We spent a lot of psychic capital living through those long years, my friends. Those of you worried that you’re unequal to whatever comes next don’t give yourselves enough credit. What you’ve just lived through earned you a Master’s Degree in self-reflection and emotional upheaval, in critical thinking and ethical challenge. You stood witness and you faced fears. You’re still standing. What comes next will not require your fear and loathing so much as your determination and creativity. Stop and take that deep breath now. Appreciate how far we’ve traveled from near-fascism and uncontrolled imperialism, from ruthless militarism and national arrogance. We’ve come a long way, baby, but toward what? I know you don’t feel secure about the future but it will be a relief to face the facts. We’ve been living in an alternate reality from the rest of the world for decades. Jimmy Carter played stern Daddy and warned us about days like this, and we ditched him quick for St. Ronnie the Reagan who told us how terrific we were.
If the last year has proven disappointing, it’s because we live in dueling realities that seem to be pushing against one another until something gives. Until one or the other wins, energies are locked and blocked in competition for America’s heart and mind. Here’s the kicker: the spiritual process that will break the tie is not win/lose — it’s win/win.
This sounds like a Cancer, or a Virgo, or a mix of both. DEFINITELY seventh house going on.
Twenty-twelve configuration means that some of the most energetically packed planets are aligning with Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn: the cardinal points, or summarized in astrology as the Aries Point. The focus is on the first degree of Aries: a conjunction of Jupiter and Uranus in the first degree of Aries. This meets up with Pluto, newly in Capricorn; and Saturn, newly in Libra. That happens on June 8, with plenty of excitement along the way there.
The last time we experienced anything vaguely resembling this was the summer of 1969: Woodstock, the Moon landing, the Manson murders and much else changing not just the world, but our cosmology. We know the cultural ethos back then was more about getting involved; getting together; thinking in terms of potential and not just survival. The energy of 2010 is the first experience that makes the Sixties astrology look like a walk in the park.
Eeeeeek.
Anyhoo, the yearly:
Taurus (April 19-May 20)
What keeps your mental horizon so narrow, when all you want to do is open your perception and experience your life for what it can truly be? You seem to live within two entirely different perceptual frameworks, which alternate and at times conflict with one another. You might say you have two different value systems that are trying to function at the same time, independently of one another. I would propose that this split runs in two-month cycles. You seem to alternate in your goals and intentions a little more often than once per season, which constantly knocks you out of focus and seems to put you at cross-purposes with yourself. Yet you can use these fluctuations like a rock climber uses gravity for leverage.
DEAR GOD YES.
If you opened the doors to self-perception, you would see the world as a place that constantly changes, and you would embrace yourself as someone adapting to this as an ongoing adventure. You don’t need stability; you need immediate flexibility, particularly in your beliefs. You know you’re not someone who embraces change warmly or easily; and this alone is a source of resistance. One frequent result of this tension is the constant, subtle fear that ‘everything is going to be different’, which could be alleviated by embracing the truth that if you seek growth, you must be friends with movement, progress and the unfamiliar.
Resistance has an energy source. The emotional tenor of what you’re working through is fear. This in turn is disguised as guilt, obligation and the choking feeling that ’someone is running my life’. If that someone is one of your parents (whether near or far, dead or alive), first check in with your mother. Describe her karma to yourself: her life story, expressed as what she never did that she wanted to do (and why). Note how religion shaped her mind, and consider how those values, whether dressed in religious language or not, are the ones you might need to address the most directly. Guilt is a religiously generated emotion, meaning that it would not exist without the underlying fear of what some remote, impersonal ‘god’ might think of you. Certain people in your life have their own ideas; you have yours. You will be a lot happier when you recognize the difference.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 22)
Somewhere deep in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien is the idea that in our tenuous lives here on Earth, we should be glad that even the least of our desires comes to fruition. Most of us want more than that; we are a society composed largely of people that want everything, and for whom nothing is ever enough. I say this because of the extremely delicate state of your professional ambitions, and in honor of the thin line you are walking. In some ways, it seems that you’re barely entitled to an ‘ambition’, and even like the desire for more could jeopardize the little that you have.
True dat.
The planets suggest you take your quest for success inward for a while, seeking an understanding of your true motives. You can no longer act on desire without a strong concept of why that desire matters; which is another way of saying you need to discover what you want. This involves not merely diving into your emotional world (you’ve done plenty of that lately) and seeking clarity (you have succeeded in many ways) but also projecting yourself into the world and determining who you must be in relationship to everything that surrounds you. You’re being called to connect who you are on the deepest level with the world you see around you.
Clearly, this is not going to happen in the usual blaze ahead, take it off-road method of our society, or by doing what you were told to do. Neither method was as productive as they promised. Imagine, instead, that time has stopped; and that what a second ago was the present moment has instantaneously become the past. You’re able to move around and explore in this frozen world. You’re seemingly alone, in a dimension that you can only see but with which you cannot interact. Now, at least, you’re relieved of the mirage of an exchange. Move slowly through this world. Look carefully, remembering that what you see is colored by your vision. Feel deeply into your senses for any sign of heat or movement. Look carefully for what actually responds to your awareness: for what speaks to you directly and wants to exchange energy with you. What responds to your presence in this crystallized world is what’s truly part of you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) ****
Events occur that open you up to change and possibilities. Often you might be in a semi-state of shock as you evaluate what is happening. The biggest mistake you can make this year is to hold on to the status quo. The best part of your year is that you are letting go of old ideas. You are building a new type of stability based on walking past filtered thinking. Travel and foreigners could be quite lucky for you. Do not get involved with professional or personal acquaintances too quickly. Motto of the Year: Time is your ally.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ****
Certainly, you are learning a new style of communication. Your movements and expression reveal more centering. One of life’s lessons that whirls through your life will be the power of understanding. Artists of all types could be subject to unusual creativity. Children could be a handful, reminding you of your wild days. Many of you will have surprise additions to your family or, if single, one very exciting love relationship or a sequence of several intriguing potential lovers. Count on one exciting year. Motto of the Year: Prepare to blaze a new trail.
See you in 2010!
I bizarrely look forward to the World's Craziest Uranus Transit in my seventh house in ten years or so (combined with the progressed sun and moon hitting my vertex? I think I'm getting married :P), but dear god, do I ever dread it hitting my sixth house this year. Especially when 95% of people out there say that's guaranteed firing from jobs. Oh yeah, or getting a freak illness. Fabulous.
However... here comes Jupiter to save the day! Man, I hope that compensates. Turns the crazy luck into happy unexpected good times. *crosses fingers*
Today he's got some interesting thoughts for folks that you should check out.
TAURUS
I You are about to embark upon a philosophical journey, however, and your expansion of consciousness and international education are about to commence. Get ready to bone up and fly.SCORPIO
Every time Pluto, your ruling planet, changes zodiacal sign, Scorpios shed their old skin like snakes and reinvent themselves. YOU and all the members of your sign will now likely leave a whole reality behind, transform your life again and develop a new way of communicating in a whole a new language. You won’t be content to be plunked down in one spot. Sibling issues? What about the elephants in the room that have been staring at you since you were six.
well if you really want to figure it all out
so when Mars goes direct on March 11 you can actually move ahead----
try to retrace your steps right now
you're obviously not going to remember every detail
but go back to mid October
when Mars first entered Leo
Can you remember where you were
where your head was at
what you were doing?
That's the point where all this began.
then on March 11 you can start all over again
and by May 17
you'll have cleared a new path for yourself
when Mars reaches the point it is at right now
yeah that's it go back to october
october
october
be patient
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