by Robert Wilkinson
This week we get new ideas and perspectives on the Fiery Illumination process lasting several months thanks to the Grand Fire Trines made by Aries transits to Jupiter and Saturn. This helps our Gemini and Virgo planets and houses vitalize in harmony with Sag, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces planets and houses, stabilizing our understanding and ability to coordinate half of our reality. The New Moon initiates many new things, and Saturn on its station point shows a sea change coming in all our lives.
Though we start the week on an "old Moon," it's in Aries in the Grand Fire Trine, collecting the light and jumpstarting the Mercury Grand Fire Trine culminating April 21. Expect an atmosphere of possibilities, beginnings, and the sprouting of what up to now has been a hope, wish, or dream. Things will develop fairly rapidly over the next few weeks, so move quickly, put a new light on old assumptions, and secure conditions and momentum the best you can.
I say "the best you can" since you may also expect changes, blockages created or removed, and interpersonal friction associated with Venus square Mars, beginning the first phase of the Mutable squares and Grand Cross active from now through early May. Everyone can expect BIG changes in the Aries, Taurus, Libra, and Scorpio life sectors, and it provides us with an opportunity to "square" ourselves and our personalities with more open values and minds, as well as more effective compassion and ways to bring closure to old life movies.
Remember, we're still "floating on a sea of Pisces," since we have a Mars-Uranus-NN conjunction there. In that article we also are reminded that we again are in a time of no planets in Earth, contributing to the sense of ungroundedness. At least we have the Moon in Taurus, helping anticipate the Sun's entry into that Fixed Earth sign on April 20 at 4:07 am.
A final note here on the Venus square Mars. People who have resolved their natal Venus-Mars aspect into positive behaviors can expect BIG changes in those areas of their life. This is a time to turn a corner, adapt through flowing through, beyond, and around obstacles into a more precise larger way of relating or doing productive activities. No doubt it's a time when meditations may be scattered, but also a time when they can be adapted precisely to create more efficacious results.
Mercury is moving from the sextile to Venus into a septile, showing our minds and perceptions are at a turning point in the close of the old Mercury-Venus cycle. Expect some things to get strange in the areas ruled by Taurus, Gemini, Virgo, and Libra. This takes the recent productive harmony in those areas and turns it toward the future, with the added irrationality of the septile. Seeds of things to come will be evident by the end of the week.
The week begins with the Moon in Aries. As I noted last week about this weekend leading up to the coming week:
The Moon enters Aries on April 15, 9:47 am PDT, and is favorable to Venus all day. By April 16, it triggers the very benevolent Grand Fire Trine energy spoken of in this article. These trines help us remember that Life is alive and in motion. Go with the new ideas and energies that are feeding fire, quickening the recent transfigurations. Break free of obsolete ideas and interpretations and see things from a different point of view.
Open to the fire and light that consumes old deadwood, moving on to new fuel. Pluto's recent stationary point shows we're in the middle of several weeks of getting in shape to fulfill a blessing in the future, and with Jupiter going stationary retrograde last week, it marked the threshold of major openings that will come as we let go of past ghosts and continue to ride the waves of change promised by the last 4 eclipses.
The Grand Fire Trines for the next few months will have lots of supporting Air, so get ready for the energies to diversify even more, bringing new information and perspectives that will electrify many lives, bringing things to an end once and for all as they are burned up by the NOW.
The New Moon in Aries is followed by Moon's entry into Taurus at 9:11 am April 17. This is a great time for gardening, pruning, planting, haircuts and beauty treatments, as well as laying brick and stone or placing things you want to have stay there for awhile.
Any time the Moon goes through a Fixed sign (Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, Aquarius) we have major effects related to the ongoing Saturn opposition Neptune challenging "right action" on our part. The opposition was exact from mid-February through mid-March 2007, persists through the next few weeks, and will be exact from late May through mid-July 2007. Every time the Moon triggers this effect, it reminds us of the strength we've received as a result of breaking up old patterns the past 18 months. This week the Moon makes the T-square on April 18-19.
As I've noted, the Fixed sign squares and crosses of late 2005 through late 2006:
... for the most part 1) broke some things up forever, 2) challenged us see what to clear out, 3) made us evaluate what to "put on the shelf for the future," and 4) opened up solid paths of personal, social, and spiritual development associated with things, heart, magnetism, ambition, and idealism. We were all challenged to one or more of the following: persevere despite difficulties, cut our losses when blocked by intransigent obstructionists, stabilize what which was unstable, or break apart that which was stuck in the mud.
Any square to the Saturn opposition Neptune shows us how to release important Fire energies through Saturn, offering us a chance to transcend old limitations and generate new heart power and brought important questions to the forefront for all of us. What is our message? Where is our heart's interest? Where is our play, our creativity, our enthusiasm, our spontaneity, our pleasure? These can show us the way to our higher purpose.
As I've noted in past articles,
... Saturn is the nozzle for focusing planetary energies due to sitting opposite all of the other planets except the Moon. During past and future months, the primary line of tension and awareness is dominated by Saturn opposed Neptune, symbolizing the generic oppositional polarizing tension we've had to deal with since late 2005 and be living with through Summer 2007. Saturn is the means as well as the forms of expressing Neptunian energy.
This opposition represents an on-going lesson in managing dualisms and tensions through bringing the reality and the ideal back into balance. Find creative idealism, be loving when confronting the collective consciousness and unconscious, and focus on love and friendship as you learn to be patient and mature directors of an on-going Self-transformation. Get a clear focus on what your ideals truly are and how to achieve them using Saturn's discipline, organization, and persistent endeavor.
Saturn shows us how to focus the power of the NOW into forms appropriate to our highest evolutionary intention. It is the planet symbolizing Dharma, our Ultimate Purpose or "True Function." It requires focus, and making time our ally to achieve the steps toward our Leo heart's intention and enthusiasms. We can find natural ways to get work done quickly, reorganize our lives and affairs, and find creativity and enjoyment in doing our worldly thing.
From September 2006 through August 2007 Saturn continues to put pressure on 18-26 degrees of Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius. Right now it’s focused on 18-20 degrees of these Fixed signs, and why sometimes things feel more stuck than others. Generate the virtues of these signs to express Saturn the best possible way. Simplify, purify ideals and lifestyle, and be as noble and loving as possible. We are learning over time, using patience to come to maturity, to break up pessimistic, inert, or unhelpful attitudes and needless drifting to enjoy life more fully and creatively.
As noted in previous articles, the theme of the first six months of 2007 is seeing how the lower self is being joined to the Higher Self through the death of useless things, and emotional stress is bringing forth forms of “spiritual linkage.” Saturn opposition Neptune will continue to show hard realities and greater ways to make our experience, discipline, maturity and wisdom real through August 2007.
Soon Saturn will no longer be the nozzle of a Bucket pattern, since Venus will close the gap between Saturn and the other planets, creating a Locomotive pattern by early May. This pattern will predominate for many months to come.
The Moon enters Gemini on April 19 at 8:51 am PDT, just after the Sun trine Pluto shows us how to monitor our expectancies to stabilize an illuminated anticipation. Saturn is also stationary direct that day, so it should be good for "cutting to the chase" and moving forward after seeming to go backward for the past few months.
However, it is important to note that when the Moon is in early Gemini, it also triseptiles Pluto and biseptiles Neptune, triggering The Grand Irrationality, showing major forks in the road for all. Given Mercury's occupation of the Aries zone of this configuration this week, it marks another major turning point for many of us, whether we know it or not. This means that 3 points of the 7 pointed Star will be active the first half of this week.
As I've noted in other articles, The Grand Irrationality is why everything feels much weirder than it used to, with hard edges and widespread irrational and/or compulsive behaviors more and more evident. Sometimes these energies grow stronger than at other times, depending on where the planets are. The link to The Grand Irrationality will explain more about this widespread long term influence in depth, along with internal links in that article that explain more about the larger field and what we can do to maneuver it successfully.
Right now the hot zones of The Grand Irrationality fall at 26-30 Sagittarius, 17-22 Aquarius, 9-13 Aries, 1-5 Gemini, 22-25 Cancer, 13-17 Virgo, and 4-8 Scorpio at this time in history. This pattern is setting up the generally strange atmosphere, a lot of compulsions coming to surface as well as forks in the road of our destiny in several areas of life, and overall one long hard edge of choices, changes, and a future that never is quite as logical as we may like.
In dealing with the generic weirdness, remember that even if things get very bizarre or irrational, we are not powerless. Even if destiny is "on the move," we still can steer the process to some degree, if we don't lose our cool in the midst of the great weirdness. We’re learning in these strange times not to lean too heavily on "things making sense," and how to fly by the seat of our pants, not going funky places we shouldn't, and making choices that will propel us into an evolving future that may not make much sense but is perfect for the uniqueness we are.
Every time the Moon triggers the Grand Irrationality we experience a form of a turning point of sorts, where the seeds of the future will stand revealed. Besides April 16 when it moves through the Aries zone while harmonized in the Grand Fire Trine and April 19, it will again transit the Cancer zone on April 22-23, which should be a volatile time given the Venus square Mars is exact.
The Venus square Mars with Jupiter square Uranus in the mix will become intensified on April 20 as the Moon in Gemini triggers the Mutable squares and oppositions. Jupiter is now moving retrograde back toward its square to Uranus increasing the overall tension, as well as expandiing opportunities to specialize, individualize, and/or find our uniqueness. Since it's getting stronger through mid-May and will be in effect through October 2007, here's what I've condensed about this aspect:
...The effects will be strongest when any planet goes through 15-20 degrees of Pisces, Gemini, Virgo, or Sagittarius. It will definitely affect planets in our charts in these zones very powerfully... volatility will be in the air, with unexpected setbacks for some, unexpected opportunities for others, and generally huge nervous tension for all. Big schemes concocted during this time are subject to unexpected challenges and twists and turns.... try not to let the tension get to you as you show faith that whatever "forced growth" you're subjected to in early August 2007 is leading you to your deepest "physical enlightenment" and methods of presenting yourself and your works for recognition. This forced growth is directly related to whatever we've been going (since) early January... this aspect challenges us to get a grip on our temperament and get oriented so we can put our drive in gear to embrace a larger adventure on our own unique terms... it's truly a turning point in the adventure promised late in 2006 with Jupiter's entry into Sag, so show discernment, pay attention to details, and find ways to communicate.... many good liberations and visions can come out of this turning point in the larger affairs of our world and our lives.
As I've noted, this week the square activates, and this will dominate the rest of April, culminating in the major Mutable T-square and Grand Cross occurring the last week of the month. The mid-Pisces and Virgo activity stimulates the recent Pisces Lunar Eclipse effects. Please go to the link to learn more of what this important months-long influence is all about.
Mars continues to activate the North Node in the recent Eclipses, showing qualities we should develop to demonstrate what we're learning through the Virgo South Node. Practice efficient adaptability through compassion, forgiveness, and glimpsing larger possibilities. End whatever needs ending to be free to move into a mysterious unknown to receive a harvest that nourishes us at "the end of the day."
Since Pisces is the quality to grow into, bless it all, forgive it all, see the vaster infinite possibilities, and set sail into the unknown, since these eclipses usher in the next stage in a years-long process of "escaping from a narrow destiny" begun in Autumn 2006 Eclipses. Keep saying goodbye to elements of your life to create space to demonstrate your willingness and fitness to do some larger work in your world.
As Mars gets near the end of Pisces in early May, it will trigger the recent Pisces Solar Eclipse effects. All Eclipses take something away, creating space for newer things more appropriate to our evolving consciousness. As I've noted, though there will be radical and abrupt completions to things affected by these lunations, the Eclipses of March 2007 will ultimately prove very favorable, bringing us a new way to view "the movie of our life," as well as endings within the collective consciousness and unconscious. Keep releasing old toxic factors in your life, make clear and definitive decisions that purify whatever needs it, and follow the seeds of a greater Spiritual future that will be expanded by Jupiter later this year.
Over the next months and years, these Eclipses will assist many things to fade into the broader landscape of our life movie, and we'll understand many things from a broader point of view, allowing us to experience more our oneness than our separateness. Be alert to situations where there is criticism, worry, nitpicking, or uptightness. We're all being trained to be fluid in our compassionate adjustments, holding some empty space that will be filled at the right time, and preparing to use the Heart strength we've cultivated during Saturn in Leo in a form of practical service when Saturn enters Virgo September 2, 2007, at 6:49 am PDT.
When the Moon moves through late Gemini on April 21, it opposes Pluto at the Galactic Center, showing us a moment when this powerful energy is exteriorized in the seeds of radical transformation that influences all our futures. These are seeds of major large scale change indicated by the 250-year cycle of Pluto conjuncting the Galactic Center, affecting everyone on Earth. Jupiter is helping the growth of these seeds throughout 2007, with a special focus every time the Moon goes through Sag helping us see these positive seeds get larger and stronger in our lives.
The Moon enters Cancer April 21 at 10:50 am PDT just as Mercury makes the Grand Fire Trine with Jupiter and Saturn. Overall, an excellent day for liberating yourself from old pressures and burdens, and making primary decisions to turn a corner in your life. The favorable Lunar aspects continue into April 22, and with the favorable Mercury sextile Neptune, follow your intuition toward your inspiration without getting caught up in funky interpersonal gear grinds.
The Moon enters Leo on April 23 at 4:38 pm PDT, again putting the focus on Saturn as the nozzle for the Bucket energies, helping us get a focus on what responsibilities and duties are assisting our future to be made manifest. This will be of special note on April 24-25 just before and at the exact conjunction, since it will renew the Grand Fire Trine involving Mercury.
This week should be good for initiating new activities, getting inspired about ideas and visions and communications, and stabilizing energies in very good ways, despite the Venus square Mars. Just don't get distracted by short term issues or difficult people, pay attention to details, get a sense of humor and follow the big picture.
The Fire Trine is leading us to liberation from oppressive conditions if we don't cling to perceptions and ways of viewing things that are untrue, rapidly fading, or self-defeating. Break up rigidities, purify your life of actions, feelings, and thoughts that undermine your hope or momentum, and open to receiving a new inspiration.
As with last week, overall it's a very bright time, especially since the Sun is trine Pluto and quintile Neptune. Intuition and perception should be sharper than usual! We are still in the middle of the beginning of a new wave of inspired activity and new initiatives, so move forward, use spiritual energies to check up on different elements of your life to make sure you're doing what you want rather than living with burdens you don't need to carry, and ride the Fire, since the next three months are going to be much different than what we've been living with for a while. The Solar Eclipse is already ushering in many changes, so say goodbye to the old as you leap to greet the new.
© Copyright 2007 Robert Wilkinson
Robert,
Much is afoot as I enjoyed the way you put it: follow your intuition toward your inspiration without getting caught up in funky interpersonal gear grinds. Quite the imagery.
I have been meaning to ask you what role you assign to Chiron as you don't tend to speak of it too often yet certainly emphasize the transpersonal outer planets. I have certainly heard it is associated with the 'wounded healer' archetype and being after Saturn it somewhat has a bridging role between the outer planets and the inner ones. Synchronicity brought Barbara Hand Clow into my awareness and her writing has stimulated my understandings of verticality and multi-dimensional metaphysics. Being a heavy Virgo so much is changing these days and bubbling to the surface (paving the way for the Saturn return)...your insights and wisdom continue to play a hugely ispiriational element in feeding my mind and Being with positive energy. Infinite gratitude to you.
Namaste my friend,
Carson
Posted by: Carson | April 15, 2007 at 11:02 AM
Wow all this Piscean activity. I've died a few times. Looking forward to Mars in Aries. Less floaty-floaty and more spontaneous bursts of energy. I'm a wee tired! Thanks for providing a guiding light, Robert. Your presence in the teacher realm must be radiating brightly.
Posted by: chrispito | April 15, 2007 at 04:49 PM
Hi Carson - Well, I do try to spice things up so I don't sound like someone from the 19th century! Chiron is an interesting energy, a wanderer with "no home" so no influence per se over some things, but tremendous energy re: wandering, ethics, metaphysics, and realization through healing wounds of all sorts. It moves so slowly I probably should include it in the "Spiritual Astrology" series, but also believe that it is the part of us that is never settled and always exploring inner wounds and outer space. Will try to incorporate Chiron in some articles in the future. And of course, thank you for your kind words.
Hi chrispito - Yes, floating is a way of life for all of us when Pisces is stimulated! And of course, you're welcome. Still learning what I can when I can, which is an accomplishment for us hard-headed Aries! ;-)
Posted by: Robert | April 15, 2007 at 06:02 PM
Hi, Robert
Not a hard-headed Aries...no never! Be a May 10, 1961 Taurus with Sag rising and moon/venus in Aries and Mars/Leo.....that is hard-headed! But I am trying...awful lot of change a foot since I wrote last time....the seas were rough, still are, but now a potential move is in sight, grad school plans are upside down and I have no idea where I will end up. I remember when I moved last August that I welcomed all the uncertainty that move represented (I moved near school--undergrad---- I am an older student--so this was rough)but now I had not realized how uncertain it was going to be......almost done and now the grad school is uncertain, if I take the new place, it is furnished....so I let go of the material as well as the emotional in order to move ahead, otherwise....I am stuck....what ever is happening out there in the cosmos....is pushing and pushing.....and I am grateful for Aries, though I adore Pisces...I jumped out of bed at 4:30 a.m. and started my day wit that ole' Aries energy.......love it....stubborn though I am.....
Thank you for you wonderful wisdom and site. I just love it!
Posted by: jacs | April 16, 2007 at 02:18 AM
Hi Robert,
I am reaching a milstone this week. Saturn goes direct. I am breaking out a bottle of the bubbly and making a toast to you for helping me get through this.
Peace,
Helen
Posted by: Helen | April 16, 2007 at 03:07 AM
Hi jacs - I suspect you'll be doing just fine later this year into next, with a Grand Earth Trine operating on a constant basis. This is the time for you to get inspired, with Grand Fire Trine working on your Moon/Venus and Mars. Seas are rough all over, I've found, despite the hopefulness of the Fire Trines at present. It's Jupiter square Uranus coupled with the Saturn opposed Neptune. I would suggest that if one route seems blocked, don't push the river, but wait patiently until a way to flow shows itself. Definitely don't go into any more debt than you need to and remember there are many graduate programs out there.
Hi Helen - Yes, I am expecting a breakthrough myself this week or next. I'll toast with you in the astral realms! The next few weeks should stabilize everything we've been learning since last Autumn. "Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we're free at last..." (at least till the next dharmic call)
Posted by: Robert | April 16, 2007 at 07:42 AM
my dearest Robert,I need your advice on what it would be like for me in the near future,if possible please...as it is,am leaving today for singapore,a last minute decision to get a week break..felt strongly needed the rest from the energy here for awhile...for the past 5 days I had seen a lot of volatile temper and frustration from others here...be spending my time with my goodfriend there,just to chilled out.Thank you Robert
Planetary positionsplanet sign degree motion
Sun Aries 11°32'08 in house 9 direct
Moon Taurus 17°22'00 in house 10 direct
Mercury Pisces 20°21'04 in house 9 direct
Venus Pisces 20°30'52 in house 9 direct
Mars Taurus 3°06'27 in house 10 direct
Jupiter Leo 26°29'36 in house 2 retrograde
Saturn Aries 14°52'18 in house 9 direct
Uranus Virgo 26°33'31 in house 3 retrograde
Neptune Scorpio 26°13'36 in house 5 retrograde
Pluto Virgo 21°00'53 in house 3 retrograde
True Node Aries 18°40'53 in house 9 direct
House positions (Placidus)Ascendant Cancer 21°21'17
Medium Coeli Aries 22°22'13
Posted by: ann | April 16, 2007 at 10:38 AM
Let's use these good aspects this week to contact our members of Congress and let them know that we support "the fact that the genocide in Darfur will stop and not return...." Tomorrow morning is the new moon, then we get the Sun trine Pluto. Let's make those phone calls and emails now. The tide is turning.
dcu
Message from Amnesty International today:
"Thousands of Amnesty supporters last week sent messages, placed calls and made in-person visits to Congress to tell their elected officials that they must do everything in their power to help get U.N. peacekeepers into Darfur. There are just a few days left before this action ends -- join our efforts by taking action today.
Amnesty supporters and their allies have scored key victories in getting U.S. officials to promote peace and security in Darfur. Thanks to letters and calls from concerned people like you, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution last week (Senate Resolution 76) that would implement a strategy to help protect civilians in Sudan's Darfur region as well as in neighboring countries.
We need your help to press the Chinese government, which can use its influence with Sudan to help get U.N. peacekeepers into Darfur. Urge your Members of Congress to tell China, as one of the Sudan’s most important economic partners, that it must act now to promote peace and security in Darfur.
There appears to be progress in global efforts to get China to do the right thing in Darfur; another senior Chinese official urged Sudan last week to admit U.N. peacekeepers into the troubled region. This shows that China is beginning to do the right thing, but Amnesty supporters need to take the lead in pressing Chinese officials to continue to exert their influence on Sudan to stop the violence and protect civilians by allowing U.N. peacekeepers into Darfur. Send a message today."
Sincerely,
Scott Edwards
Country Specialist for Sudan
Amnesty International USA
Posted by: dcu | April 16, 2007 at 11:02 AM
I have been checking this site out for a year and that was the start of a positive step in the right direction...since August I had become a Vegatarian,Practice Feng shui and have taken Astrology to a new level and put it into practice in my life sure it has been hard and there had been setbacks but also new beginnings I quiver a bit when the T-squares come around they always motivate me to make changes or drown but thank you Robert for your work it has made a difference in my life
Posted by: Colleen | April 16, 2007 at 12:23 PM
robert, the vibe (for me at least, but also for my best girlfriend) has been just awful since yesterday. and today it is just massive depression doom and gloom,--- and no wonder with the event of the massacre at the university. an aries new moon is supposed to be wonderful new beginnings, but I am feeling hopeless doom and gloom. usually I bounce back but this feels so stuck. my projects are a bit ground to a halt. I just wish I could go away somewhere and get away from the daily grind and pressure.
also, I was recalling today that the applying aspect of a major aspect is usually the worst part, and that once it actually gets into position the tension can ease. feels like a lot is going on behind the scenes...
the events I had last week - caused by the mercury square pluto lasted all week while I had to have very uncomfortable conversations with the man that blindsided me. the relationship (professional) is totally over, and it ended very badly. he never copped to his irresponsible behavior, and I realized that in some way I must have had a hand in creating the conflict, so's I could kick him out of my life, as I had had, up until that time, no idea how out of integrity he really was, and how much suppressed blame and rage he was holding. I have wondered if part of the depression I've been feeling might be him sending bad vibes to me.
all in all, I'm not comfortable at all, and not accomplishing much at all. stuck in the sludge!
I'm 18 degrees Taurus Sun conjunct Uranus, Gemini rising, Capricorn moon with a nearby Mars also in Cap, and all kinds of squares, oppositions, malefics and trines etc etc....
thanks always robert for your wise and generous counsel
Posted by: suz-d | April 16, 2007 at 11:36 PM
Hi ann- I really can't give personal short term forecasts in a comment stream, since it's much more complicated than that. Relax, listen to your heart, hang out with the fiery energies, and reconsider everything I post here. There's so much I'm sure you can make sense of things.
Hi dcu - I suspect we're well on the way. Now if we could just decrease cellphone use...
Hi Colleen - Glad you found the site. Also glad you became a veg-head. Been there since 1973. Good for the heart and Soul, though the rigor is not for everyone. Of course, going veg-head helped me survive, since meat literally almost killed me on several occasions in a short period of time many moons ago, so it's easier for me than many. Every new striving opens a thousand doors for the weary wanderer, who takes on new energies with each fork in the road. Thank you for your kind words.
Hi suz-d - Yours came in while I was composing this, so I'll address yours in the next comment.
Posted by: Robert | April 16, 2007 at 11:39 PM
Hi suz-d - Yours came in while I was composing this, so I'll address yours in the next comment.
Hi R --
meanwhile this report just came in from a woman who is an intuitive and channel, and she writes "energy reports" to her list, about how she is feeling and reading the energies.
this indicated for me as to the experiences I've been having.
"For the past two weeks or so, the old energies have been intensely colliding with the new, and this energetic experience could be felt in many ways. This was a part of the re-calibration that was mentioned in the last energy alert....
This collision energy could also be experienced as simply being
unable to find any harmony with individuals close to us, a clash
with anything and everything, tension, pressure, no flow, tripping
over things in the physical reality that seem to be grabbing onto
us, and in addition, a great separation,
Foremost, it was experienced as a strong pulling back into the old,
or almost as if we were being sucked into a whirlpool energy of
reliving the old, experiencing the old, and being greatly drawn
back into older and more slowly and denser vibrating energies.
This pulling energy was very strong indeed, and much willpower
and focus was needed to stay in the higher vibrating world. There
was no darkness at play here, or even an intent at any level to hold
everything back?it was simply a matter of different vibrating
energies colliding through a process of integration."
Posted by: suz-d | April 17, 2007 at 06:10 AM
Hi suz-d - This sounds like the Solar Eclipse square Pluto. We're in the rapids of change!
Posted by: Robert | April 17, 2007 at 09:27 AM
Thnx R for pinpointing what we've all been going thru.... just so we have a sense of timing, when did that solar eclipse occur?
blessings to you for how you assist us all in these rocky times!
Posted by: suz-d | April 17, 2007 at 01:56 PM
Your Highness,
Won't a few of us in our age group have a quincunx from a mars uranus conjunct to a 17 degree Leo pluto? Any thoughts on that my friend?
Posted by: chickie | April 17, 2007 at 02:20 PM
Hi suz-d - Sure. The last two Solar Eclipses squared Pluto. The Sept 2006 Virgo Eclipse was the first square, while the March 2007 Pisces Solar Eclipse fell March 18. The Moon in Pisces this past weekend brought it to a focus, putting the brakes on some things while blowing other things wide open.
Hi chickie - Yes, those of our vintage are all going through Saturn conjunct our Pluto quincunx Uranus. It opens productive energies in Libra and Capricorn. I'm having to adjust my tendencies to think unhelpful thoughts and be VERY economical in how I spend my energies. It's a challenge to self-purification despite feeling like the entire world is being carpet bombed by bare knuckle destroyers. And yes, by our adjustments and sacrifices we are revolutionizing our Pluto function to be more the absolute power of the heart.
Posted by: Robert | April 17, 2007 at 05:09 PM
Thank you, your Highness, for I have never felt so alone! More important, I really need to know that there are others running around like me!
Posted by: chickie | April 18, 2007 at 07:37 AM
Hi chickie - We are legion. Add to that, Uranus in Pisces is blurring the boundaries in what we feel individually and what we're ALL feeling. (Take it from a Jupiter in Pisces!) There is so much pandemic suffering, panic, destruction, and lying and obfuscation among the so-called "leaders" that it's no wonder many of us feel a measure of despair and disorientation. Just take a breath and remember the 3 "refuges" - the Wisdom, the Way, and the Community. In these we find the Eternal, and in the Eternal we find the way to dispassion and detachment regarding local conditions while remaining in the NOW centered in our hearts.
Posted by: Robert | April 18, 2007 at 07:48 AM
"Centered in our hearts?" Well my heart is breaking and I can't stop crying for those victims at Virginia Tech. I never had kids because I always KNEW I could NEVER handle something like this! Sorry, Im a mess.
Posted by: chickie | April 18, 2007 at 08:02 PM
Hi chickie - What you describe happened to me when that whackjob killed those kids in a school in Scotland years ago. I felt a profound grief before the story hit the news, and as soon as it did I knew that was why I felt so much extreme pain and sorrow.
It's a tribute to your enormous loving heart that you are so moved by this tragic event. Better to be crying than indifferent, since there is much to grieve every time a life is cut short through senseless violence. And of course, all violence is senseless. It's the lot of artists, being 4th Ray creatures, to bring harmony out of friction, and use the fire of deeply felt emotions to create moving art works. I'm sure this will move you to create something awesome. Take good care of yourself, compassionate woman.
Posted by: Robert | April 19, 2007 at 08:30 AM
Thank you dearest Robert...your site are wonderfully insightful.
Posted by: ann | April 23, 2007 at 10:28 AM