Dear Friend and Reader:
Well, an odd bit about Venus first: she’s about to oppose the Galactic Core. Venus is in late Gemini and the center of our galaxy is in late Sagittarius; that would be an opposition. So we get ‘Galactic Venus’ for a few days and, well, that sounds like even more fun than rock ‘n roll sushi.
Mars is trailing behind in Gemini; when you put two things in Gemini you get four, eight or sixteen (the twins have twins). We have a lot on our minds and, at least from what I’ve been hearing (I am biased) plenty of people have sex on their minds; anyway this would be a good time to. Have sex on your mind, that is. Just remember, one thing leads to another.
Kidding aside, you can continue to blame contention and guilt trips on Mars in Gemini. This is not an easy placement; it is not the equivalent of Venus in Gemini. Venus, being much closer to Mercury in nature, is pretty happy in an air sign; Mars, being fiery and Scorpio-styled watery is not. Mars in Gemini can represent contention for its own sake, arguments with too many words and more than a bit of paranoia. The key to all of this is slow down your thought process long enough to feel what you are saying.
Meanwhile, the Sun is four days into Leo and the Moon is about a day into Libra; we’re in the first days of the lunar cycle; first quarter is Wednesday, so now’s a great time to catch the momentum (for anything) while it’s building. Remember that this Moon is heading for a second lunar eclipse in about 10 days. Things begun now will undergo a transformation around that time.
Speaking of eclipses, here is the odd bit about Mercury. It’s currently in the degree of a total solar eclipse from 1999. That would be the infamous Aug. 11, 1999 grand cross and total solar eclipse, from back when the Internet was young. I believe that we are still under the influence of this eclipse. The lunar nodes have come back round to Leo and Aquarius (they are about to enter Cancer and Capricorn, actually, and are just finishing their first visit to Leo and Aqua since that era). The degrees of eclipses can be active for many years. Mercury is a messenger and he/she/it is telling us to listen for messages from that era of our lives — a strange or at least interesting time for just about everyone.
I would be interested to hear if you have any connections between that time and right now, i.e., things that come up Monday and Tuesday (with Mercury right there).
Then over the next few days, Mercury will be approaching the three-planet conjunction in Aquarius. That will be a conversation with the conjunction; a bit of catch-up; and an external expression of the currently retrograde (therefore internalized) energies of Jupiter, Chiron and Neptune. It’s a little like the conjunction is sleeping at the moment, or working behind the scenes, though Mercury will bring some of it to the surface — and I’ll be commenting on that as it happens.
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Till tomorrow this is,
Portland, Maine
The Strokes made their first EP album during the year of 99′, resulting in their continued popularity. Fast foward 10 years and you have them today making they’re in the making of their forth album now. Just thought they were a great band who came out on the turn of the century. Check Em’ Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-5Cyba6_gk
Aug. 11, ’99, my daughter was 2 days shy of 6 months old. After having successfully circumvented child protective services, my daughter(aqua), her mom(cap), and I(sag) moved back to the commune farm. (We had to birth at the hospital, 3 days labor at the farm and no baby, we got concerned. Of all the silliest twists of fate it turned out mom’s bladder was full ((which I, if not being completely and utterly stupefied by the experience, had the knowledge to diagnose, and our other friend had the knowhow to catheterize)). Well, apparently “the authorities” didn’t think do-it-yourself home, farm, midwifery qualified as responsible, and they wanted to evaluate us for a few months. So we had to cozy up in the suburbs for a few.) We were getting back into the farm life, but with a little one in tow.
Last few days I’ve been working my ass off in the garden and around the yard, and home. This time I’m in the suburbs, as opposed to 10 acres. And the little one in tow is me. I’ve been consciously working with the moon lately, feeling it’s flavors as it goes around the dial. It just so happens that my natal moon is at 18 leo. I’m taking a crazy download regarding patterns these days. I’m looking forward to our next eclipse.
Take care all,
Jere
BP88 . . . “The Strokes” Circa 99
I’m lookin’ lookin’ – can’t quite track this down. Do you have a link?
M
“The Strokes” Circa 99
Yeah, well the *real* problem with Mars in Gemini is that afterwards it will be Mars in Cancer *8^D. The last time the HeatBeater was in Cancer was in the Fall 2007 – Spring of 2008, where He wandered for 10 frickin’ months back and forth across the Gemini/Cancer scape.
There is a new Consort in my practice who happens to be a Gemini. As she feels her way through this Tantric framework I am developing, Mars has been cauterizing and burning off all sorts of non-essentials in her life. Since she *is* a Consort, there is a certain amount of flowover into my experience (no, really . . . ask about my 8th House). Intensity is the name of the Game, and while I am not exactly known for my casual approach to life, these days it feels like I am walking, barehanded, through an industrial furnace.
Oh yeah – I can’t wait till Mars arrives to my Sun sign. There are a couple of things I intend to cremate, and will need Hot Daddy in the house to make it real.
As for how this relates to 1999. Heh. Most of 1999 I was barely conscious. My 20-year-old daughter had just died of cancer. Then I too physically died twice that year, both times made a conscious decision to live. As I was subsequently classified as ‘das log’ –a Returner– I actually am a little bit more than alive.
While I am fun to have around, things do tend to pick up speed. Who can take much of that? Not even me, which is why I (and women like me ~ahem~) spend a certain amount of time in Retreat, letting the molten heart flow cool down, open up. It makes a huge difference in what I am able to do, perceive, share.
So. 1999. The year I Returned.
1999 was a pivotal year for me. In the summer I was between a job in Colorado and remodeling a house in Oregon. We were at the infrastructure stage: electrical (I learned to do myself!) plumbing, sub-floor – all of the foundational unseen elements that support my life in my cozy little house today. At the time I was feeling a bit homeless, longing for what I have now.
I finished the wetland restoration project in Colorado in the fall, left my job and embarked on a path toward self-employment.
I also had a miscarriage in the fall, but I wasn’t pregnant for very long. It was like being kissed on the head by a baby spirit flyby.
What I have in my life today is still a work in progress, yet built on the energy I put into it in 1999. Thanks for bringing it all into my appreciation.
The theme being self actualization, I am (God, so slowly) creating my own life free, peaceful. Two peripherally important men in my life are making it clear not to penetrate them psychically. And the message is clear for me to move on. In terms of ambition, I am stating very clearly that I want to help people. That means working with others who understand intimacy and their soul so to work with people who need that kind of empowerment. The understanding is felt.
If there is an age spectrum, I’m on the younger side of it, resulting in my inability to fully remember specific events from when I was 10 years old, but about 4 hours ago I had what one would call a “revelation” or even an epiphany of some kind. I was thinking about how all of my experiences and feelings from the past have effected me and how these effects still resonate to this day and will continue to do so until my transition. My transition into the 4th dimension that is. Maybe the effects will still be seen there as well, but I digress. For me(this is an opinion)The disection of past events involves two questions which one must ask themselves. Why did this experience happen to me? AND How did the outcome of this experience effect me? It seems to me after just trying this that the answer to one question helps in answering the other. The answers to these questions gives me a feeling of awareness. Awareness of the past and how my every descision effets the future of my life, and with hope, the lives of others. I’m extremely new to the world of astrology, but my recent interest in the subject seems limitless, as does my current outlook on the future. I now find it hard to believe that there isn’t some kind of influence from the skies. I found a much greater appreciation for myself and the world around me after this realization. Internet?- ALL of my current knowledge of astrology has been acquired through the use of it. tata celestials
That week of the August 1999 eclipse I completely quit my job with the city of San Francisco and started self-employment. I took a trip to Paris later that year, to celebrate the new millennium, and started a long road re-inventing me past the nine-to-five wage slave work and mind.
By and large it’s been a good mirror trip ten years later. Just finished a new play that we’ve been working on for the last year and its a thing of beauty. I feel this work is completely filling in the foxholes inside. No more warring between selves.
Well thanks for making my blood run cold. The fall of 1999 highlights included a miscarriage, which triggered an auto-immune disease and clinical depression. Then my twin got an even worse case of the same auto-immune disease, and developed an array of symptoms that had doctors puzzled, and nearly killed her. Imagine holding on to dear life to someone you love as they are dangling off of a cliff-and someone is pulling on the feet at the other end. I kept having the feeling that someone was pulling her toward death as I kept dragging her back. A year later, and many trips to specialists later, we discovered that her husband had been poisoning her. Suddenly the imagery I had received all made sense. She was heavily insured and he wanted the money.
Still, I survived it, and the experience of working through that illness has led directly to what I do now, and greatly increased my ability to help other women find a pathway out. Very Chironic, really. My wounds certainly made me a better healer. I would not be surprised by several deaths in the family in the next few months. I have a lot of elderly relatives after all, but I was hoping to avoid that kind of struggle again. I will certainly tread lightly for the next couple of days.
Eric,
Firt of all, thank you for the esoteric perspectives of Venus and Mars in Gemini. Given that i’m about a week into Mars’ transit of my twelfth house, i’m grateful for any help i can get. i can say that your words about slowing the thought process down and the alllusion to paranoia do indeed resonate with my experience so far. i would also add that holding my tongue has saved my backside a few times. Restraint and patience while channeling the energy towards completing tasks has been the ticket for me so far.
As to Mercury, my own take is that it has been in an anticipatory role of sorts since this current triple eclipse cycle began. Example: Mercury has its exterior conjunction just before the solar eclipse (morpholgically, the Sun eclipsing Mercury). Now, Mercury is transiting the spot associated with not only an eclipse but also with the nodes moving from one axis to another, just as that is happening again . Also, Mercury did aspect Saturn today. 30 degrees of separation, hmmmmm. We might do well to watch for when Mercury moves into Libra.
With Gratitude Always,
Len Wallick
well, i’m a leo sun sign and i can say that my energy level increased BIG time with this eclipse. maybe 2-3 days before is when i started to feel it and then everyday after. i’ve also been a lot happier as a result of the energy/health boost.
hmm, yeah after some thought i remember what happened around that time in ’99, though i think it was a little earlier in the summer – maybe june but cant remember for sure. it was a roommate transition period. the one that left (sometime early summer i think) was one of the 2 worst human beings that have had significant roles in my life. he was a jeckyl & hyde like personality (compulsive liar and cleptomaniac). he had a dramatically negative impact on my life for about 8 months, finally moved out, so i had the place to myself for awhile and got to live in peace that summer. then a new roomate/friend came in later, maybe august or maybe fall, cant recall, but that situation worked out much better and was a transformative time, although in a more mild way compared to what i am feeling for this one.
definitely nothing happened involving intimacy though. i was totally alone then and still now, but this is hopefully where the drastic change will involve and ‘new life’ will begin. if so, this will probably be the most powerful eclipse of my life as it will mean a change from ‘always alone’ to ‘always with your soulmate’. i know her spirit, we’ve communicated on the etheric level for many years now, i know so much about her but just havent been able to find her. everything in my astrology, numerology, tarot, meditations, psychics all confirms everything i know intuitively, and point to it occuring sometime after this eclipse. an astrologer/psychic told me around aug 20th we would meet so hopefully that’s correct 🙂
August 6,1999 was the date that my ex-husband passed away after being in a coma for 10 days. He was 56 years old and lived next door. We just celebrated his birthday yesterday. Ten years ago was a very transformative time for me and also for our son who was 27 at the time. I have just been going over that time frame as we unpack his storage.
August of 1999 my husband and I had the first of several tumultuous splits – he had just turned 40 and I was about to, a month later. The rockiest of roads since then has seen a lot of healing for both of us, amidst hellish turmoil; making sense of my depressions and he getting a recent diagnosis of adult ADHD, that explains SO much of our drama together.
We have stuck with each other (?!) and the love has managed to grow; it’s more real and mature and now we are about to set up a company together and this on the eve of our 50th birthdays.
I have felt the magic of this eclipse to my core in a most profound way, as I make a very conscious surrendering to the universe and CHOOSE to focus on what is coming into the light, deep down in my soul.
(As I write this, a song has just come on the radio – Kevin Hearn (he’s in the Bare Naked Ladies from Toronto and his album “Havana Winter” is released today):
“It’s time to come out of this coma.”
Hell ya is it ever!
This is interesting. I hadn’t made this connection between what’s going on now & the ’99 eclipse.
Two days after the infamous August 11th ’99 eclipse on August 13th, I found out that I was pregnant. And now since the lunar eclipse of July 7th, which hit pretty hard on my AC/DC axis, it’s like ‘new life’ all over again.
It’s not a child or a pregnancy this time but it’s the end of an old way of life & birthing of a new one.
Back then I gave birth to my daughter & now now I’m giving birth to myself.
Thanks for this post.