27 November 2006 – 3 December 2006
The Week beginning November 27th, 2006
Week as a Whole:
Tuesday holds two sets of square angles, Mercury square Neptune and Mars square Saturn, and they may combine to frustrate many of us. Since Mercury represents among other things our information systems, stress with the imaginative energy of Neptune often yields confusion, illusion, and delusion. The three “usions”. We are more likely to hear what we want to hear, or slightly embellish the facts, or spin the story, or simply be confused by contradictory accounts. A Scorpio Mercury inclines toward suspicion and Aquarian Neptune paints an ideal future outcome. These two don’t harmonize easily. It may be hard to find the middle path between blanket cynicism and dismissing negative issues out of hand.
Mars makes a square angle to Saturn roughly once each year. These are times when our aggression must be focused and under control. Unconscious outbursts often meet with painful consequences. For an athlete disciplining himself on the road to a gold medal, this energy is highly useful. For the surgeon learning a new technique, also useful. But for most of us who simply want to put new projects in motion, the increased resistance and required precision may be felt like an uphill struggle to get things done. Thinking of this pressure as muscle building and tuning up is perhaps the best attitude. Coming with the Mercury – Neptune square, this may underline the fact that there are no easy solutions to many of our problems like Iraq, Darfur, global ecology, and so on. The enthusiasm over the change of power in the U.S. is giving way to the reality of governing and making hard choices.
Three days, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with long Void Moon periods can add to the low-level difficulties we may encounter this week. These periods are best for continuing ongoing efforts, or for stepping back and reflecting, or for simply resting the mind and body. These are not times to make decisions and new opportunities that come during these periods rarely work out.
Another square angle is formed this Saturday by the Sun when he connects with Uranus. This occurs twice each year and often manifests in battles of will and power struggles. There will be pressure to lash out at commitments that may suddenly seem unfairly restrictive even if they were explicit all along. There may be a Gulliver and Lilliputian feeling since the conflict is coming from a Sagittarius Sun to a Pisces Uranus. There may be a conflict between the “rules” and what one knows intuitively to be right in a situation. And happily, there may be sudden inexplicable bursts of compassion and sympathy. The Sun and Uranus form a natural pair linked to the opposing signs of Leo and Aquarius. The Sun is warm and personal where Uranus is cool and detached. When they are square we’re challenged to keep our egos small as points yet warmly in contact without attachment. When they are square we can learn how far we are from that hard-to-attain ideal.
Later next weekend, the Saturn based slow motion will return with the approach of his retrograde change just after the Full Moon next Monday. Saturn will also connect with Mercury and Venus next week. Politics both national and global will continue to churn as tides are shifting.
Daily Forecasts:
Monday 27 November 2006
The Moon is Void from 5:00am/8:00am until she enters Pisces at 12:21pm/3:21pm. The First Quarter Moon comes this evening as well, so we’re all trying to find a place where we feel like we belong. Follow your feelings over the next two days, but double check your facts and figures.
Tuesday 28 November 2006
More Neptune glamour and shimmering today with Mercury square to Neptune and later Mars square to Saturn. These two may combine to feel depressing, like nothing will ever work out. Remember that this is just a feeling and it will pass. Take slow steady steps and build your muscles.
Wednesday 29 November 2006
Void Moon again from 8:29am/11:29am until 3:30pm/6:30pm when she enters Aries. The weight will lift and what seemed unattainable on Monday will seem quite possible, even easy, this afternoon as the Moon takes fire from Jupiter in Sagittarius.
Thursday 30 November 2006
New ideas and enthusiasm are in the air but remember we have no earth planets to naturally ground us and only Neptune as an objectifying air influence. There is an overabundance of fire energy. Fire gives heat and light but must be fed new fuel and so moves on quickly.
Friday 1 December 2006
The Moon goes Void at 10:40am/1:40pm and finally brings us much needed earth energy at 5:26pm/8:26pm when she enters Taurus. Expect to feel like the brakes have been applied. Some of us may be exhausted by the excess fire and need to calm way down with this earth energy. Simply lying on the ground can be good medicine now. Working the earth in your gardens large and small is also therapeutic.
Saturday 2 December 2006
That twitchy feeling comes from the Sun square to Uranus. Avoid petty conflicts of will and look for attitudes that you may have accepted about yourself that you’ve outgrown. This energy can help us shrug off pigeon-holing either coming from others or coming from within ourselves.
Sunday 3 December 2006
The Taurus “shopping” Moon continues until 4:31pm/7:31pm when she Voids again. She enters Gemini at 7:05pm/10:05pm and the heavy approach of more Saturn action will be felt.
Long Range Forecast:
December 5th – Saturn stations and begins 4 months of retrograde motion. He ALMOST makes an exact contact with Pluto that would indicate a major release of pent up change energy, and these changes will seem imminent. But they will be delayed until next summer when Saturn has resumed normal motion and again moves into this same angle with Pluto, only this time he will make the connection.
Long-Long Range Forecast:
April 14, 2009 – November 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:
December 10th – A talk at 11:00am entitled “Seeing the Forest AND the Trees.” At the New Age Center.
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Copyright 2006 Rich Humbert