…from the astrologer who brought you the concept “Sagittattitude,” this is a call out to all Saggies who have something to say or comment on about how your life is going now. This will be to enrich and inform Cosmic Confidential: A Future Investigation, the 2010 annual edition of Planet Waves. You can be familiar with the astrology, or not. For those who are, you know that Pluto was in your sign for 12 years, and has moved onto Capricorn. There is a conjunction going on involving Jupiter, your ruling planet, and Chiron, one of the most significant planets in your astrology.
I know that not everyone knows how these transits affect you, therefore, you can just riff. Please enter them in the comment section below, or email to me at dreams (at) planetwaves.net. Please leave out stuff like family names and if you want to include your birth data, please leave it out of the main text.
We are almost through with the signs; all we have left are Cap, Aqua and Fish. I will post Cap tomorrow. Today as the Moon leaves Virgo I am finishing the Virgo research and draft and will move onto Libra. So I am catching up with you guys…
Let’s go Sagittattitude! Start typing!
Well, here I am…
>>>>>Pluto in Sagg:
This transit is what got me interested in astrology.
Reading about the nature of this transit and the personal transformation involved was a revelation.
In 1995 I was just entering high school. This was a difficult period of my life and I experienced a fair share of emotional suffering. Something had to give. And it did.
The transformation had begun.
In my early twenties I had what might be called a spiritual awakening.
It might have been the drugs…it might have been God…it was probably both!!!
Whatever it was it was…and who I knew to be “me” was gone…dead.
I have the sense that for the rest of this transit I was building a new identity, an authentic identity.
I like the word essence.
Who I really was began to shine through.
With this came feelings of satisfaction, gratitude, and downright bliss.
So here we are in 2009 and Pluto has left for Capricorn.
Recently I have thought that, while more than ever I know who I am on the inside, I am still working on who I am in the world external.
I have this sense of discovery.
This is manifesting most clearly in my relationships and my career.
It all feels brand new.
>>>>>Now to Saturn in Virgo:
This was my “Saturn Return”.
The Universe I play in was certainly telling me to get my act together.
This was most importantly related to my physical health.
I needed to reclaim my will and do what I knew needed to be done.
I was laying a foundation for the future.
I felt this influence in my career as well.
I have been in my current job for a few years now.
I want to be doing something different and more interesting but this is the first job I have taken seriously and tried to be better at.
I have learned a lot about myself (strengths/weaknesses) in the process.
With both of these transits ending recently I feel a sense of relief.
There is most definitely a sense of new beginnings.
I have no idea where I’m headed but my Sagg optimism is at an all-time high.
Thanks…hope this helps!!!
Still sorting what the last 12 years have meant. A 19 year relationship that never fit, that held me in and bounded me in ways that distorted my very self, came to a final end last year, after more than 3 of in-again, out-again. Oddly, given all the clues about Pluto in Sag and religion, I began a spiritual journey *in* an organized religion. I am wary about the religious structure, but feel good about my ability to see what is helpful and what is bullshit. Now, just now a sense of confidence, not about what career path I am taking, but that whatever path I will end up on will be OK, that I’m good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it, people do like me. And just in the last few weeks, a new relationship that seems like it might be able to help me heal some of the banal, lingering, constricting malaise of all the years gone before. So exciting. I am happy to be emerging, blinking, into the sunlight.
Still sorting what the last 1
Okay, so this is probably much more than you would ever want to read, but I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to vent… a little. Forgive me.
I wrote this letter about a year ago, but everything in it still stands. Read it and weep… or laugh… or just sigh and smile and maybe do something about it.
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Master Plan for the Renewal of the United States of America and the World
An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
Giuseppe Saitta
6 December 2008
Boise, Idaho
6 December 2008
President Elect Barack Obama
5046 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60615 2806
Dear Mr. President,
The socio-economic system I propose will ennoble and sustain humanity for millennia and across galaxies.
My story is the same story as many European Americans: Born under Fascism; Triumphed in Democracy.
I was born in Rome, Italy in 1941, under the thumb of Mussolini and one day before the calumny of Pear Harbor.
Like many of my fellow emigrants I have lived and helped to build, protect and uphold the dream that is America. Like many of my fellow senior citizens I watch as our beloved country careens dangerously toward neo-fascist rule. What follows are my beliefs and values, created through extensive studies of many scientific, political, social, philosophical and spiritual systems.
I offer them below as soft and distant echoes in a primeval forest. Is there anyone there? Is there anyone listening?
We can create the world described below. First it takes consensus reached through dialogue and reason. Then it takes political will and benevolent, wise, honest and capable leadership. And finally it will take a united world of sovereign citizens from all free and sovereign nations to work together to create these transforming changes.
May this find you in the best of health and in high spirits of whatever you hold most sacred. This is the season of passage into winter. For us in the North the darkness descends into the longest night, soon to ascend toward the longest day. Our life is not circular but spiral. As we orbit we also speed on a trajectory of uncertain direction and destination. I believe we have sufficient intelligence and power to chart our own course across the unknown, and with winds of good fortune at our back, reach this ideal; this paradise; this Utopia.
The biggest tragedy that plagues humanity is that too few of us believe Utopia is a real place. A place that can in deed be reached. Reaching a place requires belief that it is there and the will and desire to get there. I hear mostly two things about this ideal state. It is impossible to create, and if it were, Utopia will be too boring to endure.
Well, what if it were not necessary to create it, what if it already exists, and what if when we get there we discover that it is a land of infinite freedom, abundance, opportunity and the most intriguing mind-blowing possibilities. What if we found amazing freedom, challenge, and accomplishment for all of us there, not just the “lucky” few? I point to a Utopia that doesn’t lull to sleep but rather gives the gift of time and full life so that we can grow as much as we can.
We now have the opportunity to go there as an entire planet. America, some time ago, was beginning to lead the world toward true liberty. Will this new administration be able to redeem American Freedom; first for us Americans and then in the eyes of the world?
We are fast approaching the crossroads of liberty and tyranny. I do not think humanity will last many more centuries on the road of tyranny. I do think we can thrive indefinitely on the road of liberty. Let us take this voyage together as a United Humanity.
A few observations, ideas and possibilities:
1. Health
a. We now live in a global environment in which it is nearly impossible
to be born, live a normal healthy life and die of natural causes.
b. The modern allopathic medical/pharmaceutical industrial system is
based and dependent on people being sick rather than on people being healthy. This thinking is self perpetuating and serves the industry above the people.
c. The entire planet has become an environmental Superfund Site. Toxic industrial waste now continually circulates around the globe in our oceans and our atmosphere. We cannot have healthy people without a healthy environment.
d. This planet needs a new bill of health. We must immediately introduce a new medical model designed to maintain optimum health by preventing disease through the elimination of toxic sources of all environmental pollutants. Waste disposal industry and the medical profession are intimately entwined.
e. Any and all systems for healing and disease prevention must be held in common trust and freely distributed to all of humanity, immediately and equally.
f. Immediate action must be taken to create automated industry to produce, package and distribute locally generated Health Food at a fair market price. Organic Food must become the standard of the industry not an expensive choice.
g. All profit gained through health care would be declared criminal activity.
h. All healing centers must be transformed and operated as not-for-profit institutions for health education and maintenance. This doesn’t mean that people working in private or public health care cannot make a fair salary from working in a not-for-profit health industry.
2. Food
a. Too much of the food being produced throughout most of the world is nutritionally inadequate and often contaminated with pesticides, toxins and other environmental insults like potentially dangerous artificial genetic manipulation.
b. Local markets must take control of community food production, packaging, distribution and marketing.
c. Inadequately nutritious food is being shipped all over the world at great expense and waste of natural resources.
d. Free stocks of natural, not genetically modified seeds and livestock must be distributed globally, immediately.
e. Because food is a human right, necessary for our survival as much as the air we must breathe and the water we must drink, all food and/or seed patents must be revoked.
f. A minimum standard of nutritionally adequate food must be distributed to anyone who is in need of it. This must be recognized as a natural birthright, not a privilege.
g. Gourmet food is a privilege. Food sufficient to prevent disease and death through starvation is a right.
h. For the bon vivants amongst us let us welcome sufficient gourmet food and drink to keep us happy… when we are also happy to pay the price. Some of the profits from private gourmet food production and some of the taxes from fine food consumption may be used to subsidize food for the less fortunate.
3. Shelter
a. Basic clothing and basic housing is a birthright for all human beings. Luxury clothing and housing is a privilege that may be earned, but not through the exploitation of the vast majority of the world population by a very few powerful and clever people.
b. There are enough resources on earth right now to create sufficient clothing and housing for all of the people of the world now and for the many more people to come.
c. Robotics and Local Automated Industry must be created and distributed worldwide to continuously manufacture minimum standard clothing and minimum standard housing for anyone who is in need of it.
d. Much of the Federal Budget now allocated to the military industrial complex can be diverted toward the creation of a Global Shelter Institute to fund and manage this production.
e. This new Global Shelter Institute will convert a substantial section of industrial military suppliers toward robotics and localized automated industries on a global scale to manufacture and distribute minimum standard clothing and minimum standard housing to any one in need of these.
f. Those who are disadvantaged but still able to pay may pay an honest and fair, small percentage of their earnings for locally produced basic clothing and shelter.
4. Education
a. The human brain is characterized by thousands of trillions of bytes of information. The human mind appears to reach beyond even the complexity of the human brain. What we refer to as consciousness seems to be a self organizing system of systems. Consciousness seems to be an exquisite system of energies arranged in intentionality fields.
b. The best way to ensure continued positive cultural evolution is to nurture, train, expand and enlighten human minds. This is the process we have called education, but it is not what we are now doing in The United States of America with the current educational system.
c. The current educational model for America is one of conformity, rote memorization, and statistical performance. It fosters “group think”.
d. True brilliance of mind is characterized by non-conformity, relational analysis and synthesis, and unique performance… individuation.
e. What we need is an Education Revolution. Education must be seen as a continuous process of not only permission, but encouragement of exploration in an infinite field of all possibilities. Wisdom must guide this exploration by emphasizing our highest value of human life.
f. Above all, as in the medical profession, the educator must do no harm. A teacher’s highest responsibility is to enrich, ennoble and expand the mind and heart of the student, and to remove any and all impediments which may restrict a student’s natural abilities and highest sense of self esteem.
g. As a nation of free and sovereign people we must re-invent our entire educational system. We need to put the power of education back in the hands of parents. Bureaucrats do not know how to educate. The critical quality of a teacher is the will to share the power of knowledge and wisdom, and to exponentially increase this power in others. That is the opposite of what bureaucrats do.
h. If we are truly interested in America’s leadership of free people in a free and prosperous world then we will begin to invest as much or more resources in education as we now invest in the military industrial complex.
5. Energy
a. Living is an energy dependent process. No energy, no life. To control, monopolize and sell at high profit any form of energy upon which life depends is a criminal act.
b. There is such an abundance of energy available in perpetuity on this planet that owning and selling energy must be recognized to be as ludicrous as owning and selling water or air.
c. A Super Manhattan Energy Project must begin immediately to discover, invent and create life sustaining energy harvesting and/or energy production and distribution systems. These systems must not pollute our environment.
d. Energy production and distribution for fair and reasonable profit may proceed, but under very strict regulation such that profits may only go into fair living wages for those harvesting or creating and distributing energy and toward research and development of environmentally clean and renewably sustainable forms of energy.
e. A minimum standard of life sustaining energy must be distributed to all human beings via not-for-profit energy distribution systems. If we do not share energy equitably we kill people… children, women, men. A civilized society may not ignore this reality.
6. Resources
a. Anything that is necessary or useful to do anything is a resource. Everything on earth and in the heavens is a resource. Humans transform resources into the infrastructure of modern civilization.
It is time to begin to do so wisely not like a bunch of profligate idiots.
b. The growth of civilization must henceforth proceed in a benevolent way toward all of us, our progeny and our environment.
c. Any resource harvested from any environment belongs in common to the sovereign citizens of that environment. This means that resources are owned in common by all the people in the community where the resources are found. If this is too difficult to understand we can talk about it, but basically it’s not unlike some one stealing vegetables, lambs or chickens out of your back yard.
d. The people who do the work of harvesting a given resource may profit from the work they do through free market distribution of that resource. But they may not benefit from obscene windfall profits through monopolized illegal “ownership” of the harvested resource.
e. Any resource may be purchased by anyone through a fair free market system.
f. Through entrepreneurial genius and vision any resource may be refined and transformed into any product to be distributed for reasonable profit, in a fair free market system, provided such products do no harm to life or environment.
7. Violence
a. Throughout the long era of human evolution, the worth of any individual or of any segment of society has been measured by assessing their accumulation of wealth and social status. This era is beginning to draw to a close. A new measure of individual worth is beginning to emerge. The new measure of personal worth will be the amount of individual personal growth.
b. We shall measure net worth by assessing the level of personal growth one achieves rather than the financial wealth one accumulates. Then we can focus more on an economy of ideas and wise solutions, implemented to resolve critical problems that threaten the continued existence of our world.
c. We are rapidly approaching the real possibility of severely compromising or even destroying some of the basic planet-wide systems that have, so far, kept us alive.
d. The socio-economic pressures on modern humanity, living in a paradigm of financially defined wealth, are unbearable at best and ultimately unsustainable in the final years of this era. In a closed loop system like planet earth, certain aspects of geographical growth are finite. Only metaphysical growth is infinite.
e. Government can print money forever but the stuff we make, move around and accumulate to circulate the money we print will eventually choke planet earth. We have to begin to make wise choices about what we create and why.
f. Violence is the inevitable result of inflamed competitive attitude. Violent behavior is necessary and even desirable for evolution in primates and other animals and some plants. But it is a useless appendage for an evolved and civilized society.
g. When violence emerges but remains under control in a sporting event, then such violent or aggressive behavior may be excused, as long as such behavior does not lead to excessive suffering or death.
h. Any violence resulting in excessive suffering or death is criminal and, like war, it is a form of insanity.
i. Yet violence is every where in society however modern or traditional. Some leaders in society must begin to discover that in the end, it is futile to attempt to defeat or extinguish violence with more violence.
j. Violent behavior as a way of interacting and controlling our environment tends to perpetuate itself. We must wake up and see that resolution of conflict through violence is impossible.
k. Violence is a primitive way of resolving problems.
l. A violent system is usually dynamically unstable until it runs out of fuel.
m. War is fueled by desire to conquer and control territory in order to expand empire. Expansion of empire subjugates, enslaves and kills people.
n. A global network of local Irenology Institutes must be launched immediately to study ways of discouraging violence and minimizing its effect.
o. It would serve us best if we were to transform the Pentagon into the International Institute of Irenology. Irenology, by the way, is the study of peace.
p. As long as violence, (be it psychological, physical or sexual, within a family or a community, belligerent economic international black mail, or open warfare amongst nations) is the way we choose to “resolve” conflict, we are doomed to endless cycles of disasters.
q. We will have cycles of violent natural disasters in increasing quantities in the coming years. With wisdom we can at least reduce a lot of human violence. Then in peace we can join together to help bring the earth back into balance, and begin to create a prosperous non violent world of peaceful and sustainable abundance.
8. Security
a. Security has a lot to do with violence.
b. We must realize that security can never be achieved through violent force even threat of violence.
c. Violence generates the need for security; it cannot create or guarantee security.
d. Only communication, understanding, tolerance, cooperation, reciprocity, integrity, fair play, friendship and yes, love, can create and guarantee security.
e. Try putting the CIA, the NSA, the CFR, the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and women and men in uniform everywhere in charge of doing all of the above things and the speed at which global security and peace will be created may astonish you.
9. Transportation
a. Just because we are able to build it is never a good reason to build any enterprise we may want to create. What we must ask is should we build it and why? Whet we must ask is what are the long term benefits and/or consequences? These are questions which are not often asked.
b. In a world ruled, or better, guided by wise people, the most important question must always be: Should we build it? What is the long term effect of this we wish to create?
c. The systems and infrastructure we build to move people, things and information around the globe must be completely reconsidered.
d. From La Grange Point space elevators to laser or microwave transmission of data/energy through the atmosphere, we must take a very close look at all possible systems and infrastructure we may wish to build and evaluate each one to discover which ones best serve humanity. Global rail and tube systems, on the ground, above ground, under ground, under water, in the air… all possibilities.
e. Wire, wireless, quantum-simultaneity, optical fiber, carrier pigeon, teleportation, flying car, personal levitation device, VLTA, (very large lighter than air aircraft). Everything is on the table as long as we continue to ask: Should we build it? What are the long term consequences on all systems?
10. Interracial Relations
a. Racial division of humanity as a social construct has no viable currency in scientific taxonomic circles.
b. The idea of different races is a tragic mistake. We are not different races on this planet. Humanity consists of different varieties within One Race. Whether we have black, yellow, red or white skin is the result of varietal differences in genetic information; simple chance evolutionary results from the geographic location of our progenitors.
Get over it. Love one other anyway.
c. For purposes of peaceful coexistence, we may all consider ourselves and each other the race of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, evolved from the species Homo Sapiens, expressing in great wonderful variety.
11. Foreign Aid
a. Foreign aid is an illusion created and perpetuated by failure to implement any of the above.
b. A vast amount of “foreign aid” ends up in secret Swiss bank accounts of very wealthy and unscrupulous so called leaders of society.
c. By implementing all of the above we will be living in a world where nowhere is “foreign” and no one needs aid because the focus of all programs will be the well being of all individuals in all societies.
12. Foreign Relations
a. War on terror is a ridiculous oxymoron. War is terror. It is like saying war on war. The only thing you can do about war and terror is to stop planning, supporting and making war and stop terrorizing. And the only way to end both is to make both terror and war unprofitable and unsatisfying for anyone.
b. At the top of the agenda must be an International Apology and Restitution Conference on the simple idea that often all it takes to prevent hostile action is to pick up a phone and apologize for our mistakes and begin exploring ways for restitution.
c. We must begin immediately to put into motion a National Class Action Letter of Apology from the People of America to the People of Iraq.
d. We must then invite the people of Iraq to reciprocate so that when we meet, our bows will be the same height and our handshake or embrace will be genuine.
e. A national letter of apology to the people of Iraq, followed by swift and friendly withdrawal of government military forces and civilian militant forces, while simultaneously initiating a Marshal Plan sized reconstruction of Iraq, can be the beginning of a Global Year of Reconciliation.
f. Pick at random 200 men and 200 women from every country in the world through a global Internet lottery. These four hundred people from each country in the world will become charter members of a Global Council of Peace and Reconciliation. They will preside over The International Hall of Apology and Restitution.
g. Americans and indeed world citizens must begin now to implement the items in a, b, and e above (International Apology and Restitution Conference, Global Council of Peace and Reconciliation, National Class Action Letter of Apology, International Hall of Apology and Restitution) with or without government participation or interference.
h. The critical thing for American citizens to understand and practice now is the Constitutional principle of self government. The government is not only the people we elect. The government is us. We must begin to practice good government; first here at home and then globally.
i. The people we elect are our servants. They are pledged to honor, serve and protect We the People; The Nation, for which stands The U.S. Constitution. Too many of the people we elect do not, honor, serve and protect the people of The United States of America. They serve the “system”, which only serves the powerful few.
13. Trade
a. We all have the inalienable right to invent and create anything, and with our goods and services voluntarily participate in a fair and free global market system, provided life and environment is never harmed and resources are not wasted. Communicate globally – create and consume locally.
b. We enrich human life everywhere when we discover, invent and create anything that ennobles and enhances the human experience.
c. Fair and free trade in the ideas and wonder of humanity will free humanity.
14. Immigration
a. Immigration will eventually be the word we use to describe the free and voluntary travel by any citizen from any nation to any other nation, for whatever purpose and for whatever period of time they choose, provided they cause no harm.
b. As we address and implement much of the content of this letter the pressure to emigrate from places of diminishing opportunities to places of greater opportunity will be greatly reduced. We will begin to take the walls down all over the world because geographical differences in economic opportunities will diminish.
c. As we cherish the romance of sovereign nations, even as we thrill to the adventure of travel abroad, let us never forget the sovereignty of the people we meet.
d. When we are peacefully spreading our wings throughout the galaxy we ought not to worry about visas and “illegal” immigration from one place on earth to another?
e. This is One World. We are One People.
15. Military
a. We must begin to realize that acts of war, declaration of war and participation in war are forms of insanity. They are life-defeating.
b. War craft must be recognized, classified and treated as mental illness. War craft is pathological sociopathic behavior. War threatens the extermination of humanity as much as any global disease or pandemic.
c. We must immediately launch a publically funded global medical research enterprise to discover (and implement) psychological, biological and philosophical cures for war.
d. Having served ten years in the United States Air Force and the United States Navy with honor I can personally attest that military service can be invaluable experience for young men and women to develop strong character and (great) life skills. I think the same values can be instilled in our youth through committed service to humanity by participating in non military organizations.
e. From time immemorial the primary purpose of military institutions has been to break things and kill people. (Let’s stop breaking things and killing people.) We are what we think, and we become what we do.
If you, Mr. President, as our 44th head of government and Commander-in-Chief, find any of these observations, ideas and possibilities of interest I will be delighted.
Thank you for your attention.
With much respect, admiration and affection.
Sincerely yours,
Giuseppe Saitta
So it’s coined Sagittattitude huh! Good one Eric, and Mystes, your line:
“I think: “God, you know, I just *love* Sagittarians. Too bad I can’t stand ‘em.” made me giggle and sigh. I find it bloody hard to live with my own Sagittattitude myself! That feeling of “not being of the world” is bloody hard to contain and make sense of a lot of the time. “I feel therefore I am” has been my mantra for so long now and feelings that are that intense, feelings that need to shake things up and break free has made my life unmanageable many times over. Fools rushing in etc.
BTW I also have a Sagg brother and of all my siblings (seven of us), he and I are definitely cut from the same cloth. I know that after two “regular, normal” boys (!), my third brother’s wild and erratic energy drove my mother absolutely bonkers. He is a visionary with a new project on the go every time you meet him, yet he never has worked out how to build the structures needed to support and sustain his ideas. I am very much the same.
I’m Virgo sun with Sagg. moon and Sagg. rising. The rising I found out about just recently through having my chart done but some of you may be aware from my postings here at PW, I don’t study astrology well enough to make sense of it all. And there’s the drub. Since Pluto has moved into Capricorn I have felt a serious shift in awareness where I am urged intensely to ground my passions and my wild boundless spirit into more theoretical terms. How can I explain this further? I love music and feel it vibes and metaphysical charges pulsate intensely to the soul of me but I dismiss ever knowing the silly mundane things like, the title of a piece or who wrote it and when etc. People ask those questions and while most people might place importance on that kind of knowledge but I shirked it and deemed it unnecessary. I was swamped with the feelings and emotions and spirit and that seemed enough for me, therefore I dismissed the packaging and the labeling.
I can’t do that any more. I want to take my interests seriously and not skim over them but go deeper and deeper in. Engage my head with my heart and study something in depth. I want to learn AND retain the name of a piece of music and the composer, the name of a flower/plant, the meanings of astrological alignments, the origins of a spice I cook with……you get my drift. I want to ground myself in theory in order to balance my experiences or I will explode. My head wants it as much as my heart does. I can practically feel my brain chemistry shift and come alive, egging me on to clarity and focus.
This new “calling” has been jolting me awake all this past year. Get to grips with things it beckons. Know what you’re about. Know it inside out. Be able to talk about it, write about it, and delve into the details. Engage with knowing it intellectually and yes, I feel it (HA) draw me insistently like a moth to a flame. Grounding yourself will help you engage with life and let you express the truth of yourself so that others can engage with you in return and perhaps cope better with that irritating yet charming Sagittattitude 😉
Reading these, I think: “God, you know, I just *love* Sagittarians. Too bad I can’t stand ’em.” I’m Cancerian with Sagg rising and Aquarian Moon. Both fathers of my children were Sagg, so that accounts for the ‘future’ aspect of the Rising sign.
My degree of Rising is on the Great Attractor, true node on the Galactic Core. The last part of 08 Pluto was strumming the Core, as if to get me to wake up to what was coming: its ingress into my opposite sign – Capricorn.
I would say that Pluto’s shift off of those anaretic degrees of Sagittarius were almost instantly overshadowed by the triplet in Aquarius: Heal! Heal! Ah said HEAL! goddamnit!! Okeedokee. A rash of suicides in my community, and around the country (see image above) had me spending more time doing Phowa – the transference-of-consciousness practice – than I really wanted. So clearly, some people ‘healed’ by extinguishing themselves; whereupon Pluto –having moved his things into the house across the street– took pride of place.
Not that I haven’t been his bitch for a while. There is a big layup in my 8th house, and Pluto rules that House (ya’ll correct me if this is wrong)? My natal Saturn in Scorpio has meant that either Pluto goes on my resume, or I can eat his black lightning.
Is that even a choice?
Anyhoo… my Cancerian Sol is in quincunx to both my Moon and Rising. You like the square? You ain’t seen nothing till you’ve lived a pair of inconjuncts. I have just about resigned myself to being misunderstood about 90% of the time. I’ll say (or write) something and as soon as I leave the room, there is no persistence to my message: it is the Freudian ‘fort’/’da’ game played out on a lifetime scale.
My puzzle this year has been to try to modulate that disappearing act, the sense that my words are being vacuumed into white noise, without defaulting to my tools of exaggeration and aggression. I really am a very nice girl. . .
I don’t really know what my rising sign and all the rest are. I was born 11/30/55 8 a.m.
The past 12 years have been like Ground Hog Day with the rug being pulled out from under you day after day. It’s like you are dying everyday, because what you once thought of yourself, your world, your life, your family, your job and where you are in the world is gone. Except you aren’t dead. You are still alive. The comment about isolation fits my situation. Also the comment by Calamity Jane in “Deadwood” when she says ” Every day takes figuring out all over again how to fucking live” just about says it all.
I think the hardest part is losing all your friends, because you just don’t fit in.None of my friends from my old life have any idea what it’s like to not be able to go on vacation, not have health insurance, not be able to afford to send your kid to summer camp/college/fill in the blank. There is just this huge disconnect While everyone was busy planning their latest trip, I was trying to figure out how to stretch $30.00 for a weeks worth of groceries. I was also wondering how many other people were and had lived through this type of experience, for years and years or even lifetimes.
This sort of transformation is spiritual in nature. But believe me, this isn’t like some nice little yoga retreat or meditation week. It kicks butt. All I can say to the rest of the planet, now that Pluto is in Saturn….Welcome to my world. Ha ha ha!
sag rising, aries sun, taurus moon.
I choose sag to reply to because of eric’s reminder of the last decade with pluto. I have learn over the last 11 years to face and then subsequently deal with the consequences of severe emotional, psychological, verbal abuse from an alcoholic in an arranged marriage that took me halfway across the world within two weeks of meeting the man I was already promised tto marry two days before the actual wedding.
i have no answer for why I did what I did back in feb 1998, i only know that I’m tired of the burden of the whole story and want to let it go adn release it and its demonic children who have hampered my life and cauterized my feminine self.
i need to become whole. I am ready to and aware. How and where do i begin? the current astrology’s sense of dynamism inherent in the qualities of the planets that are making connections to each other give me some hope.
without hope, there is no life. and yes, eric, without faith, there is no hope. etc. etc.
amen.
Sag sun, cancer moon, libra rising. The past twelve years of my life have been making it by the seat of my pants. Completely counting on the natural joy and luck thats has always been accessible. Three years ago I found myself in a relationship with a man who would turn out to be the first true sexual sadist I ever really met. In getting out of that mess it occurred to me that there were signs abounding from the beginning and I ignored them with the idea that this person needed me, and he did, but for all the wrong reasons. For the first time in my life I met grief and pain and sadness on a level that made me think I had lost access to that joy forever and I wasnt going to recover I was so exhausted. One and a half years ago, I got into grad school, a three year teaching program, beginning the work that I had an idea I was here to do. As soon as I was accepted I found a counselor and began to examine and rebuild my self esteem and the wounds or I should say the big wound that was holding me back. My first year was a resounding success and my counselor helped me stay focus, deal with my self doubt and relax. I made the decision to be behind the magic no ( which means I held my sexual energy to myself and have spent time feeling myself with other people and being able to hold onto me in a non sexual intimate space) while I started anew and re emerged. Everyday last year I woke up so grateful that I was happy and moving and alive. Gratitude everyday has made me a different person. Just when I realized that I was healing and growing up and loving myself, my father passed away. It was sublime and sad and we were in a good place. I felt him realize it was time to leave and had an amazing dream about him waking up in the hospital bed, he was a young man, he was smiling but confused, he then sat up in the bed, put his feet on the ground and with optimism and a lightness that I can still feel he started the next adventure. Three days later he died. School has begun again, still having the most fun ever. Meeting challenges about the academic world, structures such as due dates and time management are not as daunting anymore, boundaries are amazingly clear and easy and I feel pluto in capricorn is the best thing that could have ever happened. I have a daughter who is eighteen and left home three years ago, when I was at my worst, she is returning and although we have our moments as we work out sharing space and saying sorry and bonding I know that there has been generational work on a karmic level for my whole family. Taking care of myself, finding out who I am and feeling proud feels more relaxing than I could have imagined and has effected everyone in my life. I found planet waves when I was 36, I will be turning 43 this december and I have been using everything you write about. Galactic core, Eris, Juno, Jupiter Chiron Neptune, sexual healing, identity, nurturing of the self, family family family. Thank you so much, for that vibrant mind and caring heart. Hope I got everything in, cause it has been an amazing, full throttle, long hard look into the deep parts of myself and I was helped by pure determination, the contact with some clean true love from my friends and the acceptance that things were changing and I wasnt going to be in a familiar place anymore but I could trust myself. Oh and magic, access to the magic has been a huge surprise.
This Sag is definitely going through it. I am a metaphysical healer living a spiritual practice. Really deep into practicing presence, living in the moment and through my heart.
Yet for all that, I have found it difficult (as I imagine many now are) to make money. Although I am very good at my chosen modality, Emotional Freedom Technique and I can give a hours length talk and demonstration, the opportunities to do so and get clients has been very limited. I am also a life and spiritual coach.
My personal spiritual practice over the past 10 years, after I sold my successful mainstream business, has molded me into a completely different life and lifestyle. This year I moved to a new city, really felt Source’s hand in this, yet I am still in a holding pattern in terms of career. I am even better at my practice yet I can’t seem to use the practice to earn a living.
The recent Sag astrology post was right on the money for me. “There is no model for what you are doing, hence every agreement must be worked out on an individual basis with friends and colleagues. This is a custom job, not a thing out of a box. It will take longer to establish, and work better.”
While it is taking longer to establish I desire to make money or at least be in a situation where my living expenses are covered doing something of a helpful, healing nature. I am keeping strong the vibration that the opportunities will come for me.
Although I have had my charts done a number of times over the years by various people, I have not really resonated with astrology. I am now reading your stuff because the wonderful woman who is currently helping me with a place to live subscribes (she is a Cap) to your Planet Waves daily and the Sag stuff you have written has felt the closest to my life situation as any I have read.
best regards,
Philip
Oh, just re-read your comment above about Jupiter conj Chiron. Although I know Jupiter is my chart ruler, I’d never actively though about how it’s role in the Aquarius stellium has been affecting me until now. Have been too concerned with Saturn-Pluto.
Hmm, will have to think a little – not sure what to do with planetary rulerships.
Sag rising (19+), Gemini Sun, Cap Moon. I posted on the Gemini page also.
Saturn in my 10th house now squaring Pluto in my first (Pluto also transiting opp my 7th house Venus. In more obvious terms, my career is taking me on a huge learning curve — more responsibilities, stretching my capabilities, but the real lesson is not the work itself, but in working with others to achieve personal goals.
Past year has been a lesson in recovering, re-establishing, re-discovering my self-worth, both to myself and to the world at large. Saturn through the 10th has been a hard slog, esp when it was in Virgo – brutal. It is now in Libra just past the conjunction with my natal 29+ Virgo Pluto and I’m learning to express my power without fear. Have been slowly learning to ‘own’ my Plutonian energies. Not an easy process. Much pain, yet also recognise the pain is necessary. And also learning that pain isn’t necessarily equal to suffering.
Pluto in my first opp natal Venus is burning up a lot of old karma to do with previous ways of dealing with toxic relationships, and learning to recognise and give credit to the true (Venusian) value in others, rather than being blinded by a certain surface congeniality (also Venusian).
My own natal Venus is square my natal Pluto also. And this current passage of transiting Saturn and Pluto is throwing up many more lessons, including:
1. I don’t have to be liked to inhabit my own power (in the broadest sense of the term).
2. I don’t have to apologise for being intense in expressing what and how I like (or love).
3. I actually quite like who I am.
Thanks for the work that you do.
Sagg rising; Jupiter conj. MH; SN, Uranus, and (widely) Pluto in 9th. Cap sun; Aries Moon.
First, Pluto. Big two, three years here. Matched only by the Pluto ingress to Sagg 15 years ago: Significant shifts in my identity in mid 90’s –made several dramatic attempts at ‘divorcing’ my mother; then, someone stole my Dayrunner and all my professional/personal contacts, et al; a year later I finally decide to leave professional theater. As Pluto entered my 12th house I entered a ten year period of isolation from my former friends and contacts, moved to a smallish town in Oklahoma still run by an oil company. Spent a few years doing the Jesus thing –which is about all you can do there. Married. World shrunk even more with my daughter’s autism diagnosis.
10th House business: This time, again the significant shift in identity: BIG Jupiter boost as it crossed my ASC in fall ’07; I separated from (’08), then divorced my husband (May ’09), spent much of Saturn/Virgo transit exploring new career paths/new spiritual paths and getting more exposure to the public and fellow spiritual travelers than I have since the early ’90s. Began meeting with astro clients; this is early days, but I’m enjoying the development and getting good feedback from the people I work with. Your mp3 post on minor planets revolutionized my approach; Chiron really is the key.
Aquarius themes: January and July reconnected with old professors, old college friends from pre-Pluto/Sagg days. HUGE dismantling of my general isolation. I have second house Aqua Venus; my friendships are a form of my wealth, and the disconnect/isolation left me feeling very poorly indeed. The July Cancer/Capricorn eclipse also brought another reunion with an estranged friend. I spent the July solar eclipse in Chicago with this friend, her daughter and my own daughter. For the first time in at least fifteen years I felt really real.
Self-worth another HUGE theme. Haven’t seen a big windfall of money, but I have been expanding my influence and finding new resources for my new life. Hit serious money problems by Feb ’09 and had to move, but my ex invited me to stay with him until I can get on my feet again. I am still living in his (my old) house. Took a promotion at a p/t retail job but two months later quit. Learned valuable lessons about my worth (hourly and otherwise) from that detour. I must find/create work that supports my daughter’s well-being and needs. That non-negotiable gives me renewed focus. (See below)
Jupiter direct brought new astro clients and invitations to present basic, basic astro classes. Gave my second workshop of ’09 on Halloween day (Cliff’s Notes Tarnas), which was well-received. Also Neptune turned direct exactly on the degree of my Venus this month and that involved a clear dream encounter in which a Neptunian person (Sun opp. Neptune/Pisces Moon, Jupiter, Chiron) I know who finally appeared and openly engaged me in simple activities. Finally, after two years of “romantic”/neurotic fog, I felt healthy and good, and not neurotic about this man. This long Neptune transit of my Venus has been one of the most destabilizing and disorienting experiences of my life; I have Venus square Neptune, already. Stunning. Have not spoken much about this, but can say that without astrology I know I would have drawn all the worst, most self-castigating conclusions about my worth during this period.
Mutliple conjunct Aquarian daughter other significant theme. With transiting Chiron there too, her pain has been my pain. I slept with her every night, in fact, shared a bedroom with her when I moved back into my old home. She suffered profound generalized anxiety. My Sagg rising hated the confinement of my circumstances, but for months there was nothing I could do. As Pluto came within 3 degrees of Tesla’s Chiron/Mars square she also erupted into violent aggressive behavior and verbal attacks. Summer eclipses brought neurological testing and a breakthrough in understanding and treating her behavior.
My purse is a backpack now. I have a wishlist of travel destinations, a clearer idea of the life I want to live –which includes traveling with my daughter and writing. Have been sick this past month and fantasize daily about driving myself to the airport and buying a ticket to wherever. Don’t kick myself about this now, but am making plans instead. Mysti is pushing me to write and to apply to writer’s residencies. Glad to have her behind my efforts; she’s a blessing.