to speak out about the situation or event. The funky health aspects take place today and are profound as they move out and expand. Venus in Virgo wants to work with the healthier energies around. Be cautious in that work as the situation can rapidly shift. Jupiter offers us a gift of brilliance to see the evolving pattern. We are able to take action precisely and with directness. Mercury, the Lord of Communications talks with the spreading energy of change and transformation. You might feel a bit swamped by the energy but no worries ~ it will move through quickly enough. Love and relationships end today in a burst of bitterness if you are not careful. We have to make adjustments to help ourselves and are able to see what those adjustments are. Make them.
Wednesday August 4, finds the Moon in Gemini so multiple versions of the truth emerge. Mars was busy during the night causing us to wake up to very interesting news. The transit of the t-square begins today. Mars opposes Jupiter and squares Pluto setting yesterday’s events into action and making choices. The movements are direct and clear. It is hard to stop now. Neptune’s aspect to the home and hearth planet Vesta suggests we won’t be able to go home any time soon ~ or at least not to the same home we had before. Sun is feeling expansive and wanting to shine as he watches the gods’ fight. If it isn’t your fight, stay out of it. Back off and find a safe corner. Mercury is strategizing with Pallas and coming up with plans A, B, and C. Others will find they need to mourn the changes taking place. We each cope in different manners ~ I remember speaking at a lecture about the upcoming 2012 planetary aspects. A listener asked, in all seriousness, “Do you think we should start eating more?” Watch your reactions to the events taking place and see what your initial and subsequent responses are. How do they reflect your world view? Take action based on your approach. Venus is in an adjusting aspect to Neptune, pushing both the planet of love and the planet seeking redemption into an deeper knowledge of what they each profoundly need to transform. We often love people who we think will give us what we need. Then we get mad at them when they give us what they need. Today is a day for getting clear on what you need versus what they need. Communications about the funky health aspect can make people take strange actions. We are here to work together and partner with each other. Together we will be fine. Help someone who is not doing so well. Gemini Moon presents multiple version of reality. They are all true from the viewers’ perspective. What is REALLY true for you?
Thursday August 5 finds Gemini Moon continuing to process the news and divergent events of the past few days. Venus joins with Vesta suggesting you stay home and connect with your loved ones. Good day for a mental health day! The health aspects continue to shift and move. Unusual partnerships form to help preserve the family units or groups of friends. Sun is stressing out over security and what will happen. The point is to take care of your health. The rest is meaningless.
Friday August 6, Moon in Gemini continues to give mixed messages all day long. Psychological adjustments start to take place as Venus fights with Chiron. We have to process the visions we’ve seen. Mercury is quite communicative today as Gemini Moon again provides mixed messages about what is going on. Mars is taking action to protect his family and friends. Emotions cause all kinds of discord today. Make sure to communicate with people and make sure THEY HEARD YOU. Get them to repeat what you said to them. It is a great day for miscommunications. Moon enters Cancer making all of us more emotional. Venus enters Libra making all of us aware of love, or perhaps the lack of it, in our lives.
Saturn’s Day August 7 Venus begins to play in the t-square energy as she talks with the various planets in it. She argues with Uranus on the world axis, suggesting his penchant for being wild and crazy is not serving the greater good right now. Darker and more emotional messages come through now. People will take action from their wounded place. Be aware that actions from the wounded place make us more likely to bite rather than purr. Cornered energy can attack as well as play dead. Sun starts to go through the t-square energy too, but he‘s forming stressful aspects to it ~ lighting it up so we can see it clearly even if we don‘t much want to look. We do have to look so it doesn’t happen again. Cancer Moon is sensitive to the news she receives.
Sunday August 9, Moon moves into Leo after being void all day in Cancer. This is a great stay in bed kind of day. Or a great lazy day to kick back and not worry about the world. Jupiter trines Juno so after the changes of last week, we see clearly how we helped create the situation we find in our lives. Once we see it clearly, as well as our role in it, of COURSE we can start to change it and move onto the next chapter of our lives. Change is here! Pluto will adjust who we partner with in a permanent manner. Once we see it clearly, we can never go back to our old way of looking at things. Hasn’t your entire world shifted? Amazing eh? Venus joins with Saturn to start a new year long cycle about the value that each of the parts of our lives play in our world. Look at the various roles you play or are assigned. Make a promise to yourself to only pursue the dreams or roles that serve your heart. We are aware today of the passage of time as moments in our life speak to remind us of all that has taken place before this moment. Sun in Leo in the afternoon has a separating aspect from the illusions under which we may have been operating. There is nothing wrong with illusions of course. They add to the process of creating our dreams. Mars takes permanent action to end something today. It is permanent too! No going back on this one. Ceres stops in the sky, turning direct, to help guide us with her visions, eagle eye, virtues and wild eyes that miss nothing! Listen to Ceres. Listen to the wise feminine impulse or energy in your life. Listen to the wise elder women or nurturing women you encounter. Ceres rests in your being if you are a woman. It is time to wake her up. The planet needs you!
Lindaland
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