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Anne Ortelee - Weekly Weather February 8, 2010

 

Our mission this week is two fold: 1) continue to get conscious of the baggage we are carrying that no longer serves us and 2) start to develop our new mythology, beliefs, or the creative driving force that will take the place of our old baggage when/as we decide to release it. Our goal is to release our baggage this spring when Saturn and Uranus offer us two more opportunities with their next oppositions. Once we drop our old baggage or give it to good will or stop doing what we keep doing, remember Nature abhors a vacuum. We want to have a new vision of who, what, when, where or why we are going on the path we are walking on. We need a mission statement for our next phase. We need a revised and updated mythology that will serve us for the next part of our life.

In your life time, you have had major crossroads. At the time you reached the crossroad, you were aware of a choice being presented to you. You could go one of several ways. It might have seemed like the crossroads would last forever. Of course, it didn’t. As you went further down the path you chose, the other options faded away into the history of your life. However, it wasn’t until you LOOKED BACK at your life, through the lens of time, that you realized what a major turning point or crossroads you were at back then. Some times you maybe even want to go back to that earlier time when life seemed more simple or the world was abundant and full of choices. But as Bob Dylan said, “You can always come back, but you can’t come back all the way.”

Often when my clients are experiencing a major life crisis, they go back to when or where they “used to be happy”. Or the universe will connect them with people from an earlier time in their life in a seemingly “chance” encounter. It seems to help if they retrace their steps in a way to emotionally connect with a clearer, happier or more related time.

The Cosmos and earth is coming to a major turning point or crossroads this summer with the Cardinal T-square with four of the destiny planets. There will literally be a Giant Cosmic Crossroads formed in the heavens! I encourage you to Google and read about the Cardinal T-Square on the internet, focusing on the POSITIVE versions of things you find. There IS a lot of negative stuff out there! The whole point with the Cosmic Crossroads is to be as conscious as you can be as you enter and go through it. You might not be able to stave off economic collapses of countries but you can protect your principle even if it means keeping your money in your mattress. And, you can envision what you would do under various circumstances. Plan A. Plan B. Plan C. Have those plans ready. If you have taken the time to get ready, you’ll be conscious. And having a clear set of plans or consciousness is the key to fighting off fear or anxiety. That and deep breathing!

Toward the goal of developing your consciousness, it might feel like the universe is “picking on” you right now. No thing could be further from the truth. The universe, in its own not-so- subtle-way, is asking you to examine where you are and more importantly to think about where you want to go when the Cosmic Crossroads arrives. Take a survey of your life. Examine the people who are in it. Look at where you are. Think about where you thought you would be at this point or time in your life. Get back in touch with people from your past and have lunch with them to reminisce, learn or explore where you‘ve come from, what you’ve been through and how you got to where you are now. Stay in touch with, contact or start to establish connections with the people you want to include in your future. Build connections with them over the next few months so when the Cosmic Crossroads arrives you know which path they plan on taking and have their cell phone numbers in your cell phone.

The next part is a bit more difficult but you need to start working on it now. The world’s and the collectives’ mythology is in the process of changing. The collectives’ mythology is coming to a Cosmic Crossroads too. The Age of Pisces is drawing to a close as the Age of Aquarius is starting to accelerate and beginning to form before us. Pluto in Capricorn will take down and renovate/ destroy the “traditional structures” such as governments and corporations. The United States will face her Pluto return in a few years. And if you thought SATURN returns were difficult just wait till your country has its 248 year Pluto return!?

You need to figure out YOUR mythology in the face of the changes in your life and amid all the changes taking place around you. Some of the stuff you can’t do much about ~ such as universal health care or your firm‘s decision to eliminate your job ~ but you can take charge of your own patch of land, psychic, spiritual, health and mental real estate. You can come up with a new mythology that will support you as you ride through the turbulent changes ahead of us.

First, think about what is your definition of “success”? Is it actually YOUR definition? Is it your church’s? Or is it your parents‘ definition? Which parent? Is your definition tied to your culture’s or country’s definition such as a house with two kids, two cars and a dog? Is your definition tied to the part of you that makes your heart sing?

What is failure to you? Again ask yourself the same questions. Think about what is your definition of “failure”? Is it actually YOUR definition? Is it your church’s? Or is it your parents‘ definition? Which parent? Is your definition tied to your culture’s or country’s definition? Is your definition tied to the part of you that makes your feel you “SHOULD” or “MUST” or “HAVE TO” do this or that even if every cell in your body is screaming NO!?

Once you have YOUR definitions of failure and success in your mind, look at your life and see how it measures up. As Kris Kristofferson says, “What is even more difficult than failure is when you are perceived as a “success” and you are failing.”

Every culture and every single person in a culture has a myth system that guides them. Our myths are incredibly primal, often unconscious and deeply personal. Using our myths is how we navigate through the world. Myths are the framework through which we view the events in our lives and label them either good or bad. When I say myth, don’t think Greek, Norse or Roman gods or about King Arthur’s round table. Think about the myths in YOUR life in the Common Era year 2010, the Chinese year of the Tiger 4708, 4707, or 4647 and the Jewish Calendar year of 5770. See how three different cultural groups all call the same year by a different number based on their mythology?

Your myths include all the role(s) and framework(s) that you have established as guidelines for your life. They include the person you are supposed to be; the things you are supposed to do; the roles you play in your family; the kinds of friends you have; what your spouse or partner does or doesn’t do; what your kids do or don’t do; the type of work you do; the amount of money you earn; the place where you live; the amount of money you have in the bank; the amount of debt you owe; and the kind of retirement you are planning on. Essentially what ever the “benchmarks” you use to measure your life are the myths you have about what your life is to be.

Wars are often waged over conflicting myths ~ my God is better than your God! My beliefs are better than your beliefs! And just to prove my beliefs and my God is better, I am going to invoke him to help me destroy you! Actions driven like that are based in the deep and primal, very often unconscious, fears that if our myth is challenged our entire reality structure will collapse. Better to die that have that happen! People get MIGHTY angry when their primal beliefs, myths or ideas are challenged by another.

Well, as you may have noticed, a number of the myths our culture is based on are collapsing before our eyes. And there are many more collapses are to come as Pluto rolls through Capricorn and the Cosmic Crossroads forms in the sky. You will weather the coming changes and the evolution of the myths in the culture if you examine your inner myths NOW to get clear on them. If YOU collapse your outdated myths, it is MUCH easier on your psyche.

Myths often operate as our internal guidance system ~ a GPS of the heart. So what are your myths? What is your operating system? No computer, PC, MAC, LINUX or I phone? Figure out your myths or internal operating system so you are able to work with it effectively when and as the old myth systems start to collapse.

Now don’t be scared! Back in 1995 when Pluto entered Sagittarius ~ the sign of publishing and communications, few of us had a cell phone, email, or access to the internet. Phone books existed. Newspapers were vibrant. The music industry existed. No such things existed ~ I-phone, Kindles, Google, I-tunes, You-Tube, Face Book, Twitter, My Space or events “going viral” so a middle aged woman from Scotland with a cat named Pebbles who had never been kissed was watched by millions of people sing about her lost dream and then watched it come true. Look at all the changes in a few years in the areas of publishing and communication! The entire world is interconnected by a web that links us all instantly and informs us of events as they happen ~ see the Age of Aquarius interconnectedness arriving.

We are at the brink of a major evolutionary leap as humans. It is going to take place starting this summer as four planets line up in a Cosmic Crossroads. Our myths are changing. Our vision of what is possible for ourselves is changing. Your myth for yourself is how you define yourself to yourself and to others. What do you tell others when you talk about yourself? Do you say “I am a screw up. I am the worst! I am a failure!”? Do you say “I make great butter scones which I serve with delicious teas!” Or “I can teach you how to make the most BEAUTIFUL shoes in the world to help you dance toward your dream!” What do you tell yourself at night when you go to sleep and snuggle into your pillow? What do your dreams tell you about yourself? Each of those things are part and parcel of your myth about yourself.

Suze Orman says “When you can make the average GREAT, your dreams become a reality.” What does it take to make YOUR day? What is your idea of average? How do you make your average GREAT? What is your myth about success and failure? Why? Know the myths that guide you. Understand their power! Build new myths that support where you want to go with your life. Start to tell the myths to yourself ~ “Once, when I was young, I believed that …… Now, that I am older and wiser, I believe that SOME of that is still true but I also know my myth for myself includes ….”

It is also a great time to sit with your natal astrology chart and a beginner astrology book or the internet. Your chart HOLDS the myths that you incarnated into. It holds your positive and negative dreams for yourself. Look up all your planets by sign, placement and aspects. Read them. Re-read them. Mars in Leo retrograde is a great time to take yourself back to the beginning and to look at your chart in a new or revised way. Have your Sun see your chart with new eyes. Have your friends who know and love you tell you 7 things they have noticed about a difficult aspect in your chart. Come up with 7 new ways for your mythic t-square to work for you using an astrological thesaurus! Schedule a short reading and tell the astrologer that you want to learn what your chart says about your myths. Every chart touches on fixed stars, constellations and asteroids that have myths involved with them that resonate in your being as they touch the planets and angles in your chart.

Our week ahead is pretty fast moving and filled with action! We have a number of Mercury aspects promising illumination, ideas and insights. We have two fast moving Fingers of God between apex ~ Mars, Pluto and Jupiter/Venus as well as apex ~ Venus/ Jupiter, Saturn and Mars. The Fingers of God will bring us changes in our lives and direction shifts. Venus changes signs and enters Pisces where she is exalted, thrilled and oh-so happy. Mercury changes signs and enters Aquarius where he is brilliant, erudite and oh so SMART! And Chiron moves closer and closer to Neptune as the Sun and Venus join with both of them asking us to revision our myths and dreams for ourselves. Chiron and Neptune meet up next week for the conjunction they have been dancing around all year. Powerful imaginations. Great time to push your dreams! Fabulous time to talk with and about your dreams!

Moon’s Day, Monday Venus joins with Neptune so expect really interesting dreams and visions while you sleep. It is a great day to push the myth energy forward. Moon in Sagittarius has lovely closing aspects of a sextile to Venus in late Aquarius suggesting you gain from a woman or a beloved. Express appreciation. It also is a wonderful day to launch things out into world for your future and the vision of what you want to happen. Light a bunch of tiny candles to inspire your vision with the small flames of light symbolized by Sagittarius many changes of fire. Hang Christmas lights around your meditation area, your office or windows? Why only use them at Christmas? Let the many small lights make you happy now. Sun says to the power struggle and earth quake in your chart ~ hold on, light is coming soon! Mercury joins with Uranus by declination offering an unusual illumination or break through. Pallas asks you to understand how the darker myths of negative energy or negative voices from your childhood, your own mind or those who are envious of your light have influenced your choices and perhaps made you duck a bit. No more ducking!!! Stand proud in your own light and resolve to find a new ending or phrase to say to yourself when the going gets tough.

Mars’ Day, Tuesday finds the Moon in Capricorn reminding you about the earthquake in your life or the changing structures that you can do nothing, absolutely nothing, about. Some situations are like that. You can’t do a thing. You can however, change how you carry the energy with you. Symbolically release and cut the energetic ties by waving your hand across your abdomen, heart or head ~ where ever you feel attached. Ask that the negative ties be severed and the love ties remain. Or ask that all ties be severed so you are free to move on. Sever the ties with blessings and no hard feelings so you don’t carry them forward with you. Separate your myth from their myth and give yourself a happy ending~ “And then our brave hero/heroine (that would be you!) rode off into the sunset with a farewell, offered blessings and received a profound release from the karmic ties that no longer served a purpose in this life time!” Venus has a gift of brilliance from Saturn ~ understand they were here to teach you what you needed to learn. Now that you’ve learned the lesson, you don’t need to study with them any more! You can change your relationship to them to another type of relationship. Or ask them to move out of your life. The good part about the energy today is the outcome is positive and full of change with the closing energy of the Moon’s union with Uranus.

Mercury’s day, Wednesday Mercury enters Aquarius bringing his energy out of the solid, reliable, directness of cardinal earth into the high flying, 20,000 foot overlook of detached, observational fixed air. You see it now. You get it. Keep working on refining and redefining your myth for your future. Understand how that OLD myth of yours served to create where you are now. Examine it and decide if you want to keep it (or parts of it) as you move forward. Capricorn Moon has an excellent energy for sending things out into the world. Wrap them up and finish them off. Get them out the door. Mars starts to move into exactness of the Finger of God with his adjusting aspect to Jupiter. Health issues can surface. Your next chapter and your destiny speaks to you over the balance of the week. Expect life direction altering changes as the Finger points out where changes are needed or the direction to head next.

Jupiter’s Day, Thursday has a very, very, long void moon from 7:39 am to 6:24 pm EST. It is a clean the closet, clear out the email, empty the filled boxes, file, wrap, clear, clean and shuttle off the stuff that is routine and mindless. Great day to work on things or accomplish mundane things but don’t send the stuff out the door until after the Moon goes into Aquarius at 6:24. Mercury has troubles around the home in the middle of the night so sleeping can be disturbed or your dream state and mind are very, very active, blocking solid sleep. Write your dreams down upon awakening ~ they will be prophetic. Venus enters Pisces which she loves. The Finger of God with Mars is still active and pointing you in new or revised directions. Mercury understands a pattern he had not previously been able to understand with a giant AH-HA moment. Expect a very big mental break through in your understanding about WHY someone does something. I have a client whose 3 year old son bites when he doesn’t get the toy he wants from fellow playmates. He is a charming and smart little Libra guy with a possessive Moon in Taurus opposite his desire filled Jupiter in Scorpio ~ biting works for him! It solves a problem. And biting solves his problem VERY WELL I might add! All he has to do after that FIRST solid bite of a playmate is to clomp his teeth together quietly to get the other kid to hand over the desired toy. It only takes one or two bites to train a person! My step sister Debbie, a Libra Taurus mix is a pincher! After she pinches you a couple of times on the tender under arm or thigh or middle back, you give her WHATEVER she wants, especially when she make a pinching motion with her fingers and starts to walk towards you… Watch to learn what pattern YOU come to understand about someone in your life. It works for them. That is why they do it. Or understand one of your behaviors in a new and different manner today. It works for you. That is why you do it. Change your myth and you won’t have to do it any more. Or adjust your vision of why they do it so you have your own ah-ha moment. Then it won’t bother you nearly as much. Consciousness is illuminating!

Venus’ Day, Friday finds the Finger of God perfecting as Mars forms an in conjunct with Pluto. This can be a hard day in the morning as Mars fighting with Pluto is always difficult. You have to adjust. Or not adjust if you feel stubborn but the universe WANTS you to adjust. The Finger of God is tapping on your head and heart! At least psychologically TRY to adjust! Focus on the bigger picture. The little stuff that seems so important is NOT what you need to be paying attention to. Focus on the bigger picture! Sun connects you with a Very Important Person so notice who you meet or run into today. Make sure to take their cards, follow up if needed and pay attention to all connections. It might not be a clear signal to go ahead but do understand that THOSE folks are paying attention. Remember we are at a Cosmic Crossroads. You are reevaluating your myth and the myths of those around you. Understand what is in it for them if they bite you or pinch you. Understand WHY they are biting or pinching you. They are working in their myth. What is YOUR myth? Conduct yourself in an upstanding manner that will have the casual observers nodding approvingly to themselves. No need to go to drama ~ at least not in public. Mercury has a very strong working aspect to Saturn ~ focus on the important stuff not the trivial stuff.

Saturn’s Day Read the New Moon report on the site for more information on how to work with the energy of today. It is a powerful New Moon taking place on Neptune and Chiron. You awaken with a start and perhaps a dramatic dream. Again make sure to note it and mull on it. It is part of your new mythology evolving. What happens if you let go of your OLD mythology? What if it doesn’t work for you any more? Ah but wait that myth sure has worked for you for many, many years! My step sister is almost 56years old! Still pinching at her age? Well it DOES work. But is there something perhaps a bit more effective? Probably not. She’ll keep pinching as she gets what she wants. In her mythology, Debbie’s a powerful pincher who breaks down defenses and gets her way with a pinch and a twist. It is how she defended herself against her older Aries brother. I know I forgot to mention the twist ~ she twists as she comes off the pinch which leave a GREAT purple bruise! In my case, as the pinchee, raised in a no-hit family, I squeal and run away when pinched. I COULD change my myth. I could kick her in the leg, really hard, if she pinches me! If I kick her, she might stop pinching me! As long as ONE side changes the myth, the myth shifts. Today the myth wants to shift. Give it permission to change. Lots of hustle bustle energy about doing things and getting out into the world. The closing aspect for the Aquarius Moon is a conjunction to Neptune. Envision a new myth or dream ending for yourself. Listen to the changes in the myth. Give it permission to evolve.

Sun’s day, the second Finger of God with Venus and Jupiter in Pisces as the Apex forms today. The fuel of the Mars retrograde in Leo sextile to the Saturn retrograde in Libra launches a new vision of the myth and points you toward your future and your new mythology. The fuel of Mars and Saturn ask Venus in her exaltation what is the loving thing to do? Sun joins with Chiron ~ do I really want to change my mythology to include kicking? Isn’t that wounding? Isn’t that regressive? Can I change my myth to get a different outcome and NOT add kicking to it? Or is there yet another vision or myth I can form as the Sun joins with Neptune? I can talk to Debbie about how unattractive pinching is in a 56 year old adult female and suggest she get into therapy for her aggressive tendencies. Hmmm. Probably not what a powerful pincher who breaks down defenses and gets her way with a pinch and a twist would listen to. Hmmm. I could take her out for a beer and ask her to talk about why she pinches women when it all started as a defense mechanism for her older brother. Well I still have a few more months to work on my mythology changes. But here I am, off to a good start! How about you? What mythology do YOU want to change in your life? What myth do you want to release? What new myths do you want to add. Mix and match. No right or wrong here. It is all in deciding what you want as your core values and your life path. It is your myth after all. If your myth doesn’t serve you any more, you can wrap it up and put in on the shelf with the other relics from your childhood and earlier life. Focus on the vision of where you want to go.

Mundane:

Next week on the 17th , Chiron and Neptune join to start a new 84 year cycle. Get your new myth started before then! If the health care bill isn’t passed, we may not see it for a long, long time.

The last time Chiron and Neptune met was September 3, 1945 when Japan surrendered in WW2, the USA set up camp in South Korea and Vietnam declared its independence. Before that Chiron met Neptune in March 1880 when the first town was electrified and Pennsylvania was the first state to abolish slavery and Nov 1879 when the first cash register was invented and installed to prevent the bartenders from running off with all the bars' profits. Call your Congressperson and two Senators and urge them to pass the health care bill! A historic moment in time is before us!

And while you are at it complain to your representatives about the recent Supreme Court ruling that gives corporations the right to spend as much money as they want to influence elections. I don't know if you can afford to buy a commercial on tv but I can't. The corporations are NOT people. They shouldn't have a say in our elections by being able to spend unlimited amounts of cash.

Thankfully there were no big earthquakes with the closing square of Saturn to Pluto. A 6.6 quake off the coast of Japan, major mudslides in California and the collapse of the railway entrance to the fabled Inca site of Machu Picchu, in Peru, closing it for months, due to floods of the Urubamba river. Over four thousand people, both foreign visitors and Peruvians, were evacuated by helicopter from Agua Calientes at the end of last week.

Greece is rumored to be about to declare bankruptcy, threatening the stability of the Euro currency as well as thrusting the European Union into its first significant test. Several charts exist for Greece, all of which contain major planets in early cardinal signs. Those early cardinal planets are receiving the difficult action of Saturn and Pluto’s closing square until next fall. The Greek revolution against the Turks chart of March 25, 1821 has Sun, Mercury, Jupiter in 4 Aries square to Neptune and Uranus in 3 Capricorn. The current republican parliamentary regime originated in the collapse of the military dictatorship on July 24, 1974 at 4 am in Athens, Greece. The 1974 chart has Venus at 3 Cancer square to Pluto and Moon in 4 Libra. With either chart for Greece, we can expect action and transformation as the Saturn Pluto square continues to revise and transform that country’s reality. Themyths they are a changing!

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