posted April 08, 2013 08:01 PM            

We have a powerful super, duper stellium of planets in Aries ~ Uranus, Sun, Moon, Mars, Venus, and Eris with Mercury entering Aries on Saturday. All the Aries planets report into super charged Mars in Aries. Saturn and the North Node of Fate in Scorpio answers to Mars in Aries. The South Node of Fate in Taurus reports to Venus in Aries and then to Mars in Aries. Pluto in Capricorn feels the pulse of Mars in Aries as his boss. As of the weekend, even Jupiter in Gemini carries himself and the Pisces planets over to the Altar of Aries.

Week’s Planetary Highlights

New Moon at 20:41 Aries on Wednesday Apr 10 at 5:35 am EDT. We enter Eclipse Season. The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming!

Saturn is inconjunct/quincunx Uranus on Friday Apr 12 2013 at 11:29:01 pm EDT

Pluto stations to go retrograde in Capricorn on Friday Apr 12 2013 at 03:34:55 pm EDT at 11:35. We feel it from Sunday Apr 7 to Wednesday Apr 17.

Mercury enters Aries on Saturday Apr 13 2013 at 10:36:56 pm EDT

Void Moons in the Week Ahead: When the Moon is Void, it is wise to avoid making important decisions as they tend to be unrealistic, and subject to false starts, errors or unexpected hassles. Avoid being concerned with things beyond your spiritual center. It is time for subjective, spiritual and non-materialistic concerns. Kick back, let life flow and center yourself. Connect into your essential oneness with the Universal Forces.

Moon goes void joining Mercury on Monday, Apr 8 2013 at 00:10:52 am EDT and enters Aries on Apr 8 2013 at 03:03:22 pm EDT

Moon is Void most of Monday

Moon goes void joining Venus on Wednesday Apr 10 2013 at 12:25:53 pm EDT and enters Taurus on Apr 10 2013 at 11:22:55 pm EDT

Moon is Void most of Wednesday

Moon goes void sextile to Mercury on Saturday Apr 13 2013 at 08:31:14 am EDT and enters Gemini on Apr 13 2013 at 10:13:43 am EDT

In addition to all the fire in the sky, Venus, Mars, Sun and Moon all meet on THE SAME POINT right around 20 Aries, just three days apart. On Sunday April 7, the Venus Mars conjunction at 19:57 Aries started a new TWO year cycle which ends in February 2015. There was a typo in last week’s column where I said ONE year~ the new Venus Mars cycle actually ends in February 2015. On Wednesday, the Sun and Moon meet at 20:41 Aries, further igniting the point. Venus as our desire and love nature connecting with Mars our go and get it energy combined with our Sun’s Ego, need and purpose and further fueled by our emotional and nurturing needs of the Moon. Let’s all shout I AM at the top of our lungs! The Sun and Moon start a new two and a half year phase relationship of I AM. Such an enormous amount of fire energy will be pulsing through our very being seeking to have us step forward into our essential life.

According to Jung, the main purpose of our existence is to individuate. Nothing like all that Aries energy to HELP us figure it out and state what our individuation goal IS and IS NOT. I AM!!! Every cell in our being will be on fire and seeking to shout I AM!!! Aries is warrior energy. Aries is pioneer, and brave Scout energy. Aries is race car driving. Aries is jumping off the cliff without a parachute ~ taking the risk just because. Aries throws caution to the wind.

Aries without a clear and focused purpose is fighting and arguing. Road rage. Emotional Outbursts. Wars. You will be mighty tempted to argue this week. Aries makes Venus lustful. Aries makes the Sun exalted ~ our egos will be feeling mighty healthy. Aries makes the Moon ruler of our emotions very argumentative and war like. And Aries makes Mars kick butt. When Mercury moves into Aries at the end of the week, Aries will make Mercury sharp tongued, bitchy and a bit

Aries is a hot, dry, masculine, positive, inflammatory, choleric, sterile, violent, bestial, intemperate and combative sign. Aries is represented by the **** ~ both the bird and the male member. Roosters are boastful with fighting qualities as well as the Ram ~ rash, hardy, springy, lascivious and belligerent. On a good day, Aries is enterprising, action oriented, ambitious, courageous, arduous, industrious, generous, pioneering, practical, constructive and a leader. On a bad day, Aries is headstrong, excitable, audacious, impatient, imprudent, insubordinate, quarrelsome, fool hardy, disregards others, selfish and jealous.

So imagine what ALL THOSE PLANETS rolling around in Aries are going to be acting like. Additionally, Venus, Mars, Moon and Sun all link up with Eris the Goddess of Discord this week. Eris excites us by stimulating our “chip on the shoulder” energy and jealousy. She’s a trouble maker, sister to Mars and loves to be provocative and start people fighting.

Your job under all this energy is to take that Aries energy and DIRECT IT TOWARD some worthy goal or project. Don’t waste it on a fight. Turn the passion, direct it and go for your best life. Use the energy to supercharge the projects you’ve decided to do or devote yourself toward as the Finger of God starts to break up in the sky above us. Dash off into the energy and passionately deploy it so you get a fast and good start on everything on your list. In a couple of weeks, the planets will shift into Taurus and slooooow way down ~ especially Mars. Take passionate action the next few weeks to get things launched and underway while all the fire is in the sky. Don’t waste it on silly arguments with people over who did or didn’t do what. Direct it out into the world. The best result is living your best life. And the best revenge if you feel you need to send energy that way. Aries shoot out into the world, leaving behind what ever doesn’t work for them. For the next few weeks, we are all honorary Aries so enjoy the fire and passion!

On Friday, Pluto stations to go retrograde as Saturn and Uranus inconjunct each other. A few years ago Saturn and Uranus were squaring each other as the collective watched the fight between Jay Leno and Conan O’Brian. Leno, Saturn, won that fight and reclaimed the Tonight Show as his domain from Conan, Uranus. Now the collective is watching the fight between Jay Leno, who seems pretty ****** off, and Jimmy Fallon, his purported replacement. Pluto’s station as the inconjunct between Saturn and Uranus takes place means we can expect announcements about the Old powers adjusting to the changes and demands of the New powers. Watch for various “OLD POWERS” to fall from grace, step aside or be forced to leave, go over and out. There will be some mighty big surprises. Pluto stations are power struggles. Pluto is opposite 9-11’s Jupiter degree so that will be in the news.

Pluto stations always bring earth changes like earth quakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, wars and lots of earthly departures as the energy shakes, deeply shakes, in a very profound way, the actual stability of the life force. If you know of people who are tenuously hanging on, the next 10 days are departure times.

We are entering a ten week eclipse period following the New Moon on Wednesday. There are THREE eclipses this spring. They are lunar eclipse at the Full Moon at 5:46 Scorpio/Taurus, Solar Eclipse as the New Moon at 19:31 Taurus, and a second lunar eclipse, finishing up the Gemini/Sagittarius nodal cycle at 4:08. The Gemini-Sagittarius eclipse will cap out our Gemini Sagittarius nodal stories ~ Demi Moore/Ashton Kutcher, Heidi Klum/Seal, Maria Shriver/ Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rosie O’Donnell/her wife, and Ann Curry/Matt Lauer.

The New Moon on Wednesday this week is at 20:41 Aries, stimulating all that Aries energy as well as Venus and Mars who met at the same degree three days earlier. Shortly after the New Moon, Moon joins with Mars and Venus adding an emotional burst to the energy. Take advantage of all the fabulous energy for getting things done this week….You can get amazing things done. The heavens are further cooperating by have positive closing aspects for each of the moons this week… so the answer will be YES or GO FOR IT for just about every project or situation addressed and undertaken. Expect GREEN LIGHTS all the way to Chicago! Direct all that drive energy out the door and into the world.

The Sabian Image for the New Moon is A BOXER IS ENTERING THE RING. Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the Sabian Image is

Commentary: ‘A Boxer’ shows someone with the ability to fight or take on an issue. This person is seen ‘Entering the Ring’ – they are in a place where they need to stand up for something, tackle an issue or a person; to prove themselves strong in some measure. Fighting can take many forms and can be done obviously or subversively. One can throw punches on every level of consciousness: physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally

Oracle: It may be time to fight about some issue, but it should be done within the bounds of the ‘Ring’ – heeding the rules and regulations of decency. Make sure you have the skills and have earned the right to defend what you believe. Be aware that you may need to back off if you are losing ground. Are “rules” being broken? Is there someone keen to battle, are they causing problems? At times it may be appropriate or necessary to physically “fight” but merely signaling your readiness to fight may cause the other to back down. If you really need to go into the ‘Ring’ be fully prepared for any consequences. Standing up to something or someone can lead to a new level of self-confidence, but are you ready for the punches that might be thrown your way? Use your instincts and watch every movement carefully. Knowing where the next punch is coming from can help. Who is the likely victor? Emotionally there are no real winners when lovers or friends fight – both lose in one way or another. It’s often others who judge the real outcome or who’s the “winner” in the end. Are you prepared to lose? It could be a situation of “may the best man win”. ‘Boxing’ is a sport that owes its pleasures to people’s glory, bravery, pain and sometimes humiliation; however, standing up for yourself and your rights can lead to others taking you more seriously

Keywords: Physical or psychological self-assertion and determination. Attack or defense? Fighting for emotional, psychological or physical space. Being seen as a person of strength. Throwing punches. Fighting each other on any level. Being prepared to take a swing at someone or something. Stepping up to the plate. Throwing down the gauntlet. Going after the title.

The Caution: Using force or power to dominate people or those who challenge you. Acting in a combative manner when one should be displaying sportsmanship. Wanting to knock people out. Looking for combat. Throwing punches at anything. Belting, smacking, invading. Being punch-drunk.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring all alone. Billy Joel

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. Honore de Balzac

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit. Miyamoto Musashi

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. Burke

Come up with a smiling face, It’s nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there–that’s disgrace. Edward Vance Cooke

He who fights and runs away may live to fight another day. Proverb

If you cannot bite, never show your teeth. Proverb

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing–but none of them serious. Alan Minter–Boxer

The process of Life demands that we individuate and grow. AT the same time, our deepest needs are for profound connections, community and relatedness. How do we balance those two? How do we keep true to the path of our heart while maintaining the relationships that are so important to us? And with all this fire energy in the heaven, we DO have to focus on our own path for the next two or three weeks. THEN we can turn back towards those we love and want to connect with. Give yourself permission to say I AM. I WANT. I HAVE. Use the I words this week.

We know that if it is in our heart, it is in our chart. We trust our heart. Not THEIR heart. OUR OWN HEART…. Our own heart song. Turn on your heart light. Let it shine. Know that connections of the heart travel across time and space….keeping us connected. The fire in the sky is very clarifying this week. You’ll go for it or NOT for it. But you WILL be clear!

The balance of the column will be posted on Monday.

Lynda Hill’s work appears with her permission.

Anne’s Four Radio Shows Recap: Listen in to the podcasts via ITunes or by the website links.

Anne’s Weekly Weather: The Fingers of God/Goddess energies in the Heavens start to break up as Jupiter pulls rapidly away from them. Mercury finally leaves Pisces. A New Moon at 20 Aries same as Venus and Mars union~ The eclipse season begins. Pluto stations. What a week, what a week! Watch out for all the fire….

Scorpios Talking: Michael and Anne talked about approaching things with curiosity and with a willingness to learn. Change how you approach your life!

The Mary Anne Show: Mary and Anne had a great time talking about current events.

Access Astrology: All three of us were rocking! Heather had great vacation and Mark was feeling better!

Venus Unplugged: Llorraine Neithardt got her fans speaking with her explanation of Venus as the sacred prostitute….Venus lessons for all!! For Jungians, dreamers, poets and visionaries this podcast helps individuation.

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