posted April 29, 2013 06:52 PM            

The eclipses are here!! The eclipses are here!!

We are officially in eclipse season! We will be rocking and rolling until June 8 when eclipse season is officially finished. My email and voice mail has been full of messages from people having epiphanies, breakthroughs, breakdowns, breakups, transformations, making decisions to move, leave jobs or partners, accepting and agreeing to commit to the next chapter of their lives by moving, starting new jobs, or meeting new partners. Some folks are committing to significant life changes in their personal habits ~ releasing the old and shop worn, embracing the new and transformative.

Eclipses change things. THESE eclipses will really rock your world. THESE eclipses will really rock the world of folks around you. You might be watching other folks having changes but don’t doubt for a minute that deep inside of you things are shifting around too. We still have six more weeks to go before we call it a wrap!

Why so powerful? Or to paraphrase the question of our Jewish friends on Passover: What makes these eclipses different than any other? First, they are taking place at very fixed degrees of our charts… the part of our charts with the deepest and most time worn ruts. We all have ruts in our life which sustain and contain us. Some rut in our life is getting “eclipsed”. Eclipses mean to leave or to rise up…so we are leaving or rising up from a rut in our life.

Second, the South Node and New Moon is taking place in FIXED EARTH ~ the very bedrock on which we’ve constructed an important part of our life that we actually completely adore ~ Taurus is ruled by Venus after all.

Third, we are going TOWARD the North Node in Scorpio, promising a profound transformation of our very essence. Scorpio takes us through a death and rebirth experience. Scorpio rules sex, death and taxes as well as our deepest psychological issues, our bowels, our reproductive areas and our inner hidden parts. Scorpio is an intense sign and asks us to go TOWARDS intense transformation.

So essentially, you are going to ejected from your rut and thrown into profound transformation! And you will be watching people around you get ejected from THEIR ruts and thrown into profound transformation.

he Week’s Planetary Highlights

Saturn is closest to Earth on Sunday 28 April 2013. Saturn will be at opposition point, w­hen Earth lies­­­ directly between it & the Sun. It will be our best view of Saturn in 6 years, with no shadow on the rings

Mars Opposes Saturn on Wednesday May 1 2013 at 01:11:44 am EDT.

Mercury enters Taurus on Wednesday May 1 2013 at 11:37:04 am EDT

Sun Trines Pluto on Wednesday May 1 2013 at 01:35:48 pm EDT

Sun Sextiles Chiron on Friday May 3 2013 at 01:31:37 am EDT

Pallas Opposes Nodes on Friday May 3 2013 at 11:01:51 pm EDT

Mercury Sextiles Neptune on Saturday May 4 2013 at 00:31:04 am EDT

Mercury Opposes Saturn on Sunday May 5 2013 at 07:12:30 am EDT

Mars Trines Pluto on Sunday May 5 2013 at 05:28:49 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 Trine to Mercury on Monday Apr 29 2013 at 00:37:44 am EDT and enters Capricorn on Apr 29 2013 at 08:22:18 am EDT.

Moon goes Void Square to Mercury on Wednesday May 1 2013 at 10:08:09 am EDT and enters Aquarius on May 1 2013 at 10:20:36 am EDT

Moon goes void square to Venus on Friday May 3 2013 at 00:25:35 am EDT and enters Pisces on May 3 2013 at 02:26:27 pm EDT

Moon is Void Most of Friday

Moon goes void sextile to Venus on Sunday May 5 2013 at 12:01:21 pm EDT and enters Aries on May 5 2013 at 09:04:20 pm EDT

Moon is Void Most of Sunday

Remember Eclipse means the partial or complete obscuring, relative to a designated observer, of one celestial body by another. A temporary or permanent dimming or cutting off of light. A fall into obscurity or disuse. A decline. A disgraceful or humiliating end; a downfall: To obscure or diminish in importance, fame, or reputation. On a positive note: To surpass; outshine: an outstanding performance that eclipsed the previous record ~but that means the PREVIOUS performance was eclipsed. From Greek ekleipsis, to fail to appear, suffer an eclipse, to leave.

Fourth, the New Moon eclipse is taking place on the degree of Currency ~ yes, degrees rule things ~ 19 Taurus rules Currency ~ a Taurus asset we all like and think of as stable, reliable and dependable in our lives. At the end of my column, I’ve included an article by Robert Glover, an excellent astrologer and economist, who talks about the changes we can expect in our currency given the recent developments in Cyprus combined with the recent legislation in the USA. I still gaze at the banker’s hubris of we are “too big to fail” and wait for the fall that will come. Everything ends ~ even bankers who think of themselves as “our finest people.” Perhaps the failure will happen under the next two and a half year cycle starting next week when the Sun and Moon meet at 19 degrees of Taurus on the South Node of Loss. Don’t deposit a lot of your money in your bank. Right after the eclipse in Taurus, Uranus and Pluto square each other on May 20, the fourth of seven squares. The Uranus Pluto square is reshaping governments and corporations around the globe as Robert Glover so brilliantly points out.

Our week ahead is a bit aggressive and angry but in a deeply stubborn and dug in kind of way. Expect people to be sitting in their bunkers, believing THEY are right and YOU are wrong (or vice versa) but refusing to move from the position towards a resolution. Mars steps up, in Taurus the sign of the Bull, to butt heads with Saturn mid-week and work cooperatively with Pluto (work cooperatively with PLUTO? What the heck will THAT be like?) on Sunday.

Mars in Taurus is in his detriment. The Lord of War has no time for preserving structures that hold him back. He likes to blow them up not preserve them. Mars oppose Saturn is prostatitis in a man’s chart ~ and as my client Tony said to me once, “Anne, have you ever had PROSTATITIS? Do you know what that does to your SEX LIFE?” I had to admit, I had no idea what it did but it sure didn’t sound like fun. Mars in fixed earth fighting with Saturn in fixed water… a mad bull in a swamp… A bullfight in the mud? A football game in the mud before they started up with astroturf? hmm. Again not an easy or particularly clean easy set of images.

So your Taurus friends or the Taurus part of your chart might just have completely had it with someone and suddenly charge like a bull. So no wearing your red cape!

After Wednesday, Mars starts to trine Pluto, perfecting on Sunday. I am going to refine that image to incorporate the Bull fighting energy. The matador waves the red cape. The bull is angry and charges the red cape ~ not the matador who stuck him repeatedly with banderillas. He misplaces his anger and aggression. Every now and then, it is a SMART bull figures out the matador is behind the pain and charges HIM instead of the red cape. So pay attention to who is the matador and who is the red cape. Charge the correct inflictor of your pain~ Hint: it ain’t the red cape! Or turn and walk away. What would happen if you DIDN’T figh

The matador didn’t die. The bull did)

Mercury helps Mars out this week as he enters Taurus for a grand total of 14 days on Wednesday. He’s hurrying to catch up with the rest of the planets after his retrograde journey of 67 days in Pisces. So expect sharp, cutting or aggressive news the first part of the week and more solid, patient news the back half. During eclipse season is it always a bit better to take a deep breath and listen rather than attack and lash out. Mercury opposes Saturn on Sunday so you may say to someone that you need to end things rather than continue with them.

The balance of the Days will be posted later Monday. In the meantime, here is the article by Robert Glover which appeared in my ISAR Weekly Newsletter.

The Bank is Where the Money Is

Robert Gover, USA

If what can go wrong, will go wrong, we may soon be in for a really dramatic example of the Uranus-Pluto square, via another byproduct of the “bribe-ocracy” that has developed in the USA.

Since governments are no longer willing to transfer taxpayers’ money to the “Too Big To Fail” banks if/when they crash, the bankers’ lobbyists have persuaded Congress to enable bankers to confiscate the deposits of their customers by renaming these deposits “stock,”thereby freeing up the trillions needed to repay bankers who lose money in the derivatives market, where they currently have $230 Trillion “invested.”

As Ellen Brown put it in an article April 9, 2013: “Rather than banks being put into bankruptcy to salvage the deposits of their customers, the customers will now be put into bankruptcy to save the banks.”

Here’s how this wondrous new way to plunder the public came about:

In 1933, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act preventing bankers from gambling with depositors’ money as had happened before the Great Depression with blood-curdling effects. But hey, whose money is it anyway? “The bank is where they money is,” we are taught to believe, so it naturally follows that money is the possession of bankers. So in 1999, the Glass-Steagall Act restrictions on our deposits were removed, and bankers were again able to use your money and mine to gamble in derivatives markets. But politicians did not want to suffer the hot disdain of their constituents if or when another Too Big To Fail event occurred, as is likely because bankers now feel free to gamble other people’s money away without fear—they’re “insured” by their grip on our Congress persons via their generous campaign contributions to those Congress persons’ next elections.

What to do?

“Under both the Dodd Frank Act and the 2005 Bankruptcy Act, derivative claims have super-priority over all other claims, secured and unsecured, insured and uninsured. In a major derivatives fiasco, derivative claimants could well grab all the collateral, leaving other claimants, public and private, holding the bag.”

Problem solved—our illustrious politicians are assured plenty of campaign money to win reelection. And that sure does beat the old Stamp Act of 1765 which led to the first American revolution.

Next time the derivatives market crashes, Wall Street hotshots won’t have to fly to Washington to persuade politicians to transfer taxpayer money to them because they’re “Too Big To Fail.” The money we have put in banks for safe keeping will be transferred to bankers and we’ll be issued “stock.”

Since we can’t pay rent and buy groceries with stock, such a turn of events—if it happens—will get the public’s attention like nothing else.

This Uranus-Pluto square, as every astrologer knows, promises some kind of massive cultural change, especially with Pluto now in Capricorn, where it hasn’t been since the American Revolution that founded this nation. Those mighty denizens of Western Culture called bankers—the progeny of the “moneychangers” Jesus threw out of the Temple two thousand years ago—are definitely back. Since no society can function with such leaches sucking its blood (as in, “money is the blood of the economy”), this Uranus-Pluto-square revolution has found its focus.

“Cyprus-style confiscation of depositor funds has been called the ‘new normal’…Even ‘secured’creditors, including state and local governments, may be at risk. Derivatives have ‘super-priority’ status in bankruptcy, and Dodd Frank precludes further taxpayer bailouts.” (Ellen Brown.)

Next time the Wall Street 1% needs rescued from their gambling losses, there will be no bailout—instead, even little Sally’s lemonade money will be confiscated and transferred to “our finest people,” as they like to be called.