Significant planetary aspects days17 to 23
Gonna be a big week on Planet Earth! Get ready!!! Cause HERE IT COMES! There is LOTS of planetary turbulence to kick start our next 13 years of life! It’s a two page week ~ meaning I have two pages of aspects that my computer suggests I write about. And they are not any old baby teeny tiny kind of aspects either! These are decent sized, pay attention kind of aspects!
We have FIVE, count them, FIVE conjunctions between planets taking place this week ~ not including the Moon. Conjunctions promise new beginnings as other journeys come to an end in our life. In order, the new beginnings are Sun joined with Mercury; Mercury joined with Pluto; Mercury joined with Jupiter on the WORLD AXIS; Sun joined with Pluto; and Sun joined with Jupiter on the WORLD AXIS. All the stuff taking place on the World Axis promises public information that may be a bit shocking or unexpected even as it gives up insights into what has been going on.
As students of the sky, we know when planets change signs in the heavens, we rock and roll down here on the earth. As they move from one sign into another, the old sign has a “shout out” of sorts to say what his or her lesson was all about. We can even get a cosmic pop quiz of sorts to see if we were paying attention and learned what we were supposed to learn. That happens more with the “big guys” than the little ones, but the quiz is there if you are paying attention with the little ones too. It just doesn’t have as much weight.
When a planet enters a new sign, it takes a bit of time to adjust to as we settle into and try to figure out the new energy. We have SIX, count them, SIX planets/ sensitive points changing SIGNS this week! That is a lot! Especially with all those conjunctions too! Usually we notice if only ONE planet changes signs. The Karmic Nodes change signs out of Virgo/Pisces water/earth into Leo/Aquarius fire/air to begin a year and a half long journey, repeating where they were 19 years ago. Jupiter changes signs out of fiery, mutable Sagittarius into earthy, cardinal Capricorn to begin a year long journey, repeating where he was 12 years ago. Mercury enters Capricorn until January 7, 2008, making our speech more concrete and down to earth as Capricorn seeks to build structures high in the sky and in our lives. Vesta enters Aquarius. The Sun enters Capricorn until January 20, 2007 making our vision and solar purpose more concrete and down to earth as it seeks to build new structures and help us climb towards our ambitions and goals.
Now when the Sun and Mercury enter new signs, they generate kind of routine, smaller changes that happen every few weeks or so. We mark their progress with the seasonal changes. The fact these ingresses are happening while Jupiter moves INTO the SAME sign that they are entering makes it all so MUCH MORE DRAMATIC! They are all going to be competing for their part of the cosmic drama pie! So expect the holiday season to be full of what are you here for? and where do you want to go? kinds of questions. Also, for many of us, this will mark a kind of ending to our traditional holidays as the Jupiter/ Pluto aspect brings energy to bear on the structures of our families. Children grow up, parents age, grandchildren arrive, and we find ourselves “leaving home” so to speak ~ those kinds of changes.
So be gentle and kind with yourself and others. Not everyone is working on or with the same level of understanding (end of a 13 year cycle, major shifts in the sky, evolution, expansion, change) as you are. While they are FEELING the energy, they might not handle in the most appropriate or enlightened manner.
Jupiter entering Capricorn days after his conjunction with Pluto means he‘s ready to get right to work to build the next 13 years of your life. He’s going to barrel ahead, very quickly, moving up to 22:22 Capricorn by early May. He’s got your plans and his buddy Saturn is in practical, tactical Virgo in trine to him. I hope you made up your 13-year vision plan because Jupiter wants to start building SOMETHING! And you know how Jupiter gets when he has a hammer in his hand and nothing to bang away at!!! He causes trouble all over the place by being excessive and expansive as he roams the heavens looking for things to construct and bang away at. Have a to-do list for Jupiter to-do, other wise you might find yourself building OTHER people’s dreams or working on projects that Jupiter takes on only to keep himself busy.
Focus on what YOU want to create over the next 13 years and send Jupiter and his happy hammer in THAT direction. Remember you can construct your OWN life ~ or you can construct other lives for other people if you are not paying attention. If you’ve been thinking about what you want to build over the next 13 years, Jupiter will head in that direction with a mild bit of guidance or direction from you. Say, “On Jupiter!” like Santa calls out to his reindeer. If you haven’t been thinking about what you want to build, well, Jupiter is a wild and crazy gassy big guy with a hammer. He very well might build you a closet in the middle of your living room if you go out shopping and leave him to his own devices. So give Jupiter some work to do with his hammer. He is ready and raring to go!
The Karmic nodes move into new signs for a 1 ½ year journey, marking another rite of passage. They’ve been rolling backwards through Pisces and Virgo since June 22, 2006. The North Node of destiny has been in Pisces calling us towards our new path. Now Pisces isn’t always the clearest of signs so the Universe helped us by sending Saturn through Leo. Saturn in Leo allowed us to get in touch with what we deeply loved and wanted. Saturn was talking to the nodes during the last part of his journey in Leo and as he entered early Virgo. Saturn in Virgo says to you, “Now that you know what you want, let’s make a plan, a to-do list of the cosmic kind, to go and get it or create it for you.” (And tell Jupiter too! He’s working like a crazy hammering fool of a planet until mid-May.)
Of course, at this exact moment, you kind of collapse and go, “Well I absolutely have no idea how to do that!!” Fear not. You are about to learn how to do that ~ Saturn, our teaching planet, is in the sign of working with you, the cosmic apprentice building your life, to help you learn how to do it. But more about that later.
You might say “Well, what I want is right there in front of me but simply out of my reach. And, FURTHER MORE, I can’t get the people places or things involved to do what I want them to do!” If THAT is the case, you need to PUT DOWN the person place or thing you are fixated on. You’re obsessing about it. Put it down.
Think of it a bad old bad behavior. It IS tied to your bad old behavior category in some way, and IF you think about your chart you will see it. Put some cream on that itchy scab and cover it up with a band-aid. From now until the end of January, please leave that energy ALONE. Take all the energy you send towards it and let it flow back into you. Pull your fixation and obsession energy back in. Then redirect that energy, like you did when you were working at addressing your bad old behaviors a while back, toward what you CAN actually DO something about.
The person place or thing you are focused on may not be clear and won’t be ready to go forward themselves until the end of January (at the earliest) when Mars gets moving direct again. And, worse case scenario, it might not be until March when things get cleared up by Uranus or perhaps not even until Saturn goes direct in early May. There is absolutely NOTHING you can do about it. They are on their own journey. They have to get there themselves. They may. They may not. They might be having a temper tantrum as we speak. You, on the other hand, are working on yourself. You are going to be fine. Provided you stop obsessing on the situation. Detach. Let it heal.
So back to our nodes and Jupiter. Of course you don’t have a complete idea of how to build your life over the next 13 years. But you do have “friends, groups, hopes and dreams” ~ the 11th house to help guide you forward. The North Node entering Aquarius, the 11th house of the sky’s guidance system, says the collective or the group or community or your hopes and dreams are about to start showing up and helping you envision your future.
And, while it might be hard, YOU HAVE TO LET THEM HELP YOU. We are all interconnected here on planet Earth. No arguing because it isn’t absolutely perfect. No moaning about what you don’t have or how hard your life is. No getting bossy and know it all about all the ways it can’t be fixed. Life is a process. The process is the process. Life can be hard, at times, but it is always a process. There are easier and harder ways to go about things. Get engaged with the process before you. Try out stuff. Work on developing your skills. See a problem in your world, then figure out how to change it so you can move forward to the NEXT situation you get to learn and grow from. Announce your hopes and dreams to everyone you meet. You will find help and support in the ‘strangest places’. Verbalize your 13-year plan! Or the part of the plan that you can work on right now to every one you see. Make sure to keep your focus on YOUR hopes and dreams, not the other guy’s hopes and dreams. If you have spare time, you can help them (or loan them your Hammering Jupiter for a bit) but please keep your focus on your hopes and dreams at the same time.
And last, but certainly NEVER least, Saturn, the ruler of Capricorn, stops in the sky and turns backwards to go back to where he was in September 2007. Saturn’s going back to retrieve, redo, restructure whatever he began back then. It wasn’t quite right. So back to the drawing board. The universe is giving you and Saturn a cosmic do over. Besides, SO much was going on back then you weren’t even really paying attention to your future. You were thinking about other stuff in September.
Saturn stopping the sky will be what most of us notice about the week. Every one notices when he puts the brakes on stuff. Projects get held up, postponed or cancelled. Hiring freezes happen. Reorganizations take place. Decisions are reconsidered. All part of the process of Saturn assessing where he wants to send his rings of structure to create stuff. Don’t get upset if something gets paused or delayed or deferred. Focus on the OTHER stuff you can do something about. Send hammering Jupiter over to do his work where he can. Let Saturn go backwards while you move ahead with your other projects that support your next 13 years of life. When Saturn and Jupiter catch up with each other later in 2008, you’ll be glad you spent this time prepping and directing Jupiter towards things that need to be expanded, hammered or built upon. All of it happens for a reason.
Monday the nodes shift into Aquarius and Leo to begin a 1 ½ year journey of connections and creations. Aquarius north node suggests the community and collective will be offering you their help to create your dreams and build your life. Talk to them. Talk up your hopes and dreams. Get them out there where someone can hear them and help you take action. Sun joins with Mercury at the late degrees of Sagittarius while both argue with Ceres retrograde in Taurus. You might not see how it is going to happen right this second but all creation begins with an idea. Can man fly? Is the Earth round? Does the Earth circle around the Sun? Could electricity be harnessed? Once these were all fancies in someone’s brain. People laughed at these ideas. You may feel like your idea is a silly fancy too. But look at what those ideas, when they were followed, led to! So follow your fancy. You never know what will happen.
Tuesday Venus has a trine to Uranus bringing unexpected news or information about a situation from last spring. Jupiter enters Capricorn and gets instructions on where to hammer his hammer as he does. Expect cosmic turbulence to show up on earth! Give Jupiter his operating instructions ~ he’s ready to move mountains. He is, after all, in Capricorn. Seemingly immoveable objects begin to imperceptibly shift. Volcanoes and earthquakes come to mind. The changes are ultimately seismic in nature! No early celebrations, but do follow those clues you receive to the answer(s) you need. It is right there if you look for it.
Wednesday Saturn stations to go retrograde. He’s going back to September 15/16 to pick up what he forgot to bring with him on his journey in Virgo. (Saturn was a bit busy and preoccupied with the eclipse on September 11th.) Saturn will get back to this degree in the heavens on August 8th, 2008. In the meantime, Jupiter is ready and raring to go with his hammer and all sorts of fresh, solid, reliable Capricorn energy ~ so send Jupiter off to do stuff and build stuff until Saturn gets back in town. Settle in and work on some of your easier dreams and plans for the next 13 years. You get to work with all the OTHER planets until Saturn turns direct on May 3rd. Saturn’s not going to be back at this degree of 8:34 Virgo until August. Yes, you read that right, Saturn goes direct on May 3rd, and gets back to where he is now on August 8th. With that in mind, what do you and Mercury want to do instead while you wait for Saturn? Which of those 13 year dreams of yours are easy to get to work on? Start with some of those easy dreams while you are waiting. Mercury is joining with Pluto and able to communicate the big picture while Saturn is back tending to the unresolved stuff.
Thursday is a busy, busy day in the heavens. As I mentioned above, when Saturn stations, we all notice it. Today brings the fallout from that and probably a fairly emotional day. While that is happening, remember, you read this column so you can keep your focus when all around you are losing theirs. In addition to the Saturn station reverb, Mercury is aspecting the Nodes offering important connections or information. This is one of those days; I read the papers and record just about everything going on around me. You know how things get blurted out while in the heat of the moment ~ changing forever what your vision of your life is? Such a day we have today.
Mercury enters Capricorn so we won’t forget what we hear today, no matter how hard others might wish we did. Be extra, extra careful with your communications. Mercury joins with Jupiter on the world axis in Capricorn ~ words can go public loud and fast. Please, please note and record what happens in your world today. It will be SO important for you down the road apiece. Vesta enters Aquarius so the Greek Chorus over in the corner of your life is going to be wailing, complaining or commenting (and probably NOT in a very helpful way either, but I could be wrong).
Focus on your dreams for the next 13 years. Sun joins with Pluto as Venus joins with Neptune by declination ~ our charts call each of us to our destiny, good or bad, based on our actions and beliefs. Examine your actions as well as your beliefs today to see if they are taking you where you want to go. And if they are causing you problems can you put them in the bad old bad behaviors pile for a while? Taurus Moon ruled by Venus in her fall suggests while we might feel passionate, a cool, calm and collected head is advised.
Friday Venus fights with Mars. Well after yesterday, there’s bound to be a fight SOME place. Remember to breathe. Get yourself out for a walk or something to clear your head.
Saturn’s day, Sun enters Capricorn. Mercury and Venus have aspects of brilliance with Uranus and Saturn so now that the heavens have calmed down from the Saturn station and all the conjunctions, what do you want? Life is short. What do you want? Venus has a square to Neptune so tears can fall as you feel slightly alone in the universe. It is a good time to cuddle up with someone you love, even if it is your cat, and settle into a bit of a life review. Think about all the good times. Think about the bad times. Understand they are all to show you, guide you, or help you evolve. Remember to breathe.
Sunday, the Sun joins with Jupiter as he argues with Vesta about what has to be done. Face it; you are not going to be able to do it all. So, if THAT is the case, then WHAT is the most important thing? Focus on that most important thing. That will sustain you. Focus. Focus. Focus. Focus on the most important thing. Let that single minded focus guide you.
Mundane: I LOVED that the spy report came out saying there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iran. They apparently stopped their nuclear program in 2003. That revelation was immediately followed by a leak that the CIA destroyed their torture tapes. Definitely seems to be major power struggles taking place at the highest echelons of our government! Will the forces of light or dark win? Hmmm. They start a new 13-year cycle too! Stay tuned.
Copyright © 2006 Anne C. Ortelee
Love and Joy
Ane