posted April 22, 2013 11:38 AM            

I always feel a bit like Paul Revere when I write that phrase ~ The Eclipses are coming! The Eclipses are coming! He rode to warn the Boston citizens scattered through the countryside that the British were coming. I write it to warn my readers that the eclipses are coming. I’ve been writing that phrase twice a year, during eclipse season, since June 4, 2004 when I began writing a weekly column about the Astrological Weather for the internet.

Back then, the South Node was in Scorpio, on my Saturn so I knew writing a column was a fated life event for me. Now, nine years later, the Nodes are reversed and I find myself writing the phrase again, The eclipses are coming! The eclipses are coming! This time Boston and the recent bombing are deeply on my mind. There have been some 460 weekly columns. Right now, I have no words.

So I am going to reprint what the American Federation of Astrologers sent me last night: The partial lunar eclipse on April 25th is from Saros series 112 and is conjunct the fixed star Cigenus. The last one from that series was on April 15, 1995. Events following the last one were:
April 19 – Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols, set off the bomb.
April 24 – A Unabomber bomb kills lobbyist Gilbert Murray in Sacramento, California.
April 28 – In Daegu, South Korea, a gas explosion at a subway construction site kills 101 people, mostly teenage schoolboys.

Because Jupiter is in Gemini , I anticipate it will be like last fall’s eclipses ~ there were TWO Sandys ~ the storm and the shooting ~ one at the beginning and one at the end of eclipse season. There were two storms at the beginning and two shootings at the end ~ the second shooting was at first responders in Rochester, NY when a crazy guy started a fire after killing his sister and shot the firemen first responding to the blaze. Expect doubles this time too!

We all need to get ready to hatch….

he Week’s Planetary Highlights

Venus Opposes Saturn on Monday Apr 22 2013 at 03:42:31 am EDT

Mercury sextiles Jupiter on Tuesday Apr 23 2013 at 11:24:36 pm EDT

Venus trines Pluto on Wednesday Apr 24 2013 at 11:42:43 am EDT

Sun Sextiles Neptune on Wednesday Apr 24 2013 at 05:58:10 pm EDT

Vesta enters Cancer on Wednesday Apr 24 2013 at 08:45:32 pm EDT

Lunar Eclipse on Thursday Apr 25 2013 at 03:57:06 pm EDT

Mars sextiles Neptune on Friday Apr 26 2013 at 09:46:07 pm EDT

Sun Opposes Saturn on Sunday Apr 28 2013 at 04:26:35 am EDT

Venus enters South Node on Sunday Apr 28 2013 at 06:50:15 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 square to Jupiter on Monday Apr 22 2013 at 02:03:34 am EDT and enters Libra on Tuesday Apr 23 2013 at 03:25:44 am EDT

Moon is Void all Day Monday

Moon goes void opposing Mercury on Wednesday Apr 24 2013 at 08:12:49 am EDT and enters Scorpio on Thursday Apr 25 2013 at 06:26:24 am EDT

Moon is Void all day Wednesday

Full Moon Lunar Eclipse on Thursday Apr 25 2013 at 03:57:06 pm EDT

Moon goes void Opposite Venus on Friday Apr 26 2013 at 04:57:22 am EDT and enters

Sagittarius on Saturday Apr 27 2013 at 07:32:52 am EDT

Moon is void all day Friday

There is no joy in predicting difficult events. As an astrologer, I am much happier seeing the incipient baby or grandchild, the new beloved arriving, the desired change or advancement in home or work or talking about the healing or resolution of a difficult situation. Yet, eclipses are “juicy” because you can guarantee something big is going to happen. That means you are “right” ~ which is helpful in this line of work where accuracy helps draw clients.

So I am going to change it up a bit this week. We are all going to be sucked into the maw of the eclipse energy for the next month and a half ~ through June 8, 2013. Pluto is parked opposite the degree of Jupiter from 9-11 ~ 11:32 for the month of April and most of May ~ evoking 9-11 and bringing us deeper into our own wounds. The North Node is in Scorpio so we are going towards psychological or emotional transformation, release and some kind of death or ending. The South Node is in Taurus so things are going to be pried from our grasping fingers, pulled back one digit at a time, as we most likely don’t want to let go for the fear of what happens next. We are not going to want to let go. Let’s talk about how to handle the powerful energies working themselves out above our heads and inside our hearts.

The personal reflects the collective experience: I sat watching the videos of the bombing, rapt and crying. Now with my sensitive and visual Pisces Moon, I NEVER go to scary or violent movies. The images stay with me FOREVER and pop up, unbidden. It is not my idea of entertainment to watch someone get pulverized or shot. Yet, there I was watching a real event with blood and terror all over the place. A wise friend of mine noticed my obsession and rather emotional responses to the bombing. He directed me toward Susan Anderson’s book, “A Journey from Abandonment to Healing”. It is a horrible title for a very good book. It should be entitled “Gotta Pre-existing Trauma? Read me when you have another Trauma! New Trauma triggers your Old Trauma!” I know, long title that no publisher would agree to but “Steal This Book” by Abbie Hoffman and “Be Here Now” by Ram Das still float in my memory and got me to read them. And, NO, I didn’t steal the book as an Old Trauma when mom caught me pilfering candy from Bert’s Pharmacy and shamed me into lifelong honesty and a tendency toward confessions still inhibits my thieving tendencies.

Of course, WE KNOW logically that New Traumas trigger Old Traumas! We go through all our bad olds when we have a new bad old. It is human nature. Time for a life review of the correlating events that were similar. Humans like to put things into piles ~ sort them by categories. The bad boyfriend or girlfriend category. The job situation that repeats an earlier pattern that was difficult. The person or situation that reminds us of our mother, father, sister, brother or family dynamic. Our life is composed of patterns ~ all described by our natal chart ~ that repeat, repeat, repeat ad infinitum our entire life.

We bring consciousness to our patterns via therapy, conversations with beloved friends, dealing with our enemies, reading books, attending 12 step groups, journaling, creating, meditating and learning our chart’s natal potential versus actual.

I always love it when I point out an earlier difficult situation in a client’s life and correlate it to the current events in their life. Then they inevitably “sigh…. <deeply> ….. I have ALREADY dealt with that!” “I know,” I reply. “Life, however, well, it is like an onion ~ time for the next layer.”

So we are ready for the next layer of healing or peeling away.

In my world, I moved Anderson’s book to the top of the book pile and started reading it. I cried my eyes out again after finding out my beloved acupuncturist Shane escaped being blown up as he’d left the marathon early for a client appointment (Thank you Shane’s CLIENT!). Normally, Shane stays and cheers with his cousins who run it. I checked in on my various Boston folks. I cried my eyes out again when I realized it was the 30th anniversary of my mother’s death on April 17. I hadn’t actually “forgotten” her death but it had receded. My father cried when I read him what my cousins had posted on my brother’s facebook posting about Mom. When the papa cries, I cry. Aries guys don’t usually cry! I essentially had a therapy session with Michael Colberg during our radio show, Scorpios Talking, on Thursday. You get the idea. I was an emotional hot mess. In it, processing, processing but still reacting to the old emotional traumas. And I continue to work with all the OLD emotional traumas that seemed to be bubbling up.

This week, we’ll continue to emotionally process. The adrenaline rush of the Boston Bombing is receding. The shock is backing out of our system. The full out response of police, FBI and the entire city of Boston is done. We can rest now. And that is when the old stuff wells up. Our bodies trigger all sorts of emotions when reacting to stress and trauma. We now enter into a deep emotional space ~ a very, very deep space described by the eclipses. The eclipse chart is flat on 9-11 as the ascendant cast for Washington, DC, is 18 Virgo ~the exact same degree as the Sun on 9-11, Pluto hovers opposite Jupiter’s degree on 9-11 and the Taurus planets are all in the house of death.

You get the idea.

We’ve only just begun. We’ll all be diving deep into our emotions this week as the energy of the Full Moon builds, and builds and builds. Time to heal and get conscious!

Our week ahead features the Full Moon Eclipse ~ which is quite a nasty bugger with Saturn on the Scorpio Moon in Scorpio and Mars on the Sun in Taurus. Mars and Saturn oppose each other ~ which is not a pleasant energy ~ it inhibits expression and movement. Fire Mercury in Aries rules both the Ascendant and the Midheaven. When Fire Mercury went into Aries, Jupiter in Gemini ~ brothers from another country ~ took action and delivered Fire to the arms and legs (Gemini ~ arms, Jupiter ~ legs) on a beautiful day in Boston. Boston’s chart, according to Marc Penfield is September 17, 1630 at 9:55 am LMT ~ complete with Uranus at 16:32 Virgo ~ receiving the energy from the Eclipse chart. Boston’s Saturn and Neptune are early Scorpio ~ this eclipse. The city’s nodes of Fate are 7 Gemini/Sagittarius ~ the next lunar eclipse on May 25, square to their Jupiter at 5 Pisces. Boston ‘s Ascendant is 12 Scorpio ~ on the Saturn/ North Node midpoint of the eclipse.

There IS lots of Neptune ~ deep emotions and feelings ~ connecting with the planets above our heads. So expect emotions to swell up. Venus in Taurus is diving into the South Node of releasing, losing, letting go and some loss of emotional or personal value towards the end of the week.

Process. Process. Process. All that Neptune makes relapsing into bad old behaviors very possible. You might have been sober for 20 years ~ THIS week you are going to want to pick up. Get yourself emotional support. Open your heart to others who are having a hard time too. Seek comfort in the quiet places that support your soul. Know that you are right where you are supposed to be.

Eclipses bring up ALL sorts of surprises too! They bring things that have been hidden to light. So watch for exciting reveals! Expect interesting stories to emerge! Listen for secrets to be told! It is a GREAT time to go on scavenger hunts for history~ particularly history with Scorpios or your Scorpio planets. Time to dig into stuff that wants to be revealed. The Scorpio planets are being eclipsed. They might just tell you something you never knew before. The Scorpio planets and the Scorpios are TALKING!

Eclipse Moon in Scorpio is A GOLD RUSH TEARS

PEOPLE AWAY FROM THEIR NATIVE SOIL. Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the image is:

Commentary: ‘A Gold Rush Tears People Away From Their Native Soil’. The ‘Gold Rush’ brings the temptation to chase the promise of riches, wherever they may be. There have been many ‘Gold Rushes’ throughout history, and people often gamble their resources and their sense of security to chase the possibility of discovering treasures or rewards.

Oracle: The actual promise of abundance and fulfillment from the ‘Gold Rush’ is only really available for a few, although this depends very much on the ‘Gold’ that is being pursued. If the ‘Gold’ is worth the journey and the search, particularly on an internal level, this could be a very rewarding journey that may lead to a better life. Before you set out, you need to make sure you have an adequate “map” of the new territory that you’re exploring. You may indeed strike ‘Gold’ or you may just find yourself exhausted and a long way from home. The choice is often between an established, fairly stable situation and an unstable, temporary or risky situation. Learning to discriminate just what is and what is not possible will enhance your judgment of what’s worth pursuing. Feelings of excitement and hysteria can be infectious and you can find yourself heading off towards something that’s not all it was cracked up to be. The desire to make easy money, to “strike it rich”, or the grab for fame can easily overtake people if ambitions get out of hand. Long term relationships may become unpredictable and unstable when this Symbol is around, as one, or possibly even both of you, are likely to run off for parts unknown just when you seem to be settling into an everyday sense of life. If you’re both after the same treasure, however, this can be an incredibly exciting experience. Whatever the outcome, the trick is to enjoy the journey.

Keywords: Strong desires to move on. The longing and the search for the easy fulfillment of hopes and dreams. Leaving one’s native soil. Having a cause or mission to pursue. Leaving home, people, family. Dropping everything to chase a project. Pilgrimages. The search for riches. Immigration and migration. Listening to clues.

The Caution: Chasing the impossible dream and losing everything. Being unrealistic or opportunistic. Not being content with what one’s got. The grass being greener elsewhere. Lusting after rewards that may be unreal or transitory. Risking what one has for what one could have. Wild goose chases.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk. Shirley Hufstedler

Gold will be slave or master. Horace

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J. R. R. Tolkien

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave. Dominic–on the psychology of a gambler

Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes it obstructs your vision. Hsi-Tang

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. E.L. Konigsburg

Biggest profits mean gravest risks. Chinese Proverb

That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing. Euripides

The Sabian Image for the Eclipse Sun in Taurus is A BRIDGE BEING BUILT ACROSS A HIGH NARROW GORGE. Lynda Hill’s interpretation of the image is

Commentary: ‘A Bridge Being Built Across a High Narrow Gorge’ is about finding a creative and concrete solution to cross to the other side of a separation or dilemma. There may be a separation or gulf, shown here represented by the ‘Gorge’, between places, people or objectives. ‘Bridges’ need to be built to overcome separate areas of activity and to link people and places together.

Oracle: There may seem to be no way of overcoming the distance between you and another, or the outcome or thing that’s desired. Realizing the gulfs your face and doing something about any breaks in communications between you can lead to whole new possibilities. Building ‘A Bridge’ takes time, energy and most often, the help of others. It may be best to start working towards ‘Building a Bridge’ now. Once it is completed, the dangers that the ‘Bridge’ spans are no longer of such great concern – that is, unless the ‘Bridge’ is not secure. Failure to adequately span the gap may actually feel life threatening. Looking back or down may bring on a sense of danger or instability. Imagine yourself coming to the brink and going straight ahead, but don’t look down! However, with this Symbol, feel secure that the ‘Bridge’ will be there for you when you need it. With creative thought physical limitations can be overcome most of the time. Be careful not to get preoccupied or wound up worrying whether things are going to fail. Remember the proverb “don’t cross that bridge until you come to it.” This basically indicates that you shouldn’t concern yourself with difficulties until they arise. Don’t place too much importance on the outcomes until you get to the other side. It may help to get some plans drawn up, in reality or in your imagination.

Keywords: Overcoming distance and separation. Endeavoring to build continuity. Solving problems with creative solutions. Bridging emotional chasms. Spanning gaps. Breaking down barriers. Structures spanning distances between places or people. Conquering time and space barriers. Physical limitations overcome. Taking one step at a time. Avoiding looking down.

The Caution: Taking the long way round to avoid asking for help. Using shortcuts to cut across the real issue. Only seeing the risks, not the solutions to problems. The fear of establishing connections. The pervading sense that it could all fall through at any moment. Extreme sports.

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. Cullen Hightower

Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small steps. David Lloyd George

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. Karl Wallenda

We are told never to cross a bridge till we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have “crossed bridges” in their imagination far ahead of the crowd. Speakers Library

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. J. F. Newton

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. David Russell

Don’t look down. Tom Petty

Voyager, there are no bridges; one builds them as one walks. Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua

Lynda Hill’s Work appears with her permission.

The balance of the column will be posted later today.

Often times during weeks like this, it makes sense to just notice what all is going on when it is something you can’t do anything about. Take a very detached observer position. And notice what you see. Profound eh?

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

Anne’s Weekly Weather: A preview of the eclipses and the shifting, changing week ahead as the eclipse season begins. Pluto starts to move backwards. What a week, what a week! Watch out for all the fire….

Scorpios Talking: Anne had a therapy session with Michael!

The Mary Anne Show: Mary and Anne laughed ~ pre bombing!!

Access Astrology: All three of us were rocking! We got a few callers in!

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.

Learn Palmistry with Anne Ortelee

Weekend Workshop April 26-28, 2013

Manchester, Vermont

Palmistry is both an art and a science. It is based on scientific principles that can be learned by anyone. The hand is called ‘God’s Road Map’. The hand is one of the most valuable tools we have for guidance. Knowing Palmistry will enrich the lives of all you meet as they understand the knowledge and wisdom in their hands.

Palmistry’s use as a means of psychological insight and divination dates back thousands of years. Because the hand changes as you change, it is an up to the minute report from your own Higher Self. The hand reports on many areas of your life, including health, financial security, talents, strengths and weaknesses. It shows the best choices for creating a fulfilling life. It reflects YOU, the unique individual. Your hand is a mirror of your soul.

The weekend workshop in Palmistry will cover every aspect of the hand, the shapes, the lines, fingers, and the seven planetary archetypes. We will practice reading hands, as well as learn how to synthesize and communicate the information we find.

Anne Ortelee was trained as a Palmist by The School of Oracles. The School of Oracles is dedicated to preserving and perpetuating Palmistry, a sacred art, in a manner that does honor to the wisdom, healing and illumination it brings to humanity.

Weekend will include:

5 meals ~ dinner Friday night, breakfast and lunch Saturday & Sunday
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Workshop and Course materials
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Copyright © 2013. A.C. Ortelee

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