by Robert Wilkinson
Mercury is completely retrograde, though after the Inferior conjunction on June 28 we'll experience things picking up. We're still reverberating from Uranus going stationary retrograde, but overall this week should provide a sense of things finally moving forward, freed from the jagged edge of recent times. The Full Moon at 6:49 am PDT June 30 falling at 9 Capricorn will help us all attune to our inner guides, angels, and other aspects of "Heaven Within," and exteriorizes the promise of the New Moon in Gemini.
Venus conjuncts Saturn for the first of three times on July 1 at 23 Leo. The second time will be when Venus is RX conjunct Saturn at 28 Leo on August 13, and the final one will be October 13-14 at 5 Virgo. This will rearrange several areas of our lives, finalizing some things while launching new one in whatever areas these planets rule and occupy.
Conjunctions are fusions and beginnings, and the degree of the first conjunction this week involves taming and training to bring our vital energies under a skillful self-control. Areas affected are Taurus, Leo, Libra, Capricorn, Aquarius, and any house the conjunction occupies or rules.
I'll be reprinting an article on the cooming Inferior conjunction in a few days, but if you just can't wait then please go to this link to find out more about this phenomenon. This will mark a point of maximum retrogradation, and from that point on Mercury will again begin to speed up through the Superior Conjunction on August 12 at 20 Leo just a few hours before the New Moon at 4:02 pm PDT the same day and degree.
The Full Moon of Capricorn-Cancer this week shows the Moon opposition Mercury RX, the very prominent Venus opposition Neptune and conjunct Saturn, Uranus making a wide trine to the Sun and quintile to the Moon, and Mercury sextile Mars. The light comes through reaching out for elementary understanding of life, learning to be discriminating in finding your originality and expressing your authentic self freed from social restrictions and judgments, and learning how to listen so you can be given guidance from within. Follow your curiosity, and see the relative place, function, and importance of what you find.
As noted last week,
Mars' entry into Taurus shows we're beginning a time to solidify and stabilize the initiatives we started during the period of the Grand Fire Trines from March through mid-June. Please refer to the numerous articles I've posted the past 16 weeks to find out more about these new inspirations and promises now being activated. You can find out more about Uranus' current effect in this Spiritual Astrology for May-June 2007 Pt. 2 article, as well as Pt. 1 preceding it.
The recent New Moon in Gemini is helping us all to be productive, releasing powerful new forces reorienting our direction of expansion. It fell the day before Mercury went retrograde, so timing will seem to slow almost to a standstill at a threshold rather than a backward falling mirror image of things. This lunation will help us overcome what binds us or holds us back, and learn skills to achieve forward movement. Find opportunities to enjoy yourself, relax, and re-create whatever you feel needs it in your mind, view, interpretation, speech or attitude. Wherever this falls in your chart is going to be the focus this week.
The Summer Solstice happened 11:07 am PDT on June 21, just after the Mars trine Pluto and before Uranus going stationary RX. This initiates definite energy shifts since it's the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and therefore the Solar force is at its yearly peak. For readers in the Southern Hemisphere, it's the shortest day of the year and the beginning of their winter, so hang in there, since from now on your days will get longer as ours get shorter. I suppose for Sun worshippers the "endless summer" is less a classic surfing movie as knowing when to move from north to south and vise-versa!
Once the Saturn opposition Neptune is past, it marks the end of a certain type of tension we've been living with off and on for two years. However, it's important to remember that for the next few weeks, when the Moon is in late Scorpio this week and July 23-24, or late Taurus on July 9-10 and August 6, we'll have to deal with a Fixed T-square that will help us demonstrate whatever skills and wisdom we've gotten from the opposition.
We'll experience the last major Fixed T-square involving these planets at the Blue Full Moon of the Eastern Hemisphere on July 29, 5:48 pm PDT, falling at 7 Aquarius-Leo. The T-square at that time will involve Mars in late Taurus squaring Saturn opposition Neptune. Expect radical new developments to stem from that lunation, where we will see what is permanent and what is springing forth from Cosmos Itself. After that, there will be no more Fixed T-square lunations until the Full Moon of November 2008.
As I've written previously:
These past Fixed T-squares involving Saturn and Neptune were triggered every time the Moon was in Taurus or Scorpio, teaching us how to act appropriately. Saturn opposed Neptune was exact from mid-February through mid-March 2007, and is again exact from now through mid-July 2007. Every time the Moon triggers this effect it reminds us of strengths we've cultivated from breaking up old patterns the past 18 months.
As I've noted, these squares ... broke some things up forever, challenged us to see what to clear out, made us evaluate what to "put on the shelf for the future," and opened paths of personal, social, and spiritual development associated with things, heart, magnetism, ambition, and idealism. We were challenged to 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, transcend old limitations and generate new heart power and brought important questions. 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.
... Though T-squares are usually considered a negative and frictional influence, the ones we've just been through were chances to purify and drop old ways to create space for more appropriate efforts now. We've shifted magnetism, letting go so we can attract the assets, resources or values will support our next outreach. That has meant a shift in both perception and action.
These T-squares burst things wide open... Since the Taurus energies sextile and quintile Uranus, renovate, revolutionize things, and go for the unique, unusual, or innovative. We've opened a Neptune cycle while fulfilling the old Saturn cycle started Summer 2006... Recent weeks brought many major decisions breaking old deadlocks, ambivalence, or procrastination. It's been a great time for accepting greater responsibilities and duties and leaving lesser concerns behind. We can achieve clarity around roles we want to play, overcoming any hesitation around doing what we must to make some new way of being real.
We've solidified many things even as we've turned a big corner... and had opportunities to see what's been jamming our gears in relationships, and what we needed to end while embracing actions and attitudes that will bring us results we want in the future. Due to the on-going Jupiter square Uranus we've also had a sensation like something very BIG is coming. Welcome to the NOW!
As I've explained before, though squares are usually associated with difficulty, they mark important points where we shift direction, breaking free of old ideas about who we used to be. When we confront squares and oppositions we are shown ways to reorient to find the balance and turn the corner in crucial areas. Squares are either the emergence of something (waxing square) or the fulfillment and culmination of a process (waning square), while oppositions bring forth awareness. These times are not necessarily great for launching new things, but they can be great at moving things forward that have already been planned in the past.
Saturn opposition Neptune is behind the tension of the gap between ideal and reality, the theoretical and the practical. Continue not allowing nerves, temperament, or unexpected diversions to cause sideways explosions result in messing up perfectly good opportunities. Get oriented, get your drive in gear, open your vision and understanding, and be compassionate while bringing closure to old life movies.
Venus is now slowing, even as almost all the signs from Sag through Leo are occupied creating a Locomotive Pattern, one of imbalance and power. With the Moon transiting Scorpio through Aquarius this week, the Moon out of the unoccupied sector of signs, and re-enters the occupied span with conjunctions to Jupiter, Pluto (and the Galactic Center), and Neptune, activating the Grand Irrationality which I'll explain a few paragraphs down. Saturn and Pluto are the brackets framing the Locomotive pattern that most predominates for months to come when the span on the close side is less than 51 degrees.
The week begins with the Moon in Scorpio. As I noted in last weeks article about the weekend leading up to the week ahead:
The Moon enters Libra 4:43 am PDT June 22, and as it transits mid-Libra it makes a double triseptile "Kite" configuration in the second irrationality pattern mentioned above with Uranus in Pisces as the nozzle focusing whatever changes and decisions are promised by this. It seems that Uranus is continually being stimulated by one thing or another these days, and on its station, shows this week to be an extremely important decision making period, even with the Mercury RX influence slowing everything down or creating delays or postponements.
The Moon enters Scorpio 5:26 pm PDT June 24 exactly 3 hours after Mars enters Taurus. The breakneck pace of recent weeks should begin to steady somewhat with this transition as it brings a welcome return of Earth energies after a very long period with one or no planets in this element. We're now on our way to a constant and growing Earth presence for many years to come, which hopefully will yield a large-scale "grounding" in practical things to be done to sustain ourselves and our planet.
Moon in Libra and Scorpio are good for beauty treatments, haircuts, planting and pruning in the garden, and socializing. Just don't move into a place or buy one with Moon in Scorpio, as traditionally it is supposed to not be a good time to do that. In my experience I have found it true that when people move into a place when the Moon is in Scorpio they usually move out again fairly soon, or have trouble with things like plumbing, vermin, rot, mold, mildew and the like. I know that seems a bit weird, but I've seen it so many times I choose to accept its overall validity.
June 25 the Moon moves through the Scorpio zone of the Grand Irrationality discussed previously. That day the Saturn opposition Neptune is exact, with the influence extremely strong this entire week and certainly the next two, so heads up, and if things are extra weird or "binding," it's just showing us a greater service to do, or a "message" to be delivered as we find our way "home." This will lead to forms of taming and training where we can demonstrate resolve, patience, and self-discipline as we move toward that greater future.
So this week, some things are expanding and moving forward despite the limiting conditions, while other things will probably have to be put on hold for a while until other things happen. We are being liberated from old pressures we no longer need to bear, and whether large or small, dramatic or nondescript, stand on the threshold of a new life era.
As noted, the Moon in early Scorpio on June 24-25 triggers The Grand Irrationality, which is bringing major forks in the road for all. In late May we went through a very strong activation of this 7 pointed Star pattern, and many who have planets or angles in any of the 7 zones of this configuration confronted major decisions, or forms of compulsive behavior in others, or forks in the road of their destiny, aka, character choices.
As 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 approximately 27 Sagittarius-1 Capricorn, 20-25 Aquarius, 11-14 Aries, 2-7 Gemini, 24-27 Cancer, 15-19 Virgo, and 6-10 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 June 24-25, when it transits the Scorpio zone, it will also trigger this larger global configuration this week June 29 in the Sagittarius zone at the Galactic Center, and again on July 2-3 in the Aquarius zone.
As I've previously reported, we also have a powerful configuration adding to the general weirdness of the Grand Irrationality. Of major importance to us all is that over the next few weeks that Saturn is moving back into a short term but very powerful triseptile to Uranus. I described this briefly in this article, with more in the article Spiritual Astrology in May-June 2007 affecting Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.
This irrationality pattern is creating another whole set of "forks in the road of destiny" involving 18-20 Pisces, 9-11 Taurus, 30 Gemini-2 Cancer, 21-23 Leo, 12-15 Libra, 4-6 Sag, and 25-27 Capricorn. Obviously the Moon will trigger this entirely different field of choices and decisons when it moves through these zones on June 23, 27, and July 1, 5-6, 9, 12-13, 16-17, 20, and 24-25.
Of special importance is the Sun moving through the late Gemini and early Cancer zone between June 19-24, Venus is in the Leo zone at the end of June and beginning of July, Mars is in the Taurus zone July 5-9, while Mercury hangs out in the Cancer zone between July 5-13. It's stationary degree being septile Saturn and biseptile Uranus promises to make this irrationality sequence very active for some weeks to come, so heads up!
Just think! For the next few weeks, we'll have weirdness, irrationality, compulsions, and major decisions to make, individually and collectively, over 20 times. Obviously July 5-6 will be very important days, since the Moon, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and Uranus will all be activated. For advanced astrologers, look out for the times when the Ascendant and Midheaven cross through these zones wherever you live, since it could show very important events that move lives dramatically in directions that will fulfill "destiny" somehow.
The Moon enters Sagittarius 5:24 am PDT June 27 and makes a bunch of helpful aspects throughout its stay in that sign. Of course, keep in mind the Grand Irrationality and the Galactic Center energies are very powerful on June 28-29.
The Moon enters Capricorn 3:05 pm PDT June 29, strengthening the Earth energies with a trine to Mars on its way to the Full Moon on June 30, described at the beginning of the article. It's a good time for treating garden pests, so plan accordingly. That day Venus exactly opposes Neptune, bringing "dreams come true," or weird and peculiar relations. Be very clear about what you understand or do not understand if making important decisions that involve others.
The Moon enters Aquarius 2:24 pm PDT July 1, just after Venus conjuncts Saturn and Mercury sextile Mars. This will begin a new year cycle for Venus-Saturn, and the last one in Leo, since when it conjuncts Saturn for the third time in October, it will begin the Virgo series that will continue for a couple of years. Mercury sextile Mars should help us get a fair amount accomplished despite the retrograde, and as I've noted, I believe that by the end of this Mercury RX period we'll look back on it as more favorable than unfavorable.
This week, follow through, quest for understanding, prepare for things to speed up, and remember that we stand on the threshold of a new era rapidly coming. Decide, consolidate, search for the mystery, and you just may find some interesting revelations. As with last week, this is the time to get information and perspectives about projects, endeavors, or initiatives we've set into motion these past few months.
Hold steady since Mercury is retrograde, and don't be frustrated if things seem to be too slow or moving sideways or backwards. Do forms of review, rehearsal, reflection, getting new insights that will re-work some things, and reconnect with ideas, feelings, people, and skills you may have neglected or forgotten.
© Copyright 2007 Robert Wilkinson
Robert,
When you say Venus and Saturn will affect whatever areas these planets rule and occupy. Are you talking about our natal planets, or progressed planets, Or, both?
Posted by: Lisa | June 23, 2007 at 05:09 PM
Hi Robert -- I have plans to travel overseas on Thursday, 28. I know Mercury is Rx, so I have to go anyway. I bought this ticket 2 months ago.
Mars goes into Taurus, does it mean it will slow down some motion? Would I be less popular? Should I relax and finish some unfinished business?
Nice article, but for March 30 Aries - what is on the horizon? I feel pretty relaxed and stressed at the same time - hard to explain, but some things need to be developed further. Last Friday I lost my car (never happened before that I would forget were I parked). Memory is else where, but not where it is supposed to be. all alst week was so unproductive. Help!
Posted by: larisa | June 23, 2007 at 06:11 PM
Hi Lisa - Yes, yes, and yes. Solar return planets too! Houses they rule, natal, progressed, and transiting planets they disposit, as well as the house they occupy.
Hi Larisa - I've always made it clear that traveling is favored in Mercury RX if we're flexible. Mars doesn't really slow down for a while. Don't know if you'll be less popular. Definitely relax and finish whatever you need to. Part of the tension in the air is generic due to Uranus stationary rx. And last week Mercury was crashing into rx, which I've made clear is a time to weather the storm and do what you can without getting bugged by the change of pace.
Posted by: Robert | June 23, 2007 at 07:23 PM
Your Highness,
Couldn't help but notice that on July 23 of my solar return also brings me a moon conjunction in scorpio. Is it normal to have a solar and moon return..I never paid attention?
Posted by: Chickie | June 23, 2007 at 07:32 PM
Hi Robert, could you briefly suggest what career prospects this person(my mother) can look forward to in her career. I can see that Saturn Transit has completed its opposition to the MC.
21 December 1952
0930 GMT
Calcutta, India
She wants to kick start her career again after a 13 year Gap. What can you advise?
Thank you and much appreciated.
Posted by: Aditya | June 23, 2007 at 09:40 PM
centripital force is a wonderful feeling... kinda like one of those rides at amusement parks.....up and down and around we go where we stop.. nobody knows...glued to your seat.
Posted by: robyn | June 23, 2007 at 10:22 PM
Hi Chickie - Yes, every once in a great many years we have a simultaneous Solar and Lunar return. It's sure to be important, regardless of the exact degree. Usually there are things like trines of the Ascendants across years and such things, but Sun and Moon show a return of basics.
Hi Aditya - I would suggest something futuristic, progressive, that puts several things together and synthesizes multiple talents and knowledge to fill in some natural need. She is great at addressing common needs and concerns. Also, she should eliminate ALL negative memories from the past, and re-ground herself in practical details. Her chart shows she has phenomenal aptitude to be a leader if she finds a way to "claim the power before the assembled tribe," She is particularly intuitive right now, with subtle impressions streaming in almost constantly, and should quest for a larger vision between now and early August.
This Autumn and Winter she should budget her time, energy, and resources wisely, since she may have two but not all three at the same time. To the degree she can learn/relearn whatever is needed is very good, since Saturn square Mercury forces fundamental shifts in mental perspectives without allowing negativity or narrowness to screw up the opportunity to deepen thinking and discipline the mind. Plus, since Saturn is conjunct her Pluto at present, it is time to claim the Divine Shivaic power that is hers if she chooses. Right now a revolution is not to be feared, and she can get many useful ideas and communications in August and September that will bear good fruit in Jan-Feb 2008.
Hi robyn - Yes, it's always a bit of a swirl when Uranus goes stationary anything! Still, the trick is not to lose our cool when others are, since a) we don't screw up our karma and b) we look pretty good when all is said and done, since we haven't contributed to the problem.
Posted by: Robert | June 23, 2007 at 10:46 PM
Hi Robert,
As Saturn has passed both my Pluto and Jupiter, I am starting to feel the relief. On Friday, Saturn was directly on my Pluto. I had reached rock bottom. Remember in my post on Chiron I said was happy with being childfree? That was only half the truth. When Saturn hit Pluto in my twenties, I had become pregnant, but I miscarried. At that point I had felt like a complete failure in my life. I had failed at everything else, why not being a mother?
It took me a long time to recover but I did. I got divorced over a loveless marriage and went back to college and got my degree. Now it has come back full circle. I believe more in my writing than I did back then. But like then, I will be merciless and jettison anybody who doesn’t support my writing. I ended a friendship this week because of it. But there was other reasons, the purpose for the friendship is over. Our two souls have completed the contract that brought us together.
One thing about Saturn squaring Jupiter and conjuncting Pluto is that if a person is wise, they scrutinize every expenditure. Did I really need cable with the 500 channels? Would I pay $60 a month to have the NASA channel just to look at an empty room? No I have the Internet. I can read a book (Read a book? What is that? Duh!!!) You will find resources wherever you look. Then I discovered my gifts; the greatest is my writing.
Pluto destroys only to rebuild. I love that statement. I know that a major cycle in my life is ended, but I going into a new life. (New Horizons is playing now, how appropriate!)
Part of the problem was that with Saturn (in my 10th House) opposing Neptune (in my 4th house), I didn’t know what was my next step to take. Hopefully the confusion will clear in the next few weeks.
I have two more major aspects coming up in my T-Square: Saturn square Mars and the big finale, Saturn conjunct Sun. I love your statement that conjunctions mark beginnings. All I can say is “bring it on!” I have done the work and made the sacrifices. I am ready for the reward.
I couldn’t have stuck to my guns if it wasn’t for you and the people that visit this website.
Again thanks a bundle for the all the wisdom and support.
Peace,
Helen
Posted by: Helen | June 24, 2007 at 05:11 AM
Thanks for a very detailed answer, Robert.
Namaskarams
Posted by: Aditya | June 24, 2007 at 08:18 AM
wow, i have not even finished reading the whole article yet, but this the saturn conjunct leo at 23 degrees is quite significant for me i think, cause my natal ac is 23 leo and that would also oppose my dc, oh crazy,
weird wonderful, i have been under a little stress, i know this might sound silly, but i got a cold sore and it went away faster this time, because i chose, this is so good for me, i chose not to be so stressed out from the weird stuff, i guess i get them also when i get over exposure to the sun and am stressing out, but this time it is clearing up, i really feel it is because i am coping much better, also my progressed moon is moving to an opposition or away from the oppositon, i think away cause i do not think it is so close to the 23 d,
thanks so much for this article, you are absolutely brilliant, i wish i was richer financially, i was thinking it would be so nice to have independent wealth, so i could do my own eco village and invite artists and like minded homo sapiens, to enjoy and be happy and learn and expand and share and be a haven to them
Posted by: Micheline Cloutier | June 24, 2007 at 09:46 AM
Your Highness,
"This will rearrange several areas of our lives, finalizing some things while launching new one in whatever areas these planets rule and occupy."
That full moon on June 30 Conjuncts my 9 cappy MC exact and the venus saturn conjunct squares my scorpio moon exact.
I do hope this "Rearrangment" might emerge as an artistic career opportunity.....si/no my dear?
Posted by: Chickie | June 24, 2007 at 10:18 AM
Hi Helen - It's refreshing to me that you're in the heart of the experience and still able to be open, as objective as possible and still honor your human process. Rock bottom is also rock solid! It provides a sure platform on which you build future successes, since there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Believe me, as one who has been both gladly childfree AND abruptly and tragically child-less, as well as having been in the heart of an unexpected miscarriage, to the Soul it's all profoundly sobering beyond description. I speak of those universal feelings of failure in "Love Dad." Loveless marriages are worse than prison. Being fed crushed stone is deadening to the Soul, which thrives on veneration, respect, and genuine affection.
The "wage of age" is the right to say no to people who are undermining, insulting, or unsupportive in our quest for wisdom and love. At this point I don't really care who doesn't like my writing or thinking, since I have trained myself to consider the source of whatever presents itself to my perceptual scan. And something comes to mind about this place being a Garden Party, where "You can't please everyone so you better please yourself..." That said, I always welcome all who are willing to dialogue, debate, or analyze my offerings with their own critical thinking skills, since I know better than most the value of a good editor.
We cannot lose a true friend, even if there is a misunderstanding, just as we cannot keep someone who is no longer "true" for us, even if we try to throw chains around them. Where there is a bond of love and friendship (which are truly one and the same thing) then we always find our way back into orbital sequence and much to explore about our growth in between then and now.
Saturn restructures all it touches. Pluto is the Divine Law of Economy of Energy. I'm sure you've been scanning what you can and cannot live with anymore, and cutting back on indulgences and excess wherever you find it, as per Saturn putting the brakes on Jupiter. Much will no longer be confusing shortly, though we will be dealing with Uranus in Pisces for a while, including the impending Saturn opposition in 2008-2009, after which it'll square Pluto setting up epic changes affecting us all. Use Saturn square Mars to get a grip on what makes you angry, and take command of your vehicle so that externals don't make you waste time or energy in fruitless agitation. Be righteously Martian where it's appropriate, but take charge of making sure you're being Mars when you choose, rather than allow externals to dictate when you lose your cool. And Saturn on the Sun brought my Mercury RX book favorable global recognition as well as endings of things long deadening to my Soul. And of course the reward of patience is patience, the reward of maturity is enjoying not indulging in folly, and the reward of experience is wisdom. And of course, you're welcome and I'm happy you found this site and its gentle community.
Hi Aditya - You're very welcome. May your mom go on to great successes and be a light of power in her world. Namaskarams to you both and all who assist you both on your path to fulfill perfect Dharma.
Hi Micheline - Yes, with Venus and Saturn camped out there, it should be beautiful and warmly empowering. Ultimately, as I noted in a previous comment, we are learning how to be our best self and never allow externals to throw us into reacting poorly. Getting stressed out is natural, but we can unlearn this response while becoming more objective and impersonal toward that which agitates us. Not easy, but part of the work.
Prog Moon conjunct or opposed natal Moon are points of major realization that offer new beginnings and mid-course adjustments in form and experience of whatever. May you find the wealth you desire to do a community work in the highest way to envision. We all need places of sanctuary where we and others can develop our potential separately and together. I suspect many such places will be available for those weary of our dysfunctional social structures, and will increase in number given what's about to come down globally in our world.
Hi Chickie - Sounds like you have a great light on your nadir, illuminating your roots and your past in nurturing ways, to be expressed in some public way. This coming period for you is about "roots and flowers." Saturn square Moon can be difficult. It is a challenge to learn to lessen our rules and shoulds so we can take care of ourselves and others more effectively, and allow them to care for us in mature ways, as well as cut back on sentimentality and indulgences to do one's Dharma in the world. It's about replacing judgments and unhelpful feelings with maturity and forms of self-caring. Emotionally it can bring hard truths, but with Venus I would think it is softer, more fair, just, graceful, and balanced braking on old emotional frustrating states. Use mature love, beauty, and relationships to bring forth enjoyment, a greater view, and be your own gentle loving best friend.
Posted by: Robert | June 24, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Dear Robert,
Thanks again for your generous support and wisdom. You are truly one of my "Saturn guides."
As the song goes "But I'll never going tolose your precious gift. It will always be that way."
Peace,
Helen
Posted by: Helen | June 25, 2007 at 02:38 AM
you must be watching my life on real tv or something ;)
haa. i'm pretty good at being mediator these days... i'm more capable of stepping back from something and giving it a clearer perception to others ... and they listen its amazing... :)
Posted by: robyn | June 25, 2007 at 03:08 PM
Your Highness,
Speaking of Venus....I just discovered that I will have a double whamy of V and M! Yep, I've got Mars in Taurus sextile my venus in Cancer, and Venus in Leo sextiling my Mars in Libra.
Yikes! I don't ever remember having 2 planets working off both sides of the chart!
May be I will have both fun and lots of work all at the same!
Posted by: Chickie | June 26, 2007 at 12:30 AM
Hi Robert, I am flexible about this trip. Could be now, could be month later. I already experienced Delta's computer glitch yesterday, as they told me what it was, but i wasn't worrying that much, so they fixed the problem with my seat. Ordinarily i would get upset, but I just stood there waiting.
Can you say how Venus in Aquarius with me (Venus in Taurus). Not good, ha? What is the major NO here? I know it is not ideal, but thought to see what will happen.
Posted by: Larisa | June 26, 2007 at 05:00 AM
Hi Helen - Well, we're all on our "7th Sojourn!" And as 7th anything has to do with Saturn, I'm glad I am comfortable with it being my friend.
Hi robyn - Well, there are many channels to see the Akashic records, and this is one of them. Great that you're getting the mediating principle down. Good skill.
Hi Chickie - Sounds like you have more productivity going than you think. Sounds like a Rock and roll dream. Have fun, work hard, enjoy yourself, and ride the wave.
Hi Larisa - Waiting is a good thing to do when Mercury is RX and you're dealing with airline glitches. Venus in Aquarius is good with your Aries, not your Moon/Venus, though it does throw the tension into Leo. Again, there are many factors to consider in any interpersonal contract.
Posted by: Robert | June 26, 2007 at 08:39 AM
Hi Robert,
Me again, sorry to keep bugging you lately....but I just noticed (found on another site) that at this full moon 30 June 2007....the Sun?Pluto mid-point is at 2Libra47...which conjuncts my NN at 2Libra56...Sun/Pluto = NN: meeting the powerful; fateful associations; separations; lack of adaptability.....and my NN is conjunct my Venus 5 Libra, which is conjunct the Asc 12 Libra...can you shed some light on this.....also this Full moon is conjunct my saturn..4Cap16 in the 3rd house..(I know what this about.....speaking....
arigato-gazaimus Robert-san
Posted by: Wildhorse running | June 28, 2007 at 12:29 PM
Hi Wildhorse Running - Well, midpoints are an entire study unto themselves. What you read could be true, but everything depends on one's natal Sun and Pluto. For ex, if you haven't worked through the natal Sun-Pluto aspect, then such things may mean challenging situations, whereas if your Sun-Pluto is harmonious, then it could release powerful beneficial energies. Of great interest to me is your NN/Venus/Asc, which is powerfully developmental, especially through the arts and forms of culture. Jupiter is favoring that for months to come. Mars in Gemini will also be productive, given where the Leo planets are. Should be a "harvest summer" for you. The Sun is opposed your Saturn, shining a light on what of your duties need changing, and which are beginning their rise in your life. The Moon will give new form to your duties, or perhaps nurture your Saturn in ways that will benefit your 10th house (Moon ruler of Libra's 10th, regardless of your MC.)
Posted by: Robert | June 28, 2007 at 01:38 PM
Hi Robert,
My birthday's tomorrow at 9:10 p.m. Having a hard time staying in the present and remembering a lot of sad times.
Is the moon in Capricorn? That's where my S Node is. And there is this 25th high school reunion coming up which I won't be attending. I think that and the fact that I am turning 43, are causing my heart to ache.
I know my life will only get better from this point on, but feeling gloomy nonetheless. I think I need to find an occupation soon so that I can put my mind to constructive things.
I cannot stand when I feel this way because it is a huge waste of time and the world needs my helping hands and I need to feel compassion in my heart again.
peace,
Patricia H.
PS I am also still missing a man I was involved with exactly five years ago. It felt fated, but went nowhere and I must move on.
What does it take to get over this stuff?
Posted by: Patricia H | June 28, 2007 at 01:59 PM
Hi Patricia H. - Happy Birthday and Solar Return. Bless the sad times to dissolve in the vast forgiveness and redemptive power of Divine Mother. At least they're in your rearview mirror, and not part of your present any longer than you choose to hold on to them. Yes, the Moon enters Capricorn just after 3 pm PDT.
Please remember that you have community elsewhere than the memories of your adolescence. As for high school reunions, I never cared to "return to the scene of the crime" as it were. High school to me represents years of lies and manipulations by adults who did not prepare me for the world. I have no living friends that I know of, no one has ever reached out to find me, and so I have my own feelings about the deception in America we call high school. Since no one cared enough to have a reunion, obviously I never attended my own 25th. The recent Supreme Court decision muzzling free speech of high schoolers just reinforces my feelings that our society deceives the young.
Definitely put your head in a totally different space than high school frustration. You have tremendous gifts the world can use and appreciate. And some things can only be solved by putting your mind and heart in different spaces so you don't "let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy." Say goodbye, bless and forgive it all, and welcome the new to come in the perfect way and time. And thank Heaven you survived to grow into better experiences and memories.
Posted by: Robert | June 28, 2007 at 04:51 PM
Hi Robert,
AMEN to that. Thanks for the supportive words. I feel better because most people around me do not understand my reasons for not attending a reunion.
The teachers were fine in my high school, but some of the students were manipulative. My theory about high school reunions is that they're for the "popular" kids and it is a rerun of them stroking their egos by trotting down memory lane with their past subordinants.
When I graduated it was like the prison gates flung open and suddenly I could be my true self again. I did not have to try to fit in, I did not have to try to be one of the "golden ones," I could just be who I was meant.
Of course, it took years of therapy and other healing methods to break away from the pain of my youth. I have lived an unconventional life by mainstream American standards and so I protect my psyche against those who couldn't possibly understand that there are many ways to be in this world, and not just the ways that the media and corporate America dictates to us or Hollywood.
And I will keep on being who God meant me to be, doing something of value for this precious planet. Rather than just consuming everything in site, creating a burden for the earth, and polishing my ego with days of golden youth.
blessings,
Patricia
Hey, that last part rhymes!
Posted by: Patricia H. | June 28, 2007 at 05:59 PM
Hi Patricia - Sure. I take a very dim view of the paternalistic, fascist, jingoistic approach our society takes toward educating its young, complete with empty rituals and meaningless words to prop up those who have no life outside of their memories of football or cheerleading. I didn't know those people then, and they knew me not. To have a "reunion" you must first have a "union." Most of us have no such experience with the strangers with whom we were thrown together when young.
Yes, many teachers were fine, and of course, high schoolers are very manipulative, callow, superficial, and naive. Yes, "let's get together" and relive "old times there are not forgotten" is a great line from a minstrel show song but not much to hang a life on. That's why the line of demarcation between high school and college is wider than an ocean. Unconventional? I wouldn't know anything about that! ;-) Keep rhyming, my dear. Poetry is good for the Soul.
Posted by: Robert | June 28, 2007 at 06:26 PM
Wow!! I had the same experience like Patricia H. And I thought I was Weird. I am glad i am in contact with like minded people here. I don't feel alone anymore.
Posted by: Aditya | June 29, 2007 at 06:35 AM
Hi Robert, I made the decision to become detached, not physically, but in the spiritual world. This decision has given me tremendous spare energy, just a day after i crossed this threshold. This happened during Sun Square Natal Pluto. You said that some of the best decisions in your life came during Sun Square or Opposition Pluto. I hope its the same for me.
I can also see Mercury will square my natal Pluto today. Is it a continuation where it will give me more energy to focus inward?
Namaskarams
Posted by: Aditya | June 29, 2007 at 07:07 AM
Robert I have to say thank you for our comment. that was very uplifting
but get ready i got a nice eviction notice, and get ready, i found a place the night before i came home to the eviction notice, please do not take this as something against my character, i never did anything really bad, but my landlord did not want me to get a room mate and I did and the girl turned out to a bit of a nutter...but i think i found a place, making some sacrifices, i do not get the privacy i had before but i do get to save money and work on my other goals, but is so funny how things work out
well anyway i consider this to be a gift, cause i was feeling that i should leave anyway even though i will really miss living in this house, but hey thats life i will make another home agian and i try to roll with the punches as best as i can
but thanks for your wisdom and insight and support it really means a lot to me
Posted by: Micheline Cloutier | June 29, 2007 at 07:50 AM
Hi Aditya - We all have the same experience once we choose to individuate. Better to be an original piece of work than part of the undifferentiated mass consciousness that is afraid to say or be anything others might disapprove of. "Normal" is actually very, very boring! Mercury can help you turn from unhelpful corrosive patterns and release your Plutonic potential. Great time for busting old lies, old mental slavery patterns, and be thoroughly independent in your thinking, communicating, and interpretations. Sort of a time to restore the balance after breaking free of ancient chains of mental seduction. Namaskar.
Hi Micheline - Never thought you were a bad person. Landlords have their prerogatives, and as it is their property, they are allowed that. You're just threading your way through the needle of life, and in motion between the past and future. I've had to leave many places I loved when the landlord decided to sell. This helped me with detaching from pieces of this Earth. No matter how much we love things, eventually we must leave, and then we suffer to the degree of our attachment to forms. Glad my perspectives can be of some help.
Posted by: Robert | June 29, 2007 at 09:03 AM
Thanks Robert.
I had an emotional birthday ride, where I traveled the gamut of emotions and came out knowing what lessons I need to glean.
The day was purifying. It is true what you say about letting go of the past and living more in the present. And the topics Ayitda is talking about, ring true with me too. I am glad people are sharing their personal journeys here.
My main lesson is that I must stop judging others though and I guess that is a form of nonattachment. But I won't be too hard on myself because then I would be judging myself which is the same as judging others if we are all one being.
I must separate illusions from souls. Perhaps judging behaviors that need to be changed is different than judging actual souls that are seeking the truth, sometimes without our conscious knowledge.
When I read some of Jesus' sermons in the Coptic Gospels, He judged others, especially the society that he was living in and other masters also judged the society that they were living in, but along the lines of bettering themselves and the world.
Still, I can be overly harsh at times with that lovely T-Cross in my natal chart with all of my favorite planets, Mars, Saturn, Pluto and Uranus with Moon conjunct Saturn (joking). It's not fun at all.
But it could be worse. And all that tension could just be a gift in disguise, if only I could transmute my harsh criticisms into discernment and wisdom. And stop allowing Saturn and Mars to go at each other's throats...
peace, peace, peace,
Patricia H.
Happy Birthday to All Cancerians. We are the Mothers of the Zodiac, and the midwives.
Posted by: Patricia H. | June 30, 2007 at 06:45 AM
Hi Patricia H. - Sure. Happy Solar Return and Birthday. And yes, nonattachment means cutting yourself the same slack you ideally should cut others. We cannot really judge Souls, since only ego judges to begin with, other than Divine Discrimination assessing Dharma. But we can and do judge ego, and are more or less accurate depending on our head space. You're right in that we should always witness the divinity in another rather than assume their behaviors are the "real" them.
I've long maintained that being non-judgmental is an illusion, since we judge everything all the time. What clothes to wear, what thoughts to think, what aspirations to pursue, our hierarchy of tasks on any given day or week, and so forth. We all have challenging aspects; these are where we test our resolve to turn the lesser into the greater, the harsh gear grinds of ego into right intention, right action, right effort, and right transformation. And life on Earth isn't really that much fun most of the time the way we've structured it. It wasn't always this way, but again, the harsh competitive uber-capitalist "get yours or get out of the way" has made things a big drag. We've always had a degree of competition, as we are bihemispheric brains locked into duality. That's why I'm hopeful for how many are consciously seeking a better way of existence here, and attempting to better themselves and find community where experiments of this sort can be attempted. Remind Saturn to be patient, and tell Mars to cool its jets! And truly, in honor of Cancer energies, all hail Divine Mother! Aum Namah Shivaya! May Divine Mother bring healing and blessing to all Her children, and may all come to realize their oneness within the garment of God the Mother!
Posted by: Robert | June 30, 2007 at 07:29 AM