by Robert Wilkinson
The coming weeks take us into unknown zones of Spiritual futures as Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto are all in degree spans not experienced in close to a century or more. Expect the seed forces of Pluto in Sagittarius to show up in dynamic ways while Uranus opens a new year cycle for all. This future oriented tide of evolution will close some doors while blasting many new ones open for our inspiration, enjoyment, and ability to "light up our life" in new ways. These months continue to be an extension of new beginnings, resetting our ideals and relationship to collective mentality and unconsciousness. Saturnine Courage will yield major rewards as we dwell in unknown territory.
Jupiter and Saturn translate the energies of the outer Invisible Triad into widespread social influences within which our personalities operate in local conditions, however wide or narrow our field of influence. This period features a major stabilizing and harmonizing trine (120 degree) influence between Jupiter and Saturn. This period will set the choices and changes of the mid-December through early January Jupiter biseptile Saturn, a time when all of us confronted major forks in the road of our destinies. These choices are shaping our personalities toward a future on the way like an express train over the next few months.
Just after that, we had brief yet powerful Tredecile, a specializing time of unique interactivity that set future "serendipity" in the areas Jupiter and Saturn are transiting in our charts. This will bring many some very unique gifts perfect for their circumstances, or bring others's unique qualities into situations perfect for them. These unique interactive possibilities are being developed between now and mid-July 2007. After that we confront a "point of no return" between late July through mid-November 2007, when these two powerhouses form the last biseptile, first from Sag to Leo, then from Sag to Virgo after Saturn enters that sign.
What's happening with Saturn is especially important due to the on-going Saturn opposition Neptune persisting for many months to come. Keep narrowing your focus to get a better sense of, and handle on, the larger whole of your affairs, don’t get needlessly detached, and try to bring the ideal into reality while busting old illusions born of fear and releasing duties and limitations no longer appropriate to the new life Uranus has awakened these past two years. Saturn opposed Neptune is a general oppositional polarizing tension we're been dealing with since late 2005 and we'll be living with through Summer 2007.
This opposition is teaching us how to manage dualisms and tensions through balancing the reality and the ideal as they evolve over time. We recently had a lot of light shed on these issues when the Sun conjuncted Neptune and opposed Saturn, vitalizing and illuminating what we'll be acting on as Mars transits the tension zone from mid-to-late March. Given that the first part of March is still under the beams of the New Moon of February, approach the Aquarius-Leo opposition as a challenge to get balanced and find creativity in the realm of ideals, the collective consciousness and unconscious, and what love and friendship actually are as we learn to be the patient, mature, and methodical directors of our on-going Self-transformation.
Saturn is the means as well as the forms of expressing all the planetary energies, acting as the nozzle focusing things due to sitting opposite most of the planets. If we need anything in any situation, we must look to Saturn during this time to find our "perfect self expression," even if it may not look like it. Everyone on Earth is subject to Dharma, or "true functioning." Saturn represents Dharma, and in Leo, it's helping us mature in our self-expression, pleasures, and enjoyment of how we're doing our Being. You can find out more by going to the article January-February-March 2007 - Saturn in Leo Is Helping Us Achieve Focus.
Saturn will be a major player in all the shifting Jones Patterns over the coming weeks. It's been the nozzle of the bundle between Scorpio and Pisces, and now that Venus is leading the way into Aries, Taurus, and Gemini in the near future with Sun, Mercury, and Mars following, we'll begin to feel more of a "Locomotive" Pattern, with Jupiter opening the occupied span and Saturn closing it. This is important, since Jupiter is in a wide conjunction with Pluto, teasing the expansion of those Plutonic seeds in preparation for their rapid sprouting late this year.
Neptune and Pluto are still in septile, and therefore anchoring The Grand Irrationality. This was dynamically triggered by the December transits of the inner planets through the Sagittarius sector of this extremely important influence indicating the strange, weird, irrational, obsessive-compulsive energies boiling to the top of many personalities and situations. It is part of why there continues to be a hard edge to our lives, as collectively we are at a fork in the road of human evolution.
The past few weeks the inner planets moved through the Aquarius zone of this energy field and set off important changes and choices that may not have made much sense, but we had to make them anyway. It's been the forward edge of future "destiny" by how we've been greeting the weirdness of the NOW. Late January and early February intensified the process, since it boosted what happened last Autumn. Mars kicked off changes January 10-15 followed by Venus in the Aquarian hot zone January 17-21 and Mercury there January 25-29. In February the Sun illuminated and helped us integrate between February 6-12, and by late February Venus' entry into the the early Aries zone activated three points of the Seven Pointed Star with the Moon occupying the Cancer zone February 27.
In March and April, The Grand Irrationality will be triggered numerous times. The first zone is March 1-3, when Venus occupies the Aries span. The next hot spot is March 20-28, when Mars septiles Pluto and conjuncts Neptune, setting major forces into motion determined by how we have handled recent choices made when the inner planets also made those aspects. This is followed by the Sun moving into the Aries span from March 29 to April 4. The pattern is stimulated again when Venus goes through early Gemini from April 12-16 and Mercury goes through early Aries from April 15-18.
As you can gather, The Grand Irrationality has certain zones that trigger its effect. At present these points are approximately 26-30 Sagittarius, 18-23 Aquarius, 10-14 Aries, 2-6 Gemini, 23-26 Cancer, 14-18 Virgo, and 5-9 Scorpio. If you want to know more about this energy and how this span has moved over time, go to article linked above, since the points listed there show the degrees that were most affected from December 2006-February 2007. As I noted earlier, now all the transpersonals are moving into new territory we haven't experienced for many decades, even centuries.
The Moon's transit of any of the hot zones will trigger the entire septile series aspects set up by Neptune septile Pluto. In the coming two months, the Moon adds another point to the Grand Irrationality when it transits Virgo on March 3-4, 31, and April 27-28, Scorpio on March 7-8 and April 4, Aries on March 19 and April 16, Gemini on March 23 and April 19, and Cancer on March 26-27 and April 23. It also triggers the pattern as it moves through conjunctions in the Sag zone March 12-13 and April 8-9, and the Aquarius zone March 16-17 and April 12-13.
Thus a large view shows that March 3, 31, April 4, and April 15-16 are exceptionally important times, as we'll have 4 points of the 7 pointed Star active involving things affected by the Moon, Sun, Mercury, Venus, Neptune and Pluto in our charts. Depending on which ones are active, this will includes houses and planets under the influence of Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, and Libra, as well as the houses the transits occupy in our charts.
These are the areas where you are being directly affected by the general irrationality. By staying on top of where these zones are triggered by outer events symbolized by the transiting planets, we are given a heads up on what’s coming. During transits to any of the 7 zones of influence, expect shifts, changes, forks in the road, irrational or compulsive behavior in self or others, and important times of decision.
All septile series aspects indicate an on-going weirdness, strange choices, crucial decisions, and general edginess and the sense that forces beyond our control are at work. Not necessarily bad, as long as we remember that we may not be able to reason our way through what's happening and the energy doesn't get too crazy or destructive. This aspect set moves us to make choices that affect our potential "higher destiny." The days mentioned above are the times when the generic weirdness is triggered, and bring decisions that may not make much sense but have to be made anyway.
During the past two months, Pluto has occupied 28 and 29 Sagittarius, a span we haven't experienced in 250 years, mas o menos. More on the meaning of this a few paragraphs down. In March-April it will stay locked down on 29 Sag, as it hits its retrograde station on March 31 at 3:44 pm PDT.
For the first three weeks of March, Neptune is at 21 Aquarius, then occupies 22 Aquarius for the rest of the forecast period. We haven't known this transit for over 150 years, and what presents itself will profoundly affect the atmosphere in June, July, and August 2007, giving us information we will have to use wisely between the Winter Solstice at 10:08 pm PST December 21, 2007 through the end of February 2008.
Due to things that were unveiled in 2006, we recently had to rise to some occasion, show our strength, and use everything at our disposal to deal with "an exaggeration of life-problems" revealing our truth and expanding us. To the degree we did this, we've already begun to reap rewards from Spirit for moving through our crises with indomitable courage and strength. We're now in virgin territory on a collective consciousness level. Whenever the outers enter a zone they haven't occupied for a whole cycle, it introduces new dimensions of transpersonal experience.
The first three weeks of March we're called to be sensitive to how we can move through disappointments with resilience, fortitude and courage, retiring in whatever way we need to in order to capitalize on circumstances that will show us a "spiritual justification." A few days after the Vernal Equinox at 5:08 pm PDT on March 20, Neptune will occupy a span where we need to learn appreciation and show an eagerness to learn to live more fully, richly, and warmly. For some, a "luxurious self-knowing, or self-appreciation."
By March 11 Uranus will be in a zone it hasn't occupied for about 80 years. In 2005-2006 we all awakened to a new "higher law" that required that we "walk on" and move into a greater spiritual individuation. This revolutionized our lives in some way and opened the doors to enter a new way of life. We've all had to show courage in recent months and confronted ordeals in our search for a higher truth challenging us to stand up for our ideals.
The past two months we've gotten the results of facing our inner fears and becoming more physically, emotionally, and mentally ready, willing and able to move into a larger realm. We've now proved our worth or qualifications and gotten rewards, techniques of protection and camouflage, as well as opportunities to rehearse our new individuality in dramatic or important circumstances.
After March 11, Uranus will help us through unexpected or unusual circumstances into the source of strength behind and around all manifestations and "deep, vibrant realization." Commune in silence to find your gift to offer your society, something that fills a collective need. Go inward to find major inspiration, then allow it to express as a form of self-improvement, rebirth and renewal of faith through picking up some "challenge." By mid-April, get ready to revise your ideas back to source which can open up an entirely new environment and a much wider view. For some, it will mean presenting yourself and your works to a public for approval, applause, and wider recognition.
There are many very favorable aspects in March and April from the inner planets to Pluto in Sagittarius, Neptune in Aquarius, and Uranus in Pisces. During March, Mercury is favorable to all three, though in early April it will square Pluto. Venus makes favorable aspects to all three in March, and in April squares Neptune early and Uranus late in the month. Mars is also favorable to the Transpersonal planets the entire forecast period.
In fact, we should see generally smooth sailing the next few weeks, until the heavy Grand Mutable Cross in late April involving Moon in Virgo, Venus in Gemini, Mars conjunct Uranus in Pisces, and Jupiter in Sag. Driven by the heavy Jupiter square Uranus, this will produce fracturing that will quicken what is being revolutionized. I'll discuss that important configuration in a future article.
Overall this time is one of allowing recent fusions and initiatives to catch fire using trines to Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto assisted by sextiles and quintiles to Neptune. The beginning of the period is giving us a threshold platform from which to launch our future once Mercury goes stationary direct on March 7 at 8:45 pm PST. Everything will quicken tremendously by the Vernal Equinox, so prepare to launch!
The Cardinal (activating) signs are Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn, The Fixed (stabilizing) signs are Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, and the Mutable (distributive) signs are Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. Planets in Fixed signs configure dynamically with Neptune, while planets in Mutable signs challenge Uranus and Pluto. This is a time of fusion and renewal, so continue to practice right action while releasing whatever isn't working any more. We are in a time of new beginnings, emergent awareness, and wider dedications, so look to the future.
Pluto continues to put long term pressure on people with birthdays in the third weeks of March, June, September, and December. If you have a birthday during these periods, go to the core of your being and clean up your magnetism to regenerate your heart. Be a pioneer, show self-control, concentrate, and throw off the chains in your mind that keep you powerless. Let go of obsessive or compulsive feelings and people, and purify however you need to, becoming the "captain of your own fate."
Pluto's nature is "economy of energy," and it tends to make our lives more efficient through annihilating obsolete life factors. Banish the corrupt, corrosive, or dishonest elements in your life, and regenerate the seeds of power in the houses it influences in your charts. Pluto's long range influence is presently most personally disruptive to those with a Sun, Ascendant, or planet between 26 and 30 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.
In past months, Pluto's powerful transformative energies have been at 28-29 Sagittarius, where we built a new dedication, a new consecration to a collective ideal, and found an “endowment beyond realization…” Recent radical transformations offered us a form of unique, more permanent self-expression. We had opportunities to focus intelligence to master the form of things, and should have come to a more sure understanding of who we are and the core of our being.
These themes evolved toward finding elegant, beautiful, and practical forms to link the best of the past with the need of the present in January, introducing a need for exercise of some sort to become more fit for our future goals in February. January showed us "enduring elements of understanding as symbols of the community," helping us stabilize and coordinate our life more effectively. These will be important themes from June through November 2007.
February helped us build our conscious determination through persistent endeavor. These were/are the further manifestation of a new power and effectiveness in the houses ruled by Aries, Scorpio, and Sagittarius. Whatever we learned that led to our rededication to a larger goal or purpose in 2006 gave us imagination, potency, detachment, and an ability to anticipate what's coming. This theme will continue throughout March and April, as Pluto sits steady on 29 Sag.
A final note on Pluto. When the outer "spiritual" planets are involved in an eclipse, they will exert a very big influence during the time span of that eclipse. Since Pluto went stationary retrograde last March 29, the day of the Solar Eclipse in Aries. (More at this link), we will continue to see powerful social revolutions changing our world dramatically.
These Plutonic influences were unleashed by Mars' transit of late Sag on the eclipse degree and its conjunction with Pluto January 13. When Mars transited the first two degrees of Capricorn in the third week of January, it began future reverberations that will take dramatic shape December 2007 when Sun, Mercury, and Jupiter are in early Capricorn just preceding Pluto's first entry into Capricorn since 1762 between January and June, 2008. The new evolution revolution should be taking shape in some fairly specific ways. More at this link.
Neptune continues to make life somewhat strange, unclear, or even very weird for people with birthdays the second week of February, May, August, and November. If you have a birthday during these times, let go of self pity or feelings of inadequacy, and be resolved to do whatever needs to be done to come out of uncertainty, doubt, and confusion. Get clear about your role, release drifting through things that don't interest you, and find the light of your highest ideal. At this time in history, Neptune's long-range influence is presently most confusing to those with a Sun, Ascendant, or planet between 18 and 24 degrees of Aquarius, Taurus, Leo, and Scorpio.
2005 brought evolutionary accelerations, shortcuts to penetrating insights, greater faith, long-range management issues requiring intuitive foresight, and new ideals and ways of expressing them. Much was revealed and repolarized in late 2005 due to Fixed T-squares and Grand Crosses fracturing old ways of doing our being forever. Old ideals and delusions were shattered. In 2006 we had to rise to some occasion and be of indomitable Spirit. We learned how to maintain those skills in Summer and Autumn, and what was unveiled led to rewards from Spirit for what we rose to since February 2006.
November-December 2006 finished the "unveiling" that began in Spring 2005 preparing us to rise to important challenges mobilizing us in January 2007 that brought rewards in February. We are learning resilience despite difficulties, and perseverence in finding inner strength. In March and April, cultivate gratitude and openness to opportunities to grow safely and happily.
Uranus continues to evoke revolutionary developments or needed renovations and creative renewing in the houses in our charts ruled by Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. Its influence is associated with disruptive and/or unexpected changes that challenge us to individuate. Uranus currently affects most strongly those with birthdays the first two weeks of March, June, September, and December. If you have a birthday during these periods, learn cooperation, flexibility, and try to innovate and synthesize things into a newer, broader view. Uranus' long-range influence is presently most disruptive to those with a Sun, Ascendant, or planet between 13 and 20 degrees of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.
In 2005 we completed old business and furthered our dedication to a group purpose through standing up for an ideal. We were summoned to rebirth and challenged to "hear the call," after which we quickened the pace and had to drop excess baggage preparing for higher responsibilities. We also learned to "fly by the seat of our pants," demonstrating a form of mastery resulting from our dedication to an ideal, our willingness to persevere, and our hustle. We used these skills throughout 2006 in rehearsing what’s now at hand in 2007.
In early 2006 we quickened again, dropped more unnecessary considerations, and got ready to live a new way of life promised by the Uranus retrograde station of last year. We’ve now entered new areas of self-dedication and an awakening by the "conscious mind to the intuitive Soul realms." The keynote is "the capacity inherent in every individual to seek at whatever cost entrance to a transcendent realm of reality." We have now been "guided into the sanctuary," and have been tested in our purity of heart, our awareness, our maturity, and our spiritual "self-mobilization."
This led to greater responsibilities and ways to prove a greater courage and fearlessness. In the past 2 years, we’ve all endured ordeals, re-affirmed our purpose through a higher realization of truth, and are moving into a new faith. Those who were inconsistent, hypocritical, clutching, fearful, or tried to hide from what was being revealed experienced the "emptiness of dread." We've had to move forward while proving our ability to accept the role we have declared our own.
Spring 2006 gave forms of camouflage to those who are leading a "consecrated life." Those protective forms were important in August and are important during February-March 2007. Last July we rehearsed, preparing for "the battle to come." Expect more of this in March 2007.
Other themes from Summer 2006 included having our personal worth certified and finding protective shielding to avoid unnecessary exposure to harsh social judgments. By November 2006 we should have known beyond doubt which Sanctuary we've entered, what ordeals we've gone through, and what dedication we've committed to. January and February 2007 again forced us one last time to prove our qualification, show courage, use our protective shielding, and rehearse before moving into the unknown realms of March through June 2007.
As noted earlier, important aspects concerning these outer invisible influences, "forces beyond our control," are infrequent during March and April with the major influence being Jupiter square Uranus. This will show us how focused we are, as well as how we can be distracted into sudden sideways explosions. Get oriented, put your drive in gear, and get ready to show your individuality in a new expansion. 15 through 21 degrees of Gemini and Virgo are the antidotes, so use discrimination and curiosity wisely, be practical as well as a good juggler, and adapt!
April has more dynamic aspects to the outer planets than March, so kick it into overdrive in March, and prepare to make adjustments in April. Early April has Venus square Neptune and Mercury square Pluto, so keep your conception of things while not getting distracted by the negatives or you'll lose equilibrium. Be independent in your judgments, bust lies and misconceptions, and focus on anticipating what's to come. Find ways to exploit your problems in terms of their significance to others, develop your insights into human motives, folly, and inexperience, and adjust to the normal course of affairs. Look for those who are cooperative rather than distractive. The Mercury-Pluto antidotes are 29 Gemini and Virgo; the Venus-Neptune antidotes are 22 Leo and Scorpio.
The primary hot zones will be when the Moon forms T-squares with the Mutable planets on March 3-4, 24, from March 30 through April 1, and April 27-28. Other hot zones occur when it squares the Fixed opposition of Saturn opposed Neptune on March 9, 22, April 5, and April 18-19. The fixed T-squares occur with great frequency at this time in history and help release all the building energies in dynamic focus.
T-squares integrate the strength of an opposition, unlike Grand Crosses, which diffuse energy. Stay alert to an almost continual ability to redirect energy according to your focus, whether breaking up stagnant conditions or stabilizing new ones through flexibility, adaptability and receptivity.
All in all, March and April should quicken our lives and open us to new initiatives and pioneering ways of self expression as well as relationships. The waves that appeared in December 2006 are rapidly expanding, and though there may be intense moments, this is a time to take heart and see the hopeful wider life being offered. We can now understand and stabilize our higher Saturnine destiny, showing “Spiritual linkage through emotional stress,” and the blessings that follow linking the above and below within us as we let go of useless attitudes and actions.
Imagine, accept, be willing to be yourself and your living heart-fire on your own terms, and whatever purifications need to be done will yield a more mature and stable way of being your Highest Self. As with the past few months, go deeper into our experience of life at its deepest levels, let your new beginnings be harmonized with fiery energies lending permanence to the heart issues, and practice doing many things simultaneously while seeing how things are connected, or not, and what part each plays in the greater picture.
Over the next few months we will continue to receive more rewards from Spirit, and the future beckons! The seeds of the future now stand revealed, and will take flight between March and June 2007. Though things will seem very intense due to the Jupiter square Uranus, it’s actually a great time of opening after a year of being bound to concentration and purification. Many new cycles began in late November and early December 2006 that will affect us in 2007, so continue to practice your originality, uniqueness, and special talents as the waves begin to give us the ride of our life!
© Copyright 2007 Robert Wilkinson
Robert,
I genuinely hope we shall meet one day. If I can feel your wonderful energy and Spirit from here it would be such an enjoyment of sharing space and presence with you. That was a ridiculously long post and gave me so much to digest, I am still flabbergasted with how you write so much among so much else in your life I would imagine. There is so much fusing together and thank you again for helping to articulate the energies at play. It is fascinating how my heavily focused Virgo energy is in that oppositional state with heavy hitting Uranus - every second of my awareness at times feels the change taking place.
I just reread the 2012 link from this article. I don't even have the imagination to ponder that string of potent alignments yet! I recently got back out snowboarding though so I appreciate how flow of mind gives one the ability to find true gratitude and depth within the change and maybe even wearing a smile. Saturn Return here I come!
Namaste my friend,
Carson
Posted by: Carson | February 23, 2007 at 07:22 PM
Sounds great lets see how real you are then...
Posted by: Sarah Tallbird | February 24, 2007 at 02:56 AM
Hi Carson - Well, I'm in Southern California, and often go to NY out to the Hamptons, less frequently to other distant climes. Yes, it is a "ridiculously long post" but my writing seems to take on a life of its own and before I know it, it's become the article that ate Cleveland. I don't like breaking it into two parts, since those who subsequently stumble onto part two often don't realize there's a part one to read first, for some strange human reason! And of course my answers here tend to get long, since there's a lot to explore with people that can't be done in 20 word fragments.
Yes, my life is definitely full, and I tend to enjoy 99% of it by design. Wouldn't want to slouch through life and die wishing I had had a better attitude about it all. That's why a looooong time ago I decided to try to find an integral approach to our very curious reality, and after years of diligent study of all manner of things, I realized there really is a "Wisdom Tradition" that cuts across various sectors of reality, and it can be explored without getting whacked out in problematic directions (having done so frequently when younger! ;-))
Yes, I can definitely identify with your statement "every second of my awareness at times feels the change taking place." That indicates a major leap in conscious living, since it seems that hyperawareness of the interconnectedness of many things in the NOW is the result of all so-called "spiritual practices" like meditation, dharma seva, the karma yoga of good deeds done unselfishly, and so forth. In astrology I call that being in tune with Uranus, Neptune, and/or Pluto, since these are the triple tone of the Universal Mind as we know It. Any time any of these conjuncts or opposes a planet or sensitive point in our chart, it's a gateway to the beyond that leads us to the NOW.
We'll digest the lessons of "The Road to 2012 and beyond" one day at a time for 1800 days to come and many moments afterwards. I think we're all learning to flow through experiences in the 3 dimensions of human evolution (personal, interpersonal, transpersonal) through learning how not to wind up in funky places clutching at illusions and harsh judgments about whatever. And that, for sure, is a mindfulness exercise few outgrow until the state of Jivanmutka. And no one becomes Jivanmutka without making Saturn their friend, so congrats on the coming friendship of the Saturn return! You'll certainly learn what you can and cannot live with, and through applying yourself to the "unlived life" have a whole new adventure in achieving dominion over your affairs while throwing off old chains of false limitations.
Hi Sarah Tallbird - Welcome to the site. Don't quite know what you mean by "real." Or "then." I'm pretty unreal. Most people who know me would agree with that statement. And "then" is either an adverb, adjective, or noun depending. ;-)
Posted by: Robert | February 24, 2007 at 09:11 AM
hi robert,
ok am waiting with baited breath...well, not that dramatic!!! but looking forward to march- april quickening.
some interesting configs and this answers a lot personally & collectively.
so, once again thanx for this...and thanx for merc retro info... :))
didn't purchase electronic stuff and feel more empowered for not being pressured to do so. :))
anyway, sounds like, feels like this quickening has a prep to it and we are in prep stages....
so, chop some wood, carry water and await on the will of heaven
namaste
m
Posted by: michele | February 28, 2007 at 01:20 AM
Robert, what can you say about someone, who is Capricorn sun, Virgo Moon and Venus in Aquarius? Are they too detached for my Scorpio moon? Thank you
Posted by: Larissa Pond | February 28, 2007 at 06:37 PM
Hi Michele - Well, the Grand Fire Trine should bring some lightening to all of us. And yes, to defer is not to abandon. It's all related to when we launch any given "boat" of activity. Glad you're empowered to do as you need to do without feeling strange that waiting is not always such a bad thing. Actually, we've been preparing for about a year and a half, and about to flame on!
Hi Larissa - Well, compatibility involves a whole lot of factors. In this case, Scorpio gets along with Capricorn and Virgo, so there is productivity in how your Lunar energy relates to their Shiningness and Feelings. As for Venus in Aquarius, well, there could be any number of things in a chart that would affect that in many ways, too many for a comment stream. Aquarius on the whole gets along with other Fire and Air signs, just as Earth and Water signs also get along.
Posted by: Robert | February 28, 2007 at 08:49 PM
Thank you. I sort of feel cardinal approach in Capricorn, I guess each of us will be talking about our own things on the agenda, since I am Aries, cardinal also. Oh well, I don't know then. We can remain friends, as we are and not to proceed to a next level. I guess my Venus in Taurus will need more emotional and secure embrace, then what Aquiarian can give. Thank you, Robert.
Posted by: Larissa Pond | March 01, 2007 at 05:29 PM
Hi Larissa - As the echoes fade over time of things past and mythologies fulfilled, relax into the beginnings. A Cap-Aries combo usually does well as long as the Cap doesn't try to fix "what ain't broke." I'm sure he's very practical and detached, and while that's good for you, as you noted with Venus in Taurus (like moi!) that you need a "more secure embrace." Despite your fire, you're fundamentally a gentle Soul. Venus in Aquarius is a good sign for our tribe, but much depends on their Mars and what turn of the evolutionary spiral they're on. And if a Capricorn goes jealous, it'll last about a minute. If spiritually responsible, maybe a few lifetimes.
Posted by: Robert | March 01, 2007 at 06:18 PM
I am so glad you are out there, Robert.
I didn't know Capricorn can get jealous, he seems so polite, gallant and patient with expressing himself, simple and practical, yet intelligent and observant. I am not initiating anything, I am just here, observing my own interraction with him, carefully. I sense how his brain works behind the curtain, coming slowly with some plans. This man is in no rush, as it seems. Pure friendship now and maybe it should remain. and his Mars is in Virgo. I bet my fire will die before it has any chance to show. I can't be myself with this person then. Interesting. Hmm.. Thank you.
Posted by: Larissa Pond | March 01, 2007 at 08:00 PM
Robert, you three times like me, Aries, Leo rising and Venus in Taurus. I guess your Moon is different from mine. I wish my moon is not Scorpio moon, but something else. Scorpio moon likes to hide at home and loving it! :-) Thank you again.
Posted by: Larissa Pond | March 01, 2007 at 08:05 PM
Hi Larissa - Well, all signs get jealous one way or another in their lower manifestations. Cap men usually aren't, and are VERY hard workers, almost too responsible if my friends are any indication. Friendship is always the best way to begin any long term relationship, regardless of gender. Don't affirm your fire will die since it may not! And of course you can be yourself - the trick is to find the best self to be, and that can take on a hundred facets depending on the circumstances.
My Moon is in Aquarius, which brings its own gifts and problems. With Moon in Scorpio and Venus in Taurus, don't maneuver yourself out of perfectly good opportunities by failing to assert the deeper, more subtle aspects of your personality. Allow your very pleasant and enjoyable Venus to help your Moon not be so discontent, or dig when it should be relaxing. Those two planets in your chart get along great with his Capricorn and Virgo, so take heart and be patient, Aries!
Posted by: Robert | March 02, 2007 at 11:27 AM
Hi Robert: I agree with the part that I should not dig, but relax. I will try. This week is very hard emotionally.
Posted by: Larissa Pond | March 02, 2007 at 08:34 PM
Hi Larissa - You're still walking between worlds, so take care of yourself. Sit with the spaciousness, listen to your heart and inner voice, and try not to allow the external world to pressure you. You're just barely at the beginning of a new life, and still healing. Keep everything simple, gentle, enjoyable, easy. You have adventures coming that are perfect for your Aries/Leo - just settle into a different rhythm of events, and take a deep breath while you love yourself and those you care for, near and far.
Posted by: Robert | March 03, 2007 at 07:57 AM
I will do that. You are wonderful, Robert. I am heading to a massage and will relax all weekend. I will take a deep breath and will exhale all the pain
Posted by: Larissa Pond | March 03, 2007 at 08:12 AM
Hi Robert,
"Due to things that were unveiled in 2006, we recently had to rise to some occasion, show our strength, and use everything at our disposal to deal with "an exaggeration of life-problems" revealing our truth and expanding us..."
This is the first time I've stumbled into your websphere, wow! Now I understand what the heck's been going on in my life.
Three months ago my Scorpio husband (I'm a Virgo) of 23 years announced he wanted a divorce, a decision he had apparently been contemplating over the past year and a half. He moved out to temporary lodgings last week. I'm pretty sure he himself is not sure "why" or whether he's done the right thing.
I went through an amazingly painful period of "emptinesss of dread" or "dread of emptiness" (a nervous breakdown). I've recently come out the other side and am feeling unusually unafraid. I can't remember ever feeling so fear-less, actually. I feel that I can trust living in the now, even do so effortlessly, and let the future unfold on its own.
I'm wondering what the outcome will be, whether we'll have separate new beginnings or whether we'll have a new beginning together. Both of us are in a place we've never been before.
Everything that's happened seems so very much like what you've been writing about. Thanks for your insights.
Posted by: Nurite | March 03, 2007 at 02:37 PM
Hi Nurite - Glad I can help make sense of our weird times. And of course, once an illusion is busted, then we get to see much more clearly than before, and take back our power to shape our future in forms more satisfactory than our past. And of course, you're most welcome.
Posted by: Robert | March 04, 2007 at 05:29 PM
Hi Robert,
Honestly, I don't know how you are able to write so much. I've read the same paper a few times and get something new out it each time. I don't think I've ever come across anything like this on the www.
I have a couple of questions I hope you don't mind addressing.
First, regarding my marriage (see my comment above), should I not be angry or hurt just because the stars and planets made him do it? Seriously, according to your analysis, we should all be throwing off certain relationships and embracing new beginnings. But a 23 year relationship?! Should this be shrugged off lightly?
Second, I began writing a book and would actually like to see myself complete it and try to get it published. I would even like to see it made into a movie. The only problem is that I'm not a professional writer and the whole concept of the book is very complex. I would love for the universe to send me a co-writer! Any chance that's in the stars for me?
Sept 15, 1954
5:35 AM
Israel
Thanks again for your awesome papers.
Posted by: Nurite | March 05, 2007 at 11:35 AM
Hi Nurite - I'm fairly different than any other astrologer, so it's no surprise that there's nothing like this anywhere on the web. To address your concerns: I never believe that any relationship should be shrugged off lightly, but I also know there are few hells like living with someone who isn't your friend and really doesn't want to be there or want you around. Been there, and it's wearying to the Soul. Better no one than someone who is indifferent or cruel.
It's not so much that we SHOULD be throwing off relationships, but any that are thrown off are those that just don't work, and one or both aren't into it. Sorry he bailed, but you're probably right about last year, since Jupiter was in Scorpio offering that sign new opportunities in wider areas. Each responded in their own way.
As for writing professionally, as a published writer I'll just tell you the entire industry is in chaos and most writers, even of best sellers, get ripped off by the publisher unless they're Steven King or someone of his stature. Get your sense of chapter order, then write and write, and don't worry about how perfect. Just write whatever is in your heart and mind, assemble the pieces the best you're able, then see what's missing, and fill in the gaps however you can. Take notes about what doesn't seem to work, as well as other things you just can't figure out. THEN you need a couple of unpaid "readers" you trust (usually friends who know you and something about language) who can offer you useful suggestions about style, flow, content, order, etc. Or a paid reader who has some expertise in such things. Then it's time to get an editor who can work with you. I have been both reader and editor for other authors, and while it can be somewhat expensive and time consuming (depending on what you submit), you want as polished a product as possible before submitting it around. As for a movie, write the book first, as it will give you leverage when it's negotiation time. And you're welcome.
Posted by: Robert | March 05, 2007 at 01:42 PM
Hi Robert - You really are wonderful, thanks for your help. I will follow your guidance for the book.
Posted by: Nurite | March 05, 2007 at 11:54 PM
Hi, I stumbled on to your website while looking for information with regards to Mercury retrograde. It's facinating, thank you. I have very little knowledge on astrology but your articles beg me to understand more.
My Sun is in Virgo, my rising is in Scorpio and Mercury is in Libra. What does that mean? I have experienced a lot of ebe and flow in my life for the past few years. Over the last several years I have been working on Self. It is a wonderful feeling knowing who I am, what I truly want and desire, but now I feel as though I am ready for real life. I do feel my life is changing.I am ready for a true and real relationship with someone. Are the changes that I'm feeling going in that direction? I'm sorry for such a basic question, but, I have had my family, worked hard to provide for them and now they are on their journey. I am constantly working self, and ready to share that with someone. Thank you
Posted by: Teresa | March 08, 2007 at 08:18 PM
Hi Teresa - Welcome to Professor Robert's cantina. Your Sun, Asc, and Mercury positions can mean the proverbial 10,000 things. Among them is a public life where you must avoid needless power struggles. Mars is currently anchoring a new self image, and showing you how to adapt through following your curiosity into multiple mental disciplines. And of course, when Saturn enters Virgo you may expect a new life to present itself, along with rewards for doing your thing for the past 29 years. While it may bring endings, it will also bring authorship and recognition for however your light has expressed itself. 2008 begins a new 29 year period, so beginning September 2007, take it easy, conserve your energy, and play to your maturity and experience.
Posted by: Robert | March 09, 2007 at 09:03 AM
Good morning Robert,Thank you. I have witnessed endings, I have purged so much, I am now a blank canvass,deciding what to paint next......I feel the new life within, the excitement of it all. Knowing is a great peace for me... Authorship? What do you mean?
Posted by: Teresa | March 09, 2007 at 09:21 AM
Hello again, One more question for you. What would you suggest as a read for someone with a desire to learn more about astrolgy? Is there Astology 101?
Posted by: Teresa | March 09, 2007 at 09:45 AM
Hi Teresa - We are all "authors" of our lives, and produce many things in the course of that life. Authorship is the expression of our heart and creativity in any one of 10,000 forms. As for learning more about astrology, I would suggest "Astrology for the Millions" by Grant Lewi and "The Astrology of Personality" by Dane Rudhyar. Both should be available at a used bookstore. Then if you want more, try "Heaven Knows What" by Grant Lewi, and "The Astrologer's Handbook" by Sakoian and Acker. Definitely check out your local bookstore, and if possible, buy from the smaller bookstores rather than the big boxes. Or get them used at a reduced rate from amazon. There are others, so once you've digested these, let me know and I'll come up with some titles.
Posted by: Robert | March 09, 2007 at 10:17 AM
Thank you for everything. Enjoy your weekend!
Posted by: Teresa | March 09, 2007 at 11:18 AM
Hi, Being the novice I am, I didn't mention my Moon in Cancer. Does that change anything,or impact a different area in my life. Again, sorry for what must be very simple questions to you.
Posted by: Teresa | March 09, 2007 at 01:42 PM
Hi Teresa - Thanks. I will enjoy my weekend. As for changing anything I've said, not really. It has its own meaning, though it will be productively impacted during the next two to three years when Saturn is in Virgo.
Posted by: Robert | March 09, 2007 at 02:19 PM
Alrighty then. Thanks again.
Posted by: Teresa | March 09, 2007 at 03:14 PM
Hello Robert,
Sun Scorpio, Asc Scorpio, Moon Leo. I am at a place in my life (28) where world travel is calling my name. I feel traveling to other lands, observing and taking in other cultures will fill my soul. Bottom line, is what I am feeling real, and is the timing right? Opportunity is presenting itself now, which works for me, due to the fact I hate planning anything. Just going at a moments notice.
Posted by: Shawn | March 09, 2007 at 04:31 PM
Hi Shawn - Well, you're approaching your Saturn Return, showing you've hit your limit with some things, and the "unlived life" beckons. If your chart indicates world travel and you have opportunities, go for it. At 29 you learn the rules of the game, and must deal with whatever limitations or duties show up, since they condition what's up for the next 29 years, mas o menos. I suspect travel may be perfect for you.
Posted by: Robert | March 09, 2007 at 06:32 PM
hi there. i've lost my home and cat in the last few weeks, bought a car sold out to the bank and fallen in love with a long time friend (he's currently in an unhappy relationship) I don't know where its all going i'm a libran gragon of '76.
Posted by: marie | March 19, 2007 at 11:24 AM
Hi marie - My sincere condolences at the loss of your cat-teacher and your abode. Grieve and honor your cat however it's appropriate. Also, be careful of "marriages that begin in divorce." Stay a true friend, whatever that means. Libra is actually doing fairly well right now and into the near future. You, like everyone else, are "escaping from a narrow destiny." And the loss of one's cat-teacher with the home is certainly something that cuts you loose for greater adventures. Sit with the passages, honor the timeless bond of love, and get ready to move into new realms as the year progresses.
Posted by: Robert | March 19, 2007 at 05:38 PM
Hi Robert,
Thanks for the great articles on the eclipses, very illuminating. I'm 38, Taurus Sun/Virgo Rising/Libra Moon and I feel like the recent sets of eclipses have profoundly affected me and I'm trying to understand the bigger picture.
I started a new job after 5mos of unemployment and lost my mother to a long illness in October of last year with lots of family stress (I was with my family during the late Sept. eclipse), and then the house I was housesitting/living in while getting ready to find my own place burned in early Dec., a few after a huge explosive conflict with friends and the resulting chaos and hostility from several quarters has pretty much decimated my former social life and negatively affected my work environment so I've been healing and doing my best to rebuild.
On March 18th, the day of the recent eclipse, my lover (Cap sun/Libra rising/Scorpio sun) abruptly announced that he was moving in a few weeks which effectively ends our relationship so I'm reeling from that loss even tho I support his choice since he's going to grad school. It wouldn't be so rough if I didn't feel so raw and lonely due to the loss of so many friendships in such a short period so I am hoping to focus my energies in the best way possible during this time and not give in to lonliness and negative patterns of behavior and thoughts so I would appreciate any insights you have to offer. Blessings!
Posted by: Rainy | March 20, 2007 at 05:12 PM
Hi Robert, whew...this is good! Uranus has done a number on me Virgo/Libra cusp/Libra rising/Leo Moon in my 6th house since 2003 and has not let up. I've had to file suit against my employer and we've been battling for six months now & I've been unemployed for six months with no current prospects. This power struggle is really getting to me but I'm trying to remain steadfast in spirit that the universe will look out for me. I'm at such a crossroads with it all but I'm not going to give up or give in. Keep inspiring us all.
Phyllis
Posted by: Phyllis | March 22, 2007 at 07:18 AM
Hi Rainy - "Very illuminating?" I'll take that as pun intended. ;-) First, let me express my sincere condolences on the loss of your mom. You probably got a power or wisdom from the transition, so evaluate how your life and awareness has increased in wisdom since then.
Saturn has shown you a new light this past year or so, so continue to close out the old, as when it conjuncts your Asc you'll take on new responsibilities appropriate to your matured self. And yes, the eclipses of the past year have been in good aspect to your Sun while closing and opening present and future relationships. I've also lost quite a few people in my life due to death and misunderstandings. If they're your true friends, you cannot lose them. If they're not your true friends, then affirm you will attract people who could be your true friends. There are plenty of people out there who we could become friends with; we just have to attract them, or allow ourselves to be attracted to situations where we can find each other. We're all ONE in a vast field of Love-Light-Life, and there are many in our "Soul field" that we can travel with. Basically, while loneliness and negative patterns are common, they are also ego-based, and inherently unreal. Just practice the antidotes to the mental afflictions that perpetuate suffering, and over time you'll see a lot of things clear up and be able to experience your process with less suffering. Thanks for dropping in.
Hi Phyllis - Sounds like you're being prepared for a more liberated life. Saturn has no doubt matured your Lunar response, and deepened your sensitivity to what you really care about. Sorry you're stuck in a battle with someone who is draining you; try to have as many positive experiences as you can, then you'll be able to look back at this time as a liberating ordeal rather than an exhausting slog dancing with toads. And of course I'm glad I can inspire those who come here. We really do live in a great reality, jammed up only by misguided humans and our own fear of the unknown. And of course, there's nothing here on Earth that is so serious that it warrants us being in a non-loving state.
Posted by: Robert | March 22, 2007 at 08:35 AM
Hello Robert, I've just found your website and have been reading with interest your information on the Nodes, and the Saturn/Pluto square dynamics. I recently had an Evolutionary Astrology reading which I found to be extremely helpful, but he focused greatly on the Nodal aspects in my chart - North Node in Scorpio, 29deg/19', 5th house, with Saturn conjuncting @ 00deg.51' Sag. and Pluto squaring at 29 deg. 58' Leo. I'd never had a reading with that emphasis, with the focus being on pastlife/karma/where I've been through all my soul journeys, in North Node, and current life purpose and resolution reflected in the South Node and the Pluto T-square, Saturn thing creating an intense life path. He read me very well just from those aspects. Also, I've read that a Scorpio Node can indicate a living on the edge, attachment to drama and betrayals, waiting for the next "near death" experience, and it was indicated to me that the way through and out of that was to focus on the Taurean qualities of earth/of the senses sensuality/calming groundedness, with a good dose of self love thrown in - not that we don't all need that no matter what sign. Would you say that's your experience of Scorpio nodes?
Then I see that Saturn is coming along to conjunct natal Pluto and Square my Saturn. May I say it's already been 3 1/2 years of a loss/death cycle that has left me feeling depleted and dryed up, with pretty much all that was my life dissolved, with lots of unexpected betrayals and loss to spice it all up. Whew! So, as an energetic healer who has been on a self healing journey for over 20 years, who has lived a pretty conscious life and was doing what I've been called to do, my questions are about what energies am I dealing with, what is being asked of me when I've already lost my practice, and my dolphinswim work - both of which were sacred and in alignment with my life purpose - and we won't EVEN talk about the financial situation, OR relationship, and there are more challenging dynamics coming with Saturn/Pluto. I understand the forces for detachment, accepting loss, clearing old, burning off, etc. but now I have lost my perspective, questioning even my reason for being. This is not depression, this is wondering why I am here, if I am unable to be of service to the Divine because of this relentless pressure that is still not done, that has squeezed out even the hope and optimism that never left me through what has really never been an easy life experience. Fyi, I have Cancer Asc 14 Deg,10th house Aries moon, Mars in Pisces, Venus/Jupiter conj in Virgo, Sun/Nept. conj. And finally, I've noticed that Feb and March are mostly when I've experienced unexpected attacks and betrayals, or loss of relationships, over the last 3-4 years. Is there an astrological cycle that would speak to that? In closing, I want to thank you for your work, your wisdom so willingly shared, and the time you are taking to personally answer those seekers who have found you through this venue. Abundant Blessings. Katryn
Posted by: Katryn | March 22, 2007 at 12:33 PM
Hi Robert,
Thank you for your kind and thoughtful comments. I read your essay on grief today and it was helpful, it must have been terrible to loose you son and you are so generous to share with people who can be helped from your experience. I appreciate your comments, intellectually I know I'll have a strong base of friends again and a lover who is close to me and all those things, it's just hard being in that in-between time of healing and rebuilding. I think I've hit another low in the grief cycle and it helped to remember that I'm doing deep work as I've been distracted and unhappy at my job but I'm trying to trust in the inner process of transformation. Thank you for the link to your article on suffering, much of it mirrors what my therapist tells me and I am trying to cultivate more detachment but it's hard when sensitivity and overthinking are prominent.
I have been working on mending relationships in my family and going deeper into my yoga practice and creating a loving space in my home for when my roommate has her baby in early August so I am working on focusing on positive things as much as I can. I'm glad my Aries sister has hung in there with me, we've had a hard time this last year but she is very loving and forgiving and is making some major breakthroughs herself and I am trying to understand her point of view better since I tend to wall off in intimate situations which I have been working on changing for a while now.
I'm just still smarting for loosing my equilibrium last fall and having so many negative situations explode in such a short time when I was trying so hard to move through that time with grace and just couldn't maintain it despite my best intentions. I feel like I failed some tests of my strength and spirit, but that may be part of the lesson, that even strong people fall apart sometimes. I was meditating on a picture I have of Quan Yin the other day and had a deeper realization about compassion, that it can be a very humbling path to experience true compassion because in order to experience it you may have to live through experiences that leave you very raw and vulnerable. Thank you again for all your wonderful writing, I have been learning so much and feel your kind spirit in your words. Blessings!
Posted by: Rainy | March 22, 2007 at 01:33 PM
Hi Katryn - Welcome to the site. Don't worry about past lives - this one is the only one that matters from an evolutionary standpoint. Our purpose? We are here, now, and integrating our personalities to express our Higher Self the best we're able under local conditions constantly in flux. I don't give much importance to squares to the Nodes, since they are primarily active as a function of the Moon, since they are after all the Moon's Nodes. Scorpio NN does learn by pushing the envelope, not putting things on cruise control. And yes, ALL signs need "a good dose of self love." The Saturn transit is a turning point of your limits and crystalization of your Divine Pluto in Leo power. We're all being challenged by recent Fixed squares that forced us to learn new skills for a world yet to present itself. Open to learning new ways of serving the Divine. Your Asc is conjunct Sirius, so be the playful cetacean you are. The recent Eclipses will be very beneficial for you. Probably Feb/Mar are associated with transits to your 7th and/or 12th house rulers.
Hi Rainy - Sure. Glad my insights on grief are helpful, since it's the heaviest, and quickest way to break on through to the other side. And yes, we clear out the old to prepare to welcome the new, just like we breathe out old oxygen and breathe in new, while our blood friends circulate in and out and around and around. When we do deep work the outer world is often a big hassle and distraction, but it's good to keep as much as possible stable while we're doing transitional work. Put your job on cruise control for the time you're in the emotional rapids, and don't let it bug you just because you're dealing with other things.
Glad your therapist is helping guide you through the rapids, and of course, less suffering is always the goal. And it's EXACTLY when "sensitivity and overthinking are prominent" that we MUST cultivate detachment and dispassion. That's how we know we are mastering the ego. Yoga is good, mending relationships that need it is good, creating a loving space in your home is good. Last Autumn you "escaped from a narrow destiny" so don't lament the passages too much. Even if you seemed to fail, your creative imagination was stimulated, so you developed new patterns, always a good thing. And yes, one of the circumstances ALL humans have to deal with is going through "experiences that leave you very raw and vulnerable." That's how we learn unconditional Love. And of course, you're welcome.
Posted by: Robert | March 22, 2007 at 04:14 PM
Thank you for your comments. I feel sure that my cat is happy with his wives. I am also certain of having escaped a narrow destiny. I have sat alone in that house for long enough and am now ready to enter into relationship with all i find. My only worry is who is going to come aboard my ship as it is setting sail...I resist being dragged back and there are many patterns i must look at.
Posted by: marie | March 25, 2007 at 08:31 AM
Hi Robert
What a super site you have created, it's inspiring & promotes hope big time. Apologies too for 1st attempt @ joining your blog, having never done this before i think i mucked up. I've been avidly reading your articles... an exciting learning curve. Given that Pluto's current degree in the "Grand Irrationality" (transiting my 6th house) has been squaring my natal Pluto (3rd,24'Virgo)could this explain a huge shift in my circumstances? Also discovered my NN (8' Aries) in the GI effect too. Been off work due to ill health past 2 years & it seems every obsessive road i take on treatment is slow & erratic. Positives have meant the latter year able to indulge more deeply into my love of astrology & enjoy nature around me.
It seems that travel (3rd H)is taken away at present as it appears to knock me backwards physically. All very weird given i love to drive & travel abroad! Reading is a great escape. In hindsight i note Uranus conjuncted my MC just prior to this & i realise know that i was discontent with aspects of being career driven, hence illness result?
Anyways hoping Jupiter transiting 6th will help improve matters, mental ability returned after 6 months of brain fog. Job is due to be reviewed mid-April so trying to come to terms with probability of letting it go despite the upset. However, your words about saying goodbye to the old to leap & greet the new are inspiring. I'm affirming that a new adventure awaits that will assist me on my path & look forward to this happening along with the worlds evolution.
Love & light to you & all your readers H
Posted by: H | March 25, 2007 at 09:16 AM
Hi marie - You're welcome. Patterns come and patterns go, and all we need is mindfulness to pay attention to what is there as well as what isn't. On a much more important not, I'm sure your cat teacher rejoices that you have many local manifestations of the Great Cat to make you a better servant. After all, if you can serve them, you will learn how to serve him. And of course, any relationship that took away my ability to serve His Majesty would probably not last long. So as long as that's right, there's hope! ;-) My wife's cat feels the same way, so we knew it was a marriage made in Heaven.
Hi H - Thanks for your praise. Perseverence furthers, and maybe the cantina can be a place where we can generate some good things for each other and the world. You may find that there are article from a year ago or more that still have relevance and validity, or help explain why Autumn 2005 (for ex) was soooooo difficult.
Your Pluto was heavily affected by the Solar Eclipse of September 2006, so definitely read about that. There are several articles dealing with those eclipses, so check them all out, as it may give you valuable information about what's changed and why. NN in Aries favors pioneering efforts. Of course, recent and current transits to your NN show you're doing major evolutionary developments at this time, so it's probably good that you're taking advantage of growth via an Aries (my Sun is almost exactly conjunct your NN). I'm sure we'll discuss more about the health issues soon. Some of it is probably Spirit forcing you to translate your physical traveling into mental-spiritual traveling, so reading is more a focus than an escape, a means of going to distant regions in consciousness without the burden of TSA restrictions. Don't know, but "brain fog" could be the Saturn opposition Neptune, or Uranus and Neptune in mutual reception, or any number of other reasons, since I know many who complain of such for varying lengths of time. Thanks for dropping in.
Posted by: Robert | March 25, 2007 at 02:44 PM
Hi, Robert
Also a newcomer to your site. Thank you for your insight and wisdom. I dare say poor Taurus.... I am a Taurus Sun/ Sag rising/ Moon Aries/Venus Aries/ Mars Leo/ Mercury Gemini.....this has been an atrocious several months...moved in Aug last year, met someone in Nov.--that just ended (Virgo---usually good for Taurus--sort of---but not this one) I am more fatigued than ever and wonder if there will be an end in sight anytime soon? A lot of fire in my birth chart with poor earth struggling to find center....help....
jacs
Posted by: jacs | March 28, 2007 at 05:29 PM
Hi Robert, many thanks for your comments, i let out a big phew... on reading them. Looking forward to further insights & avidly reading suggested articles. Feel blessed to have been steered toward your site.
Namaste H
Posted by: H | March 29, 2007 at 01:50 AM
Hi jacs - Welcome to the site. You're at the beginning of a 12 year self-image cycle, so open up your vision and stop getting stuck in old struggles. Allow your Earth to stabilize your fire without smothering it. Saturn has been restricting your energies, so you know how to conserve the bonfire instead of letting it all go up at once while giving away sticks to random passers-by. You're going to be doing MUCH better as Saturn and then Jupiter enter Earth signs between September 2007 and January 2008 and afterwards. Enjoy, and remember ya hoid it here foist!
Hi H - Glad to have you aboard the spaceship. Enjoy exploring some of the better past articles that are still timely, and by the time we do your reading you'll know a lot more than you've known before about what's up and why.
Posted by: Robert | March 29, 2007 at 11:56 AM
Dear Robert-
Thank you so much for the ray of hope! September is a long way away.....I was hoping for a little breath of air by mid April when we move into Taurus! There is actually a lot that is coming up for me in getting ready for 2008. The last four years have been losses upon losses--all varying degrees and some quite serious (my sister who was only 41) moving 2 times in a 3 yr. span. I am slowly trying to learn that everything changes, there is no permanence and this is a hard way to learn, but perhaps the only way. Life has to get better. Not sure what you mean about handing out stick to passer-bys --- are they lit? Or am I handing them to people so they don't fuel this bonfire any more than it already is? To say I feel somewhat torched and scorched would be mild! Taurus has to be pretty strong to rein in all that fire...hellish combo--- though I am glad Mercury is where is likes to be, at least for me.....I thought Saturn left me years ago....where it spent 2 years turning my entire life upside down six years ago... and it is still hemming me in? Oh boy.....so it is going into Virgo for 2 years? How does that have a positive effect on Taurus? Saturn is pretty intense wherever it wanders.....
Posted by: jacs | March 29, 2007 at 12:39 PM
Hi jacs - With your planets, sometimes you throw all the wood on the fire at once and then let others take flaming torches away, leaving you with not enough to maintain the fire as long as you'd like. It's a management issue. Taurus gets very attached to things being as they've been, and don't like being pushed out of their comfort zone. Saturn has been challenging your Taurus and Leo while it's been in Leo. When it goes into Virgo, an Earth sign, it harmonizes with Taurus. Jupiter is a friend to your Fire this year, and when it enters Capricorn later this year will befriend your Taurus as well. Relax, get inspired, and go with the Fire.
Posted by: Robert | March 29, 2007 at 03:13 PM