Today is Thursday, December 1, 2011.
Dear Planet Waves: What the hell is going on? Sincerely, Sagittarius in Orbit
Dear Sagittarius:
Whether you’re a Sadge Sun, rising or Moon, the short answer is: a lot.
No – seriously. The Sun entering your sign is usually what you’ve been waiting for all year, right? It means all your groovy, cosmic tendencies get free rein (and what Sadge doesn’t love having free rein?), and everyone else gets to try it on with you, too. But this year, the Sun arrived with a Mercury retrograde in your sign. So you might as well just stop talking right now. And while you’re at it, stop thinking, too. Mercury is about to conjunct the Great Attractor and God only knows what kinds of crazy ideas might pop into your head. Just turn off your brain until Dec. 13.
Oh, and did you notice there’s an eclipse in your sign, and some funky minor planets hanging out by the Great Attractor?
Great Attractor? Don’t you mean Galactic Core?
Well, the core of our galaxy is in your sign too; it’s the main thing that gives Sagittarius its super-spiritual street cred. But the Great Attractor, this big, powerful goddess-knows-what-black-hole-like-thingy that is swooshing away from us just as fast as we’re being pulled toward it, hangs out in the middle of Sadge. Lately the North Node and a couple of wild-card centaurs have been keeping it company – and now Mercury is starting to pick up speed while backing into the whole garden party. We’re hoping he hasn’t been drinking. His driving backwards always calls for a little caution even while sober. But Pholus, one of those centaurs I mentioned, uncorked this special wine cask that belonged to Dionysus about four generations too early – and dealing with him hasn’t been the same since.
In a nutshell, if Mercury took a sip on his first pass by Pholus a couple weeks ago, you can be damn sure some shit is hitting the fan now that he’s coming back through backwards and hammered. Life feeling chaotic? Having moral dilemmas? Accidents? Friends and lovers and enemies all popping back into your life and switching roles? Can’t keep your mouth shut when you’re pissed at your boss? Yup – and you’re not alone.
It’s just that you’re just at the center of the delightful mess! The sex/money/power tangle (tango?) is big in your charts right now. A grand trine between Jupiter, Mars and Venus/Pluto signals a big promotion and a big raise may be in the works. But you may have to sleep your way to the top in order to make it happen. Still feeling guilty about your last workplace affair? Get over it. No one actually hates you for it – they just wish they had the guts to go for it. Which is kinda the same, but you can take it.
That’s your professional sex life, now for your personal sex life. When the Sun gets to the tail-end (ha) of Sagittarius and squares Uranus in your fifth house of love affairs and risk-taking, go for it. Be even more impulsive and selfish than usual. Just keep it legal. Centaurs are just the best! Have a three-way or two. You may experience the best orgasms of your life this month! And don’t forget to make videos so we can all see them on YouTube.
If you happen to have a job, the possibility for fights in the office is high, so keep scissors and other sharp objects out of sight. Heck, just take everything off your desk. And this is the month your boss will just up and decide to become a pain-in-the-ass stickler for detail like no one has ever been before. So straighten up and fly right – unless you’re in the sack with him. In which case, any position may do.
The weird thing is, as stressful as all this may be for you – especially if it’s bringing up weird angles on ancestral baggage – it’s an incredible opportunity to get some inner shit sorted out for yourself. No, really! Even if a lot of your family’s skeletons are largely unknown to you and you’d rather keep them in the closet, this is a perfect time for you to release these ‘ancestral processes’ (as Melanie Reinhart has called them).
If you are willing to dig a little – if you’re curious, if you have older relatives you can talk to, if your cat is really a shaman in disguise – you may find some of the keys to any current crazy-making in unexpected places. And remember, you can be really creative with this; be open to subtle suggestions. If, say, your mom brought out old family photos over Thanksgiving, complete with judgmental remarks about a grandfather’s sex life, and for the first time you can see your resemblance in that face, it might be worth meditating on any resonance between his story and attitudes around your own sexuality.
You know – that sort of thing. For example. Not that we know anyone like that…
Oh, and whether you’re a Sadge or not: The Moon enters Pisces at 9:45 am EST. But just before it does so, at about 8:50 am, don’t be surprised if you get this feeling in the periphery of your consciousness that’s kind of squishy and detached at the same time – like there’s something just beneath the surface trying to come through, but it’s a little unclear and you’re aware of it in the same way that you’re aware of something on the end of your nose but can’t really see it ‘cuz it’s too close. If you can paint, doodle or squint, you may come up with some valuable insights.
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Dear Eric,
I found your Daily Astrology Dec. 1st. very funny, but just would like to know if the humour extended to this sentence
I personally consider myself quite liberal/tolerant regarding other people´s sex habits with the exception of children. I cannot see the difference between having sex with animals and having sex with children. So, I presume you also advocate having sex with children? Or was this sentence part of the joke. I may have missed something.
I think the weight you put on sexual matters as opposed to more spiritual and philosophical approaches to life may mirror the American society. And as the brilliant journalist you are you are mirroring very accurately what is going on right now at least within the majority.
Looking forward to your Revolution, Revelation (Evolution?) piece.
Suz
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Dear Suz,
There is no such thing as a centaur on this plane of reality. The whole article is a satire. I will say that I see where someone might have misinterpreted, but it’s an obvious humorous reference, unless of course you know some centaurs that I do not know.
I advocate exercising the utmost caution (or at least awareness) in making sexual choices. Centaurs are risky, minotaurs are worse.
Thank you for your letter.
Eric Francis
Hey Fe… “However, I’m going to need more vitamins.” (guffah) I’ll see what I’ve got in my cupboard.
And Amanda… sorry if I seemed pensive with the “we did exactly what we were supposed to have done” remark. This wasn’t ever a ‘relationship’ in the conventional sense; he was my first and my first consort. I wouldn’t understand the difference between romance and tantra until my second, but this one set the precedent. As with all tantrikas, we ended as beautifully as we began…
(Well, ‘beautifully’ may not entirely describe the beginning. I chased him the length of several football fields daily for months, as he shouted over his shoulder: “But I’m old enough to be your uncle!”
“A monkey’s uncle!” I exclaimed, and then, in my best Yosemite Ma’am accent, “Hold still, ye varmint!” After a while he gave up. Lucky boy.)
Thanks for the egging on… it’s all in the margins.
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Oh I’ll have to post a long one I can feel some downloading comin’ on!
Sun has just entered my 5th house joining NN Merc Pholus Ixion Pluto and Venus all transiting Natal Saturn (24 Sag) conjt Vertex. Talk about a Party!! It’s loud and sexual and structural and all at once! 🙂
Progressed chart shows Grand Trine from said Saturn (now at 25 Sag) with Pluto and Sun (progressed Aries) — no matter which way i spin it Pluto Venus Merc Sun are hitting me structurally. (In progressed chart these transits are hitting 3rd and 4th houses – with ya there Carrie!)
With Moon entering Pisces (that’s my natal Sun but progressed Moon!) and all that activity around natal Saturn, well – um, well! I don’t know, but it’ll be a ride! I’m holding back on getting out the paints this moment because I’ll for sure have it splattered everywhere on everything and everyone! Fun, but better plan for how to clean up the mess…..
Further — Last night a piece of a dream had me hoiding my own skull, jawbones (interesting coorelation to “skeleton”-in-closet, yes?) The focus was my teeth, healthy and intact, but now further exposure showed need for a deeper cleaning. There was other activity around me that is foggy now and I believe had to do with childhood friends. No doubt the teeth were are the root of the message (pun). I’m joyful to think this is a message that I’ve been doing strong work and am close to the root of the clearing-out-old-guck-I’m-stuck situation.
and a Loud LOL! re: grandfather’s sex life!! This past weekend – out of the blue – I DID realize that my maternal grandfather had most likely had numerous sexual liasons during his business career (no family photos necessary) Of course!; why didn’t I see that before? …and clears up why my uncle/his oldest son got the message and did the same — but eventually ‘got caught’ when a member of a ‘second family’ was discovered. Family messages to be sure!
And yes, yes. I look like Gpa, think like him. I didn’t appreciate his sexual-ness directed at me when I was in my teens. Oh no. On the other hand, a photo of a woman whom I look like dissapeared from Gpas house after I found it many Christmas’ ago. No one would answer me as to who she was. I was tranfixed by the photo because I LOOKED LIKE HER. I don’t resemble the rest of my family. ODD – aren’t these things? 🙂
So – just a testimony to YES — knowing things like that is sort of coming out of the woodwork – or steal walls of the corporate towers.
Thanks for the upbeat article.
My 10th House Venus is in Sag, and by luck, all the major artist-teachers in my life — Sagittarians one and all — are going through Big Deal transformational changes that I am partner to. Which means extra busyness for me. Me and Sagis are lucky for each other. However, I’m going to need more vitamins.
mysti — wow. i tend to find those sorts of blasts from the past pretty amazing and yes, often with some mixed emotions despite my similar tendency toward “we did what we needed to do” — although it sometimes takes me some time to get there.
someone needs to write “tantra for teens,” eh?
consider yourself cheered on, my dear!
Thank you for a blog of jazz that does indeed seem suited to Sadge style.
Mystes: Thank you for sharing a touching and timely story. In agreement with your conclusion.
Hmmm… talk about your Venus/Pluto conjunction. While waiting for my kid to get out of school yesterday I had an hour-long conversation with ‘my first’ – a filmmaker who now lives in Israel. We hadn’t talked in 40 years. Forty. He is drum roll please a Scorpio. *This* I did not remember. At all.
Within 15 minutes he told me that I sounded exactly as I did as a 16 year old — and told me a story that I had completely forgotten about concerning our last congress and who showed up for the party. My reaction, even at that tender age, was: Welcome! ( Her response should have clued me in to the life that would ensue: she fled in horror. )
Our last conversation took place in the woods outside of Elgin – he was struggling with a conflict between his Hassidism and an attraction to a Hindu guru and came to ask my opinion. Little Miss Inclusive here said: It all works together, go for it! Sadge much? Though I certainly knew my lover, I didn’t get what a Scorpio tends to do with religion, so the advice was perhaps not the best.
As we talked, there was a background analysis running the entire time, as I assayed and tasted some of the results of this earliest commingling. I got off of the phone a little heartbroken; not with a regret for “us” –we did exactly what we were supposed to have done– but aware of the firehose of my youthful powers, and how little I understood about how to direct them.
Tantra for Teens. Seriously. Somebody needs to write it.
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truly brilliant stuff here! I am rotf and lol-ing w/ joy for all the sadge folk … so beautifully written and infused with clearly communicated / user-friendly info — what could be more Sadge?
I’m one of the millions without work for so long I’ve stopped counting, left my longterm career job due to impossible sex harassment from stalking law partner … arrgg! nice to turn that fury into something other than fury. Me, no personal planets in Sadge … only 1 planet in 10th house Sadge to help me hang onto this energy — Pallas (exactly opp Vesta in Gemini) on the Great Attractor.
Maybe the time is now?
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Oooh….all this is going on in my 3rd and 4th houses with Merc backing over the cusp between them. I have Juno (20 degrees) conjunct Vesta (24 degrees) which is conjunct Jupiter (28 degrees) in Sag in the fourth. Busy, busy stuff.
Pardon me….I believe I left my blouse in your cab….
Peace and Love,
Patricia
Great article on current Saggitarius… I think because you were maybe under the influence of what you were writing about??? and I am too, with a lot of Saggeroooooooooo…..