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September 2008 Astrological Forecast

 Once again we have the planetary pair Venus and Mars joining together on September 11, 2008, they are at 15 degrees Libra conjunct Mercury.  Venus has influence over our self-esteem, possessions, survival instincts, talents, abilities and our relationships. Mars is the planet of war, aggression, desire, and the masculine energy that willingly obtains the feminine desires of Venus.

This energy concludes the last conjunction of Venus and Mars from zero degrees of Scorpio on October 24, 2006. You may reflect on this time to see what changes you have made or what circumstances have occurred in your life that have brought about changes that have forced you to realize your personal role in the mishaps of life that we don’t necessarily want but end up putting up with. It has all been about seeing the connection between ourselves, our desires and what actions we take to create our desires. Do thoughts of sabotage, escapism, ruthlessness, laziness, settling, and disillusionment comes to mind?  You find the word that best suits the truth that reflects your personal experience and the out come of the past 23 months and you will have insight into how you should direct your thoughts, desires and ambitions.

But first you must look into the mirror and see yourself truthfully. Are you proud of your actions and responses to the events that occurred? Did you take responsibility for your actions or cast blame and ridicule on others? Truth remains the same yet it has many faces. It can be expressed with the ability to educate, uplift and inspire those you share your truth with or it can scar, humiliate and demean.

These next two cycles of the Venus and Mars conjunction will occur in the sign of Libra, as the next conjunction occurs August 21, 2010. This will require co-operation, balance, fairness, honesty, unity and compromise, for having the ability to obtain your desires through your own initiative and determination, with the assistance of others, but not at the expense of others. These planets assist in reaching our goals. 

Signs:

Aries: You may find those around you are very willing to help create the dreams you possess. If they are including themselves in this dream without invitation it is up to you to make them understand where they fit into this scenario.

Taurus: Having patience and adapting to change are the two greatest personal triumphs you can expect to experience on this venture. Doing, saying and responding in ways that endear you to others rather than alienating.

Gemini: Do your best to meet the requirements of life yet detach from taking personal offense to the events caused by others who may be doing the best they can as well. Observe and listen and know that everything will work out for the best.

Cancer: The skies the limit, so set your sights as far and high as you can. Just realize that your dream may be to parachute from airplanes but you cannot force those around you to do your dream if they are afraid of heights or falling.

Leo: Making lemonade out of life’s lemons. So it’s not happening quick enough or exactly as you expected. Get over it and get on with enjoying what you do have and are able to do in the mean time. Or you’ll never recognize your dream when it arrives.

Virgo: One day at a time. Focus on the steps and accomplishing as much as you can each day, week or month. Stretch, walk, exercise, eat well and drink plenty of fluids. Do what you know is good for you. Build up your vitality so you will be the best you can be for the great changes that are coming.

Libra: Finally you have arrived. It is all about you and once you realize that, you will understand it doesn’t matter who agrees or disagrees. It matters whether you are true to yourself and being the best you can be, then put yourself with those who can appreciate your attributes. Seek wise counsel and trust in yourself. 

Scorpio: Anticipation and being on high alert can be an exhausting state of being. Know that it is okay not to know where your going every minute and with whom. Allow yourself the privilege of living in the moment while you follow your own inner urgings. Then take notice of those who are in the same place and space and call them friends. They always make the best mates.

Sagittarius: Being conservative, practical and all grown up with doing all the things you know you must do is not befitting the desires that well up inside of you. But this is how you will attract those who will support and mentor the new you that is emerging. Being a little wild and crazy wouldn’t hurt within limits.

Capricorn: Strength, determination and fortitude are attributes you carry in your DNA. These are wonderful traits to have if they do not keep you from experiencing the magic of life. Use the powers that be to create the life you desire and let the universe provide. Imagine it, believe it to be so and trust it will happen. The power of positive thinking will be your greatest ally as you prepare to lead by example.

Aquarius: You are so busy doing what you do that you can’t see everyone and everything around you is supporting the urges that are coming from within you. Resisting change just because it represents the unfamiliar is a true sign you’ve gotten yourself in a rut. Step outside into the sunlight, clear your mind of the clutter and begin something fresh and new.

Pisces: You can feel it in the air and every fiber of your being, it is time for change and it all begins with you.  The most important relationship you have to maintain and support is the one you have with yourself.  Release yourself from what ever binds you. Then surround yourself with the white light of protection, then define and protect your perimeters.
By:  Gail Stoner

 

Pluto Enters Capricorn

January 25, 2008 10:44 pm - March 23, 2023

The planet Pluto represents the deeps, the bottom of the well, the unexplored depths of darkness.
Pluto in the year 2008 will enter in Capricorn, and its passage will last until 2024.
It 's interesting to note that this planetary combination shows the depths with Pluto,
and the heights with Capricorn, the sign of the “Mountain Goat”.
It is a vertical movement, either from above to below, or, the other way around.
Vertical is a very spiritual direction, if it points upward! The inferior opens up to the Superior.
Both deal with the right use of power, and the right use of the will.
The enormous potential of this combination can have a regenerative effect on the masses.
The process will be slow in motion, Pluto is a slow-moving planet , and because Capricorn is a cautious, patient, target-oriented sign, we can figure out the reformer and structural impact.
Both are working in alliance, to ameliorate the social scene.
Capricorn rules political leaders, the government, and people in positions of social power. Pluto's power is polarized.
It is extreme, tending either to the harmonious or to the disharmonious. This will make politics more black and white but whichever political wing gains power, the masses will exercise more active participation.
Distorted Plutonian power, has to do with money, sex, abuse, etc. Pluto is raw power wherever it is used for selfish ends it will have a boomerang effect upon selfish individuals, or nations.
Pluto in Capricorn can break crystallized old concepts, structures, and outlived forms of government.
It rules the homoeopathic principle in medicine, and will bring purifying change to whatever needs to be cleared up.
The generation of children born under this configuration can well be called: ”The Reformers”.
We are entering into the period of 2500 years of the Aquarian Age, this will introduce a general growth of consciousness.
This combination of Capricorn with Pluto can challenge the status-quo of those who hold unequal power.
Ultimately, we are referring to power unequal to their Soul's development. So, for the individual, so for a nation.
By Leni Sibilio

From Vanity Fair Magazine

by Michael Lutin


 

All alone and more paranoid by the day, President George W. Bush is getting it from all sides, and despite his bravado, which some people call a defensive, adolescent swagger, he can't trust anybody, not even his mother. His detractors blame him for the state the world is in.
Extremists go one further and say the world is coming to an end. Most of us in this country just want gas prices to go down, the dollar to go up, and America to go back to the good old days.

Astrologers can tell you that that's not going to happen, but that, no matter what, we'll never go broke either. They can also explain George Bush's predicament by pointing out that he's a Cancer, and that in coming years Cancers are going to be challenged to expand their whole worldview.
In fact, we can all gain perspective on what is happening politically, culturally, and socially in America by turning to the Zodiac, especially the signs of Cancer and Capricorn. For nations, like people, have horoscopes.

America was born on July 4, 1776, when the Founding Fathers decided it was time to separate from England and start a new life as an independent entity. That makes America a Cancer nation. Cancer is the sign of fertility, and America sees herself as the world's nurturing mother. But because of the hostile presence of Mars and Uranus in our solar 12th house, we're the kind of nurturer that can bomb the hell out of a country one day and send over sandwiches and coffee the next. That makes the rest of the world love us and hate us. We're like the rich relative everybody is jealous of but still visits for the holidays because there's always plenty of food. It is the sincere and conscious wish of every Cancer, including the U.S.A., to make sure that all those under its wing are safe—and if you mess with them, you must be ready to face the Special Forces.

Security and home are primal drives of this sign, sometimes to the point of clannishness or even xenophobia. America is and always has been about property, taxes, and land ownership. Conveniently, we forget that when the early settlers arrived they took one look around and said to the Indians, "What a gorgeous place you've got here! Get out!" Territory is everything, and if anyone tells you that the essence of the American Dream is just about liberty and freedom, don't kid yourself. It's about mortgage rates.

But are we, in the end, ruthless imperialists doomed to be brought down by our degenerate culture?
That is the question Pluto's transit through the sign of Capricorn over the next 19 years will answer. It will challenge us as we have never been challenged before—until it will seem that the whole world is against us—but it will also reveal the secret of how we need to change.

The sign of Capricorn has always been strong in our Cancer nation's horoscope, and it's going to get a lot stronger.
We were born with Pluto in Capricorn, and now, more than two centuries later, Pluto is coming back to the same place.
The seeds that were sown back in the 1770s are sprouting at last. That's how Pluto works, over hundreds of years.

Though Pluto has recently been demoted by astronomers to a not-quite planet, try telling that to any Sadge who's been to hell and back over the last 10 years, thanks to the passage of Pluto through Sagittarius. The power of the little dwarf is so profound and catastrophic that it doesn't matter if you call it a planet or not—it's a killer. But, oddly, it's also a healer. When Pluto moves into your sign, it threatens to devastate you emotionally and physically, letting you know along the way that you must stop whatever you are doing.
However you were conducting business or your personal life, that's over. Finito. Kaput.

When you come out of a Pluto transit, you are changed forever. In another state. But during the process you don't realize what's happening. Life can get pretty dark. With Pluto, you can't look ahead. You can't be impatient. Most of all, you shouldn't be afraid, because in the end there is nothing to fear. You just have to surrender to the mysterious process of complete and total transformation. This is about to happen to the United States as we deal with an opposition of Pluto in the sign of Capricorn to our Cancer sun. And while Cancers and Capricorns will be most strongly affected by this planetary motion, we will all be touched in business as well as in our personal lives, no matter what sign we were born under. Because of Pluto's slow motion through the heavens—it takes it nearly 250 years to go through the 12 signs of the Zodiac—it rules over mass movements and great political and social changes.
So it might be useful to look at what happened the last time Pluto passed over the position it holds now and will hold for the next 20 years.

Sometime in the 1760s, pamphlets began to circulate in the colonies, exploring new ideologies and belief systems concerning individual liberty and personal freedom. Harmless enough. Just philosophers spouting rehashed versions of ancient Greek and Roman notions.
But the Crown over in England looked upon such doings as seditious. Mother England, once the great protector, was beginning to be the great drag. She wanted payback for all the protection she'd provided. That was when the colonists, starting to exhibit the collective traits of a Cancer nation, came to resent their mother's hold on them. She was getting a little too bossy. And greedy.

Clearly, something was happening up in the heavens. Pluto was just about to leave the sign of Sagittarius and enter the sign of Capricorn. A transformation was taking place. And so, the United States of America was born.

Something similar is happening again, 230 years later, as Pluto is coming around to the same spot. This time, however, it's the American government that is putting the squeeze on the people. A Pluto-style transformation doesn't happen overnight, and events that seem at first random and explosive don't come out of nowhere. They have been brewing and simmering for years.
While many people will probably be nervous wrecks during the two turbulent decades ahead, many old hippies will come joyfully out of retirement, thankful that the revolution they quit their jobs for 40 years ago may finally be happening.
And their kids, born in the 60s and 70s, who grew up embarrassed by their hippie parents, may be shocked to see how right their parents were.

When Pluto went direct in September of 2007, the religious zeal, or madness, that has taken hold since it entered Sagittarius in 1994 reached a crescendo, ushering in a period dominated by the sign of Capricorn. Our "dialogue" with radical Islam has only just begun. Over the next 19 years or so, America as a Cancer nation will have to deal with troubling confrontations and competition such as it has never known, as well as an internal political struggle, all of which will shake us to our very core.

Capricorn can be pictured as the mustache-twirling landlord in a black cloak pointing outside toward the blizzard while a poor pregnant wretch begs for mercy. Capricorn forces one to grow up, face life, recognize that it's a tough world. It lends you a dime and asks for a dollar in return. It can be the sign of an inspired leader or a controlling, dominating fascist. It can support your existence or threaten it completely. Either way, the presence of Capricorn always indicates big business. And what is America about if not that?

Capricorn represents supremacy and power. And if Capricorn is not the most humanitarian sign of the Zodiac, it always means stability. Capricorn supports organized society, not rabble-rousing anarchy. It is often perceived as uptight and reactionary, mainly because its function is to uphold existing law. It is not progressive or forward-thinking.

It clearly represents the deep streak of conservatism that has always existed in the United States but that seems to be ascendant at the moment. If Capricorn protects the status quo, how did it help sow the seeds of revolution in the original colonies? There's the problem. And the answer? It was not just the presence of Capricorn in America's horoscope, it was the presence of Pluto in that sign that sparked the fight for freedom.

If you think that things are tough now, and that privacy and other personal liberties are being infringed upon, just wait. During the next 19 years, things are going to get much tighter. Controls and laws will become more stringent. Pluto in Capricorn will demand conformity, born out of fear that different is dangerous. The more resistance to government protection, the more protection the government will try to provide. The words "patriot" and "treason" will lose their meaning, and in some cases they will become interchangeable. What is treason to one person will be patriotism to another—just as it was back in the 1760s and 70s. The country's mood will become darker and much more conservative. It's not going to be a matter of Democrat or Republican anymore, because the new ideologies will bleed across party lines.

Fortunately, something else will be going on at the same time. While Pluto is in Capricorn, Uranus will be leaving the sign of Pisces and reaching the end of the Zodiac, and sometime between 2009 and 2011 the dam is going to break. The last time this happened was at the end of the 1920s. When Uranus comes to the last degrees of Pisces, it will spell the end of an era. People will figure, "Aw, the hell with it. The end is coming anyway, so give me a double martini."

As we get closer to that time, people will put all their chips on the table. The stakes will get higher. (Incidentally, America began the war in Iraq when the sun was at the end of Pisces—a perfectly moronic time to start anything.) Metaphorically, culturally, and sometimes even literally, Uranus at the end of Pisces can seem like a torrential flood that comes out of nowhere. Everything that has piled up and been swept under the rug comes spilling out. To the apocalypse crowd, it will seem like the wrath of God, because lots of people are going to be headed toward self-indulgence, turning up the music and dancing, even hurrying the end, much as they did in America during the 1920s.
When Uranus hits the 29th degree of Pisces, before it pops into Aries, even the Pope could have a stroke over the upheaval the world will find itself in. Uranus in Pisces washes everything away—every hope, every prayer—and the only thing that saves you is the ability to surrender to the inevitable shift. Once Uranus hits Aries, however, a whole segment of the population is going to rise up. When the government becomes business and business becomes government, the people will fight back, and the ensuing struggle will lead to the eventual transformation and rebirth of America.
Pluto in Capricorn is going to change America from the inside out, threaten our very existence, challenge our economy, and divide the country politically. The government is going to be so paranoid during those years that it doesn't really matter who gets in in 2008.
Pluto in Capricorn means the ascendance into overt power of corporations in relation to the government.
But that situation will change when Pluto enters Aquarius, at the end of the 2020s.
 Uranus in Aries is going to be the 1960s all over again. The greatest time of upheaval will be between 2015 and 2019, when the square of Uranus in Aries to Pluto in Capricorn will create the seeds of revolution everywhere. Forces of repression are going to clamp down even harder on those who want to speak their minds.
Then, in the years 2023–25, the final stages of the Pluto return and the Capricorn effect will reach a climax. Some astrologers believe that an empire lasts no longer than one Pluto cycle, and by 2025 this cycle will be played out. And no matter how you look at it, the U.S.A. is an empire.
Just as the British Empire began enduring sunsets after the fledgling colonies won their independence, our turn may be coming.
The Pluto return of 2025 will demand a redefinition of the United States and create the ultimate identity crisis.
We will have to put ourselves on the line, as we did in the 1770s.
 The period of turbulence that lies before us all in America is not God's wrath or the work of radical Muslims, and it has nothing to do with the hole in the ozone layer. It is a necessary and inevitable step in the evolution of this country that will result in a reworking of the Constitution in the last half of the 2020s.
This political, social, cultural, and economic change will mark the rebirth of the United States as a more global nation—a member of the world, if not the leader of the world. This is a threatening challenge to the notions of land ownership, security, wealth, and supremacy our Cancer nation has enjoyed for more than two centuries. The dollar will not likely go back to its post–W.W. II strength. Other countries will reject our exploitation and demand instead our cooperation. Luckily for us, the horoscope of the U.S.A. is strongly influenced by Venus and Jupiter, so we'll never go totally broke or hungry. We will, however, have to play ball with the rest of planet Earth as we never have before. From now on it's cooperate, or else.
 No one is really to blame. We've brought ourselves to this crisis, through a combination of individual freedom and economic gain, as well as a blind, isolating grandiosity. America is a fabulous place to live: you can come here, think up something you want to do, and be successful at it.
But we've gotten fat and we've gotten lazy. So don't blame George Bush or Bill Clinton or any of the elected officials in Washington.
A country gets the leaders it deserves, and when we're ready to rise from the ashes of a fallen empire, we will find the leaders to help us do so.
It will happen, but not in 2008. We have to go through the Pluto transit first.

 

 

Saturn enters Virgo

On September 2, 2007, Saturn entered Virgo and will remain there until July 21, 2010
(with five months in Libra from October 28, 2009-April 7, 2010.)

So let's do a quick recap of what we learned or didn't learn during the last two years of Saturn in Leo. Frankly, I think as a species we failed miserably at integrating the following lessons posed by Saturn in Leo: releasing our attachment to narcissistic self-cherishing, revisioning power-over as power-with, committing to responsible leadership in government, business and education, problem-solving with creativity rather relying upon war and hatred, kicking the oil habit, caring more for the needs of our children and elderly populace than the single-minded drive to acquire wealth, beauty, fame, and power. Unfortunately, we can't redo the "give up on self-cherishing" course for another 28 years, so we will move into Virgo, ill-equipted to cross the Leo/Virgo threshold from personal to transpersonal concerns and lessons.

Virgo marks a critical evolutionary shift from the most developed relationship with the creative self (Leo) to an initial opening up of individual consciousness into its communal/transpersonal responsibilities. Shifting the focus away from the personal (Leo) toward the transpersonal (Virgo) is a critical part of our spiritual evolution as a species.

So a word to the wise for all you "LOA" devotees: having everything you want is not the goal of spiritual evolution. That is the egoistic spiritual-speak of Leo; not Virgo. Yes, it is attractive. Yes, it might even feel good to hear it and imagine it to be true. But the real secret is when we loosen our attachment to "unending wanting" we step onto the transpersonal path of real liberation and total freedom for ourselves and all other beings. Rumi embodied Virgo practicality at its best, with these lines from one of his poems,

"Don't grieve for what doesn't come.
Some things that don't happen
Keep disasters from happening."

"Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." Albert Einstein

Virgo rules science, medicine, health and healing, engineering, teaching, working for the common good, and aiding the poor and sick through research, development, and humanitarian aid programs. Virgo resonates to three main themes: greater understanding, service, and healing. All that Virgo is revolves around a desire to clearly comprehend in order to better educate, serve, heal, and problem-solve—not for self-gain—rather for the upliftment of society.

Clear comprehension requires questioning. Virgo does not take information at face value; searching ever deeper to find truth. Virgo requires discrimination, testing, and analysis to draw informed conclusions. Virgo is the ultimate engineer (work with what you've got) and a visionary scientist/researcher (seek new solutions that are as yet unfound.)

Saturn rules fear. Virgo rules clarity, discrimination, and research. At its best, these could be three years of throwing off the chains of ignorance and laziness which have kept the American public in a docile state of fear. At its worst, Virgo's penchant for self-doubt, self-criticality, and hypochondria could create conditions for fear to so fully penetrate our daily existence that the populace becomes completely inert. And we cannot afford inertia! Our survival depends upon clear comprehension of our essential interconnectedness with all things and a revolution against fear, hate, greed and separation.

Virgo rules the human body and its relationship with Earth, the planetary body we rely upon for our existence. Saturn in Virgo will be a tough taskmaster when it comes to environmental issues. Saving our planet and its inhabitants from extinction will rank high on the agenda during the Saturn in Virgo years. The periods of opposition with Uranus (trauma) in Pisces (water) will hopefully stimulate great technological advances to stem the tide of global warming. If the old guard in the science world and the hierarchy in the oil world will heed the call to change, Saturn in Virgo can help strengthen the global move toward alternative energies throughout 2009 when Jupiter joins Chiron and Neptune in Aquarius.

Virgo realizes that each of us has a duty to heal ourselves by reaching out to heal others. Another real secret is when you heal the pain around you; you end up healing your own pain. The time has come for us to turn our gaze away from self and toward those less fortunate and in need of help: they are our salvation and the true path to healing our own internal suffering.

Health and healing is the domain of Virgo. Saturn wants us to get serious about seeking medical attention for symptoms or illnesses. Saturn in Virgo doesn't mess around. Saturn is the planet of mortality. It is not fond of excuses, denial, or other ways human beings find to ignore the realities that stare them in the face. This is a three year period when many people will be called to account for their excesses and continual failure to recognize how their destructive behaviors contribute to the physical and mental suffering of themselves and others.

There are many resources available to help one get healthy; even in a country like ours where making war continually takes precedence over providing health care for all citizens. Institute dietary changes, daily exercise programs, get more sleep, and learn relaxation techniques. Choose to walk instead of driving to work or to the store. Join AA, OA, NA and other support groups and get help for your own addiction while healing the addictions of others.

I do believe that Saturn in Virgo will usher in the transformation of America's dysfunctional health care system. Jupiter/Chiron/Neptune in Aquarius and many of the transits described below will have a large role in how this plays out; for better or for worse.

So let's look at the transits of Saturn in Virgo. I only want to highlight one inner planet transit: Saturn will conjunct Mars in Virgo from July 2-25, 2008 and be exact from July 10-11 during which time there will also be a beautiful air grand trine. During this time our personal and global actions should follow a cautious and considered path.

Now on to the transits Saturn in Virgo will make with the other outer planets.
From October 15-26, 2007 Saturn will make a conjunction to the nodal axis (North Node in Pisces/South Node in Virgo.) One of Virgo's qualities is the desire to compartmentalize as a way to gain understanding. Sometimes this can lead to getting mired in the idea that the diversity in manifestation represents the ultimate nature of things; or that reliance upon descriptions of the physical world can lead to a total understanding of the nature of existence. Hence, we get Virgo's practical analyticism, idealism, and perfectionism. The South Node in Virgo represents a Virgoan bias toward empirical means of gaining knowledge, and a resistance to the Piscean intuitive, numinous, consciousness-expanding tools for knowing.

When Saturn (restriction) conjuncts the South Node and Venus in Virgo, it will form a Yod with Mars in Cancer (acting with compassion) and Chiron in Aquarius (finding alternatives to heal old wounds.) Along with the opposition to the North Node in Pisces, October 15-20, 2007 should unleash a wave of global frustration and bring a powerful desire for alternatives. Since Virgo rules science, technology and medicine, it is possible that release of new energy technologies or medical advancements will be hindered in some way during this time. However, since it is a Yod, and Yods represent frustration on the way to removing blocks to advancement, the hindrance will not be lasting. On a personal level, the conjunction of Saturn with the Nodal Axis and Venus should be a very powerful time to buckle down and put the finishing touches on any creative endeavor that involves the arts, technology, medicine, engineering, or research.

Saturn in Virgo is in an exact trine with Jupiter in Capricorn from January 18-23, 2008: expect to see optimism about the economy and probably the usual January bounce in the markets during this time, but don't expect it to last much beyond this. Because…

January 26, 2008 marks the first entrance of Pluto into Capricorn (an article about Pluto in Capricorn will be forthcoming.) As this occurs, Pluto trines Saturn in Virgo in various amounts through June 14, until it retrogrades back into Sagittarius for about five months.

This will be a time when the world will get its first taste of Pluto wreaking havoc on the global economy, which is ruled by Capricorn. April 14-26, 2008 will be a very volatile time with the Pluto/Saturn trine, Jupiter in Capricorn, Chiron/Neptune/North Node conjunct in Aquarius, and Sun/Venus/Mercury in Aries/Taurus. Oil (Neptune) and (Aquarius) energy alternatives, terrorism, war (Aries) and security (Taurus) will figure prominently in the global psyche. One can only hope that the restricting nature of Capricorn and its ruling planet Saturn combined with the "no nonsense" practicality of Virgo, and Mars in compassionate Cancer can keep the escalation of danger at a minimum. Saturn goes direct on May 3, 2008 and moves off the conjunction with Pluto by the middle of July.

Saturn will once again make an exact trine to Jupiter from September 5-12, 2008, a time when Mars/Venus/Mercury are posited in the peacemaker sign of Libra. With Jupiter going direct on September 8, this could bring an inspiring period of negotiation in world conflicts of all kinds.

At this point, the American Presidential campaign will be in high gear. The Saturn/Jupiter trine will remain anywhere from 0°-2° orbs (+ or -) through the Fall of 2008 until December 9. In case you are wondering about Election Day November 6, 2008, conservative and practical Saturn in Virgo will be opposed by peaceful, transcendent Uranus in Pisces, and borne down upon greatly by an inconjunction with North Node/Moon/Chiron/Neptune in utopian/rebellious Aquarius, and the transformative power of Mercury/Mars/Sun in Scorpio. Hopefully for a good outcome.

One of the deepest and most intense Saturn transits will be the opposition of Saturn in Virgo with Uranus in Pisces, from September 12, 2008-April 7, 2009, July 29-2009-October 28, 2009, and April 8-May 27, 2010. This opposition will be exact during the following times: November 3-4, 2008, January 30-Feb 11, 2009, September 10-17, 2009, and April 23-30, 2010. In order to understand this transit, we must look deeply at the Virgo/Pisces duality.

Virgo rules the body; Pisces rules the transcendent mind and deep psyche. Virgo is classical physics; Pisces is quantum physics. Virgo is healing the body with medicine, surgery, healthy lifestyle habits, and diet; Pisces is healing the individual and collective soul or psyche through energy medicine or the development of consciousness itself. Virgo is engineering and technological advancement through research and development; Pisces is the flashing, intuitive brilliance of revelation and abstract mathematics. Bring together the Virgo/Pisces duality—the mind/body connection—and you get the total spectrum of inner and outer knowledge. Mistakes are made when how we gain knowledge arises from a need to unnecessarily favor one to the exclusion of the other.

The power of the Saturn (the system) in Virgo/Uranus (the revolutionary) in Pisces opposition lies in the integration of conscious awareness in all areas of human life: government, business, politics, health and welfare, entertainment, communal and familial relationships. If we all experienced ourselves through the lens of integrated Virgo/Piscean conscious awareness, we would experience existent transcendent reality in every cell, in every life form. Therefore fear would cease to exist. Violence would cease to exist.

For Virgo, holiness is achieved through transcendent embodiment and Saturn asks each of us to take responsibility for the condition of our physical form; the temple of enlightenment. For Pisces, holiness is achieved through the awareness of pure consciousness and Uranus asks each of us to awaken our Buddha nature for the enlightenment of all other sentient beings.

So the Saturn in Virgo/Uranus in Pisces opposition is a cosmic call for each of us to abandon negative behaviors, like harming other living beings through war and violence, fueling fear and separation, addiction to substances, wasting time watching violent and meaningless TV shows, and engaging in the narcissistic pursuit of material possessions at the expense of nurturing all life.

Saturn in Virgo can see reason and Uranus in Pisces wants to love and heal all beings. If we allow ourselves to be serious about caretaking all other beings, as Saturn in Virgo's highest aspiration call us to do, then the next three years could bring about the dawn of an age of enlightenment. THERE IS NO SEPARATION: ONLY LOVE. YOU HAVE A CHOICE: LIVE IN FEAR OR LIVE IN LOVE.

However, if we fail, if we continue to live with our minds and eyes closed, as we have done these last two years of Saturn in Leo, the celestial messengers Pluto in Capricorn, Saturn in Virgo, Neptune and Chiron in Aquarius, and Uranus in Pisces, will heighten the unfortunate human propensity toward ignorance, as we continue to act as agents of trauma and destruction in the name of hate, fear, greed, and separation.

Retrograde Saturn in Virgo will oppose Jupiter in Pisces from April 29-June 5, 2010 and be exact from May 18-23, 2010. Jupiter's movement into Pisces on January 19, 2010 will mark a one year period where we will have as good a chance as any to make peace happen around the globe. We must take this very seriously, as the chance of staving off all out global warfare lessens greatly once Uranus joins Jupiter in Aries on March 12, 2011.

So do your part: Use your mind and question everything, meditate daily, bring compassion and love to all your interactions; forgo hate and anger in favor of love and forgiveness; shun shallow materialism and open your eyes and heart to the beauty of the natural world; spend less and give more to those who are in need; use your creative talent to uplift rather than oppress; be a light to those in the dark; use your heart wisely—love yourself and everyone else completely. By: Lisa Dale Miller
 


 

 

Uranus in Pisces

In astrology, the planet Uranus, known as the awakener, brings sudden realizations and flashes of brilliance, which often lead to innovation, technical revolutions, and societal evolution. Like all things in this world, the planets in astrology have both positive and negative energetic expressions. Uranus' positive qualities are technological innovation, uniqueness, humanism, futurism, globalism, individuation, and accepting responsibility for uplifting the collective. Uranus expresses itself negatively in uncontrolled rebelliousness, emotional disconnectedness, increased anxiety, rampant individualism, and violent, traumatic events.

Since 1996, Uranus' journey through Aquarius (ruled by Uranus) has doubled the speed and worldwide influence of technological development. These seven years of Uranus in Aquarius have certainly been a wild ride. We saw the widespread use of the Internet, email, cell phones, and ecommerce. We visited the surface of Mars, viewed distant galaxies and stars, mapped the human genome, successfully cloned a sheep, and built a computer chip out of individual atoms. Though the world has become a smaller place, we have also seen technology increase our sense of disconnection, inner disquiet, and disharmony. We witnessed increasing isolationism within a climate of globalism, the E-boom and subsequent economic meltdown, and the rise of the super-rich alongside ever-increasing poverty. Genetically modified foods and designer drugs have moved us further down the road of perceiving humans, animals, and nature as machines. Though we decry it, AIDS continues to run rampant through much of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, with little help in sight. As access to health care has exponentially decreased, we have seen increasing rates of autism, depression, autoimmune diseases.

On March 10, 2003, Uranus will enter Pisces and remain there through March 12, 2011. (It will briefly reenter Aquarius from September 16 - December 30, 2003.) If you glance again at the previous paragraph, you get a very good idea of how powerfully Uranus influences humanity's technological and social development. With this in mind, what will the unfolding of Piscean consciousness bring to our world over the next eight years?

Pisces the "most evolved" sign in the zodiac, rules peace, surrender, compassion, unconditional love, transcendence, selflessness, recognition of oneness, and empathy. Pisces knows no distinctions or differences: it perceives the unity within the diversity, the unbounded consciousness that underlies all things. Pisces acknowledges our essential connectedness and realizes it through the practice of unconditional love and unwavering compassion. Can you imagine the powerful spiritual awakening that should accompany Uranus' journey through Pisces? During this period, humanity will awaken to the realization that we are born to love unconditionally, share equally, live and work with each other in peace, and strive for the collective enlightenment of all sentient beings, no matter how hard it may be or how long it may take. Truthfully, the consequences of ignoring this teaching are too frightening to even contemplate.

During the next eight years we will all be forced to make big sacrifices. Faced with the harmful consequences of over-consumption of natural resources, global warming will become a whole lot more than just a phrase. Since Pisces is a water sign, climate change will undoubtedly bring more flooding and more droughts, which could profoundly affect world food supplies. We may even see early signs of melting on the polar ice caps, which would eventually have dramatic consequences for coastline cities on many continents. To counteract this, Uranus in Pisces will bring technological revolutions in the sciences of interconnectivity, systems theory, networks and biological systems. Sustainability will become our greatest challenge and the area where we will probably see the most important technological advances. These disciplines will become the basis for new food production methods, building methodologies, environmental sciences and economic technologies. Our survival depends upon the recognition of how human activity affects all other life upon this planet. We will have to learn to tread lightly upon our Mother Earth and work hard to reclaim clean water, clean air, and healthy soil. With Neptune (the ruler of oil and oil-based technologies) in Aquarius and Uranus in Pisces (ruled by Neptune) alternative energy technologies will become a necessity by the end of the decade. We will have to learn to live without oil. Our most significant social, political and environmental traumas will come because of our continued reliance on oil. Kicking the oil habit would certainly be the greatest gift of the Uranus in Pisces, Neptune in Aquarius years.

The technological advances of the Uranus in Pisces years will also center on healing. The staggering cost of illness will surely increase the use of alternative healing modalities all over the world. Healing through energy medicine, sound, vibration, and color will probably become more accepted within the alternative medicine community. Use of meditation and mindfulness practice for treatment of depression will hopefully replace the widespread use of antidepressants. The world would change quite a bit if meditation became part of everyone's daily regime. Great strides should be made in the treatment of cancer, autoimmune diseases, and AIDS, by virtue of an increasing connection with our own healing energies and a greater appreciation for the natural world. During this time the medical establishment will be forced to accept the fact that chemical exposure has deleterious effects upon our physical and mental health. Toxins in our food supply, energy supply, water supply, and air will have to be decreased, which will in turn increase our need to immediately implement sustainable technologies. Great attention will have to be paid to halting the destruction of the rain forests, the great incubator of plant healers. If allowed to die, the loss of these natural pharmacies would be a great trauma to the human race.

The Uranus in Pisces years will awaken humanity to the toxic effects of anger and hatred. If we waste our lives holding onto anger, resentment, and hatred, we will continue to create a world that reflects our inner violence. It is up to each of us to acknowledge our anger and pain, take it in our arms like a baby, wrap it in compassion and let love work its healing magic. We must look at the pain of our partners, our parents, our children, our friends, our coworkers, our supposed enemies; acknowledging our part in causing them to suffer, wrapping them up like a baby with our compassion, and allowing love to grow. We must learn to recognize our suffering, but not act upon it. Rather we should look within and breathe, letting our breath give us time to form an appropriate response.

Due to Pisces' rulership of spirituality and religiosity, this is especially true for anger and hatred created by spiritual and religious beliefs. With Uranus in Pisces, religion will have to release the toxic thoughts and beliefs that lead to trauma and violence. Pisces isn't interested in the one true God. It knows that all Gods and Goddesses are merely projections of the transcendent; that which has no name, no form, but which is the ultimate reality and the underlying essence of all forms. Pisces' spirituality knows no distinctions, no differences and no divisiveness. It is the sign of merging, empathizing, understanding, and holding a compassionate and fully present space for human-to-human, human-to-animal, human-to-plant, and human-to-planetary interactions. Pisces is oneness, not separateness. War and violence in the name of God will have to be rejected: thrown on the garbage heap of useless, outdated modes of human behavior. Pisces insists on nothing less than peace.

The Uranus in Pisces years will ask humanity to loosen its attachment to victimization, one of the most negative expressions of Pisces. Our pain must no longer define us; it must no longer act as an excuse for living a life of denial, addiction, martyrdom, and attachment to persecution. We all get hurt. It is a fact of human life. But pain is a learning tool not a lifelong affliction. We all get wounded. But wounds must be healed and not passed down indefinitely. This is how religious and cultural hatred spreads, infects and permanently wounds successive generations. Pisces requires that forgiveness, compassion and empathy be used to heal communities, nations, the world and ourselves. Releasing identification with old pain starts now, with each of us.

With this in mind, Uranus in Pisces will require us to commit our lives to making a better world by growing up and out of selfishness and narcissism. Pisces is Bodhisattva consciousness embodied in self-sacrifice. The Uranus in Pisces years will be a time when humanity will have to deal with breaking its ever-increasing reliance on substances to numb us from the pain of living in terribly dysfunctional societies. It is time to stop running to therapy to get antidepressants because our lives are untenable. We must stop treating the symptoms and fix the problem, which is outside of us as well as inside of us. The time has come to rework our culture. We need to fix our addiction to distraction. Wouldn't it be an incredible Uranus in Pisces advance if Americans woke up from their narcissistic slumber and released themselves from addiction to drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, television, fast food, shopping, instant gratification and over-consumption? Pisces rules endings. Capitalism is in its death-throws and a new economy is emerging. The question is whether it will arise from collective awakening or collective trauma. We have the choice. Sustainability requires the discipline of compassion, generosity, love, and personal sacrifice. So move aside big business: greed is about to be replaced by barter networks. Share, care, and giveaway is the Piscean economic system of choice.

Above all else, Pisces rules perception and Uranus rules awakening. Pisces rules Maya, the grand illusion of attachment and suffering. The powerful fantasy we call life is the ultimate virtual reality. Pisces sees beyond the veil of Maya because it knows its true nature is SatChitAnanda. New Physics is already beginning to break the illusory notion of the "one universe" with its multiple universe theories. Science will become the ultimate Piscean tool for self-knowledge. But for now, let's stay within the constructs we know, and look to Kant, who postulated that all knowledge is merely images held within our brains. With this in mind, it is easy to understand why a "one true way" is impossible. Images are images, and all truths are relative. Three people experience a situation and each one will tell it differently, believing that their perception is the correct one. Uranus in Pisces wants us to loosen our attachment to narrative, and open our perception to the magic of life as a series of ever-changing images. We must all find our definition in the absoluteness of love, of unbounded pure consciousness and lift the illusion of separateness, the ultimate source of all human pain.

With Uranus in Pisces we could even see the early stages of technologies created to enable mass transcendence. Imagine plugging your brain into a neural network that simulates or actually creates spiritual experiences of enlightenment and oneness. Though we may not see this in the next eight years, the genesis of these technologies will probably be created during this time. With the advent of genetic computer chips, this has become entirely within the realm of the possible. Until then, let's continue to work on creating powerful community meditation groups and healing circles.

For all the innovations we may witness over the next eight years, the true role of Uranus' sojourn through Pisces is to assist humanity in finding its true self in the compassionate heart. This, and this alone will create the conditions for real peace to grow within us and without us. The time has come to bid farewell to the Aquarian age of individuality, and welcome in the Piscean revolution of oneness! While there are masses of people starving, homeless and without hope, we, the fortunate ones can no longer mindlessly live in big houses, eat all we wish and consume with abandon. The first step is to accept personal responsibility for uplifting the lives of all other sentient beings, and give up our attachment to privilege. We are all interconnected at the deepest level of life, and only love will show us how to live together in peace. It is our generosity toward each other that will heal our planet.

 

 

A Solar Eclipse is when there is a New Moon, the Sun and Moon are together.
A Lunar Eclipse is when there is a Full Moon, the Sun and Moon are opposite.

Influence of the Moon
    As the Moon goes along her way, she magically appears and disappears, Waxing to Full from the barest silver of a crescent just after she's New, then Waning back to her invisible New phase again. The four quarters - the New Moon, the second quarter, the Full Moon, and the fourth quarter - correspond to the growth cycle of living things.
First Quarter/New Moon
   This phase begins when the Moon and Sun are together in the sky or conjunct to one another. At the beginning of the phase, the Moon is invisible , hidden by the brightness of the Sun as they travel the sky together. The Moon is often said to be in her "dark phase" when she is New, and toward the end of this phase, the Moon pulls father away from the Sun and begins to Wax or grow toward the second stage, when a delicate silver crescent will appear. The first quarter corresponds with all New beginnings; this is the time to begin a project.
Second Quarter
    The second quarter begins when the Moon has moved 90 degrees away from the Sun. At this point, the Waxing Moon rises at about noon and sets about midnight. She can be seen in the western sky during the early evening hours as she grows from  a crescent to her Full beauty. This period corresponds with the development of life, and with projects that are coming close to fruition.
Third Quarter/Full Moon
    This phase begins with the Full Moon, which is when the Sun and Moon are opposite to one another in the sky - literally in opposition - and the Moon is reflecting all of the Sun's light. She is perfectly round at this point and well able to light the night - so well, in fact, that she casts Moon-shadows. It's now that she can be seen rising in the East at sunset, a bit later each night as this phase progresses. This is a time that corresponds with the culmination of plans, with maturity and completion. As she begins now to Wane - or decrease - our plans come to bear, and we see the concrete results of the actions we initiated with the New Moon.
Fourth Quarter
    This phase occurs when the Moon has moved 90 degrees past the Full phase. At this time, she decreases in light and rises at midnight. She can be seen now in the eastern sky during the late evening hours and doesn't reach her highest point in the sky until early in the morning. This period in her journey corresponds with "disintegration" or a symbolic drawing back to reflect on accomplishments. It's now time to reorganize, clear the boards, and plan for the next New Moon stage.
 

Mercury Retrograde: A Communication Breakdown
    The way retrograde movement seems to affect our affairs is a bit involved. Every three months, Mercury goes through a retrograde period of three weeks. When this happens, it means the head of the Communications Department isn't paying close attention to where he's going because he's watching where he came from. Mercury doesn't tend to details as carefully as usual. And because Mercury correlates with Hermes, the original trickster, some of these errors can be very cleverly disguised. 
    All types of communications become confused, delayed, or misunderstood during Mercury retrograde. Letters are lost, sent to Auckland instead of Oakland, or stuffed under the car seat for three weeks. We sign a contract or agreement and find out later that our information was incorrect or what we signed was misleading in some way. We try repeatedly to reach someone via telephone but can never catch them, or our communications devices themselves break down or garble information in some way. The written word falls victim to Mercury's retrograde via constant errors. Our timing is off and short trips become difficult. We forget directions at home or write them incorrectly. We're late for or completely forget about our appointments.
    So, is there a constructive use of this time period? Aren't all planetary energies good for something? Astrologer Erin Sullivan has noted that the ratio of time Mercury spends moving retrograde to direct, or forward, corresponds with the amount of time humans spend awake and asleep - about a third of the time. So this period can be a time to take stock of what's happened and to assimilate our experiences just as we do when we sleep. New plans don't go forward well during Mercury retrograde because we're not supposed to be moving forward, just reviewing the past in preparation for our next stage of activity. A good rule of thumb with Mercury retrograde is to try to undertake activities that have "re" attached to the beginning of the word: reschedule, repair, return, rewrite, redecorate, restore, replace, renew, renovate.

Retrogrades of the Other Planets
    As for the other planets, their retrogrades seem to work the same way. With Venus retrograde, relationships and money matters are delayed or muddled. With Mars retrograde, aggressors or initiators of battle are defeated, and new activities are confused or end up at cross-purposes to original intentions.  

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