Since the Equinox Saturday September 22nd, I don't know about you, but I have been very nervous. The Sun changed signs at 10:49 AM EDT into Libra as we officially moved into Autumn. This was just 3 days after the 2nd of 7 Uranus /Pluto squares that all astrologers are talking about. Uranus is sudden and Pluto is power-so shifts are occurring everywhere. Someone sent me photos of rebellions and demonstrations happening that week in: Egypt, Syria, Barcelona and Madrid Spain, England, Germany, Turkey, Mexico, Italy, the US, Athens Greece, Canada, Moscow, Palestine, Porto Portugal and Israel. That is quite a line up.
But no worries it has happened before. Between 1845-56, as Uranus and Pluto were also in aspect there were upheavals in almost every capital in Europe (specifically 1848-9): Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Dresden, Baden, Rome, and Milan. Literature was revolutionary as well. Marx and Engels wrote "The Communist Manifesto"; David Thoreau wrote "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience". Social justice issues arose with Frederick Douglas and Harriet Taubman leading anti-slavery efforts and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony with the beginnings of the women's movement. (read Richard Tarnas' "Cosmos and Psyche" for more details.)
We are not living through the most important or most significant of revolutionary upheavals as we sometimes think. (Or if we are who can call it?) An argument can be made, however, that with the ending of the Mayan calendar and the threat of our extinction due to environmental factors there is an overlay on top of the periodic rearrangement of the social order, which makes it appear and feel like we are in uniquely desperate circumstances. There is much that seems out of order and out of balance, almost everywhere you look. It is more important than ever to find and maintain an inner personal calm and tranquility.
It came to me this week that being an astrologer and knowing where the planets are is both a boon and a curse. Astrologers are aware that as planets change signs they change houses or areas in our life that get affected with the transition. My nervousness comes in part as a result of this heightened expectancy; then too I can assign a reason for my jittery nerves, which duty tells me I need to share.
My nervousness these past few weeks as we have passed through the time of the Harvest Full Moon last Saturday as the Sun and Moon connected with those 2 outer planets that shake things up (especially for those of us that have planets at 7-8 degrees of the cardinal signs -those signs that initiate the seasons), is palatable. Now we arrive to this week and a long lineup of planetary changes.
Today Wednesday, planet Venus moved into Virgo-all you Libras and Taurus take note-no more free time- time now to put nose to the grindstone; tomorrow planet Jupiter makes a station in Gemini going retrograde until the end of January-expansion now comes from the inner work on your thinking; Friday the 5th is a biggie both Mercury and Saturn move into Scorpio. Mercury routinely stays in a sign for a month-but Father Saturn for 2 1/2 years. So the pressure of the last 2 1/2 years is off all you Libras-having done the relationship work and taken on more responsibility you get a break; now Scorpios are in for the wringer-Sun sign Scorpios or rising sign people-get a grip and come out with integrity. ( I will write about that very significant change in the next blog.)
The week is not over either as Mars moves into Sagittarius at 11:21 PM EDT Saturday the 6th. If you have Sagittarius rising you need to be careful of getting into arguments or exerting yourself too much. This might well be the week that "was". As a planet enters a new sign and new residency in your natal chart for their particular cycle, be it a month or 2 1/2 years, there is often an event that puts you on alert that affairs of that house are going to be shaken up. Hence my nervousness-with so many planetary sign changes in so many different areas of life it feels like everything in our lives is breaking open/up. More to follow...
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