Celestial Weather

30 October 2006 – 5 November 2006

The Week beginning October 30th, 2006

Week as a Whole:

Mercury began his retrograde period this past weekend inclining us to look back into the past and review old plans and ideas. This backward orientation can often cause confusion when we try to “think forward” and find ourselves having to re-do matters of communication and thought. Our thoughts take color from Mercury’s sign at all times and when he is in Scorpio, our thinking tends to be emotional and lacking in gradation. We hold to our thoughts passionately and can be suspicious of those who don’t share our views. Our words are often sharp and can carry the scorpion’s sting. With a U.S. election coming next week, this week’s political discourse will be colored by this Scorpionic venom. Mercury retrograde will dredge up damaging items to serve as ammunition in personal attacks and a major scale. This may be the worst mudslinging exhibition in the sorry degraded state of U.S. politics.

There is “water, water everywhere” this week. From Tuesday through Thursday seven of the ten planets are in Water signs. This includes five in Scorpio: Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, and Jupiter. The Moon will join Uranus in Pisces getting energy from Neptune who is still vibrating intensely at his turning point. We don’t think with water, we feel. In fact, thinking and feeling are mutually exclusive activities. We think in our heads and feel in our bodies. We all get in trouble when we confuse them and try to think about how we feel or trot out our emotions as thought. The Uranian pre-election “surprises” will come in profusion. This will be really ugly. This is a battle of words without ideas.

People will be hurt and carry these wounds into the future. There will be no rational debate. As individuals, we need to remember that we are in extraordinarily emotional times and that we instinctively know just what to say to sting someone who opposes us.

The week begins on “Crunchy Monday“ when Mercury aligns with Jupiter in Scorpio for the second time in a week. Mercury then moves on to reform the square to Saturn on Wednesday. Mercury has been vibrating in the Jupiter - Saturn square for the past week. We are inundated with the informational struggle for power and support underway as symbolized by Jupiter square to Saturn. Our communication systems will be flooded with targeted messages aimed at our “hot buttons” and phrased to inflame. “Cut and run.” “Stay the course.” “The attack on marriage.” “Soft on terrorists.” These phrases, and others like them, convey no information but carry emotional content designed to divide people into groups who share the same fears. And fear is the underlying fuel and the easiest emotion to stimulate especially in a Cancerian country like the U.S.

But there is hope here as well this week. Venus precedes the Sun into a harmony with Uranus: Venus on Wednesday to followed by the Sun on Friday. Uranus is the “outsider” in us all. And this connection suggests that many of us will be able to “step outside” and wake up from the spin and group think to realize our own unique feelings. Perhaps disgust and anger at the sorry mess money, media, and corruption has made of our political system. There is hope some leaders will rise above the mud and speak out for unity and sanity. There is more hope for conversion moments for those in leadership positions suggested by a similar harmonic connection between Saturn and Pluto. Any politician, from top to bottom, who steps up and admits to error and makes a sincere vow to work for change would be applauded and approved.

The time for a change in leadership is at hand. Any time this week through next Sunday’s Full Moon will support such a shift in reality. The Full Moon chart, however, does not favor rational choice but rather a Pauline conversion coming from within. After this week’s Full Moon, we will be in a new world with new rules and new players. Power will have changed hands. The revolution will be televised AND it will be live. The outcome may take some time to become clear as those in power may use desperate measures to cling to their positions. But this long nightmare of fear is coming to a close. The lights are coming up and the roaches are scurrying. This is the beginning of the end.

Daily Forecasts:

Monday 30 October 2006

Neptune rules this morning. Today begins in a dream and ends with some hard facts as the Moon goes Void tonight at 9:31pm/12:31am after connecting Saturn, Mercury, Jupiter and Pluto in the early evening hours. We oscillate from deeply involved to sudden detachment.

Tuesday 31 October 2006

Welcome to Waterworld. The Moon has entered Pisces becoming the seventh water planet. Be wary of polluted waters and follow your feelings out if you sense poison around you. Remember and revisit places of joy and purity as medicine. We’re all more transparent to each other while the Moon swims with the fishes.

Wednesday 1 November 2006

Hard facts (Mercury square Saturn) mix with new attitudes (Venus trine Uranus) on another busy day. Mercury’s retro confusion makes careful communication a necessity. Expect to hear about statements suddenly become “inoperative.”

Thursday 2 November 2006

The Moon went Void last night and enters Aries at 7:46am/10:46am and we’re noticeably less fuzzy. There’s very few connections made but the madness rolls on. Beneath the surface, people are changing and then realizing they’ve changed.

Friday 3 November 2006

With the Sun flowing with Uranus it’s easier to be an “individual” and step out of the herd. Check to make sure you’re feeling your own feelings and not somebody’s programmed soundtrack.

Saturday 4 November 2006

Again the Moon went Void overnight and she enters earthy Taurus at 8:05am/11:05am. Earth Angel has arrived. Expect to feel literally more grounded. Issues and ideas can be seen more practically in terms of resources and time. There’s less of that feeling of being blown here and there in the wind.

Sunday 5 November 2006

The Full Moon sheds her bright light on our commitments. It’s time to put your money on the table. We see things now in terms of personal cost and personal loss. Like Dorothy we’re seeing the man (or people) behind the curtain.

Long Range Forecast:

November 8 – In the middle of Mercury retrograde (10/29 through 11/18) Mercury aligns exactly with the Sun in an “eclipse of Mercury”. The last time this happened was May 2003. Remember “Mission Accomplished?” I’m concerned about major Mercury aspects occurring near Election Day in the U.S. The 2000 election occurred on the day Mercury changed direction. The anticipated widespread use of electronic voting machines and validity of their results may be an issue. (Thanks to reader John Dawson for alerting me to this event.)

November 23rd – Jupiter leaves Scorpio to spend a year in his home sign of Sagittarius. Less spying and secret courts, more transparency and more light. A new cycle of foreign affairs, jurisprudence, and religious thinking begins.

Long-Long Range Forecast:

April 14, 2009 – October 21, 2010 - Saturn makes a series of squares to Pluto newly in Capricorn. The end of business-as-usual politics. The nationalistic dinosaurs will enter their twilight times. The transition to organic regional government will not be smooth…the result may be some corporate feudal mixture.

June 24, 2012 – April 17, 2015 - Uranus in Aries forms his first major hard aspect to Pluto, a square angle, since they were aligned in the second half of the 1960’s. Hippie dreams may come true when the ecology and/or petroleum-based economies fail. Plan to live where there is food and water and you don’t need a car. Plan to live where you’ll know your neighbors…maybe even love them. What a thought! We may have to choose between eating grain on a commune or growing very thin in the city.

Notices for Los Angeles area readers:

Ongoing Classes:

10:30am Class in Astrological Methods - Heroes and Villains. Using the charts of well-known people, good guys and bad guys, the effects of progressions, transits, solar returns, and other techniques will be taught and explored. The class is open to people who know the basics of astrology. Call the New Age Bible and Philosophy Center, 1139 Lincoln Boulevard, 310-395-4346 or me, 818-316-0702, for details.

Lectures:

November 5th – A discussion of the Full Moon in Taurus followed at 11:00am by a talk entitled “To Have and Have Not – Power in Relationships.” At the New Age Center.

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